Sources:

(1) 1988 reprint by Morningside Bookshop of Sergeant W. H. Tunnard's "A Southern Record. The History of the Third Regiment Louisiana Infantry" with Preface, Notes, and Roster by Edwin C. Bears and Margie Riddle Bears. The roster was developed from the Compiled Military Service Records for the 3rd Louisiana Infantry at the National Archives.

(2) Andrew B. Booth's "Records of Louisiana Confederate Soldiers and Louisiana Confederate Commands" (State of Louisiana, New Orleans, 1920)

(3) Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr., "Guide to Louisiana Confederate Military Units 1861-1865" (LSU Press, 1989)

F. M. Tucker was mustered into Confederate service on May 17, 1861 at New Orleans, Louisiana as a Sergeant in Company E, 3rd Louisiana Infantry. Company E was the Morehouse Fencibles recruited primarily from Morehouse Parish, Louisiana. Sergeant Tucker was captured at Pea Ridge, Arkansas on March 7, 1862 but either escaped, or was released in a local POW exchange and returned to duty. When the regiment was reorganized at Corinth, Mississippi in May 1862 under the terms of the Confederate Conscription Act, Tucker was not re-elected and reduced to the ranks to continue service as a Private soldier. He received a medical discharge at Jackson, Mississippin on December 31, 1862.