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Samuel Watkins RUDD

Skinquarter Baptist Church Cemetery
Chesterfield County,
Virginia

Samuel W. Rudd
April 28, 1841
February 19, 1928

This is Samuel Watkins Rudd, son of Richard Hill Rudd and Margaret (Harriet) Rudd. He married Mary Elizabeth Rudd on January 3, 1866. He was a Soldier in the Army of the Confederate States of America. Served as a member of Company K, Sixth Virginia Infantry. Company K, Alstad Grays, was a volunteer company, organized at the time of the John Brown raid, and first saw actual service under Colonel Mahone, and Mahone's Brigade after his promotion. This volunteer company was at Second Manassas, Gettysburg, Cold Harbor, the Wilderness, the Crater, Antietam, Pleasant Valley, Fredericksburg, Spottsylvania Court House, and the fighting around Gettysburg, and was with Lee at Appomattox.

Contributed on 8/18/07 by buddyr_va
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Submitted: 8/18/07 • Approved: 8/19/07 • Last Updated: 6/2/20 • R5934-G0-S3

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