Notes for: Samuel Nelson SHEPPARD

Samuel Nelson enlisted with his brother, Josiah on 20 Sept 1861 in Company I, 8th Kansas Volunteer Infantry; died of Typhoid fever on 25 July 1862 at Farmington near Corinth, Mississippi. It has been reported that "four Sheppard boys enlisted at the same time", but at this time it is believed that the other two must have belonged to a different Sheppard family. It is known that on this same date, in Moline, Illinois, that Samuel Nelson, Josiah, Samuel B. Hibbs and Evan Roman Hibbs (brothers of Mrs. James Findley Sheppard) all entered the Service in that same Company I of Kansas 8th. The Hibbs brothers were captured at Chickamauga and died in Libby prison at Richmond, Virginia.