Yesterday's Henderson County

Henderson County, Tennessee History Page

Revolutionary War

• Revoluntionary War Pension Application - Caleb S. Wood, transcribed by David W. Morgan (TNGenWeb Archives)*
• Revolutionary War Veterans, Henderson County, Tennessee, Jonathan K. T. Smith
• Tennessee Pension Roll of 1835, William R. Navey (WARNING: Automatically downloads 350K file.) [Several (at least 8) men living in Henderson County in 1835 are on the roll. A quick (2 hrs.!) scroll turned up these: George Anderson, Athelston Andrews, John Andrews, Samuel Beard, Benjamin Butler, Nathan Green, Robert Griggs, James King, John Robins. Brenda]

Civil War

• George Washington Essary, William Chumney
• Andersonville Prison and the Steamboat Sultana's Explosion, by Isaac Noah Davenport a Union Soldier of Scotts Hill, Tenn. Who Survived Both Horrors, Gordon H. Turner, Sr.
• Autobiography and Reminiscences, Wiley M. Crook
• Autobiography and Reminiscences of John W. Carroll, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.* John W. Carroll grew up in the Center Point community of Henderson County, now in Chester County, in the years immediately prior to the Civil War. Much of the narrative concerns his Civil War service and the chaotic period immediately after the close of the war. The University of North Carolina web site hosting this page features nineteenth century southern diaries, memoirs, and autobiographies, many of which concern the Civil War.
• The Burning of Clifton, William R. Morris (from Wayne County TNGENWEB page; mentions 7th Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry)*
• The Civil War, Auburn Powers
• The Civil War Remembered: Items from Area Newspapers, compiled by Brenda Kirk Fiddler
• Civil War Times Around Scotts Hill, Gordon H. Turner, Sr.
• Civil War Veteran Obituaries and Death Notices, compiled by Brenda Kirk Fiddler
• Committees for Benefit of Indigent Families, 1861, Jonathan K. T. Smith
• Confederate Bushwacking, not listed (Steve McDaniel) (with photos), offers information on the Battle of Parker's Crossroads, a driving tour of the site, and Civil War links*
• Dr. John C. Flinn and Susan McGuire, Marvin Schubert (with photos)* (An interesting Civil War story for a Hardeman County family. Dr. John C. Flinn was born in Henderson County and treated wounded after the Battle of Parker's Crossroads.)
• Company A, 48th Illinois Infantry, David A, Stumpf
• 50th Illinois Infantry Regiment History, "from the Adjutant General's report"*
• 55 Tennessee Infantry Regiment, Barry Dunagan*
• Henderson County Confederate Pension Applications, Tennessee State Library and Archives*
• Henderson County Sharpshooters (Company K., 27th Tennessee Infantry Regiment, CSA), Jonathan K. T. Smith
• Henderson County's Civil War Confederate Veteran Pensioners, Jonathan K. T. Smith
• Henderson County's Confederate Veterans' Widow-Pensioners, Jonathan K. T. Smith
• Henderson County, Tennessee: The Lost Tranquility, G. Tillman Stewart (exerpt from Henderson County hosted by Marvin Schubert's Flinn Family web site)*
• Here Are Some Countians Who Served with Union, Ashley Adams
• Hidden Treasure, Kit Jeans Mounger, from Quilting Newsletter Magazine, April 1996, pp. 26-27* (Civil War story)
• History of the 39th Iowa Infantry, JoJo Leto*
• Ingersol and the Civil War, Council for Secular Humanism (Battle of Lexington)*
• Hurst!, W. Clay Crook
• The John W. Wylie Story, Gordon H. Turner, Sr. Many white families living on small farms in the south felt little stake in the Confederate cause. A major destination for families who moved in an attempt to avoid the conflict was southern Illinois. This is the story of one family which made this move. (William Robert Wilson also tells of a family move to Illinois.)
• The Killing of John Bradford, The Memphis Daily Appeal
• Letter from Mifflin - 1861, Becky Burdick McLaughlin
• Mortally Smitten Confederate Infantrymen of the 27th and 13th Infantry Regiments, Civil War, Jonathan K. T. Smith
• Old Civil War Letter, transcribed by Don McKinney (letter Margaret Ann (Delaney) Yeates wrote to her son John Wesley Yeates during the Civil War, about 1864; he was serving with the 10th TN Infantry, Union army; Margaret probably lived in Decatur Co.; names mentioned in letter seem to be in Scotts Hill-Doe Creek area)*
• The Reconstruction Days, Auburn Powers
• Reenactors Page/Parkers' Crossroads, TN on June 8 & 9, 1996, Rod Bond (with photos)*
• 7th Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry, Henderson County TNGENWEB Page*
• Special Census Schedule, 1890: Surviving Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and Widows of Veterans, United States Service, Civil War, Jonathan K. T. Smith
• 20th Tennessee Cavalry, CSA, which skirmished at Jack's Creek*
• Tennessee Civil War Home Page, Jeff Weaver*
• Two Civil War Letters Written by Dougal W. Ross, Henderson County TnGenWeb Page*
• Visitors, Jackson, Tennessee Military Roster March 1863-May 1863, Jonathan K. T. Smith

World War I

• Postcards from the War
• A Tribute to the Men of the Armed Services During World War I from the Scotts Hill, Tennessee Area, Gordon H. Turner, Sr.
• The World War, Auburn Powers
• World War Victims (photos), from History of Henderson County, Auburn Powers (photos)*

World War II

• Black Servicemen in World War II
• A Letter from the War: William Arnold Writes from Belgium
• Doc Summers' Boys Made History, Elizabeth Caywood
• Fallen but not Forgotten, the legacy of Albert S. Cook, Albert Laheije
• Wolf Creek Ordnance Plant - Milan Ordnance Depot

Korean War

• Raymond Henry Milner, Bertha L. Spencer (with photographs)
• Letters from a POW, compiled by Brenda Kirk Fiddler

This page is to help make Henderson County history more accessible by sharing over the Internet some of the materials which are available.  Do you have a history of your church, school, community, or business?  How about your grandfather's farm journal or a story told by your grandmother about a memorable event?

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