War Records of Soldiers of Company C Adams, T. R. age 22 yrs. Enlisted Sept. 30, 1862 Chapel Hill T. C. H. Miller Captured at Middleton January 31, 1863 forwarded to Nashville Thom. Riggs Adams POW sent to City Point James River, Va. Feb. 11, 1863 Oath April 5, 1865 Place of residence-Marshall County complexion-fair hair-dark eyes-hazel height 5 ft. 9.5 in. Remarks: no family Aldridge, John pvt. age 24 yrs. Enlisted Sept 30, 1862 Chapel Hill T. C….
The following information is taken from The Military Annals of Tennessee, Confederate, by John Berrien Lindsley, originally published in Nashville, 1878.The following is a partial list of the losses of this company:Killed. Private Ephraim Sheffield, at Dandridge, Tenn., January, 1864. Private Alf. Snell, at Gentersville, Ala., February, 1865. Private W. Bruce, at Guntersville, Ala, February, 1865. Wounded Private John Bailey, at Thompson’s Station, Tenn., April, 1863. Private A.B. Robinson, near Acworth, Ga., May 28, 1864. Private A.J. Cole, near Acworth, Ga.,…
Company “G” Third Tennessee Regiment, organized at Cornersville for the Confederate service OFFICERS. Calvin H. Walker Captain, elected Colonel at reorganization. J. S. Walker, Captain. E. C. L. Bridges Lieutenant Alfred Jones, Lieutenant; captured at Donelson, escaped from Camp Chase and afterwards made Surgeon of the 17th Tennessee Regiment Other lieutenants–J. A. Ralston, E. W. Harmond, J. B. McCandless, Calvin J Orr Seargents–Thomas H. Chiles, G. W. Taylor, W. M. Dabney, J. M. Clayton, T….
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;…
WILLIAM P. THOMAS may be mentioned as one of the prosperous farmers of Marshall County, Tenn. His parents, T.W. and Lucy (Pierson) Thomas, were born in Virginia, and were there married, and soon after came to Tennessee and located in Rutherford County, where they lived until the death of the father, and then the mother and her five children located in Bedford County, and about 1850 came to Marshall County. The father was a stock trader and while on a…
DR. THOMAS E. REED, a leading physician of Lewisburg, is a son of Andrew J. and Virginia E. (Nelson) Reed, both natives of Tennessee, where they grew to years of maturity and were married. Shortly after the latter event they moved to Giles County. The father was a farmer and in addition carried on merchandising for some time. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and the mother a member of the Presbyterian Church. The mother died in…
LAMBERT C. NEIL, horse trainer, of Marshall County, was born March 28, 1839, in this county. He was reared by his grandmother and received a limited education. At the age of fifteen he went to Texas and engaged as an overseer of a cotton plantation. In 1859 he went to California, and, after residing there three years, returned with a single companion on pack-horses. In 1862 he went out as an independent soldier in Capt. Carter’s company, and later acted…
ALFRED J. LANE, farmer, was born February 8, 1848, on the farm where he now lives. While growing up he received a fair practical education in the common schools, and, like a dutiful son, remained with his parents until he was twenty-two years of age, when he went to Pulaski to clerk in a cotton factory. Two years later he returned to the farm, and in 1873 he was married to Mary A. Overton, a native of Texas, born February…
SAMUEL T. HARDISON, M. D., one of the leading practitioners of Lewisburg, was born in Maury County, Tenn., February 13, 1841. He was reared on a farm and education in country schools. At the age of nineteen he began the study of medicine under his father and in 1860 he entered the Reform Medical College, at Macon, Ga., where he took one course and then, in 1861 enlisted in Company G, Twenty-fourth Tennessee Infantry Confederate States Army. Early in 1862…