The monument is located on Highway 64 about a mile off Highway 31A in the Farmington community of Marshall County. Words on the Monument They Fell October 7, 1863, Sealing with their Blood, their devotion to the Lost Cause On the historical bronze sign attached to the stone wall (which is about 15 feet long and 4 feet tall) on each side that surrounds the 10 foot tall monument, reads the following: Names of Confederate Soldiers killed on this field in…
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;…
BRYANT, Capt. James Lafayette Capt. James lafayette Bryant, was born 25 March 1827, Lincoln Co. Tenn., Died 20 Oct. 1881, Marshall Co. Tenn. buried in New Hope Cem., was Capt. Co. A. 8th Reg. Tenn. Vols., Enlisted May 16 1861, Elected Capt. 18 May 1861. This Co. was known at times as Capt. James M. McAfee’s Co. He was Capt. of the New Hope Rebels.He was also Pvt. in Capt. Mauldwin’s B 1st Reg. Tenn. in the Mexican War. Joined…
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…