War of 1812 History
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Coffee County enters the Space Age
In the Southeastern section of Coffee Co., is a large and modern Military Facility, called Arnold Air Force Station. This project and the story behind it is the biggest event in local history, since the Civil War. It marks a drastic turning point from a small town, mostly agrarian society of the 1800’s and early 1900’s to a modern era, putting Coffee Co. into the Space Age and ready to advance into the 21st Century. In 1926, the State of…
Coffee County Inmates at TN State Penitentiary, 1831-1850
The Tennessee State Library & Archives (TSLA) houses the surviving records of the Tennessee State Penitentiary. The following list are individuals in the index from Coffee County. For information on how to get more information about these records, please contact TSLA.
Civil War Memories of Robert Carden
Introduction: Robert C. Carden was born in Coffee County, Tennessee on July 4, 1843, the youngest of the five children of Reuben and Sarah (nee’ Henry) Carden. On May 23, 1861, he enlisted in the Confederate Army at Manchester, Tenn. He served in Company B of the 16th Tennessee Infantry until January of 1865. He, and the 16th Tennessee fought at Perrysville, Murfreesboro and Chickamauga and from there to Lovejoy Station below Atlanta. This soldier was wounded at Perrysville and…
Chapter 19: Robert Carden’s Civil War Memories
BOONE, IOWA. FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 16, 1912 CHAPTER XIX Although in my four years experience in the war between the states I saw many sad things. I never saw a sadder thing than happened near Dalton, Georgia, while we were in winter quarters there. I have seen dead soldiers on the battle field so thick that you could walk long distances upon them, have witnessed heartrending scenes in the hospitals but never anything more affecting than this. We had erected…
Chapter 18: Robert Carden’s Civil War Memories
BOONE, IOWA. FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 9, 1912 CHAPTER XVIII The commission that sat on the case when Sam Davis was tried was composed of the following: Col. Madison Miller, 18th Missouri; Lieut-Col. Thos. W. Gains, 50th Missouri Inf.; Mayor Lathrop, 39th Iowa Inft.; Judge Advocate. After hearing the evidence the following sentence was pronounced: “The commission do hereby sentence him, the said Samuel Davis, of Colman’s Scouts, of the so-called Confederate States to be hanged by the neck until dead,…
Chapter 17: Robert Carden’s Civil War Memories
BOONE, IOWA. FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 2, 1912 CHAPTER XVII In writing these sketches, before I close, I want to chronicle the death of Sam Davis, a Tennessee hero. The following condensed sketch was furnished by Joshua Brown, of New York city, who was a member of the 2nd Kentucky cavalry of the C. S. A. and was a fellow scout of Sam Davis. He says, “As you requested I will give you my personal recollections of the capture, imprisonment and…
Chapter 16: Robert Carden’s Civil War Memories
BOONE, IOWA. FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 26, 1912 CHAPTER XVI When I got home there was just one mare on the place and she was two years past and that was the stock I made the first crop with. After my return home the negroes had a stock of fodder which they had hid in the woods that had not been taken. The only kind of plow I had to do the breaking up of the land and the cultivation of…
Chapter 14: Robert Carden’s Civil War Memories
BOONE, IOWA. FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 19, 1912 CHAPTER XV I remember another heroine. Lieut. Buford, of an Arkansas regiment. She stepped and walked, the personification of a soldier boy, had won her spurs at the battle of Bull Run, Shiloh and Ft. Donelson and was promoted for gallantry. One evening she came to Gen. Steward’s headquarters at Tyner’s station with an order from Major Kinlock Folconet to report for duty as a scout but upon finding that he was a…
Chapter 13: Heroines of the South
BOONE, IOWA. FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 12, 1912 HEROINES OF THE SOUTH In Rhea county, Dayton, Tenn., was organized the only Ladies Company in all the land of Dixie. The object of this company was to visit relatives, friends and sweethearts who had enlisted in the several companies from Rhea county, taking them clothing, medicines, and provisions, performing the part of ministering angels. This company was organized in 1862 and was from the most prominent and respected families of Rhea county….