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Civil War Biography He was born 1 Jan. 1800, died 3 Feb. 1879, Grundy Co., TN; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Civil War Biography Submitted by Greg Curtis He was born 1 Jan. 1800, died 3 Feb. 1879, Grundy Co., TN; married (2) Salina HOLLINGSWORTH. *Residence, Grundy Co., dark complexion, grey hair, grey eyes, 5’9 1\/2″. Considered the largest slaveholder in …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","category-civil-war-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/grundy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/grundy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/grundy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/grundy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/grundy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/grundy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1211,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/grundy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/grundy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/grundy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/grundy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/span>Submitted by Greg Curtis<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n
\nmarried (2) Salina HOLLINGSWORTH.
\n*Residence, Grundy Co., dark complexion, grey hair, grey eyes, 5’9 1\/2″.
\nConsidered the largest slaveholder in the county, Patton owned 51 slaves valued at $22,500.
\nEnlisted 29 Apr 61 as Captain at Pelham, aged 61;
\nresigned 8 Aug 61 due to general debility.
\nSucceeded by Elijah REYNOLDS.
\nHe subsequently returned to Tennessee.
\nTook the oath at Nashville, 20 May<\/p>\n