FELAND, LAFAYETTE F, Co B,
private, enlisted by Lieutenant Crockett at Paducah, KY on 1/2/64
and mustered at Columbus, KY on 6/29/64 at age 24/ 27. He was 5’11” tall, dark complexion, dark
eyes, dark hair, a farmer born in Trigg Co, KY (4/6/1837) and was
due a $300 bounty for enlistment. Reported
AWOL at Mayfield, KY on 8/17/64, Feland was promoted to corporal
less than a month later so he may have been AWL.
The record mentions that he was sent somewhere to get a
change of clothes for 13 men. He was
discharged with the regiment when it disbanded at Nashville, TN on
8/9/65. Feland, the son of James
Allen and Mary Stahl Feland, married Aseneth Emeline Colley in
1860. He applied for an invalid pension in
1890. He lived in Wingo, Graves Co, KY until 1903
when he moved to be near family. Feland
died on 6/1/1917 at Stafford, AR (pension) is buried in the Doxey
Cemetery in Sayre, OK. MR #594
FERGUSON, JAMES (K) P(OLK),
Companies K & C, private, enlisted for 3 years by Captain
Beatty in Henderson Co, TN on 5/29/63 at age 18.
He was 5’7” tall, dark complexion, hazel eyes, light hair,
a farmer, born in Henderson Co, TN and a resident thereof in 1860. His records say he was released on
9/24/64 but names no prison. Ferguson
filed for an invalid pension in 1890 and died on 5/17/1922 in
Reagan, TN. He is buried in New Hope Cemetery in Henderson
Co, TN with a military marker.. In
His widow Elizabeth Ferguson filed for a pension in 1922. MR
#595
FINCH, ADAM, Co L, private. His record says that there is no
evidence for Co L or Finch. Most
likely he was captured with the regiment at Union City, TN on
3/24/64 and taken to Andersonville Prison in Georgia. He died there on 9/12/64 of scrobutus
and is buried in grave #8555 with a 7th Tennessee
Cavalry marker. Finch was the son of
Jarrett and Elizabeth Hill Finch. He
married Elizabeth P Warren in 1856 in Weakley Co, TN. His widow filed for a pension in 1888
while living in Tennessee and it was granted.
Finch had a brother in a Kentucky Union regiment. No
MR #
FINCH, HAMPTON, Co I,
corporal/sergeant, enlisted for 3 years in Buena Vista, TN on
9/20/63 and mustered at Union City, TN on 12/15/63 at about 35/39. He was 6’1” tall, dark complexion, blue
eyes, black hair, a resident of Carroll Co, TN.
He furnished his own horse and equipment.
Presumed captured with the regiment at Union City, TN on
3/24/64, he spent time in Andersonville Prison in Georgia where he
died on 7/21/64 of acute diarrhea. He
is buried in grave #3733 in the Andersonville National Cemetery. Finch’s mother, Dovie Finch, filed for a
pension on his service in 1870 but it was denied. MR #596
FINCH, ISAAC B, Co B, private,
enlisted for 3 years in Carroll Co, TN on 8/15/62 and mustered in
Benton Co, TN on 8/17/62 at about 32 years of age.
He was born in North Carolina but was a resident of Carroll
Co, TN in 1860. He furnished his own
horse and equipment. Finch is
presumed captured with the regiment at Union City, TN on 3/24/64
and taken to Andersonville Prison in Georgia where he died on
either 9/30/64 or 10/1/64 (both dates in records) of scrobutus. He was buried in grave #10133 in the
Andersonville National Cemetery. Finch, who married Purity A
Cooper in 1851, is assumed to be the son of Williamson and Mary
Finch of Montgomery Co, NC. The Sarah Finch who applied for
a widow's pension in 1865 may also be a wife. MR #597
FISHER, HENRY B, Co I, private,
enlisted for 1 year and mustered on 1/12/65 at Paducah, KY at age
21 or 27. Fisher was a refugee resident of
Magnolia, IL at the time of his enlistment. He was
5’8” tall, fair complexion, blue eyes, light hair, a farmer, born
in Gibson Co, TN. Fisher was AWOL
from Paducah, KY by 5/2/65 and has no discharge on his muster
rolls. MR #598
FLIPPIN, GEORGE, Co C, private,
enlisted by Lieutenant Neely for 1 year at Paducah, KY on 3/1/65
and mustered at Nashville, TN on 8/5/65 just before the regiment
disbanded on 8/9/65. He was 19 years
old, 6’ tall, black eyes, brown hair. He received a $33.33
bounty for enlistment. Flippin had
been a Confederate soldier before changing sides late in the war. He resided in an area of Gibson Co, TN
called Skullbone, an area with a bad reputation, especially among
Confederates. The “Nashville Banner”
of February 26, 1869 reported that George Flippin, John Flippin
and Cal Ury took a mule from Fredrick H Henderson of Carroll Co,
TN. This animal, the trio said, had
been taken from them during the war. Friends
of Henderson followed them and a gunfight ensued.
George Flippin was killed plus John Flippin and Cal Ury
were wounded. This would have been in
December 1868 when Flippin was about 21. Grudges
from the war were still held and tempers were still very hot. The Carroll Co, TN Sheriff who had to
deal with all this was the Lieutenant Neely, who enlisted Flippin
in 1865. Flippin’s parents seem to be
J L and Sarah Flippin. MR #600
FLOWERS, HENRY, Co C, private,
enlisted for 3 years in Lexington, TN on 8/28/62 and mustered by
Captain Hayes on 9/5/62 at Jackson, TN at age 26 or 27. He was 5’9” tall, sallow complexion,
grey eyes, dark hair, a farmer, born in Anson Co, NC. He apparently had contracted
Tuberculosis in both lungs even before enlistment and was
discharged on disability at the parole camp in Columbus, OH (Camp
Chase) on 3/11/63. Flowers applied for an invalid pension in
1886 and his wife applied after his death. MR #601
FLOWERS, JAMES, Co K, private,
enlisted in Gibson Co, TN on 5/1/63 at age 24.
He was 5’10” tall, dark complexion, black eyes, black hair,
a farmer, born in Gibson Co, TN. He
was AWOL from 4/15/63 through June 1863 and there is no record of
a return to duty. MR #602
FOREST (FORREST), JAMES S (G),
Companies B & A, private, enlisted for 3 years in Carroll Co,
TN on 8/24/62 and mustered at Humboldt, TN on 8/26/62 at age 27. He was due a $100 bounty for enlistment. AWOL from April 1863 through June 1863,
he had returned by 1/1/64. In
September and October of that year he was acting orderly for
Colonel McArthur who commanded the fort at Columbus, KY. This indicates that Forrest was not
captured at Union City, TN with the regiment in March 1864.
He mustered out with the regiment at Nashville, TN on
8/9/65. Forrest applied for an invalid pension in
1889. His wife applied for a widow's pension after his
death. MR #603
FORSHEE, WILLIAM R, Co C,
enlisted by Lieutenant Gregory at Paducah, KY on 10/10/63 and
mustered there on 10/19/63. He was
5’6” tall, light complexion, blue eyes, light hair, a farmer, born
in Jackson, AL. He received a bounty
for enlistment. The only comment in
his muster roll is “confined.” MR #605
FOWLER, GREEN L, Co C, private, enlisted for 3 years in Lexington, TN. He furnished his own horse and equipment. He is presumed to have been captured with the regiment at Union City, TN on 3/24/64 since he spent time in Andersonville Prison in Georgia. He was exchanged through Vicksburg, MS with other members of the regiment who were in Andersonville. He was one of the six members of the 7th Tennessee who died on the ill-fated steamer “Sultana” upstream from Memphis, TN on 4/27/65. His muster roll seems to indicate that his destination was Cairo, IL. His wife applied for a widows pension in 1870. MR #606
FRANCISCO, ROBERT, Co B,
private, enlisted for 3 years in Union City, TN on 12/15/63 at age
26. He was 5’10” tall, fair
complexion, blue eyes, brown hair, a farmer, born in Benton Co,
TN. His muster roll lists him as
present in January and February 1864. Presumed
captured with the regiment at Union City, TN on 3/24/64, Francisco
spent time in Andersonville Prison in Georgia and died there on
6/26/64 of acute diarrhea. He was
buried in grave #2506 in the Andersonville National Cemetery. The New
York Times death list gave him as R. Francisco. He appears to be the son of George and
Margaret Francisco of Benton Co, TN. MR #607
FREDERICK, BENJAMIN OR BENNETT (S,
F or T), Co C, private, enlisted for 3 years by Captain
Martin at Paducah, KY on 5/1/64 at age 19. He
was
5’5” tall, dark complexion, hazel eyes, dark hair, a farmer, born
in Marion Co, KY. He received a
bounty for enlistment. Hospitalized
in September and October 1864, he died of pneumonia and rubella at
the Paducah, KY Post Hospital on 4/22/65. He
was buried in the Mound City Illinois National Cemetery in grave
#H-4749. The Roll of Honor has his name
reversed as Frederick Benjamin.
MR #609
FREEMAN, DANIEL D, Companies H
& C, private, enlisted for 3 years in Lexington, TN on 1/10/63
at age 17. He furnished his own horse
and equipment and received a $100 bounty for enlistment. A resident of Henderson Co, TN, he seems
to be a son of David and Sarah Taylor Freeman, probably born in
Fayette Co, AL. There is little in
his muster roll except that he “escaped 11/10/64” and was in the
“hospital at Mound City, IL till 3/13/65.” It
is not clear from the records from whom he escaped.
A disposition for pension by Wiley Boman, however, mentions
that he and Freeman were shot and captured in Decatur Co, TN in
July 1864 by the 10th Tennessee Cavalry CSA.
Perhaps Freeman escaped from this group.
Returning to the regiment he was discharged when it
disbanded at Nashville, TN on 8/9/65. In
1876 Freeman testified as to which private citizens of Henderson
Station, TN had participated in a raid that destroyed the station
and property of loyal citizens on 11/25/1862.
The men he named were heavily fined by the US
Government. MR #611
FREEMAN, ELIJAH C, Co F,
private/sergeant, enlisted for 1 year in Huntingdon, TN on 8/20/62
and mustered on 9/24/62 at age 35. He
was 5’7” tall, dark complexion, hazel eyes, black hair, born in
Carroll Co, TN, a grocer/merchant, and resident of Carroll Co, TN. He furnished his own horse and
equipment. Appointed a sergeant on
9/24/62, Freeman served as a company clerk for Colonel Hawkins. Discharged in Nashville, TN at the end
of his one year enlistment, Freeman and his wife Elizabeth King
Freeman (m. 1854) seem to have left Carroll Co, TN.
He is buried, however, in the Oak Hill Cemetery in
Huntingdon, TN and has a military marker, which unfortunately has
no dates. There is a minor pension
application on his service for Hattie Traywick, et al, entered in
1892. MR #612
FREEMAN, THOMAS E (G),
Companies F, B & A, private, enlisted for 3 years in
Saulsbury, TN on 7/25/63 at age 18. He
was due a $100 bounty for enlistment. Freeman
had first been a recruit for Co F, a one year company. He was detached as an orderly for Colonel
McArthur, the commander of the post at Columbus, KY, which
indicates Freeman was not with the regiment when it was captured
in Union City, TN. Nothing else is in his muster
rolls. He applied for an invalid pension in
1884. His wife applied for a widow's pension. MR
#613
FREEMAN, WILLIAM, Co C,
private, enlisted and mustered in Jackson, TN on 9/5/62. He was AWOL by 11/15/62 at Trenton, TN
and absent again, or still absent, in April 1863. There is
no further information in his muster rolls. MR #614
FRENCH,
GEORGE, Co A. This man applied for an invalid
pension in the 1880s but it was denied. He has no records in
the muster rolls of the 7th Tennessee.
FRENCH, RICHARD E(LY), Co B,
private, enlisted for 3 years in Carroll Co, TN on 8/10/62 and
mustered in Benton Co, TN on 8/17/62 at age 29 (muster roll) or 38
(census). He was 5’9 ¼” tall,
fair complexion, blue eyes, dark hair, a farmer, born in Stewart
Co, TN but a resident of Carroll Co, TN in 1860.
He was captured and paroled in Henderson Co, TN during/or
after the battle of Lexington, TN on 12/18/62.
French was detached and serving in Paducah, KY on 3/24/64
when the regiment was captured at Union City, TN on 3/24/64. Paducah was attacked the next day,
however, and French was killed in action on 3/25/64.
He is one of only three men of the 7th Tennessee known to
have been killed in action. He was
buried in the National Cemetery in Cairo, IL.
The son of Gideon Richard and Rebecca Angeline Anderson
French, he was the husband of Mary Francis Moore French (m. 1845). She applied for a widow’s pension in
1867, which was granted by June 1871. In
1883 she lived in Marlborough, TN and was receiving $8.00 per
month, the standard allotment at the time for the widow of a
private. She later moved to Van
Buren, Arkansas. MR #615
FRIZELL (FRIZZELL), ABRAHAM, Co
C, private, enlisted for 3 years and mustered at Jackson, TN on
9/5/62 at age 29. A resident of
Henderson Co, TN in 1860, he furnished his own horse and
equipment. By 3/1/63 he was AWOL,
said to be a result of sickness. He
returned in time to be captured with the regiment at Union City,
TN on 3/24/64 and taken to Andersonville Prison in Georgia. He died there on 9/15/64 according to
the muster rolls. His wife, Jane Hays
Frizell, is buried in the Bible Hill Cemetery in Decatur Co, TN. Her tombstone says that Frizzell died in
Charleston, SC. Jane Frizzell applied
for a widow’s pension by Oct 1874. In
1883 she lived in Decaturville, TN and received $8.00 per month,
the standard allotment at the time for the widow of a private. Frizzell was the son of James Sanders
and Martha Francis Jones Frizzell of Coffee Co, TN.
He was brother to George Newton Frizzell and Thomas J
Frizzell, both of whom enlisted in Co C at the same time and
place. MR # 618
FRIZELL (FRIZZELL), GEORGE
N(EWTON), Co C, sergeant, enlisted for 3 years and mustered
at Jackson, TN on 9/5/62 at age 19. He
was 6’ tall, light complexion, grey eyes, light hair, a farmer,
born in Coffee Co, TN on 4/22/1843 but a resident of Henderson Co,
TN in 1860. Presumed captured with
the regiment at Union City, TN on 3/24/64, he spent time in
Andersonville Prison in Georgia. Exchanged
through Jacksonville, FL in April 1865, Frizzell was taken first
to Maryland then to Camp Chase, OH. He
mustered out on 7/3/65 at Camp Chase, undoubtedly due to
disability from prison hardships. He
married Martha Melvina Hendrix in 1867 in Henderson Co, TN. Frizzell was granted an invalid pension
in November 1882. At that time he
lived at Poplar Spring in Henderson Co, TN. By
the 1890 veterans’ census he had moved to Farmersville, Collin Co,
TX. In the census, Frizzell
complained about lasting effects from scurvy contracted during his
imprisonment, as he had also mentioned in his pension application. Frizzell died in Farmersville, TX in
December 1916. He is buried in the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows Cemetery in Farmersville,
TX. His wife applied for a widow's pension in 1916. MR
#619
FRIZELL (FRIZZELL), THOMAS J,
Co C, private, enlisted for 3 years and mustered at Jackson, TN on
9/5/62 at age 21. He furnished his
own horse and equipment. A resident
of Henderson Co, TN in 1860, Frizzell was the son of James Sanders
and Martha Francis Jones Frizzell and brother to George Newton
Frizzell and Abraham Frizzell, also of Co C. He was captured
at Union City, TN with them and shared the Andersonville prison
experience. Thomas Frizzell, however,
was removed from Andersonville and taken to a smaller prison in
Florence, SC. He died there of
chronic diarrhea on 9/15/64—the same day as his brother Abraham
died in Andersonville, at least according to the muster
rolls. MR #620
FRY, GEORGE W, Co F, private,
enlisted in Carroll Co, TN on 8/5/62 at age 19 with the consent of
his parents, George Washington and Elizabeth Bledsoe Fry of
Carroll Co, TN. He served out his one
year enlistment and mustered out at Saulsbury, TN on 10/23/63. Fry applied for an invalid pension in
1892 while living in Tennessee. He
died in 1896 and his wife, Melissa Josephine, applied for a
widow's pension the same year. J.
Matt Neely, former lieutenant of Co M, was their pension
attorney. MR #625