20 Facts About Abram Fulkerson

Abram Fulkerson was a Confederate officer during the American Civil War, and a Virginia lawyer and politician who helped form the short-lived Virginia Readjuster Party.

Abram Fulkerson served in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly, as well as the US House of Representatives, after which he published accounts of his wartime exploits and captivity.

Abram Fulkerson entered Confederate military service in June 1861 as a Captain, having organized a company of men from Hawkins County, Tennessee, that was mustered into the 19th Tennessee Infantry Regiment as Company K at Knoxville, Tennessee.

Abram Fulkerson's was the first company of volunteers organized in East Tennessee, and Abram Fulkerson received a commission as the regiment's Major.

Abram Fulkerson was wounded in the thigh and his horse shot from under him at the Battle of Shiloh.

In January 1862, Abram Fulkerson received a furlough and went to Clarksville, Tennessee, and married his fiance, Selina Johnson on January 28.

Samuel Vance Fulkerson was killed in action leading the 37th Virginia Infantry at the Battle of Gaines Mill, the first major victory of General Robert E Lee.

Abram Fulkerson twice helped garrison the Cumberland Gap: first with the 19th Tennessee then with the 63rd Tennessee.

Abram Fulkerson went back up the valley and expected to get home by Wednesday next.

Abram Fulkerson was taken prisoner on June 17,1864, and sent to the POW camp at Fort Delaware.

At Fort Pulaski, the prisoners organized "The Relief Association of Fort Pulaski for Aid and Relief of the Sick and Less Fortunate Prisoners" on December 13,1864, and Abram Fulkerson was elected president.

In March 1865 Fulkerson was returned to Fort Delaware, where he was discharged and paroled on July 25,1865, months after General Robert E Lee's surrender at Appomattox.

In 1885, Stonewall Jackson's horse, "Little Sorrel," was brought to Bristol on a tour and Abram Fulkerson rode it as a number of former veterans assembled to pay their respects.

Abram Fulkerson was elected and re-elected to the Virginia House of Delegates as one of two delegates representing Washington County, Virginia.

Abram Fulkerson served from 1871 to 1875, until voters replaced both delegates.

Abram Fulkerson defeating incumbent James Buchanan Richmond, a lawyer and banker, in the Democratic primary.

Abram Fulkerson helped organize the Readjuster Party, after which he returned to the Democratic Party.

Abram Fulkerson resumed his legal practice after deciding against seeking re-election to Congress.

Abram Fulkerson was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1896.

Abram Fulkerson died in Bristol, Virginia, on December 17,1902, at the age of 68, of complications after suffering a stroke.