City: Franklin<\/p>\n
CANNON, Newton, <\/strong>farmer and merchant; born near Franklin, Tenn., June 14, 1846; son of William PERKINS<\/strong> and Agatha Susan (Perkins) CANNON<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation, farmer; paternal grandparents Newton<\/strong> and Leah Letitia (Perkins) CANNON<\/strong>; maternal grandparents Samuel<\/strong> and Sarah (Perkins) PERKINS<\/strong>;\u00a0 educated in the country schools in Williamson Co., Tenn.; joined the army at the age of 15 and was soldier for three years, which interfered with the completion of his education; when entering the army he joined Capt. Thomas Fearn PERKINS<\/strong>\u2019s Co., of partisan rangers Apr. 7, 1862, operating behind Buell\u2019s army; became member of Co. I, 11th<\/sup> Tenn. Cavalry Forrest\u2019s Brigade C. S. A.; was made First Sergeant Oct., 1863, and served as such until the surrender at Gainesville, Ala., May 12, 1865; promotions were offered him, which he declined; he had one horse shot from under him and received three slight wounds in consequence; was in all of the battles of his command until after the battle of Chicamauga, then with Longstreet in East Tenn., Joe JOHNSTON<\/strong>, Dalton to Atlanta, Ga., and with J. B. HOOD<\/strong> in Tenn., then with FORREST<\/strong> to surrender at Gainesville, Ala.; after the war became a merchant, but is now retired from the mercantile business and devotes his time to management of his farm; married Jennie B. McEWEN<\/strong> Feb. 27, 1873; member of McEwen Bivouac and Stearnes Camp Confederate Veterans; Democrat; his great grandfather Minus CANNON<\/strong> was a revolutionary soldier, his grandfather, Newton CANNON<\/strong>, was twice governor of Tenn. and Congressman two or three times and Col. under Gen. JACKSON<\/strong> in the Creek war; his father, William P. CANNON<\/strong>, was in the Seminole war and was wounded and discharged; his son, Newton CANNON<\/strong>, was in the Cuban war as First Lieut.; when LONGSTREET<\/strong> began his move on Knoxville was sent with three others into Middle Tenn. as scouts and spies; the other two were captured and narrowly escaped being hanged as spies; he rode all over the territory about Nashville and south of it, taking many desperate chances; had to ride through the enemy several times; finally escaped across Tenn. river under fire; made his report, but declined promotion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Franklin CANNON, Newton, farmer and merchant; born near Franklin, Tenn., June 14, 1846; son of William PERKINS and Agatha Susan (Perkins) CANNON; father\u2019s occupation, farmer; paternal grandparents Newton and Leah Letitia (Perkins) CANNON; maternal grandparents Samuel and Sarah (Perkins) PERKINS;\u00a0 educated in the country schools in Williamson Co., Tenn.; joined the army at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4407,232,4419],"tags":[1615,4325,47,334,684,1616,1460,424],"class_list":{"0":"post-3173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-surname-c","7":"category-williamson","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-buell","10":"tag-cannon","11":"tag-forrest","12":"tag-hood","13":"tag-johnston","14":"tag-longstree","15":"tag-mcewen","16":"tag-perkins","17":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14843,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3173\/revisions\/14843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}