Author talk:Samuel Bassett French

Biographical notes

These links,

• Rootsweb
• Rootsweb

give this data:

• Birth: 31 MAR 1820 in Norfolk, Virginia
• Death: 25 APR 1889 in Manchester, Chesterfield, Virginia

There is also this: US Gen Web Archives with similar information

There is a Samuel French on Wikipedia, with similar birth/death dates but no mention of any activity in the civil war. They may or may not be the same man.

• This might be the right man or may be the other (if they are separate): Worldcat

- AdamBMorgan (talk) 16:30, 7 January 2012 (UTC)