contributed 13 March 2000 by Willie L. Robinson Included on Tennessee Colored Pension Applications for CSA Service is the name Toney CHAPMAN. Toney was a Black man born in or near Farmington in Marshall County, Tennessee, on June 18, 1849. His master’s name was B. F. Farmington. Toney was only about twelve years old at the outset of the Civil War in 1861, but two years later in 1863, he went into service of the Confederate States of America with…
1913 List and Narrative The Fourth Tennessee Cavalry did not assume regimental form until General Bragg had returned from his Kentucky campaign in the fall of 1862. It was made up of detachments that had served under different commanders since the beginning of the war. At its organization Baxter Smith was made Colonel; W. Scott Bledoe, Major; J. A. Minnis, Adjutant; W. A. Rushing, Sergeant Major; Marcellus Grissim, Quartermaster, with R. O. McLean, Bob Corder, and John Price his assistants;…
From A Brief Narrative of the Fourth Tennessee Cavalry Regiment by George B. Guild, 1913 In the latter part of September, 1863, just after the battle of Chickamauga, by order of General Bragg, General Wheeler was sent into Middle Tennessee with his cavalry corps. The Army of Tennessee was occupying the field they had so gallantly won at Chickamauga. He moved up the Cleveland Road to Red Clay, and forded the Tennessee River at or near Cottonport, some thirty miles…
THE basis of all wealth is the soil of the land. Prosperous cities, towns and huge manufactories seem to spring up and flourish as if by magic and without reference to the agricultural advantages of the country; but such growth will be but temporary unless sustained by a country possessing agricultural wealth. It may almost be reduced to a mathematical problem in which it may be said the soil and climate equal the wealth of the country. The surface of…
The Center for the Study of Tennesseans and War is located in Hoskins Library at the University of Tennessee. It is our mission to research, archive, and disseminate the stories of all the people in Tennessee who have been involved in wars between 1700 and the present day. These stories are powerful. Wars have shaped the contours of life in our region. Studying these stories helps us all remember the sacrifices people have made in the past. And, if we…
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