"The balls from the ememy's pickets tore up the ground around him like pebbles thrown in a pond.  He reached the works safely and was pulled over them by his comrades."

"Providence decreed his escape" as he returned to the picket hole with more ammunition "almost out of breath".

"W. D. STREET went on a simular dangerous earrand to fill our canteens with water.  These were two of the bravest deeds that I witnessed during the whole war."

Henry County's Company F was among the first line in the charge at the battle of Franklin.  All the commissioned officers and sergeants of the company were either killed or wounded in the engagemanet, and at its close it was in the command of Corporal Tom J. JONES.

"Next morning we found the dead lying so think that we could have walked on them without stepping on ground, a sight I never saw elsewhere.  Henry Countians killed were W. J. EDGAR and W. W. RIDGEWAY.  Franklin was the Gettysburg of the west."

In the early spring of 1865 the "doom of the Confederacy was already sealed, and as SHERMAN and GRANT closed in around the outnumbered, but still unconquered, remnant of the Army of Tennessee......General Joe JOHNSTON saw the futility of further resistance and surrendered his Army.  "All phases of human feeling were exhibited. Some raved and swore that they would never submit to it.  Some paced back and forth like caged lions......some wept like children.

"Of the 1,300 men who followed the flag of the Regiment to the front, only 30 stood under its folds at the last sad scene of all.  We were glad that our colors had never been captured, and we felt that our fallen comrades who had shed their blood on 15 batttlefields and numerous skirmishes were at least spared the mortification of seeing it surrendered to the foe who had never been able to capture it on the battlefield."
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Note: Those known to be from Weakley are in bold type - there might be others - if you know of any Weakley men, please let me know