Author talk:Samuel Bassett French

Biographical notes
These links, give this data:
 * Rootsweb
 * Rootsweb
 * Birth: 31 MAR 1820 in Norfolk, Virginia
 * Death: 25 APR 1889 in Manchester, Chesterfield, Virginia

There is also this: US Gen Web Archives with similar information

There is a Samuel French on Wikipedia, with similar birth/death dates but no mention of any activity in the civil war. They may or may not be the same man. - AdamBMorgan (talk) 16:30, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
 * This might be the right man or may be the other (if they are separate): Worldcat