{"id":355,"date":"2025-12-16T00:26:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T05:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/?p=355"},"modified":"2025-12-16T00:49:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T05:49:41","slug":"oliver-springs-civil-war-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/oliver-springs-civil-war-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"Oliver Springs Civil War Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>(from the archived&nbsp;<em>Roots of Roane<\/em> Web site)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div>\r\n<p>Civil War soldiers buried in the Oliver Springs Cemetery include: (from O. S. Book)<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><strong>Edmund Vann<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Lumpton Scarbrough<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Abraham Smith<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>John Duncan<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>R. C. McKamey<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Henry &#8220;Pony&#8221; Cash<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Major Edward Black<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Rev. William Brummett<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>J. H. Taylor<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Capt. E. A. Reed<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Dr. Thomas A. West<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li>and possibly others<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>[December, 2025, update:&nbsp; <strong>Thomas McNamara<\/strong>, a veteran of the Confederate and Union Armies, is buried in an unmarked grave in the Oliver Springs Cemetery.]<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Drs. Henry and Theodore Sienknecht<\/strong>, Oliver Springs residents, served in the War. <strong>Captain Jim Bunn<\/strong>, a veteran, later lived in Oliver Springs and served as Town Marshall.<\/p>\r\n<p>The large <strong>Butler<\/strong>, <strong>Galbrith<\/strong> [<em>sic<\/em>], and <strong>Griffith<\/strong> families had many members serve in the War; some with allegiance to the blue, and some to the gray. A number of these are buried in the Butler and Robertsville cemeteries.<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Capt. John Hannah<\/strong> and <strong>Ethelbert Crozier<\/strong>, who survived the War but was shot down at his front gate after the War, are buried in the Robertsville Cemetery.<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>John G. Diggs, Sr.<\/strong>, and <strong>John G. Diggs, Jr.<\/strong>, starved to death as prisoners of war in the Andersonville Prison in Georgia.<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>James R. Davis<\/strong> and <strong>James B. Davis<\/strong> are old soldiers who are buried at Fairview.<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>James Madison Lockett<\/strong> was killed near Nashville.<\/p>\r\n<p>Burials in the Dyllis Cemetery:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><strong>Phillip Brashears<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Abraham Cox<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>B. L. Hendrickson<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>J. R. May<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Jake May<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Samuel Moore<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Tobias Peters<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Elisha Rose<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Goodman Webster<\/strong> [<strong>Capt. Louis M. Westers<\/strong> Co. G, 1st Tenn Reg of Mounted Inf. of the Union Army]<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>John Webster<\/strong> Union Army<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Lafayette Wright<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>William Lafayette Butler<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li>and possibly others<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p><strong>Michael Shipwash<\/strong> was private in Company K, 5th Regt. Tenn. Volunteered between 1862 and 1865 and was crippled in the left ankle.<\/p>\r\n<p>Others in the Roane County area near Oliver Springs include:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><strong>Harry B. Jones<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Richard Cox<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>John H. Brashears<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>John L. Brock<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Carrick S. Edwards<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Ivy Edwards<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>John Massengill<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Thomas Ollis<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Isaiah Lawson<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Charles Coker<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Ambrose Foster<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Jonathan Coker<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>James A. Sampsel<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>John G. Hammons<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Samuel L. Maynard<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Garrison Ussery<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>David A. Phillips<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>In the Morgan County, Coalfield-Oliver Springs area, the old Civil War soldiers included:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><strong>David Jackson<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Richard Hudson<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Peter Ruffner<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Joe Nichols<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Christian Ruffner<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Peter Estes<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Horace Wright<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Thomas Goddard<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Carr Davis<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Joe Hacker<\/strong> (photos) ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(from the archived&nbsp;Roots of Roane Web site)<\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/oliver-springs-civil-war-veterans\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,13,24,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-history","category-communities","category-families-individuals","category-roots-of-roane-site"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}