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Veterans of Zion Baptist Church

Veterans of Zion Baptist Church

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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, Co L, 7th TN Cav, CSA Simeon Amherst Cobb b.1840-d.1927, Co L, 7th TN Cav, CSA William Thomas Cobb b.1833-d.1898, Co. L, 7th Reg’t TN Cav, CSA Chas. Haywood Estes b.1844-b.17 Apr 1880, Co D, Newsom’s Reg’t, TN Cav W….

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Thomas Jefferson Walker, Civil War Anecdote (1863)

Thomas Jefferson Walker, Civil War Anecdote (1863)

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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 great deal of pilfering performed on the dead bodies of the Yankees by our men. Some of them [Federals] were left as naked as the day they were born, everything in the world they had being taken from them. I…

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World War I Veterans of Haywood County

World War I Veterans of Haywood County

Staff at the Tennessee State Library & Archives (TSLA) created a county-level listing of veterans served in World War I.  TSLA has a detailed explanation of its resources for World War I veterans.  Click here to view the research guide. TSLA’s staff compiled a list of veterans from each county.  Click here to view the Haywood County list (updated as of March 31, 2008). Another important searchable database at TSLA is Records of Ex-Soldiers in World War 1.  It is…

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Haywood Countians in Wars, 1812 to 1865

Haywood Countians in Wars, 1812 to 1865

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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 survivors of the war of 1812. The county was not represented in the war with Mexico by any organized body of troops, but a number of her citizens joined the company that was organized at Jackson, and served with it…

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