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    Samuel Stacker Lee was born in 1848 in Dover, Tennessee. During the Civil War, he enlisted in the Confederate Army in March 1864 and served under General Forrest until being paroled in May 1865. After the war, he worked as a steamboat clerk and commander on the Mississippi River from the 1870s until retiring in 1887 due to ill health. Records of his wartime service were distorted during his lifetime.

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    Samuel Stacker Lee was born in 1848 in Dover, Tennessee. During the Civil War, he enlisted in the Confederate Army in March 1864 and served under General Forrest until being paroled in May 1865. After the war, he worked as a steamboat clerk and commander on the Mississippi River from the 1870s until retiring in 1887 due to ill health. Records of his wartime service were distorted during his lifetime.

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    Samuel Stacker Lee was born in 1848 in Dover, Tennessee. During the Civil War, he enlisted in the Confederate Army in March 1864 and served under General Forrest until being paroled in May 1865. After the war, he worked as a steamboat clerk and commander on the Mississippi River from the 1870s until retiring in 1887 due to ill health. Records of his wartime service were distorted during his lifetime.

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    Samuel Stacker Lee was born in 1848 in Dover, Tennessee. During the Civil War, he enlisted in the Confederate Army in March 1864 and served under General Forrest until being paroled in May 1865. After the war, he worked as a steamboat clerk and commander on the Mississippi River from the 1870s until retiring in 1887 due to ill health. Records of his wartime service were distorted during his lifetime.

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    The facts of the Lee Line Stacker Lee's life so far unearthed

    are scant. He was born Samuel Stacker Lee at Dover, Tennessee,


    in the year 1848.13 Nothing is known of his life- from the time of
    his birth until the Civil War, but considering his age, it is doubtful
    that anything significant to our investigation happened to him
    during this period. According to a story which appeared in the
    Memphis Daily Commercial at the time of his death, "at the out
    break of the war between the states he enlisted in the Bluff City
    Grays, 154 Regiment, and followed that famous command through
    out the struggle. He participated in several of the hardest battles,
    and was highly complimented by Gen. N. B. Forrest."14 This
    account does not quite agree with the outline of Lee's service
    record given in the annals of the Confederate Historical Associ
    ation: "Lee, Stacker, private in Company A, Forrest's old regi
    ment; entered the service February 18, 1863; paroled May, 1865.
    Proposed for membership by Colonel John W. Dawson of this
    Association and elected January 20, 1870."15 Neither of these
    accounts exactly corresponds with Confederate records available
    through the General Services Administration National Archives
    and Fiords Services (hereafter to be referred to as the GSANA-
    RS). The GSANARS has no record of a Samuel Stacker Lee
    having served in the Confederate Army, but a Private S. S. Lee,
    whom we assume to be our man, is listed on a company muster
    roll of Company A, McDonald's Battalion, Tennessee Cavalry
    (known in the field as Forrest's Old Tennessee Regiment). Ac
    cording to this roll, Lee enlisted for a period of three years, on
    March 15, 1864, at Tupelo, Mississippi. His name appears again
    on the Roll of Prisoners of War, number 215. This roll, which
    gives Private Lee's residence as Memphis, Tennessee, is of pris
    oners paroled at Gainesville, Alabama on May 11, 1865. If we ac
    cept the records of the GSANARS as pertaining to Stacker Lee and
    as being correct, we see that his service record had begun to be
    distorted in his own lifetime. In this light, Mcllwain's promoting
    him from the rank of a private to the more glamorous officer
    class is not difficult to understand.

    After the war, according to the Memphis Daily Commercial,


    he "returned to Memphis and entered school. Before he was
    twenty years of age he was appointed third clerk of the steamer
    St. Patrick. . . ." He served as clerk on a number of different
    steamboats until 1870, when he was appointed to the command of
    the steamer, Pat Cleburne. In 1873 he married, and a son was
    born of this marriage in 1874. From 1870 until his retirement
    from the river for reasons of ill health in about 1887, he command

    Fall, 1967 189

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