According to Andrew Brown's history of Tippah County, Miss., Tucker Spight was the "body-servant" of Capt. Thomas Spight, Co. B 34th Miss. Infantry. In 1916 a Tucker Spight obtained a pension. I searched the entire state of Miss. in the 1880 census for Tucker and there was only one, in Tippah county and he was black. We recently put the 1900 census on the Tippah County page and again the only Tucker Spight was black. There is a Tucker Spight buried in Ripley Cemetery with a CSA marker. I believe all these Tuckers are the same man. Tucker is said to have pulled his wounded master from the battle field in the heat of the battle at Atlanta and possibly saved his live by procuring clean bandages for him. The two are said to have been life long friends and to have attended Confederate reunions together. Capt. Thomas Spight was later a congressman.

I have no evidence of Tucker being an active member of the 34th but apparently the pension board decided his service was good enough to receive a pension and have included him on my list of Confederates buried in Tippah County. If anyone can provide more information on Tucker I would appreciate it.

Also he received pension under from 5. What are these different forms? The forms given were 2 though 6.

Fred