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The Following Thread by Karen Moore Waugh

My Great Grandfather Captain George C. MOORE served in 
the 4th TN Cavalry under the men you have pictured.  Their names are on his 
war department record which follows:

        Record of Captain George C. Moore from War Department:

    George C. Moore, Seargent, Co H4 (Murr's) Tennessee Cavalary, Confederate 
States Army, enlisted July 22, 1861, at Nashville, age 28 years.

    This company became Co C 8 (Smith's) Tennessee Cavalry.  Elected 1st Lt. 
May 18th 1862, and promoted to Captain August 1st, 1863.

    His name appears as signature to an oath of Allegiance to the US and 
shown that he surrendered May 2nd, 1865, at Charlotte, NC and subscribed to 
the Oath on May 19th, 1865, at Nashville, TN.

    His description is recorded as follows:  dark complexion, dark hair, grey 
eyes, 6ft. 2 inches tall.  Place of residence, Smith County.[1861 photo above]

Officers:                       Battles:

Baxter Smith - Col.                 Shiloh
Paul Anderson - Lt. Col.                Perryville
Wm. Scott Bledsoe - Major           Murfreesboro
George B. Smith - Adjutant          Lookout Mt. (Battle Above the Clouds)
Marcelle Grissim - Capt.                (wounded here**)
W. F. Delaney - Surgeon         Dalton, GA
William Boone - Capt.               Tunnel Hill 
W. T. Allen - Asst. Surgeon         New Hope Church 
W. S. Rushing - Sgt. Major          Marietta
J. A. Stewart                       Atlanta, Newman
Jas. Nance - Buglers, Co. A         "March to the Sea"
                                    Griswoldsville
                                    Buck Head Church
                                    Saltville, VA
                                    Fayetteville, NC
                                    Chapel Hill, NC
                                    Bentonville, NC
                                    Charlotte, NC     (Surrendered)

    Horse stolen by Yankees on the way home - had to walk.  The Government 
paid him $200 for the horse 20 years later. [see official report below]
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    NOTE:  The B.H. MOORE listed by Mr. Clark with the 7th's materials was 
Capt. George MOORE's brother, William H. "Buck" Moore.   The T. J. Estes 
listed with the 7th was Capt. George Moore's brother in law.
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    Also, this from another Smith Co. CSA searcher, Bill Allen:
"A Brief Narrative of the Fourth Tennessee Cavalry Regiment" by George B.
Guild is a regimental history of Smith's regiment written about 1912-1913.
It was reprinted in 1996 by Cool Springs Press, Franklin, TN, and I have a
copy of this reprint. As I recall, they printed 2500, and were selling them
for about $25. This was more the personal reminisces of Guild, and there is
some history missing, particularly for a period in 1864 when the regiment
was split.

Pages 158-159 list the killed, wounded, died of Company C, and Capt. George
C. Moore is listed as wounded. Page 159 says, "Capt. George C. Moore was
well known in the Regiment as the "Old Reliable," and was always at his
post. He died a few years ago at New Middleton, Tenn."

There were three different 4th TN Cavalry regiments - generally known as
(1) Smith's (officially the 8th TN Cav), (2) Starnes'-McLemore's
(originally the 3rd), and (3) Murray's. I have a little info on all 3 -
county origins of each company of each regiment, plus service summary. I
have g-gfathers who served in Smith's Co A, "the Marshall Rangers" from
Marshall Co (Dr. Thomas A. Allen); and Starnes'-McLemore's Co D (William
Alpheus Hunter), also a Marshall/Bedford Co unit; therefore, I know more
about these two. Also, a brother of my g-gfather (William G. Allen), served
in Starnes-McLemore's Co A, also a Marshall Co unit. 

My g-gf, Dr. Thomas A. Allen, was in Smith's Co A, "the Marshall Rangers,"
and he was regimental assistant surgeon. 

I checked my files, and I find that another person contacted me about a
veteran of Company C. Following is a copy of his message:

     I am primarily a seeker of info. on the 4th (8th) Cav.  One of my wife's 
g.g. grandfathers, Robert Ewing Harris, was a Corp. in Co. C.of Baxter 
Smith's old 4th.  He enlisted 22 July, 1861, at Nashville.  He has only one 
muster roll card on record, one from 1 Sept. 1862 through 28 January 1863.  
It reads: " Absent W/O permission, Furnished his own horse.  Resigned 16, May 
1862."  Mr. Harris (b. 30 March, 1825, 
d. 2 May, 1900) apparently went off to W. VA with the unit, and then went 
home when
they returned to the Middle Tennessee area.  He was a resident of eastern 
Wilson County, and Co. C consisted of men from just across the county line in 
Smith County.  Thanks to some distant cousins, I have extensive info. on the 
Harris family, but no more info.  his Confederate service, or his reason for 
leaving.  He had a wife and four daughters under the age of 10 at home, and a 
5th daughter (my wife's g.grandmother) would be born 
in  November.  Perhaps he was ill, or just couldnt be away from home any
longer.  I'll probably never know. 

 Allen Sullivant
 Brentwood, TN
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    And another Smith County CSA tidbit:
    My name is Paul Mengelberg. My g-grandfather Joseph S. Cato joined "H" 
Co. of Murray's 4th Tennessee Cavalry on July 21,1861. He was from Smith Co. 
It later became "C" Co.  under Baxter Smith's 8th. That is about the extent 
that I've been able to find on my g-grandfather except that he was shot the 
day after Lee surrendered and lost his right arm. They were in Fayettevile, 
N.C. My great aunt knew of many stories but passed away before I was able to 
hear any of them. One story she told my mother was that once after being 
captured by the North, my g-grandfather was being transported on a flat boat 
on the Cumberland River close to where he was raised. When the opportunity 
arose, he jumped overboard and swam away while being fired upon.  
    I've just purchased the George B. Guild book. He was mentioned once in 
the section of wounded. He was only 15 years old when he joined. He was 
discharged July 1865 in Willmington N.C.
    I understand that your g-grandfather was Captain George C. Moore. He 
would have been my g-grandfathers captain. If there are any sites, books, or 
information that you could pass on to me I would be very greatful.
    (Later)
Ted & Karen, 
      Thank you both for some of the info that you've passed on to me. This 
past weekend I visited a distant cousin who lives in Lebanon, TN in Wilson 
Co. He showed me the square where they have a statue of General Hatton and 
gave some history of him and the area. He told of a time when John H. Morgan 
visited Lebanon and was almost captured by the Yankees. He was chased all the 
way to Rome, Tn where he escaped across the ferry on the Cumberland river. 
His horse got away from him while crossing and was taken by a yankee general. 
The ferry at Rome where Morgan crossed was at a bow in the river that was my 
Ggrandfather's family's farm. It was called Denny's Bend.
     We also went to a farm in Rome where some confederate soldiers, who were 
home on leave, were called out, stood up next to their family's smoke house 
and executed by yankees right in front of their mother and father.  The smoke 
house is still standing with the buckshot holes still visible. The Grisham 
boys are buried there in the next field. 
     I found out that my Ggrandfather's sister-in-law was the heroine 
mentioned by Bromfield L. Ridley in "Battles and Sketches of the ARMY of 
TENNESSEE". Miss Helen Price Cato, 14 years old, hid a squad of Morgan's men 
who were being persued  by Colonel Funkerhauser's regiment. She hid them on 
an island in the Cumberland river and also fed them until the yankees gave up 
and returned to Lebanon.
     My Ggrandfather was captured at the battle of Shepherdsville Oct. 3, 
1862.  His company muster roll showed that at one time he was due $50 bounty. 
Do either of you know what bounties were paid out for?  I'm gather a lot of 
information that I hope will let me determine exactly what battles my 
Ggrandfather found in etc.  
                                                         Thank you both 
again, Paul Mengelberg

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And about those stolen horses and the goverment payment....
Karen:

 Thanks for the picture and here is what happened according to Major Guild.

    On the 26th of April, 1865, General Johnston surrendered his army of 
about 20,000 men to General Sherman. General Johnston had issued the 
following , which was read to the different commands.

    Terms of a military convention entered into the 26th day of April, 1865, 
at Bennett's house, near Durham station, N.C. between Gen Joseph E. Johnston, 
commanding the Confederate Army, and General W.T. Sherman , commanding the 
Untied States army in North Carolina:

    !. All act of war on the part of troops under General Johnston command to 
cease from this date.

    2. All arms and public property to be deposited at Greensboro, and 
delivered to an ordnance officer of the United States.

    3. Rolls of officers and men to made in duplicate, one copy to be 
retained by the commander of the troops and the other to be given to an 
officer to be designated by General Sherman. Each officer and men to give his 
individual obligation in writing not to take up arms against the United 
States until properly released from this obligation.

    4. The side arms of officers and their  private horses and baggage to be 
retained by them.

    5. This being done, all officers and men will be permitted to return to 
their homes, not to be disturbed by the United States authorizes so long as 
they observe these obligations and the laws in force where they may reside.

                                        Joseph E. Johnston, Commanding 
Confederates.
                                        W.T. Sherman, Commanding United 
States Forces.

Supplemental terms of the same date, signed by these officers, recite among 
other things: "Sections F. Private horses and private property of both 
officers and men to be retained by them" 

    In order to expedite the printing of paroles the Confederate cavalry 
under General Wheeler were sent to Charlotte, NC. where they received their 
paroles on May 3, 1865.

    After this the troops scattered to their homes. The First Tennessee 
Cavalry Regiment , the Ninth Battalion of Tennessee, and a greater part of 
the Fourth Tennessee left in body, as they resided in middle Tennessee. We 
were provided with some rations; but after traveling some distance, we found 
that it would be necessary to forage upon the country.  For the purpose of 
lightening the burden upon an almost improvised people, we separated, the 
First Regiment and the ninth Battalion taking the road to the right. crossing 
the East Tennessee Railroad at Strawberry Plains, and the Fourth Tennessee 
crossing at the Sweetwater. At these places on the railroad the commands were 
halted, and order was presented from General Stoneman ( with headquarters in 
Knoxville) to dismount the men, take their horses, and ship them by rail to 
their homes.  Of course a protest was made against this proceeding, as it was 
expressly provided for by the terms of the articles of the surrender that the 
horses were the private property of the men and they were allowed to keep 
them. Forty years after this unwarranted proceeding the Congress of the 
United States passed an act to pay these soldiers for their horses and 
equipment---to wit; One Hundred and Twenty-five dollars for the horse and ten 
dollars for the saddle and bridle. This act was limited to soldiers that were 
paroled at the surrender of the Confederate army, and in case of death, to 
the widows.Where there was no widow, the children were to receive the 
benefit.The act provided also that the taking must have been done by the 
United Sates soldiers. Many have availed themselves oaths long deferred 
justice, and in many cases it has benefited them and their families immensely.
    About may 20, 1865 the Middle Tennessee soldier reached Nashville to 
proceed to their homes.

Taken from the History of the Fourth Tennessee Cavalry by Major George Guild.
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