Samuel Marion Dennis was born at Richmond, Ala., December 24, 1834. In his senior year at college he attended Princeton University From which he was graduated in 1857. He studied law and located in Columbus, Texas. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he joined "Terry"s Texas Rangers" and served in Company K, 8th Texas Cavalry, C.S.A. He was captured by Union soldiers near Murfreesboro, Tenn., placed of a steamboat, and sent northward to St. Louis and confined in a military prison. Clothed in his wet garment, he contracted pneumonia and died January 28, 1863.

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