BENTON COUNTY, TENNESSEE
in the Civil War

CONFEDERATES

Monument to Nathan Bedford Forrest

Six Confederate Infantry companies were raised in Benton County, TN and a seventh at Danville, then Stewart, later Houston County. The men were mainly from Benton County and some from Henry County, TN. Other individuals from Benton County served in several companies.

The Confederates kept poor service records. Many of the muster rolls are not complete and just stop with a certain date. During the early part of the war some men thought their obligation was completed at a surrender and went home. Men often listed as deserters were sometimes lost from their company and took up with another company. Many were wounded and left on the battlefield to die or be captured. Still others were captured and taken to prison camps, where many died or took the U.S. oath of legion and returned home.

5th Tennessee Infantry History
27th Tennessee Infantry History
49th Tennessee Infantry History
55th (Brown's) Tennessee Infantry Regiment History

Units originating in Benton County and Surrounding Areas

Benton County Confederate Pensions Applications
Tragedy At Duckhill Station, Collison Of The James Brown & A.M. West

Soldiers Not listed With Individual Units

Akers, Abner - 5 Infantry Co. 1
Akers, Isaac - 46 Infantry Co. E
Akers, Isaac N. - 20 Cavalry Co. E
Akers, Uriah - 5th Tennessee Volunteer Regiment
Alsup, Hugh
Atchison, Ezekiel R. - 5th TN Regiment Infantry Co. K
Atchisons, J. J. - 5th TN Regiment Infantry Co. K
Atchison, J. W. - 5th TN Regiment Infantry Co. I
Atchison, W. W. - 5th Infantry Co. C
Ballard, G. W. - 5th Regiment Infantry Co. A
Beasley, A. B. - 5th Regiment Tennessee Co. E
Beasley, B F - 11th TN Co. A
Beasley, J. C. - 10th Regiment Tennessee Cavalry Co. G
Beasley, James G. - 10th TN Co. H
Caldwell, William Preston - 46th TN Infantry Co. I
Clement, Stephen Pleasant - 33rd. Regiment, TN Volunteers
Click, William H. - 5th Tn Infantry Co. K
Combs, J. H.
Ellis, George - 16th TN Calvary Co. D
Ellis, Joseph - 59th TN Mounted Infantry Co. F
Ellis, William - 16th TN Calvary Co. F
Gross , James - 5th TN Regiment Infantry
Gross, John R. - 5th TN Regiment Infantry Co. F (1839 - 1870)
Gross, Marion Frances - 5th TN Regiment Infantry
Gross, William O. - 5th TN Regiment Infantry
Harper, Robert - 7th Tennessee Regiment
Hawley, Adam M. - 59th TN Mounted Infantry Co. F
Henderson, James Washington - 20 TN Cavalry Co. F.
Henderson, John Jackson - 46th TN Infantry Co. A
Henderson, William Frank - 46th TN Infantry Co. A
Herrin, Thomas Beverly - Captain Barbee's Company
Hicks, William Robert - 46th TN. Vol. Infantry Company "C"
Holladay, John M. - 55th TN Infantry
Hudson, Ed - 5th Regiment Infantry Co. C
Hudson, Jo. G. - 5th Regiment Infantry Co. C
Jones, William A. - 5th Regiment Infantry Co. A
Lashlee, George - 5th Regiment Infantry Co. C
Lashly (Lashley, Lashlee), P.S. - (1st) Newsom's Regiment Co. D
Laurence, Robert J. - 14th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry
Madden, J. M.
Malone, Richard T. - 5th TN Regiment Infantry Co. G
Nunnery, James - 49th Tennessee Company I
Nunnery, Jepta - 49th Tennessee Company I
Nunnery, Nehemiah M. - 49th Tennessee Company I
Pafford, Henry
Presson, Isaac N. - 5th Regiment Infantry Co. A
Sharp, W. - 5th Regiment Infantry Co. A
Smith, Nathan - 49th Tennessee Co. I

Prisons

Cahaba Federal Prison - Selma, Alabama
Andersonville, Georgia - Camp Sumter
Florence, South Carolina
Salisbury, North Carolina

Confederate Links

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Graphics courtesy of Savage Goodner Camp 1513