SISSON (CISSUM),
JAMES R, Co A, private, enlisted for 3 years in Jackson,
TN on 3/17/63. Sisson was one of
the 100 or more men who
went AWOL from the forts on the Mississippi/Tennessee line in
June 1863. He left on 6/20/63 and
returned to duty on
1/24/62. Presumed captured with
the
regiment at Union City, TN
on 3/24/64, he was imprisoned in Andersonville in Georgia and
other
eastern prisons. Sisson’s record
is
unclear. He was released through
Wilmington, NC on 3/1/65
and died in the Sherman General Hospital
on 3/11/65 at Florence.
His mother, Mary A Sisson, applied for a dependent
mother’s
pension and received $8 per month in the 1883 pension list of
Henderson Co,
TN. Sisson may be the James R
Cissum,
son of John and Mary Cissum in the 1850 census of Henderson
Co, TN. If so, he was only about
17 years old at
enlistment. MR #1634
SKATES (SCATES),
GREEN, Companies K, B & C, private, enlisted by
Captain Beatty for
3 years
in Henderson Co, TN on 4/24/63 and mustered the same day at
age 19. He received a $100 bounty
for
enlistment. He was 5’9” tall,
light
complexion, hazel eyes, light hair, a farmer, born in
Henderson Co, TN
and a
resident thereof. Scates was
court-martialed for some infraction and had half his pay
stopped for 2
months. He was not captured with
the
regiment at Union City, TN on 3/24/64 and transferred to the
new Co
C on 8/19/64. Scates mustered out
at
Nashville, TN
on 8/7/65 when the regiment disbanded.
He married Amanda Autry. In
1890
he still lived in Henderson Co, TN and in 1891 he applied for
an
invalid
pension. He died on 7/11/1914 at
Chesterfield, TN and is
buried in the Bible Grove Cemetery
in Henderson Co, TN. He has a
military
marker. MR #1635
SLATER, ANDREW J,
Co G, private, enlisted in Trenton, TN on 11/20/62. Captured
and
paroled
with
the regiment at the
battle of Trenton, TN
on 12/20/1862, he apparently did not go to parole camp.
He died in Memphis, TN
on 1/26/63 (tombstone) or 2/5/63 (muster roll).
Slater is buried in Corinth National Cemetery
in Corinth, MS in grave B-3391. He
may
have been from Dyer Co, TN. MR #1637
SLOAN, JAMES D,
Co C, corporal, enlisted on 9/10/63 and mustered on 11/25/63
at about
19 years
of age. He was one of the men of
the
13th/14th TN Cavalry not captured with
their
regiment at Fort Pillow on 4/12/64. They were
temporarily attached to the
7th
Tennessee detachment stationed at Columbus, KY in the spring
and summer of 1864. These men
left the 7th to become
part of Co E 6th Tennessee Cavalry.
He
appears to have been captured at Johnsonville, TN at some
point. George F Sloan, who may have been his
father, seems to have
been
denied a dependent father’s pension on Sloan's record in
1875. MR #1639
SMALL, ANDREW
J(ACKSON), Co H, was in the battle of Lexington, TN in
December 1862.
Presumed captured with the regiment at Union City, TN
on
3/24/64, he was imprisoned in Andersonville in Georgia
and other eastern prisons but was exchanged through Vicksburg,
MS
in April 1865. Small 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. The Andersonville
site says he survived but his muster roll says he died on
4/27/65, the
date of
the disaster. He was the son of
Andrew
Jackson and Mary Seago Small. Mary
Small,
who was widowed by 1860, received a dependent mother’s pension
by 1867. She had two
other
sons said to have fought with the Confederacy and some
descendants say
a son,
Thomas, was in Co H of the 7th Tennessee with
Andrew Jackson. Thomas does not
have muster roll records, however. MR #1641
SMITH, ADDISON R,
Co G, private, enlisted for 1 year in Carroll Co, TN on 8/5/62
at age 24. Captured and paroled
with the regiment at the
battle of Trenton, TN
on 12/20/1862, he did not report to parole camp and was AWOL
by 1/20/63. Smith was the son of
Edward and Sallie Smith
of Carroll Co, TN and brother to Edward H Smith, also of Co G. An Addison R Smith who joined Co G,
2nd Tennessee Mounted Infantry on 11/11/63 at age 34 and
mustered on
12/25/63, is listed
in the 2nd Mounted Infanty records as having died on 2/2/64
at Paducah, KY
of smallpox and remittent fever. MR #1642
SMITH, BRITOEN
(BRITTAN), Co C, sergeant/private, enlisted in Jackson,
TN on 8/28/62 at age
35. He furnished his own horse
and
equipment. Smith was one of the
100 or
more men who went
AWOL from the forts on the Mississippi/Tennessee line in June
1863. He left Grand Junction, TN
on
6/19/63 but returned to duty at some point.
He died in Cairo, IL
of pneumonia on 4/16/64 and is buried in the National
Cemetery at Mound City, IL
in grave #A-494. Smith and wife
Nancy were
in the 1860 census of Henderson Co, TN. MR #1643
SMITH, DANIEL, Co
B, private, enlisted for 3 years in Paducah, KY on 10/1/64 at
age 19. He was 5’10” tall, light
complexion, blue
eyes, dark hair, a farmer, born in Decatur Co, TN.
He received a $100 bounty for enlistment.
Smith
mustered
out
at
Nashville, TN
on 8/7/65 when the regiment disbanded.
He married 1st Sarah C Hudson in Illinois,
then moved to Harviell, Butler Co, Missouri
about 1870. He applied for an
invalid
pension in 1884 and was still in Butler Co for the
1890
veterans’ census. The pension mentions
that he married 2nd,
Mary
Ann
Pottinger,
(divorced),
then Mandy Watkins. MR#1644
SMITH, EDWARD (H),
Co G, private, enlisted for 1 year in Carroll Co, TN on 8/5/62
at age 21/31. He was 5’1
½” tall, light complexion,
blue
eyes, light hair, a farmer, born in Carroll Co, TN on 11/27/42
and a
resident
thereof. Captured and paroled at
the
battle of Trenton, TN
on 12/20/62, he spent time in parole camp at Columbus,
OH (Camp Chase) awaiting
exchange. Sent to Nashville
in September 1863, he mustered out at Saulsbury, TN on
10/25/63. The Molly Owen Memoir
says Smith was shot by
soldiers at his home near Clarksburg
and never fully recovered. He
married
Aromia Wiley in 1868, joined the Grand Army of the Republic
(GAR) in 1887, applied for an invalid
pension in 1890 and died about 1898.
Smith is buried in the Blair Cemetery in Carroll Co,
TN and has a military marker. His
wife,
Arty M(issy), applied for a widow’s pension in
January 1899. Smith was the son
of Edward
and Sallie Smith
of Carroll Co, TN and brother to Addison R Smith, also of Co
G. MR #1645
SMITH, FRANCIS A,
Co A, 1st lieutenant. He was
one of the men of the 13th/14th Tennessee
Cavalry not
captured with their regiment at Fort Pillow on 4/12/64 who
were
temporarily placed with the 7th Tennessee detachment stationed
at
Columbus, KY
in the spring and summer of 1864. Smith
wrote an
account of the Fort Pillow Massacre for a Congressional
investigation
of the
battle. The men of the 13th/14th
left
the
7th
Tennessee to become part of Co E 6th Tennessee
Cavalry. Reported
missing on 7/6/64, he returned in time to become
Captain of Co E, 6th TN Cavalry on 7/1/65. MR #
1646
SMITH, ISAAC (M),
Co C, private, enlisted in Jackson, TN on 8/18/62. Presumed
captured
with
the
regiment at Union City, TN on
3/24/64, he was imprisoned in Andersonville in Georgia and
other
eastern
prisons and suffered from scrobutus. Exchanged through
Vicksburg, MS, 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. MR #1647
SMITH, JAMES M,
Co G, corporal, enlisted for 1 year in Clarksburg, TN on
8/5/62 at age
18. He was 5’6” tall, light
complexion,
blue
eyes, light hair, born in Pontotoc Co, MS or Tippa Co, MS, a
farmer
in
Carroll Co, TN. Captured and
paroled
with the regiment at the battle of Trenton, TN on
12/20/1862, he spent time in parole camp at Camp
Chase in Columbus, OH
along with Colonel Hawkins and others of the regiment awaiting
exchange. While there he was
hospitalized on 4/10/63
as well as in July/August 1863 at Louisville, KY with typhoid
fever. From Louisville
he caught a steamboat to Paducah, KY
where he got on a horse and rode home.
Smith served out his one year enlistment and mustered
out
officially at La
Grange/Saulsbury, TN on 10/25/63. After
the
war he worked in the mercantile business, was a Justice of the
Peace and a County Judge. He
applied for
an invalid pension in 1889. In
1910 he
owned a store in Henderson Co, TN and was married to his 2nd
wife, Mary
E Smith. Smith is buried in the
Pleasant
Hill Cemetery (Old) in Carroll Co, TN and has
a military marker. His wife, Mary
E Smith,
applied for a widow’s pension in August 1924.
Smith was the son of Charles Bird and Sarah
Bridges Smith. Some of the
information
in this bio is from the veterans’ questionnaire Smith filled
out in the
early 1900s. MR #1648
SMITH, JOHN (W),
Co M, private, enlisted for 3 years in Montezuma, TN on 9/1/63
at age 27. Presumed captured with
the regiment at Union
City, TN on
3/24/64, he was imprisoned in Andersonville in Georgia and
other
eastern
prisons. Smith died of diarrhea
in Savannah,
GA on 10/2/64 (muster roll) or 10/3/64 according to the
New York Times
Savannah Hospital death list. His
widow applied for a
pension in 1865 and a minors’ pension application was also
submitted. MR #1649
SMITH, JOHN W,
Companies B & A, private, enlisted for 3 years in
Huntingdon, TN on
1/1/64 and
mustered at Columbus, KY on 6/14/64 at age 34/37/38.
He was 6’4” tall, dark complexion, black
eyes, light hair, a farmer, born in Carroll Co, TN and a
resident
thereof in
1860. Smith furnished his own
horse and
equipment. The only other
information in
his muster rolls is that he was in the hospital in
Jeffersonville, IN. He gave his
residence as Johnson Co, IL,
Grantsbury Post Office. He was
discharged from
Jeffersonville on
6/30/65. Smith and his wife,
Martha
Herron Smith (m. 1850), were back in District #16, Carroll Co,
TN by the
1870 and
1880 census. Smith applied for
and received, an
invalid pension in January 1879.
His widow also received a pension. MR #1650
SMITH, JOSEPH, Co
F, private, enlisted for 1 year in Carroll Co, TN on 8/8/62 at
age 24/26. He was 6’ tall, dark
complexion, gray eyes,
dark hair, a farmer, born in Carroll Co, TN and a resident
thereof. He was most likely
captured and paroled with
the regiment at the battle of Trenton, TN
on 12/20/1862 since he spent time in parole
camp at Camp Chase
in Columbus, OH along with Colonel Hawkins and others of
the regiment awaiting exchange. He
died
there of pneumonia on 7/20/63. MR #1651
SMITH, SIDNEY (J), Co
I, private, was 19 years old and a refugee resident of
Magnolia, IL when he
enlisted for 1 year and mustered on 1/6/65 in Paducah, KY.
He was 5’6” tall, fair complexion, blue eyes,
black hair, a farmer, born in Decatur Co, TN.
Smith died in the post hospital at Paducah, KY
on 4/24/65 of typhoid fever less than 4 months after
enlistment. He was buried at
Paducah
but was moved to grave #H-4752 in the National
Cemetery in Mound City, IL. His
father,
Anderson J Smith, applied for a
dependent father’s pension in the 1880s. MR #1652
SMITH, THOMAS, Co
K, private, enlisted by Lieutenant Wallace for 3 years in
Decatur Co, TN on
5/12/63 and
mustered same place on 6/12/63 at age 33.
He was 5’8” tall, dark complexion, dark eyes, dark
hair, a
farmer, born
in Decatur Co, TN. There is
nothing
further in his muster rolls. The application for a
minor's pension in 1873, however, says he died in Mobile, AL
which indicates he was captured with the regiment at Union
City, TN on 3/24/64 and died on the way to prison in
Georgia. MR #1653
SMITH, THOMAS A(TLAS), Co A, captain/major, enlisted for 3 years in Jackson, TN on 8/11/62 at age 45. He mustered as Captain of Co A and was promoted to Major on 11/14/62. Captured and paroled with the regiment at the battle of Trenton on 12/20/1862, he spent time in parole camp at Camp Chase in Columbus, OH along with Colonel Hawkins and others of the regiment awaiting exchange. Smith was exchanged along with the officers and rejoined the detachment on 6/20/63. Captured again this time with the regiment at Union City, TN on 3/24/64, he was imprisoned in officers’ prisons in the southeast. From his last confinement at Columbia, SC, he was sent to Charleston, SC to be exchanged on 12/10/64. The New York Times listed him in the article “Union Martyrs.” Smith was taken to Annapolis, MD where he obtained a leave of absence for 30 days. He was discharged due to disability on 12/19/64. Returning to Henderson Co, TN, Smith was active in public life and Republican politics. He served as census taker and county register after the war and owned about 500 acres of land. A member of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) Post #81, he complained of rupture and Bright’s disease in the veteran’s census of 1890. Smith applied for an invalid pension in 1880 and died on 10/18/1891 He is buried in the Lexington Cemetery without a military marker. The son of Benjamin and Esther Argo Smith, he married to Mary Jane Campbell Smith (m. 1858). She applied for an received a widow's pension. MR #1654
SMITH, WILLIAM H,
Co B, private, enlisted for 3 years in Carroll Co, TN on
8/20/62 and mustered at
Humboldt, TN
on 8/26/62. He was one of the 100
or
more men who went AWOL from the forts on the
Mississippi/Tennessee line
in June
1863. Smith left Saulsbury and
was
captured in Carroll Co, TN about 8/18/63 by a portion of
Colonel
Newsom’s rebel
forces. Most likely he was first
sent to
Richmond, VA
and later transferred to Andersonville Prison where he died on
9/22/64
of scrobutus
and diarrhea chronic. A resident
of
Carroll Co, TN in 1860, he was married in 1857 to Margaret E
Forbess. She received a widow's pension. MR #1655
SMITH, WILLIAM M,
Companies A & I, private, enlisted by Captain King for 3
years in Buena Vista, TN on
9/5/63 and mustered
at Union City, TN on 12/15/63 at age 30.
He
was
5’7
½”
tall, fair complexion, blue
eyes, light hair, a farmer, born in Carroll Co, TN.
He furnished his own horse and equipment. Smith
transferred
from
Co
A to Co I on 2/17/65
and was convalescent in Asylum Hospital in July
1865. There is no further record
in the muster rolls. Smith most likely was captured at
Union City and spent time in Andersonville Prison since he was
in Asylum Hospital in 1865. He
applied for an invalid
pension in 1886 and died at Buena Vista, TN on 7/27/1915. In 1916
his second wife, Milert Ophelia Smith, applied for a widow’s
pension. MR #1656
SMOTHERS, ISAAC,
Co E, private, enlisted for 3 years in Huntingdon, TN on
8/20/62 and
mustered at
Humboldt, TN on 9/4/62 at about age 21 (b. 4/17/1841).
He was AWOL after the battles of Lexington and Trenton,
TN
(December 1862) but turned up
on 5/26/63. Assigned to the forts
along
the Mississippi/Tennessee line, he was one of the 100 or more
men who
went AWOL
in June 1863. Smothers left Grand
Junction, TN
on 6/10/63. Arrested and returned
to
duty, he was later captured with the regiment at Union City,
TN on 3/24/64 and imprisoned in Andersonville
Prison in Georgia. Smothers
volunteered in
the 10th
Infantry (CSA) in order to leave prison.
Captured by Union forces at Egypt Station, MS on
12/28/64 while with the rebels, he
was
confined in the Alton, IL military prison on 1/25/65.
Smothers then enlisted in Co D, 5th
Infantry, a regiment for rebel deserters, on 3/18/65 in order
to be
able to
leave this prison. He deserted the 5th Infantry at Plum
Creek, Nebraska
on 8/15/1866. He returned to
Carroll Co,
TN by the 1870. Smothers died on
3/12/1898 and is buried in the Hampton Graveyard in Carroll
Co, TN with
a
military marker. The son of
Gillum and
Tina Smothers, he married Nancy Ann Mullins.
His brother Sebron Smothers was also in Co E and at
Andersonville
Prison. MR #1657
SMOTHERS, JAMES
F(RANKLIN), Companies E, B & C, duty
sergeant/sergeant, enlisted by Captain Parsons at
Huntingdon, TN on 6/28/62
and mustered at Humboldt, TN on 8/11/62 at age 24.
He was 5’8” tall, light complexion, blue
eyes, light hair, a farmer born in Carroll Co, TN in September
1837 and
a
resident thereof in 1860. Captured
and
paroled with the regiment at the battle of Trenton, TN
on 12/20/1862, he most likely spent time in parole camp at
Camp Chase
in Columbus, OH along with Colonel Hawkins and others of
the regiment awaiting exchange. These
men
were exchanged from June through September, 1863.
Smothers was not captured with the regiment
at Union City, TN on 3/24/64. The
men who
escaped generally spent the Spring and summer of 1864 in
Columbus, KY. Smothers
transferred to Co C in August of
1864 and spent time in the hospital with a hernia at
Jeffersonville, IN
in 1865. He received an early
discharge
on 6/2/65 due to disability. Smothers
and
wife, Sarah Elizabeth Barnes, (m. 1857) eventually moved to
Benton
Co,
TN. He became a Methodist
Episcopal
minister and a Mason according to his obituary in Camden
Chronicle. He applied for
an
invalid pension in 1879.
Smothers died in Camden, TN on 2/10/1916 and is buried
in the Palestine
Cemetery
in Benton Co, TN with a military marker.
His 2nd wife, Cora Baggett Smothers, applied for and
received a widow’s
pension. Smothers was the son of
John
Pinkston and Nancy Smothers. MR #1658
SMOTHERS, SEBRON,
Co E, private, enlisted for 3 years in Huntingdon, TN on
6/28/62 and
mustered at
Humboldt, TN on 8/11/62 at age 18/19 (census).
He was AWOL from 3/17/63 to 5/26/63 and was one of the
100 or more
men who
went AWOL from the forts on the Mississippi/Tennessee line in
June 1863. He left La Grange, TN
on 6/6/63
and was in arrest for desertion in January and February, 1864. Presumed captured with the regiment
at Union
City, TN on
3/24/64, he was imprisoned in Andersonville Prison in Georgia. Smothers joined the rebel army on
2/28/65 but
escaped to Union lines at Macon, GA on 4/20/65.
He
was
sent
to
Hilton Head, SC then to Washington DC on 5/24/65,
then to College Green Barracks on 6/4/65, then to Camp Chase,
OH
on 6/8/65. Mustered out on
6/27/65, he
was relieved from penalties attached to enrolling in the rebel
army. Smothers married Francis
McCoy in 1868. In 1870 he worked
as a farm hand for his
former captain, Pleasant K Parsons of Co E, and married his
2nd
wife, Sarah E Laycook, the same year. He
applied
for an invalid pension in 1889.
Smothers died in Huntingdon, TN sometime after the 1910
census
and is buried in Palmer’s Shelter Cemetery in Carroll Co,
TN with a military marker.
His wife, Sarah E Smothers, applied for a
widow’s pension. MR #1659
SPAIN, ABNER (ABRAM
or AARON) H, Co F, private, enlisted for 1 year in
Carroll Co, TN on
8/14/62 at
age 18. He had the consent of his
parents, Theodore and Caroline Edwards Spain, of Carroll Co,
TN. He was one of the 100 or more
men AWOL from the Tennessee/Mississippi line forts in June
1863. Spain left Grand Junction, TN
on 6/20/63. No discharge is
listed in
the muster rolls but a note says he was 22 at muster out so he
must have returned to duty.
Spain married 15 year old Francis L
Morris in 1869. They are in the
1870 but
not the 1880 census of Carroll Co, TN. MR #1663
SPAIN, WILLIAM (WILBORNE), Companies K & C, private, enlisted for 3 years at Saulsbury, TN by Lieutenant Helmer. He was 21 years old (born 11/11/41), 5’5”tall, dark complexion, grey eyes, brown hair, a farmer, born in Henderson Co, TN and a resident thereof. He received a $100 bounty for enlistment. Presumed captured with the regiment at Union City, TN on 3/24/64, he was imprisoned in Andersonville in Georgia and other eastern prisons. Spain was hospitalized with chronic diarrhea while in prison. Exchanged on 4/1/65, he received pay for 371 days rations. He mustered out at Nashville, TN on 8/7/65 when the regiment disbanded. Spain applied for an invalid pension in 1873. It says that pneumonia settled in his right eye at Andersonville Prison and blinded that eye. In 1890 Wilburn Spain lived near Center Point in Henderson Co, TN. He moved to Arkansas, died on 1/13/1913 and is buried in the Union Ridge Cemetery, Dayton, Sebastian Co, Arkansas. His wife, Martha Jane Wright Spain, applied for a widow’s pension in 1913. He appears to have been the son of Wright and Mary A Spain and brother to Hezekiah and Samuel Spain, also of Co K. MR #1665
SPAIN (SPANE), HEZIKIAH (HESEKIAH), Co K, private, enlisted for 3 years in Henderson Co, TN by Captain Beatty on 5/28/63 at age 30. He was 5’10” tall, dark complexion, hazel eyes, dark hair, a farmer, born in Henderson Co, TN and a resident thereof. Presumed captured with the regiment at Union City, TN on 3/24/64, he was imprisoned in Andersonville in Georgia where he died on 10/10/64. He appears to have been the son of Wright and Mary A Spain and brother to William and Samuel Spain, also of Co K. His mother applied for and received a dependent parent pension in 1866. MR #1664 & 1669
SPANE (SPAIN), SAMUEL, Co K, private, enlisted for 3 years by Captain Beatty in Henderson Co, TN on 5/28/63 at age 19/20. He was 5’7” tall, dark hair, gray eyes, dark complexion, a farmer, born in Henderson Co, TN and a resident thereof. Presumed captured with the regiment at Union City, TN on 3/24/64, he was imprisoned in Andersonville in Georgia and other eastern prisons. Paroled through Savannah, GA in November, 1864, Spain was transferred to hospital #1 in Annapolis, MD where he died on 12/8/64. He was buried in the Ashgrove Cemetery in grave #1439, J-79. He appears to have been the son of Wright and Mary A Spain and brother to Hezekiah and William Spain, also of Co K. MR #1670
SHEAR (SPEAR), JAMES
D, Companies K & C, private, enlisted for 3 years in
Dresden, TN
and present in November/December 1863.
He was 24 years old, 5’9” tall, fair complexion, blue
eyes,
light hair,
a farmer, born in Gibson Co, TN. He
received
a $300 bounty for enlistment. Presumed
captured
with
the
regiment
at
Union City, TN on 3/24/64, he was imprisoned in
Andersonville in Georgia and
other eastern prisons. Exchanged
on
2/24/65 through North East Ferry, NC (Wilmington),
Spear was at Camp Chase, OH by 3/15/65. He
mustered
out at Nashville, TN
on 8/7/65 when the regiment disbanded.
He is most likely the James D Spear (m. Josephine) in
the 1880
census of
Gibson Co, TN. He applied for an invalid pension in 1892
and died in Trenton, TN on 3/4/1915. MR #1671
SHEARS (SPEARS), JOHN
(JAMES) W, Co C, private, enlisted for 1 year at
Paducah, KY
on 3/1/65 and mustered the same day. He
was
30 years old, fair complexion, blue eyes, light hair, born in
Gibson Co,
TN. He received a $33.33 1/3
bounty and
was
a refugee resident of Trivoli, IL at the time of his
enlistment. He mustered out at
Nashville,
TN
on 8/7/65 when the regiment disbanded.
His Illinois
residence lists him as John W Spears. MR #1672
SPEARS, WILLIAM,
private, enlisted for 3 years by Lieutenant Helmer at Paducah,
KY on 12/20/64 and
mustered the
same day at age 19. He was 5’7”
tall,
fair complexion, black eyes, black hair, a farmer, born in
McCracken
Co,
KY. Spears mustered out at
Nashville, TN
on 8/7/65 when the regiment disbanded. MR #1673
SPELLINGS, JAMES
M(ARSHALL), Companies B & A, duty sergeant/sergeant,
enlisted by Captain
Martin for
3 years in Carroll Co, TN on 8/12/62 and mustered in Benton
Co, TN on
8/17/62
at age 36 (born 7/28/28). He had
a dark
complexion, dark eyes, dark hair, born in Carroll Co, TN or
NC, a farmer
with
residence in Buena Vista, TN. He
furnished his own horse and equipment and received a $100
bounty for
enlistment. He was appointed
sergeant on
8/25/62. Captured and paroled
with the
regiment at the battle of Trenton, TN on 12/20/1862,
he most likely spent time in parole camp at Camp
Chase in Columbus, OH
along with Colonel Hawkins and others of the regiment awaiting
exchange. These men were
exchanged from June through
September, 1863. Spellings was
not
captured with the regiment at Union City, TN on
3/24/64. The men who escaped
generally
spent the spring and summer of 1864 in Columbus, KY. Spellings
was
hospitalized
in
Jeffersonville, IN
by 6/4/65 and was discharged from there on 6/16/65.
He applied for a pension in
September 1875. Spellings died on
12/26/1878 and is buried in the Spellings Cemetery in Carroll
Co,
TN without a military marker. He
was the
son of Gideon and Nancy Spellings and brother to John
Spellings of
Companies B
& A. He married to Adaline
Butler. MR #1674
SPELLINGS, JOHN,
Companies B & A, private/corporal/sergeant, enlisted by
Captain Martin for 3
years
in Huntingdon, TN on 8/15/62 and mustered in Benton Co, TN on
8/17/62
at age
24. He had a dark complexion,
grey eyes,
light hair, born in Carroll Co, TN (9/24/40).
He furnished his own horse and equipment and received a
$100
bounty for
enlistment. Captured and paroled
with
the regiment at the battle of Trenton, TN on 12/20/1862,
he most likely spent time in parole camp at Camp
Chase in Columbus, OH
along with Colonel Hawkins and others of the regiment awaiting
exchange. These men were
exchanged from June through
September, 1863. Spellings was
not
captured with the regiment at Union City, TN on
3/24/64. The men who escaped
generally
spent the spring and summer of 1864 in Columbus, KY. He
was
orderly
to
Colonel Hawkins in
September/October 1864 when Hawkins returned from Confederate
prison.
Promoted to corporal on 2/1/65, he made
sergeant two months later on 4/1/65.
Hospitalized with chronic diarrhea on 6/4/65, he was
discharged
from the
Jeffersonville, IN military hospital on disability.
Spellings received an invalid pension in 1870. He died on 1/28/1905 and
is buried in the Spellings Cemetery in Carroll Co,
TN with a military marker. This
cemetery
is “about 200 yards from where he lived”. He was “one of the
leading
stock men
in West Tennessee” (obit in Dresden Enterprize).
The son of Gideon and Nancy
Spellings and
brother to James M Spellings, he was married to Elizabeth F
Hamilton. She applied for a
widow’s pension in October 1905. MR #1675