Contributed by Anne Thiem, July 26, 2001. Robert Bruce Saunders served in the Civil War from Haywood and was also in a Tennessee Mounted Infantry in the Mexican War. He is also an ancestor of Brownsville resident Gene Campbell. R. … Continue reading →
Submitter not identified. Source: From the booklet researched, written and compiled by Joyce Cobb Maness. War Between the States (Civil War) James William Castellaw b.1839-d.1918, Co L, 7th TN Cav, CSA John Charles Warren Cobb b.11 Oct 1830-d.25 Jun 1914, … Continue reading →
Contributor and source not indicated on archived page. JANUARY 1 1863, Stones River Battlefield. After one day’s fighting James B. Mitchell of the 34th Alabama Regiment of Infantry noted the grim aftermath of battle in his journal: There was a … Continue reading →
Source: Goodspeed’s History of Tennessee, Haywood County (1887), pages 823-825 Many of the early settlers of Haywood County, among whom we may mention Col. Richard Nixon, Maj. Farrington, Jonathan T. Jacocks, John Sangster, Nelson Hargrove and Silas M. Morton, were … Continue reading →
