Company D 8th TN Regiment Jesse enlisted in 1861 in the Confederacy with Capt. Calvin E. Myers and served 4 years of the war. Jesse Washington Carmack was born September 1, 1841, in Overton County, Tennessee, and died June 9, 1924, in Overton County,. He is buried in the Mt. Gilead Cemetery in Overton County. -- contributor Ron Dishman, Overton County Historian