THE TULLOSS RANGERS
A Reunion of the Company To Be Held at Pikeville
Special Correspondence Chattanooga Times.
PIKEVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 6 — There will be a reunion at Pikeville Tenn on Saturday, Jan. 20, 1894, of the Tulloss rangers, the first company of confederate soldiers made up during the late war from Bledsoe county, Tenn. This company was known as the Tulloss rangers and took its name from Col. James A Tulloss, who was a very wealthy citizen of Bledsoe county at that time. Col. Tulloss gave to each member of the company a suit of clothes and furnished about twenty-five horses for the same. The company left Pikeville on the 2d day of July, 1861. There was perhaps not a finer dressed or better looking body of men in the whole confederate service, and their departure was an occasion never to be forgotten. To witness the parting of husbands and wives, fathers, mothers and sons, brothers and sisters and sweethearts, relatives and friends, was an exciting and touching scene indeed. The company reached Knoxville, Tenn., on the 6th day of the same month and were there mustered into service on the 8th of the same month and became company “F” of the Second Tennessee confederate cavalry, which was commanded by Col. Henry C. Ashley They had a hard struggle during the war. Some fell upon the battle field and others sickened and died while in the service and many more have since fallen by the wayside.