(from the archived Roots of Roane Web site)

Contributed by Carolyn Woolsey Wilkerson of Texas. Her Web site is available at the Internet Archive.  Click here to view.

Samuel James Woolsey (1827) — April 20, 1862, Samuel joined Co. B, 5th (McKenzie‘s) Tennessee Cavalry of the Confederacy.

Samuel Woolsey, Private, Co. B, 5 Regiment Tennessee Cavalry, residence of Kingston, Roane County, Tenn., appears on a Muster Roll of Officers and Men paroled in accordance with the terms of a Military Convention entered into on the 26th day of April 1865, between General Joseph E. Johnston, Commanding Confederate Army, and Major General W. T. Sherman, Commanding United States Army in North Carolina.

Census of 1890 Special Schedule: Confederates – page 45-46 Samuel Woolsey, Private B5th Tenn., Cavalry April 1862 to April 1865 PO/Emory Gap, Tenn. Samuel was at Tunnel Hill and in the battle that ensued called the Chickamauga proper.

Samuel who married Harriet Reed lived between Harriman and Kingston near Swan Pond, was a Baptist minister and is buried on his home place near Woolsey Road.

John Peoples Woolsey (1830) — Samuel‘s brother — the following is recorded:

From Adjutant General’s Office Washington D.C. January 1, 1866
It appears from the Rolls on file in this office, that John P Woolsey was enrolled on the 24th day of May, 1863 at Athens Tenn., in Co. C, 4th Regiment of Tenn. Inf., Volunteers, to serve 3 years, or during the war, and mustered into service as a Private on the 15th day of June 1863, at Nashville, Tenn., in Co. C, 4th Regiment of Tenn. Inf., volunteers, to serve 3 years, or during the war. On the Muster Roll of Co. C of the Regiment for the month of June 1863 he died at Nashville, in the State of Tennessee, on the 25th day of June A.D. 1860 of Chronic Diarrhea and Measles while in the line of duty in the service of the United States. John, who married second Margaret Angeline Ellis, was buried at Nashville, TN.