Samuel Henry Pulliam (January 19, 1841 – April 6, 1908) was Confederate soldier during the American Civil War who became a Virginia insurance agent, businessman and Democratic politician, serving four years on the city council of Richmond, Virginia and one term in the Virginia House of Delegates. Early and family life Samuel Henry Pulliam was born in Richmond, Virginia on January 19, 1841, to Samuel Thompson Pulliam (July 26, 1802 – July 19, 1865) (who was Richmond's city recorder) and his second wife Henrietta Mulls Jackson, daughter of Elisha Jackson. His paternal grandfather Mosby Pulliam (1765-1823) served in the state militia and until the war ended at Yorktown, and later received a pension. His maternal great grandfather John Jackson of Louisa County, Virginia was a private in the Continental Army, served until the war's end, and ultimately received a federal pension. Samuel Pulliam had an older half brother Dr. Robert Mosby Pulliam (1831-1897) and older half-sister Maria Pulliam (1836-) (their mother Clara Waller Godfrey dying in 1837) as well as a younger sister Henrietta Pulliam (1847-). Educated at private schools, Samuel Pulliam then studied mathematics at Richmond College (later the University of Richmond) and at Charlottesville, ultimately graduating from the University of Virginia. In 1850, his father Samuel T. Pulliam owned nine enslaved people. A possibly related David M. Pulliam operated an auction house with Hector Davis on Franklin Street, and sold enslaved people. Yet another source indicates the Richmond slave traders Pulliam & Davis of Richmond's Wall Street included Albert C. Pulliam or Peter Pulliam of Locust Alley. Samuel Pulliam married Kathleen Crenshaw, the youngest daughter of Lewis D. Crenshaw (1817-1875), who was a partner in the Haxall, Crenshaw and Co. flour mill in Richmond and whom Pulliam characterized as the last acting Commissary General of the Confederate States (although the pardon application forwarded by Governor Francis X. Pierpont during Congressional Reconstruction characterized his company as merely contracting to supply the Confederate stores). Lewis Crenshaw bought and remodeled the house that became the White House of the Confederacy shortly before the Civil War and sold it to the City of Richmond in 1861. They had a son Samuel Henry Pulliam Jr. (1894-1983). American Civil War In April 1862, Pulliam enlisted as a private in a light artillery company formed from southern Virginia and North Carolina volunteers by S. Taylor Martin. About three months later he was promoted to orderly