Our American Family - Person Sheet
NameWilliam Robert TUCK
Birth Date?
OccupationCW Confederate Soldier, General Joseph E. Johnston’s Army,
Notes for William Robert TUCK
Father Robert Tuck did not believe it was right for the South to secede from the Union, but he saw two sons go off to fight for the Confederacy. William Robert Tuck, at the age of 17, joined General Joseph E. Johnston’s Army; and James Isaiah Tuck fought in General T. R. R. Cobb’s Legion and was killed in the first Confederate raid into Maryland. He was buried in a new gray uniform made by his mother in Stevensburg, Virginia
The facts presented came from Alethea Jane Macon’s book, John and Edward Tuck of Halifax County, Virginia and Some of Their Descendants; A History of Tuckston United Methodist Church, Founded in 1889 written by James Hefner and Elsa Ann Johnson; and from stories shared by Barbara Hathaway and Lenda Tuck on
Ancestry.com.
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