{"id":205,"date":"2013-01-08T21:10:58","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T03:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/cannon\/?page_id=205"},"modified":"2025-12-07T13:30:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T19:30:47","slug":"military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/cannon\/military\/","title":{"rendered":"Military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Revolutionary War<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The following Cannon County Revolutionary War records are available online through TNGenWeb:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/revwar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">1835 Pension Roll<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/revwar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">1852 Rejected or Suspended Pensions<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Additional resources include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>A Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services: With their Names, Ages, and Places of Residence, as Returned by the Marshalls of the Several Judicial Districts, Under the Act for Taking the Sixth Census<\/i>. 1841; reprint, Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing, 1967.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/familysearch.org\/search\/catalog\/show?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fcatalog-search-api%3A8080%2Fwww-catalogapi-webservice%2Fitem%2F282860\" rel=\"nofollow\">FHL Book 973 X2pc 1840; Film 2321<\/a>. 1841 edition digitized by the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.census.gov\/prod2\/decennial\/documents\/1840c-01.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">U.S. Census Bureau<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=W7JYAAAAMAAJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Google Books<\/a>&nbsp;<i>et. al<\/i>. [See Tennessee, Middle District, Cannon County on page 155.]<\/li>\n<li><i>Rejected or Suspended Applications for Revolutionary War Pensions<\/i>. Washington, D.C., 1852. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1969, and 1991. Reprints include&nbsp;&#8220;an Added Index to States.&#8221; Digital version at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/search.ancestryinstitution.com\/search\/db.aspx?dbid=48141\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ancestry<\/a>&nbsp;($). Tennessee entries abstracted online at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/revwar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tennesseans in the Revolutionary War<\/a>&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TNGenWeb<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>War of 1812<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Embry, Hermione D. &#8220;War of 1812 &#8211; Tennessee Pensioners on List &#8211; January 2, 1883,&#8221;&nbsp;<i>Ansearchin&#8217; News<\/i>, Vol. 7, No. 1 (Jan. 1960):13-16.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/familysearch.org\/search\/catalog\/show?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fcatalog-search-api%3A8080%2Fwww-catalogapi-webservice%2Fitem%2F44514\" rel=\"nofollow\">FHL Book 976.8 B2a v. 7 (1960)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Civil War<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancestry.com\/search\/rectype\/military\/cwrd\/main.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Civl War Research Database<\/a>&nbsp;$<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itd.nps.gov\/cwss\/soldiers.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Civil War service men from Cannon County served in various regiments. Men often joined a company (within a regiment) that originated in their county. Listed below are companies that were specifically formed in or came from Cannon County.<\/p>\n<p>Confederate Soldiers<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1st Battalion, Tennessee Cavalry (McNairy&#8217;s)&nbsp;&#8211; CSA<\/li>\n<li>8th Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry (Smith&#8217;s)&nbsp;&#8211; CSA &#8211; Companies E and G.<\/li>\n<li>18th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry&nbsp;&#8211; CSA &#8211; Companies A and H.<\/li>\n<li>23rd Regiment, Tennessee Infantry (Martin&#8217;s)&nbsp;&#8211; CSA &#8211; Company H.<\/li>\n<li>35th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry (5th Infantry) (1st Mountain Rifle Regiment)&nbsp;&#8211; CSA &#8211; 2nd Company E.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Additional sources for Civil War soldiers from Cannon County:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hancock, Richard R.&nbsp;<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/hancocksdiaryorh00hanc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hancock&#8217;s Diary: or, A History of the Second Tennessee Calvary<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/i>Nashville, Tennessee: Brandon Printing Co., 1887. Free digital copy.&nbsp; Regiment organized in Auburn, Cannon county. Their movement with the Second Tennessee Calvary.<\/li>\n<li>USGennet,&nbsp;Cannon County and the American Civil War, (accessed 30 Jan 2012).&nbsp; Rosters of Combatants &amp; Regimental Histories from Cannon County and&nbsp;Civil War Confederate Pension Applications &#8211; Cannon County, Tennessee.&nbsp; (This is a pdf file that includes Pensioner&#8217;s Name, Soldier&#8217;s Name, Unit, Pension # and Pension Type.)<\/li>\n<li>Tennessee State Library and Archives,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/tennessee.gov\/tsla\/history\/military\/pension108.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tennessee Confederate Pension Applications&nbsp;:&nbsp;Cannon County<\/a>, (accessed 30 Jan 2012). Includes soldier&#8217;s name, county, pension #, unit or widow.<\/li>\n<li>United States Pension Bureau,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/stream\/listpensionerso02buregoog#page\/n339\/mode\/1up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1883: Giving the Name of Each Pensioner, the Cause for &#8230;<\/a>&nbsp;(Washington Printing Office; 1883), (accessed 30 Jan 2012). Online at Internet Archive.&nbsp;Cannon County, page 322.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Newspapers<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Revolutionary War The following Cannon County Revolutionary War records are available online through TNGenWeb: 1835 Pension Roll 1852 Rejected or Suspended Pensions Additional resources include: A Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services: With their Names, Ages, and Places of Residence, as Returned by the Marshalls of the Several Judicial Districts, Under the Act for Taking the Sixth Census. 1841; reprint, Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing, 1967.&nbsp;FHL Book 973 X2pc 1840; Film 2321. 1841 edition digitized by the&nbsp;U.S. Census&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/cannon\/military\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-records"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/cannon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/cannon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/cannon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/cannon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/cannon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/cannon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1114,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/cannon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/1114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/cannon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/cannon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/cannon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}