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History of Scotts Hill: TUCKER, Alex. C.S.A. Co. E 27th Int. Another Rebel from the Dunbar area. He organized a Company (D) called the Decatur County Tigers which formally joined the 27th Inf. at Trenton in Sept., 1861. Alex was fatally wounded in the first day' s fighting at Shiloh (Apr. 6, 1862), with a leg shot off. He lay on the field all night while comrades helped the best they could. Next day he was jolted in a wagon ambulance south as the Southern army retreated toward Corinth. After the retreat another Rebel from around Dunbar came home on leave and told Alex's family that he had been critically wounded at Shiloh. At once, Reuben Houston Tucker, 17-year old son of Alex, was started on a mule to try to find and help his father. Nearly 50 miles from home, the boy found the father among the wounded near Corinth and lovingly cared for him the best he could until the father died a few days later. Reuben helped bury his father and then returned home to Dunbar. Soon in the army himself, neither Reuben back then, nor his popular and able historian daughter, Mrs. A.H. Taylor (now living in Lexington) later, could ever definitely locate Alex's grave. In the 1850 census, Decatur Co. TN, Martha Allen is living in the William Alex Tucker household. |