Source: Gary W. Webster, "Confederate Roll of Honor: Known Confederate Dead Vicksburg Campaign, January 1862-July 1863" ("Ole Sow" Publications, Vicksburg, 1998).

Webster lists a Major T. M. Tucker (regiment unknown) who was "killed on the field" on December 31, 1862 at Chickasaw Bayou battlfield. He is interred in Grave No. 580 according to the UDC Record (Page 17) from which his name and data were copied.

Gary wrote in the introduction to this work about the UDC Record: >>>It [Gary's compilation] is a merging of the material transcribed by Miss Elizabeth C. Taylor of the Vicksburg Chapter No. 77, UDC and the original John Q. Arnold Record (Arnold was the Sextant of Vicksburg during the Civil War) plus information gleaned from personal journals and diaries. The Taylor material was an onion skin paper carbon copy in bad shape purporting to be a verbatim copy of the original Record Book (one of two provided to the Ladies Confederate Cemetery Memorial Association by a Union officer shortly after the Civil War). One of the Record Books still exists (it is known as the John Q. Arnold Record, and is in the vault at the Old Court House Museum, in Vicksburg, Mississippi). The second that Miss Taylor made her compilation from is now lost, and as Miss Taylor is no longer available at this time [May 1998] to give any guidance as to its location, I am afraid will remain lost. Therefore, I have been forced to treat the carbon copy as a primary document, complete with any mistakes that Miss Taylor, as we all are subject to make, may have made in transcribing from the original.<<<

Colonel Winchester Hall mentions Captain Caleb J. Tucker several times in his history of the 26th Louisiana Infantry. Hall did not indicate that Tucker was ever promoted to Major, and he names Captain Tucker as one the men who died during the fighting on December 28, 1862 at Chickasaw Bayou.

Still, it would be my guess that Captain Caleb J. Tucker was removed from the battlefield and interred in the Old City Cemetery (now Cedar Hill Cemetery) at Vicksburg in the "Soldier's Rest" Confederate section. I'm told that all of the headstones that you see there are memorial stones - they do not mark an individual's actual grave. It is also my understanding from visiting with Eddy Cresap, a member of the John C. Pemberton Camp #1354, SCV, that Confederate war time dead from the hospitals were interred in several sections or lots of the Old City Cemetery outside of "Soldier's Rest." Eddy's Camp was busy researching the location of these plots and marking them in 1998.

I would contact Gary Webster, Eddy Cresap or Wayne McMasters (SCV members spear heading the cemetery research back in 1998), and Jeff Giambrone who is the historian at the Old Court House Museum in Vicksburg. All of these guys should be listed in the Vicksburg phone book and easily found.