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LIEUT. EDWIN H. RENNOLDS. 
 
A HISTORY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 rienry dounty (commands 
 
 WHICH SERVED IN THE 
 
 Confederate States Army^ 
 
 INCLUDING ROSTERS OF THE VARIOUS COMPANIES 
 ENLISTED IN HENRY COUNTY, TENN. 
 
 WITH PORTRAITS, 
 
 BY 
 
 LIEUT. EDWIN H, RENNOLDS, 
 
 Company ^*K/* Fifth Tennessee Infantry. 
 
 Jacksonville, Florida : 
 
 SUN PUBLISHING COMPANY, 
 
 J904. 
 
LIBRARY f>l 0ON6RESS 
 TWoCoom Rw et vwl 
 
 AUG 11 1904 
 
 V GowrffM Entry 
 
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 COPY B 
 
 Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1904, by 
 
 EDWIN H. RENNOLDS, 
 
 In the office of the Librarian at Washington. 
 
Dedication. 
 
 To my Comrades, 
 who left the peace- 
 ful homes and quiet 
 firesides of Henry Coun- 
 ty, Tenn., during the Civil 
 War, 18-61 to 1865, and for 
 four years brayed the dangers 
 of the battlefield, endured the pri- 
 vations of the march and bivouac, 
 living on scant rations, and often rag- 
 ged and barefooted, yet uncomplaining, 
 and won for their native County the title 
 of the Volunteer County of the "Volun- 
 teer State," many of whom fell under 
 their colors or died in hospitals, 
 many others of whom have since 
 been summoned hence by the 
 last tattoo, and some of whom 
 are yet spared to read this 
 unworthy tribute, is this 
 small testimony affec- 
 tionately dedicated 
 and inscribed by 
 
 The Author. 
 
Furl that banner, furl it sadly, 
 Once ten thousands hailed it gladly, 
 And ten thousands wildly, madly, 
 Swore it should forever wave." 
 
 — Ryan. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Ever since tlie close of the Civil War I have de- 
 sired to see a record of the brave deeds of Henry 
 County's gallant soldiery put into a durable and per- 
 manent form; in a history worthy of the men, the 
 cause and the story, and have fondly hoped that some 
 pen more gifted than mine would have undertaken 
 the task. But nearly forty years have passed away 
 and no historian has appeared. Now, I have for the 
 first time in these four decades found time and oppor- 
 tunity to undertake it myself. I have, however, not 
 ceased all these years to collect and preserve materials 
 for its composition. No known or accessible source 
 has been left unsearched to secure the facts necessary 
 to make it both complete and accurate. Errors and 
 omissions it certainly has, but the "errors are of the 
 head and not of the heart," and the omissions are 
 "such as are unavoidable. 
 
 So many of my comrades have aided me in this 
 work cheerfully and readily that to enumerate them 
 would be impracticable, and to try to discriminate 
 between those who have done much and those who 
 
^ Introductiox. 
 
 have done less would tax my judgment and discretion 
 without profit to them. To any and all who have 
 thus aided in the work, I tender my heartfelt thanks. 
 Diaries, manuscript notes, private muster-rolls and 
 the memories of many comrades have been freely con- 
 sulted and compared, and, as far as possible, harmon- 
 ized, and I am confident that the history is as nearly 
 accurate as it can be made at this late day. I invoke 
 the forbearance of all its readers with whatever of 
 defects and inaccuracies it contains, and send it out 
 with the hope that it will, in the years to come, give 
 my comrades pleasure in reading of the days long 
 gone by, and enable their children and grandchildren 
 to point with pride to the names of their ancestors 
 on this roll of honor. 
 
 "Little avails it now to know 
 Of ages passed so long ago, 
 
 Nor how they rolled ; 
 Our tlieme shall be of yesterday. 
 Which to oblivion sweeps away, 
 Like days of old." 
 
 E. H. REi^^NOLDS. 
 Jacksonville, Fla., June, 1904. 
 
HISTORY 
 
 OF 
 
 COMPANY ^^F," 
 
 One Hundred and Fifty-Fourth Senior Regiment, 
 Tennessee Infantry* 
 
 A year or so before the opening of the Civil War 
 the Paris Bliles, a small volunteer infantry company, 
 was organized at Paris, Tenn., which kept up its 
 existence till the outbreak of hostilities, when it was 
 made the nucleus of a company for immediate service, 
 and when filled up to the proper standard was ten- 
 dered to Governor Isham G. Harris, accepted and 
 ordered to Randolph, on the Mississippi River, and 
 entered into the organization of what was called the 
 First Tennessee Infantry. Most of the companies 
 were enlisted in Memphis, and it proved to be one of 
 the best regiments in the Confederate service. The 
 Henry County Company was composed of some of 
 the noblest and most patriotic young men of the 
 county, and as it was the first to rush to arms at the 
 bugle call of war, it deserves to be placed first on the 
 
 list. 
 
 The officers of the regiment were Preston Smith, 
 
8 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 colonel; Marcus J. Wright, lieutenant-colonel, and 
 Jones Genet, major. 
 
 The months of May, June and July, 1861, were 
 spent in building fortifications and drilling and learn- 
 ing the theoretical part of warfare. 
 
 The State of Tennessee, having cast its fortunes 
 with the Confederate States, the State troops were all 
 mustered into the service of the new republic. As 
 several Tennessee regiments had been formed from 
 the individual companies which had rendezvoused at 
 Richmond, Va., and entered the Confederate service 
 direct before the secession of Tennessee, and one of 
 these had been numbered the First, it became neces- 
 sary, to prevent confusion, to renumber Preston 
 Smith's First, and, at the request of the field officers, 
 they were allowed to select the number of the old 
 Memphis militia regiment (One Hundred and Fiftv- 
 Fourth) and to add the word ^'Senior'' in order to 
 show that tliey were enlisted early in the war. The 
 One Hundred and Fifty-Fourth was composed of 
 some of the finest fighting material in the State, was 
 thoroughly perfected in drill, and made its mark 
 wherever it served. 
 
 About the first of August a column was organized 
 to advance into Southeast Missouri, by the way of 
 New Madrid, and the One Hundred and Fifty- 
 Fourth Regiment was selected as part of it. This 
 first march during the extremely hot weather tried 
 very severely the strength and endurance of these 
 troops, but they proved equal to the task, and showed 
 the metal of which they were made. 
 
 The campaign accomplished nothing, and the troops 
 
In Confederate States Army. 9 
 
 were recalled and advanced to Columbus, Ky., and 
 occupied and fortified it. While camped here, Captain 
 Ed Fitzgerald was promoted to major, and the subal- 
 terns advanced one round each on the military ladder, 
 Calvin Kay being made third lieutenant. 
 
 During the battle of Belmont, November 7th, 1861, 
 the Federals, having driven the small force of Con- 
 federates camped on the Missouri side of the river 
 back to the river bank, several regiments were trans- 
 ported across the river on steamboats as reinforce- 
 ments, the One Hundred and Fifty-Fourth among 
 the number. Landing above the contending forces, 
 they threatened to cut the Federals off from their 
 transports and gunboats. This movement compelled 
 them to retreat hastily, and they were followed by 
 the Confederates, who poured into them a heavy fire, 
 driving them back to their transports. Halting a 
 moment, Lieutenant-Colonel M. J. Wright rode up to 
 Company ^'F" and ordered Captain Fitzgerald to de- 
 tach eighteen men from the right of his company, 
 deploy them as skirmishers, and pick up straggling 
 Federals, which, he said, the woods were full of. D. 
 D. Brisendine and Wash Janes captured fourteen 
 prisoners, thirteen of them in an old house which they 
 had seen them enter and where they were found hiding 
 in the loft. T. J. Jones, in crossing a fence, lost his 
 balance and fell, discharging, his gun accidentally, 
 and thus scaring up a Federal secreted in the bushes, 
 whoin he ordered to surrender, and, disarming him, 
 too'c him prisoner. The pursuit was kept up till the 
 boats were reached, and the Federals re-embarked. 
 The gunboats, after steaming some distance up the 
 
10 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 river, opened fire upon the pursuing Confederates 
 with little effect. 
 
 After the evacuation of Columbus, the regiment 
 retired, first to New Madrid, then to Randolph and 
 finally to Bethel Station, a few miles north of Corinth, 
 Miss. When General Johnston began concentrating 
 his forces in front of the enemy near Shiloh Church, 
 Cheatham's Division, to which the One Hundred and 
 Fifty-Fourth belonged, marched to that point. 
 
 At the opening of the battle of Shiloh this division 
 was formed to support Clark's Division, of Polk's 
 Corps, and was ordered forward early in the engage- 
 ment, and was soon under a galling fire of both artil- 
 lery and infantry, and without waiting for support on 
 either flank. Colonel Preston Smith ordered an ad- 
 vance. The charge was so rapid and impetuous that 
 a battery of four guns was captured entire, and the 
 infantry driven back, the pursuit continuing for GOO 
 or 700 yards, and a section of another battery was 
 also taken. 
 
 The fire from front and flanks becoming severe, the 
 reaiment was retired about 200 vards and reformed, 
 and moved to the right and again ad ranced, engaging 
 the enemy in a desperate and severe struggle. During 
 this conflict Major Fitzgerald, with the two left com- 
 panies, removed the wounded, who were very numer- 
 ous where they liad charged the batteries, after which 
 they rejoined the regiment, though many of the men 
 were prevented from doing so, but did most effective 
 service in taking prisoners and guarding them to the 
 rear. 
 
 The ammunition becoming exhausted, the regiment 
 
In Confederate States Army. 11 
 
 retired a short distance and replenished their car- 
 tridge boxes from wagons, and then supported 
 Swett's battery, and soon moved forward and drove 
 the enemy from his last encampment and forced him 
 to take refuge under the river bluffs and protection 
 of his gunboats. Soon afterwards the regiment was 
 ordered by General Polk to retire for the night and 
 bivouac. 
 
 At daylight on the morning of* the Tth, the regiment 
 was moved to the right to repel a rumored attempt of 
 the enemy to get into the rear of the Confederates. 
 This proving a false report, it was moved up to the 
 front and formed in a field in rear of Bankhead's bat- 
 tery, but soon after ordered by Captain Henry of 
 General Cheatham's staff to oblique to the right, 
 which was done, and the enemy attacked, where they 
 encountered a heavy fire from artillery and infantry, 
 which continued for almost an hour, when the ammu- 
 nition was exhausted, and it was retired and informed 
 by a staff officer that a general retreat had begun. 
 
 Company "F" lost eight men killed at Shiloh and 
 a proportionate number wounded, and this evidences 
 the desperate nature of the fighting they were engaged 
 in. During the months of April and May, 1862, the 
 regiment took part in the defense of Corinth and bore 
 their full share in the work on the fortifications and 
 in the daily skirmishing. 
 
 Upon the passage of the conscript law and the reor- 
 ganization of the different commands, Major Edward 
 Fitzgerald was elected colonel of the One Hundred 
 and Fifty-Fourth Senior Kegiment, and Charles D. 
 Cooney, captain of Company ^^F." 
 
12 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 After the retreat to Tupelo, Miss., the One Hundred 
 and Fifty-Fourth was selected as part of the column 
 to enter Eastern Kentucky, under General E. Kirby 
 Smith, and maintained its well-earned reputation for 
 efficiency during that arduous campaign, driving the 
 Federals back almost to the gates of Cincinnati. At 
 the battle of Kichmond, Ky., Colonel Fitzgerald, while 
 gallantly leading his regiment, fell mortally wounded 
 almost at the beginning of the engagement. At the 
 consolidation of the regiments at Murfreesboro, the 
 Thirteenth and One Hundred and Fifty-Fourth were 
 placed together. Company ^^F" being united with the 
 Somerville company. 
 
 At the battle of Murfreesboro the regiment repulsed 
 an attempt to capture Kobertson's battery, and, Gen- 
 eral Cheatham says, '^suffered heavily, but fought 
 nobly." It fought gallantly at Chickamauga and Mis- 
 sion Kidge, and throughout all the hundred days of 
 the Georgia campaign, at Kesaca, Xew Hope, Kenne- 
 saw, Peachtree Creek, Atlanta and Jonesboro, bore its 
 full share, suffering severely in several of them. 
 
 During General Hood's raid along the Western & 
 Atlantic Railroad, it participated in tearing up and 
 destroying Sherman's communications, and marched 
 into Tennessee and charged the fortifications at 
 Franklin. They were in the first line in the charge 
 there, carried the first line of works, sweeping over 
 them like a whirlwind, and driving the Federals from 
 a small part of the main line or works. Nick Roach, 
 color-bearer of the regiment, accompanied by H. P. 
 Gaines, T. J. Jones, George Elliott, Jeff Green and 
 three others, crossed the works and went as far as 
 
In Confederate States Army. 13 
 
 the Carter house, but were compelled to recross for 
 the want of support, but still kept up a contmual 
 fire from behiud the embankmeut. All the commis- 
 sioned officers and sergeants of the company were 
 either killed or wounded in this engagement, and at 
 its close it was in command of Corporal Tom J. 
 
 Jones. 
 
 At the disastrous battle of Nashville the few men 
 of this reoiment who survived held their ground till 
 the greater part of the line gave way, and only re- 
 treated when it was useless longer to attempt to stem 
 the tide of overwhelming numbers, several being cap- 
 tured Following the fortunes of the remnant of the 
 once grand Armv of Tennessee to North Carolina, the 
 gallant One Hundred and Fifty-Fourth took part m 
 the last battle of the war (Bentonville) , and then laid 
 down the arms it had handled so well on so many 
 hard-fought fields, and turned their faces to their 
 desolated homes. 
 
14 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 ROLL OF COMPANY '' F,'^ 
 
 One Hundred and Fifty-Fourth Senior Regiment, 
 Tennessee Infantry. 
 
 Captain Edward Fitzgerald; elected major November^ 
 1861 ; colonel at reorganization ; killed at Rich- 
 mond, Ky. 
 
 First Lieutenant William B. Yowell; promoted to 
 captain November, 1861; wounded at Shiloh; dis- 
 charged at reorganization. 
 
 Second Lieutenant Charles D. Cooney; promoted to 
 first lieutenant November, 1861, and to captain at 
 reorganization. 
 
 Third Lieutenant Fitzgerald Williams; promoted to 
 second lieutenant in November, 1861; discharged 
 at reorganization; re-enlisted; wounded at Frank- 
 lin ; appointed cadet in Confederate Military Acad- 
 emy. 
 
 First Sergeant H. P. Barbee; appointed commissary 
 sergeant ; served through the war. 
 
 Second Sergeant John L. Bennett; wounded at Bel- 
 mont, losing leg; discharged. 
 
 Third Sergeant John H. Dunlap, Jr. ; transferred to 
 Morton's Battery; wounded at Harrisburg; served 
 through the war. 
 
 Fourth Sergeant Frank M. Adams; wounded at Mur- 
 freesboro; promoted to lieutenant; served through 
 the war. 
 
 Fifth Sergeant Henry Johnson; killed at Jonesboro. 
 
 First Corporal Nat A. Bowman ; killed at Jonesboro. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 15 
 
 Second Corporal George C. Lemonds; served one 
 
 year. 
 Third Corporal D. W. Cameron (color guard) ; 
 
 wounded at Sliiloh ; died at hospital at Memphis. 
 Fourth Corporal Carter Foster; discharged (under 
 
 age). 
 Fifer Eldridge Wall ; served througn the war. 
 Drummer Oscar Sneed ; wounded at Shiloh ; served in 
 
 Company B, Twentieth Tennessee Cavalry. 
 Joe J. Adams; wounded at Murfreesboro, Chicka- 
 
 mauga and Kennesaw and captured at Nashville; 
 
 served through the war. 
 I. E. S. Alexander; secured a substitute and re-en- 
 listed in Company ^'K/' Twentieth Cavalry. 
 Press P. Alexander ; killed at Shiloh. 
 J. Thomas Alexander ; served one year. 
 Baldwin Atkins ; wounded at Shiloh ; afterwards died 
 
 of disease. 
 Green Atkins ; wounded at New Hope ; served through 
 
 the war. 
 John A. Atkins ; killed at Shiloh. 
 Thomas Banks ; served one year. 
 John Barham ; joined the Federals. 
 Cicero Bancum ; died at hospital at Columbus, Miss. 
 K. A. Bennett; died near Purdy, Tenn., June 4, 1862. 
 R. V. Bennett ; killed at Murfreesboro. 
 John R. Bonner ; served one year. ^ 
 
 F. M. Bowden ; served one year. 
 Frank Bowman; elected lieutenant in Forty-Sixth 
 
 Tennessee and transferred. 
 John W. Bradley; served one year. 
 A. J. Bradshaw ; served through the war. 
 
16 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 J. E. Brink] ey; served a year or two. 
 
 D. D. Briseudine; served in Tenth Cavalry. 
 
 Eli Brown ; served three or more years. 
 
 John Brown; served a year or more. 
 
 Thomas A. Bruce; killed at Shiloh. 
 
 James Cartie; killed at Belmont. 
 
 Thomas Carl in; wounded; served a year or so. 
 
 I. L. Case; captured in Kentucky; served as regi- 
 mental commissary. 
 
 James Cartha; disappeared during the war. 
 
 James Caton ; wounded at Belmont ; served through 
 the war. 
 
 Dr. George W. Conway; detached and appointed sur- 
 geon; served through the war. 
 
 Ed. H. Covington ; served one year. 
 
 John W. (Dock) Covington ; killed at Shiloh. 
 
 J. William Covington ; died August, 1862. 
 
 Robert H. Covington ; elected lieutenant at reorgan- 
 ization ; served through the war. 
 
 A, J. Cunningham ; transferred to Company ^'D/" 
 Fifth Tennessee. 
 
 Robert Dees; captured at Mission Ridge; served 
 through the war. 
 
 Stephen Dees; served a year or more. 
 
 Buck Derington ; served a year or more. 
 
 J. K. Polk Diggs; wounded at Richmond, Ky. ; killed 
 at Jonesboro. 
 
 H. P. Dollaliite; served a year or more. 
 
 Dowen Dunla]); killed at Kennesaw Mountain. 
 
 Howell Edmunds; discharged (under age). 
 
 Frank Erwin; wounded at ]Murfreesboro and died of 
 lockjaw. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 17 
 
 W. Pink Erwin; served in Company "I," Tenth Ten- 
 nessee Cavalry. 
 Newton Fodge ; wounded on picket at Atlanta ; served 
 
 through the war. 
 H. P. Gaines ; wounded at Jonesboro ; served through 
 
 the war. 
 W. H. Griffin ; served one year. 
 John J. Guill ; served one year. 
 Rev. S. C. Hearn; transferred to Fifth Tennessee 
 
 (which see). 
 Orren A. Hearn ; captured at Nashville ; served 
 
 through the war. 
 T. P. Holland; wounded and captured at Kennesaw; 
 
 served through the war. 
 Elisha Janes ; served one year. 
 G. Wash. Janes ; served one year. 
 Calvin Jenkins ; served one year. 
 Joe Jenkins ; discharged October, 1861. 
 John Jenkins; elected second lieutenant at reorgan- 
 ization; transferred to Fifty-Second Tennessee; 
 
 wounded at Peachtree Creek (arm disabled) ; 
 
 served on post duty till close of the war. 
 Thomas J. Jones; wounded at Murfreesboro and 
 
 Chickamauga; captured at Nashville; served 
 
 through the war. 
 W. T. Jones; served one and one-half years. 
 Pat Kennedy ; served in Bankhead's Battery till close 
 
 of the war. 
 Joseph N. Kennerly; died with measles at home on 
 
 furlough in 1861. 
 Thomas B. Kirkland; wounded at Atlanta; served 
 
 through the war ; on retired list. 
 
 2 
 
18 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 Wesley Kirkland; served one year and enlisted in 
 
 cavalry. 
 John W. Lafferty; elected orderly sergeant at reor- 
 ganization; served through the war. 
 James Latham ; served through the war. 
 A. J. Looney; discharged July, 1862. 
 Jesse C. Looney; served in Company "G," Seventh 
 
 Tennessee Cavalry. 
 James H. McCampbell ; promoted to third lieutenant ; 
 
 captured while on furlough; served through the 
 
 war. 
 James McCarty; killed at Belmont. 
 Samuel McClish ; served one year. 
 Peter McDaniel; wounded at Chickamauga (lost a 
 
 leg) ; discharged. 
 R. D. McCutcheon; wounded at Shiloh; served 
 
 through the war. 
 Mike McKinney ; drummed out of the service. 
 John A. McSwain ; served one year. 
 James Miller; disabled accidentally with bayonet 
 
 and discharged. 
 Reuben Mitchell; served one year. 
 John H. Mizell ; served one year. 
 Elijah Moody; wounded at Atlanta; serve<l through 
 
 the war. 
 Sam Moody ; wounded at Murfreesboro. 
 John My rick ; served a year or more. 
 J. Wilson Myrick; killed at Shiloh. 
 Bartle}" Owensb}^; served one year. 
 John M. Ozanne; elected orderly sergeant; detached 
 
 to Whitworth Sharpshooters and commanded them 
 
 till close of the war. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 19 
 
 Frank Pate; served one year. 
 
 Stephen Pate ; captured at Kennesaw ; served tlirougli 
 the war. 
 
 John E. Peeples; transferred to Company ''G/' Fiftli 
 Tennessee (which see). 
 
 A. J. Pettyjohn; served one year and organized com- 
 pany of Partisan Rangers. 
 
 Calvin Ray; promoted to lieutenant October, 1861; 
 discharged at reorganization. 
 
 N. G. Russ; died April 14, 1862. 
 
 William L. Russell ; served one and one-half years. 
 
 John Scott; killed at Shiloh. 
 
 William Stanfield; wounded at Shiloh and at Frank- 
 lin ; served through the war. 
 
 Richard Watkins; killed at Jonesboro. 
 
 T. H. Weldon ; discharged. 
 
 Adley Wiley; served one year. 
 
 J. Matt Williams; captured at Nashville; served 
 through the war. 
 
 Monroe Williams; served one year. 
 
HISTORY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Fifth Regiment^ Tennessee Infantry* 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 ORGANIZATION. 
 
 Although Tennessee decided by a large majority, at 
 an election held for the purpose in February, 1861, 
 not to call a secession convention, yet when the State 
 was called upon to furnish troops to coerce their 
 sister States of the South who had claimed their con- 
 stitutional right by adopting ordinances of secession 
 and organizing the Confederate States, Governor 
 Isham G. Harris promptly convened the Legislature, 
 which at once decided to submit the question of ''sep- 
 aration" from the United States and ''representation" 
 in the newly organized Confederacy to a vote of the 
 people, and meanwhile to put the State in a defensive 
 condition. 
 
 The Governor commissioned Colonel William E. 
 Travis to raise a regiment of cavalry. It being found 
 impossible to secure suitable arms for this branch of 
 the service, the plan was changed and an infantry 
 
 20 
 
In Confederate States Army. 21 
 
 regiment recruited instead. A call was made through 
 the columns of the Paris Sentinel and otherwise for 
 all who wished to enlist in the regiment to assemble 
 at Paris on Saturday, April 20, for the purpose of 
 organization. 
 
 Many responded to the call and were formed in line 
 in the courthouse yard, and after marching around 
 the building several times, they were headed for the 
 campus of the male academy and halted on the south 
 side of the building and were counted off into eight 
 companies of twenty-six men each. Each company 
 was instructed to elect a captain and two lieutenants. 
 A rainstorm came up about this time and most of the 
 companies were organized in the different rooms of 
 the academy. The captains were instructed to fill up 
 their companies to the number of about 100 men each 
 as speedily as posisble. A temporary field organiza- 
 tion was also made. Six of the captains then elected 
 succeeded in securing a sufl&cient number of men to 
 entitle them to be mustered in. One was consolidated 
 with another small company, and one failed to recruit 
 a company. Three other companies were, in the mean- 
 time, recruited in the county, and offered and accepted 
 as component parts of the regiment, and Captain 
 Corbett's company from Benton County was added 
 to make up the complement. After the regiment was 
 organized. Captain Winfrey's company, also of Ben- 
 ton County, and Captain John A. Lauderdale's of 
 Hickman, Ky., requested permission to unite with it, 
 and the request was granted, thus making a very 
 large regiment of twelve companies instead of the 
 usual complement of ten. In order to arouse the 
 
22 Hlstory of Henry County Commands 
 
 militaiy ardor of the people of the county, and 
 thereby hasten the filling up of the ranks, Colonel 
 W. E. Travis, Lieutenant-Colonel J. D. C. Atkins, 
 Major O. D. Edwards and other speakers, accompa- 
 nied by the Pai-is brass baud, made a tour of the vil- 
 lages in the county. They were met at all their ap- 
 pointments by large crowds of men, women and 
 children, and enthusiasm reached a very high pitch. 
 
 As an example of the want of knowledge of how 
 war is conducted, an incident of this tour is here 
 given. At Conyersville, just after the speaking had 
 closed, a man came dashing into the village, his horse 
 reeking with sweat and almost exhausted, exclaiming 
 at the top of his voice: ^^The Yankees have crossed 
 the Ohio River below Paducah and are coming this 
 way, kiling men, women and children as they come." 
 A scene of frenzied excitement instantly followed. 
 Men turned pale, women screamed and wrung their 
 hands, and children cried with fear. Colonel Travis 
 advised the people to go quietly to their homes, and 
 for the men to return next morning with their guns, 
 prepared to make resistance, if the report should 
 prove true. Next day it was learned that the rumor 
 originated in a practical joke started by someone pass- 
 ing a school house somewhere in Western Kentucky 
 the previous day and calling out something wliich 
 was not fully understood. 
 
 Monday, May 20, 1861, was selected as the time 
 for the permanent organization of the regiment, and 
 on that day Paris beheld such a scene as had never 
 before been witnessed on its streets and such as it is 
 never likely to witness again. Crowds from every 
 
In Confederate States Army. 23 
 
 district of the eoiiuty poured into the county seat by 
 every road, and long before the middle of the day the 
 streets were filled with people. The criers of the dif- 
 ferent companies mounted the courtyard fence and 
 halloed, ""Oh, yes! oh, yes! all that belong to Captain 
 So-and-So's company parade here ! parade here !'' 
 
 When the different comi3auies had been formed, a 
 line of march was taken up to McNeill's grove, at the 
 intersection of the Huntington and Ft. Mason roads. 
 Hundreds of citizens of both sexes and all ages ac- 
 companied the line on both sides and in the rear. 
 When the grove was reached the companies were 
 formed into columns under the trees, and proceeded 
 to elect the field officers, as follows: Colonel, Wil- 
 liam E. Travis ; lieutenant-colonel, John D. C. Atkins ; 
 major, William C. Swor. The staff officers, company 
 officers, etc., will appear in their proper places. 
 
24 History of Henry County Commands 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 CAMP, DRILL AND DISCIPLINE. 
 
 The regiment was ordered to go into camp at Hum- 
 boldt at once, but the Memphis & Ohio Railroad, 
 which had been but recently built, was very deficient 
 in rolling stock, and no means of transportation 
 could be secured for several days. The men wer^^ 
 ordered to return home and rendezvous again on 
 Wednesday, the 22d. But on that day a further delay 
 was necessary till Friday, the 24th. On the evening 
 of that day enough cars were secured to transport 
 one battalion of five companies, under command of 
 Lieutenant-Colonel Atkins. Only flatcars were pro- 
 vided, and seats were made of crossties placed cross- 
 ways a foot or so apart. A large crowd, composed of 
 the relatives and friends of the departing soldiers, 
 saw them leave and cheered them on their way with 
 waving handkerchiefs and hearty cheers. Many of 
 the wives, daughters, sisters and sweethearts of these 
 embryo soldiers viewed the strange sight and tears 
 flowed freely from many eyes as the train steamed 
 away. On the evening of the next day four more 
 companies followed, amid such scenes as were wit- 
 nessed on the previous day. At Henry Station Cap- 
 tain W. D. Hallum's company joined the battalion. 
 At every station and road crossing groups of people 
 were gathered and add6d their quota of enthusiastic 
 stimulus given the State's patriotic defenders. 
 
 The regiment went into camp at Humboldt, and 
 
In Confederate States Army. 25 
 
 were, the next day, armed with old-fashioned heavy 
 muskets, usino; a ''buck and ball" cartridge. Guards 
 were placed around the encampments, and we settled 
 down to the tiresome routine of camp life. About a 
 week later we were moved by rail to Union City, and 
 were joined by the Sixth, Ninth, Twelfth, Fifteenth, 
 Twenty- Second and other regiments, and were placed 
 under command of Brigadier-General B. F. Cheat- 
 ham, and, with the exception of a few short intervals, 
 served under him throughout the war. Very few of 
 the officers knew anything about military tactics, but 
 we were furnished with two good drill masters. Cap- 
 tain W. W. Carnes and — . — . Robinson, and they 
 drilled both officers and men, beginning with the tire- 
 some squad drill and followed with company and bat- 
 talion drills. Progress would have been greater, how- 
 ever, but for serious sickness in camp, mainly measles, 
 Private W. Shelly Puckett being the first man in the 
 regiment to die. Every day relatives and other vis- 
 itors came into camp by rail or in vehicles, bringing 
 generous supplies of cakes, pies, fruit and other 
 knick-knacks, and thus was the monotony continually 
 broken and the hearts of the men enlivened by let- 
 ters from home, both by mail and private post. 
 
 At a special election held June 8, 1861, the voters 
 of the State overwhelmingly decided to separate from 
 the United States and to unite with the Confederate 
 States. And all the State troops were mustered into 
 service of the Confederacy and the oath of allegiance 
 to the new government administered. At the regular 
 election, on the first Thursday in August, Lieutenant- 
 Colonel J. D. C. Atkins was elected to the Confeder- 
 
26 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 ate Congress and resigned his eommission. Adjutant 
 Calvin D. Venable was elected lieutenant-colouel and 
 Lieutenant Joseph D. Kendall of Conij^anY 'T'' was 
 appointed adjutant. At the State election all the 
 soldiers who were entitled to vote were furloughed 
 home for that purpose, only the bovs and a few offi- 
 cers remaining to look after the camp, and they were 
 also furloughed on the return of the older ones. 
 
 About this time Dr. R. T. Clark resigned as sur- 
 geon and Dr. Joe H. Porter was appointed in his 
 stead. This necessitated other changes and promo- 
 tions in the officers of Company ''F.'' Captain M. S. 
 Corbett of Company '^E" resigned, and his place was 
 filled hj the election of Pleasant G. Swor as captain. 
 Generally the changes of company officers will be 
 found in the company rolls. Assistant Surgeon Dr. 
 F. F. Porter resigned and Dr. T. C. Harcourt was ap- 
 pointed. About September 1 an advance movement 
 was ordered, and we were transported to Columbus, 
 Ky., by rail, and were set to work to fortify the place 
 and to fell the timber on both sides of the river to 
 give a view of an approaching enemy, to impede his 
 progress and to allow a better use of our artillery. 
 A strong fort was built on the high bluff called the 
 "Iron Banks,'' and heavy batteries mounted down its 
 slope. A few days later an advance was made by a 
 few regiments to Mayfleld, Ky., as a feint, by which 
 to gain time to get our fortifications completed. 
 
 The march was a rapid one, and as the weather was 
 warm, the men who had not regained their strength 
 after their attack of measles suffered greatly. As 
 only cisterns were found from which to get water, 
 
In Confederate States Army. 27 
 
 thirst was added to our discomforts, but there was no 
 complaining. We returned in a couple of days, and 
 the work on the fortifications was pushed forward 
 rapidly. Private John Yow of Company ''D" was 
 killed by a falling tree. 
 
 When the fort was completed it was garrisoned by 
 the Fifth Tennessee Regiment, Jones' Battalion 
 (afterwards the Fifty-Fifth Tennessee) and a bat- 
 talion of heavy artillery under command of Major 
 Alex. P. Stewart, and Colonel Travis, as senior offi- 
 cer, was placed in command of the fort. Later 
 Major Stewart was promoted to brigadier-general and 
 given the command of the brigade in the fort. No- 
 vember 7 a force of Federals landed on the Missouri 
 side of the river several miles above, and, marching 
 down, attacked the two regiments of infantry and a 
 battery of artillery encamped at Belmont. Several 
 regiments under General Cheatham were ferried over 
 to reinforce our troops. The officers and men of the 
 Fifth bewailed their fate when they found that they 
 were not to be included in the reinforcing column, 
 and three men, D. F. Alexander, John H. Porter and 
 Eobert Tjder, crossed without permission and took 
 part in the pursuit of the enemy, and Tyler was killed, 
 the first one of the regiment to die in battle. Many 
 of the regiment stood on the bluffs and watched the 
 progress of the battle and the firing of the huge gun 
 ( Lady Polk ) . A few days afterward this gun, which 
 had been loaded while hot, was fired and exploded, 
 killing several men and tearing the coat of General 
 Polk, standing near by. Mr. Dublin of Graves 
 County, Ky., who was visiting his son in Company 
 
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 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 '"K," had a leg blown off and died from the amputa- 
 tion. His son was discharged that he might go home 
 and care for his widowed mother and his sisters. 
 
 The regiment was well housed in tents and shanties, 
 many with stoves. They had plenty of books, money 
 to buy delicacies from the sutlers, in regular com- 
 munication with home, and an occasional visit of 
 some of the homefolks, and thus the winter passed 
 away pleasantly, and many a time afterward we 
 thought of the good times we had at Columbus and 
 wished for a return of similar ones. The Federal 
 gunboats occasionally came in sight on the river, and 
 once threw some shells at us, one of which fell in the 
 fort and exploded, but did no harm further than 
 giving some of us a good fright. 
 
 General Polk was placed in com- 
 mand of the forces at Columbus, and 
 (lubl)ed by the men ''Old Granny,'^ 
 because the boys thought a preacher 
 unfit for the stern duties incident to 
 war. 
 
 In February, 1862, General Grant 
 captured Ft. Henry, on the Tennes- 
 see River, and Ft. Donelson, on the 
 Cumberland, thus enabling him to 
 get into our rear, and as Colum- 
 longer tenable, we evacuated it 
 da^s of March and were carried 
 to New Madrid, Mo. In passing 
 Hickman, Ky., where Company "M" had been en- 
 listed, the people lined the shore, and by waving 
 handkerchiefs and cheering us, so excited the soldiers 
 
 GEN. L. POLK. 
 
 bus was no 
 in the early 
 on steamers 
 
In Confederate States Army. 29 
 
 that they ran to that side of the boat and tilted it so 
 much as to cause the water in the boilers to cover their 
 red-hot sides and thus risked the danger of an explo- 
 sion that would have sent a thousand men into the 
 water and most of them into eternity. Lieutenant- 
 Colonel Venable hurried the men back to their proper 
 places and the equilibrium was restored and disaster 
 averted. 
 
 At New Madrid pickets were placed out and the 
 erection of fortifications around the town begun. The 
 enemy advanced on the place from Bird's Point and 
 some skirmishing occurred. Captain W. D. Hallum 
 was wounded in one of the skirmishes, the first one to 
 be wounded in the regiment. 
 
 The Federals, having occupied Point Pleasant 
 below us on the river, New Madrid was abandoned, 
 and one dark, rainy night we embarked on boats for 
 Island No. 10. The close proximity of the enemy 
 made it imperative for us to omit the use of lights, 
 and two men. Privates Thomas J. Dumas and Spence 
 Hunt were overlooked and left asleep in one of the 
 tents, many of which we left standing, and when they 
 awoke next morning they found the camp full of Fed- 
 eral soldiers and were captured. After a few days' 
 stay at Island No. 10, the command was marched 
 down to Tiptonville and transported to Randolph, 
 and next day to Memphis, and in the evening taken 
 by rail to Corinth. Colonel Travis was absent on 
 sick leave, and the regiment was now under command 
 of Lieutenant-Colonel Venable and Major Swor. The 
 troops from Columbus, Ky., were organized into an 
 army corps of two divisions, under Major-General 
 
30 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 Leonidas Polk. Brigadier-General Cheatham com- 
 mauded a division of two brigades and Brigadier- 
 General Charles Clark the other; Brigadier-General 
 A. P. Stewart commanded one of Clark's brigades 
 and Colonel R. M. Russell the other. General Stew- 
 art's brigade was composed of the Fourth Tennessee, 
 Colonel R. P. Neely; Fifth Tennessee, Lieutenant- 
 Colonel C. D. Venable; Thirty-Third Tennessee, Col- 
 onel A. W. Campbell, and Thirteenth Arkansas, Col- 
 onel J. C. Tappan. • 
 
In Confederate States Army. B1 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 BATTLE OF SHILOH. 
 
 General Grant had transferred his troops from Ft. 
 Donelson by river to Pittsburg Landing, twenty 
 miles from Corinth, and General Buell was marching 
 overland from Nashville to unite his forces with Gen. 
 Grant. Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, who was in 
 command at Corinth, determined to attack Grant be- 
 fore Buell could reach him. So, on April 2, he put 
 his army in motion towards Grant's encampment, 
 hoping to make the attack on the morning of the 5th, 
 but the roads became so muddy from continued rains 
 and the passage of so many wagons and field pieces 
 as to be almost impassable. The country was heavily 
 wooded and unsuited to travel and the men generally 
 unused to marching. The officers, in the main, knew 
 nothing practically of campaigning, and the progress 
 was slow and wearisome. Some of the commands did 
 not get up till the evening of the 5th. 
 
 On the eA^ening of that day and morning of the 6th 
 the line of battle was formed, with Bragg's corps in 
 the first line, Hardee's in the second and Polk's in 
 the third, with Breckenridge's division as reserve. 
 The Fifth ocupied a position a little to the left of 
 the Corinth road. 
 
 Soon we were ordered forward. The underbrush 
 was so thick that it was impossible to keep up a good 
 alignment. The firing soon began in front, and we 
 pushed on down the slope into a little clearing extend- 
 
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 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 ing along a narrow valleT. Those who were the last 
 to push their way through the thicket, especially the 
 file-closers, increased their speed to overtake those 
 who were ahead. Here a graijeshot from a distant 
 battery struck down J. Perry Murrell of Company 
 ''K," the first man killed while serving with the regi- 
 ment. 
 
 On the crest of a little ridge beyond the valley we 
 halted, and the alignment was perfected. A little 
 farther on we halted again and deposited our baggage, 
 and, after moving forward 200 or 300 yards, a cannon 
 ball, or shell, cut down the 
 colors in the hands of Wil- 
 liam Sims, color-bearer. 
 
 He caught them as they 
 were falling and tied the 
 pieces of the flagstaff to- 
 gether with his canteen 
 strap. John Porter and Ed 
 Ralls were killed. Lieuten- 
 ant J. P. Cooper and Wil- 
 liam Whittaker wounded 
 by pieces of shell about the 
 same time, and B. F. Tay- 
 lor knocked senseless by 
 the explosion. We then 
 moved, by the right flank, 
 about 400 yards and forward about the same distance 
 under a heavy fire of grapeshot, and halted near one 
 of the enemy's encampments, and about fifteen min- 
 utes later advanced through the encampment. 
 
 Here the brigade was ordered moved to the left. 
 
 CAPT. J. P. COOPER. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 33 
 
 This movement was executed by three regiments, the 
 Fourth Tennessee, not hearing the command, was left 
 behind. Then advancing across a small stream and 
 up the side of a hill, we were ordered to lie down by 
 General Stewart, who went back to bring up the 
 Fourth Regiment. When this was done the Fourth 
 was ordered to charge the battery, which had been 
 firing into us, and it was captured and silenced, thus 
 enabling us to advance, which we did under a heavy 
 cross-fire from two batteries and infantry and suffer- 
 ing severely in killed and wounded. Here Lieuten- 
 ant-Colonel Venable observed the One Hundred and 
 Fifty-Fourth Tennessee just across a field hotly en- 
 gaged with the enemy, and he ordered the Fifth for- 
 ward in support. The men were ordered to lie down 
 for protection, while one piece of Polk's Battery was 
 brought forward and opened fire on the enemy in 
 front. Being annoyed by sharpshooters, who had ad- 
 vanced up a ravine, the regiments were retired about 
 200 yards and two companies of the One Hundred and 
 Fifty-Fourth and three of the Fifth were ordered to 
 drive them out of the ravine, which they accomplished. 
 Having become separated from the brigade, Lieuten- 
 ant-Colonel Venable says: '-I charged on an en- 
 campment of the enemy, in which I was successful, 
 and from what observations I could make there ap- 
 peared to be about 1,200 or 1,500 of the enemy in the 
 camps. I pursued them through their camj)s, killing 
 and wounding a great many and taking several pris- 
 oners." 
 
 After moving forward about half a mile the ammu 
 nit ion was found to be nearly exhausted and the regi- 
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34 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 ment was moved to the left about 300 yards to a ravine 
 and the cartridge boxes refilled from wagons. After 
 a halt here of only fifteen or twenty minutes the regi- 
 ment was moved still farther to the left to avoid an 
 open field into which the enemy were pouring a heavy 
 fire of artillery. 
 
 After advancing about 200 yards General Polk, in 
 person, ordered us to charge an encampment in front, 
 by which the only avenue of escape of the Federals in 
 the camps was closed, and other troops coming up 
 on other sides, General Prentiss' division was cap- 
 tured. About the time the surrender was made, Pri- 
 vate L. L. Milam of Company "C" rushed up and 
 snatched a Federal flag from the hands of the color- 
 bearer. 
 
 As soon as the prisoners had been placed in charge 
 of a cavalry guard and started to the rear, the regi- 
 ment was moved about 300 yards to the rear and 
 halted to rest. In a few minutes the Federal gun- 
 boats opened a terrific fire with shot and shell. Pri- 
 vates James Bouie of Company ^^C and one other man 
 were killed, being horribly mangled. We were at 
 once ordered to retreat to the protection of a ravine. 
 The screaming of the huge shells, the crash of falling 
 tree tops, the cries of the wounded were reasons 
 enough to hasten our flight, and we ''stood not on the 
 manner of our going." At dusk we moved back still 
 further and bivouacked among the Federal and Con- 
 federate dead. The rains poured down the livelong 
 night, but our wearied bodies found repose in sleep. 
 
 We were astir at daylight on the 7th (Monday). 
 The great supply of commissary stores in the captured 
 
In Confederate States Army. 35 
 
 camps furnished food to fill our empty haversacks 
 and stomachs. The regiment was ordered by General 
 Bragg to report to General Chalmers, on the extreme 
 right. We were marched to the place indicated and 
 were placed in position for the serious work of the 
 day. Lieutenant-Colonel Venable had so strained 
 his voice on the previous day trying to make himself 
 heard above the roar of battle that he could not speak 
 much above a whisper, and it devolved upon Major 
 Swor to give the commands. As many of the guns had 
 been wet by the rain, it was thought best to fire off all 
 of them, clean them out and reload. Major Swor rode 
 rapidly along the line, saying : '^When I give the com- 
 mand, 'ready, aim, fire,' aim about ten paces in front 
 and fire into the ground.'' Before he reached the end 
 of the line some of the men, catching the word "fire,'^ 
 thought the enemy were advancing and began to fire, 
 and soon most of the guns were emptied. Several 
 men who were standing in front were in great danger 
 and some were wounded. Much confusion prevailed for 
 a little while, many believing that the battle had 
 opened. But the cause was soon explained and order 
 restored. 
 
 Our position was just in the rear of an open field, 
 the enemy occupying the woods on the opposite side. 
 When the command to advance was given we charged 
 through the field under a withering fire, but we were 
 unable to drive back Buell's fresh troops from their 
 strong position, and were forced to retire to the 
 woods. Again and again the order to charge was re- 
 peated, and each time heartily responded to, only to 
 be beaten back with loss. After the officers had be- 
 
36 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 come eoiiYinced that further attempts would be futile, 
 PriYate J; A. Aguilar of Company ''D" (familiarly 
 known as Jesse Mexican) ran out in the field and, 
 waYing his hat OYcr his head, Yainly endeaYored to 
 induce the men to make another effort, and then 
 yelled out at the top of his Yoice, ^'I left me own coun- 
 try to come and fight for ye country, and, d ye, 
 
 ye won't fight for ye own country." 
 
 By 2 o'clock General Beauregard became convinced 
 that Grant's reinforcements had made him too strong 
 to be successfully attacked, and ordered a retreat. 
 After moving back to near Shiloh Church we halted 
 for an hour or so, and then, after marching a few 
 miles, we bivouacked for the night. 
 
 Shiloh was the least scientifically fought battle of 
 the war. The attack was made in well-formed lines, 
 but the resistance was made very irregular at differ- 
 ent points at first in defense of their camps, and our 
 troops were moved back and forth through the thickly 
 wooded country wherever seemingly needed worst^ 
 and so the battle was, in the main, a series of inde- 
 pendent attacks and defenses, which it is impossible 
 to detail in regular order at this late day, and there 
 are many incidents worthy of record that could not be 
 properly placed in the narrative, some of which, how- 
 ever, will be related. 
 
 Color-Bearer Bill Sims was wounded on the first 
 day, and Lieutenant J. P. Cooper of the Color Com- 
 pany ^'F" carried the colors for a little while, when 
 he gave them to Color-Guard James M. Mitchell. On 
 the second day 31itchell was wounded by a sharp- 
 shooter. Sergeant J. B. Milam watched the man 
 
In Confederate States Army. 37 
 
 dodge behind an old house and as he reappeared si sol 
 him before he could fire again. Lieutenant Lucius 
 Bowman of Company ^^M" was killed by a shot in the 
 head while standing on a stump cheering on his men. 
 
 Colonel A. W. Campbell of the Thirty-Third Ten- 
 nessee says of one part of the engagement : ''Owing 
 to the peculiar location of the ground, the left wing 
 of the Thirty-Third and Fifth Tennessee and Thir- 
 teenth Arkansas could not engage the enemy without 
 firing over the regiments in advance of them. * -* * 
 I called to the regiments in advance to charge the 
 enemy, which they declined doing. Knowing that I 
 must advance or retire, one or the other, I ordered 
 the Fifth and Thirty-Third to charge, which was done 
 in most gallant style, sweeping the enemy be- 
 fore them and i)utting them completely to rout. 
 The regiments over which we had charged joined in 
 the pursuit, which was continued by the Fifth Ten- 
 nessee." General Polk refers to this also in his re- 
 port. Captain T. H. Conway was wounded in the 
 hand and died at McLemoresville on his way home. 
 All the casualties of the battle will be found in the 
 various company rolls, and this will be true of other 
 battles as well. 
 
 Private Thomas B. Miller of Company "D" was 
 wounded about dark Sunday evening and left on the 
 field. General Cheatham, in riding over the battle- 
 field that night, found him and carried him on his 
 horse to the hospital, where he died. 
 
 The night of the 7th was another of incessant rain, 
 and next morning we arose drenched to the skin, but 
 continued our retreat. The roads were filled with 
 
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 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 wagons and artillery, and the troops wound their 
 way through the thick woods on either side of the 
 road and were soon scattered and commingled in 
 chaotic and indescribable disorder. Lieutenant-Col- 
 onel Venable reached camp at Corinth late in the 
 evening, with the colors 
 and an escort of six men. 
 The others straggled in for 
 the next two days, all tired, 
 many wounded and many 
 more sick. Both surgeons 
 being on the sick list. 
 Lieutenant John T. Irion, 
 M. D., was detailed to per- 
 form the duties of surgeon, 
 and did noble work in 
 treating the great numbers 
 of sick. 
 
 Soon after the battle of 
 Shiloh the flags captured 
 there were sent to Rich- 
 mond by Lieutenant Clint 
 Aden. Private L. L. Milam of Company '^C" had been 
 selected to bear the stand he captured, but his serious 
 sickness prevented his going. 
 
 CAPT. JNO. T. IRION. 
 
Tn Confederate States Army. 
 
 39 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 REORGANIZATION AND SIEGE AND EVACUATION OF 
 CORINTH. 
 
 CAPT. p. G. SWOR. 
 
 About the middle of April the Federal arm^' began 
 its march to Corinth. The place was fortified by Gen- 
 eral Beauregard, who succeeded to the command on 
 the death of General A. S. Johnston, and every step 
 
 of the enemy's advance 
 was stubbornly resisted, 
 and General Hallack ad- 
 vanced only by the slow 
 process of gradual ap- 
 proaches. The Fifth Ten- 
 nessee bore a full share of 
 the daily skirmishing and 
 picketing during the 
 months of April and May. 
 In one of these skir- 
 mishes Captain P. G. Swor 
 of Company ''E" dis- 
 tinguished himself for 
 bravery in gallantly lead- 
 ing a charge on the ene- 
 my's pickets. We finally 
 retired within the fortifications immediately around 
 Corinth. No water was to be had except that in the 
 small creeks, which ceased to flow on the approach 
 of summer, and was covered with a green scum. This 
 stagnant water, which was polluted in various ways. 
 
40 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 produced au epidemic of dysentery and typhoid fever, 
 which debilitated, decimated and disheartened the 
 arnn^ to a serious extent. 
 
 As an unfortunate mistake had been made in en- 
 listing the troops for only one year, and as the time 
 was drawing near when the period of enlistment of 
 many of the regiments would expire, it became neces- 
 sary that some steps should be taken to keep the ranks 
 of the army filled. Congress, therefore, passed a gen- 
 eral conscript law, making every man between the 
 ages of eighteen and thirty-five subject to military 
 service (with a few exceptions). All soldiers who 
 were under eighteen or over thirty-five years old were 
 to be discharged. This law was very unpopular, es- 
 pecially the feature by which the commissioned offi- 
 cers who were not re-elected were to be honorably 
 discharged. The Kentuckians who had enlisted in 
 Tennessee regiments felt that as they were not citi- 
 zens of the Confederate States that it was unjust to 
 compel them to serve beyond the time for which they 
 had enlisted. 
 
 An order was issued for the four smallest compa- 
 nies in the Fifth Regiment to be consolidated into 
 two, thus reducing the number to ten (the usual com- 
 plement), and for the regiment to be reorganized by 
 the election of field and company officers, which was 
 done. The health of Colonel W. E. Travis had failed 
 to such an c^xtent that he was unable to endure camp 
 life, and he was reluctantly compelled to retire from 
 command of the regiment in which he had taken so 
 much pride and which he had so diligently labored to 
 enlist and equip. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 41 
 
 C. D. Veuable was elected colonel, William C. Swor 
 lieutenant-colonel and J. J. Lamb major. Colonel 
 Tenable appointed tlie following staff officers: W. 
 
 D. Kendall, adjutant; Dr. J. M. Brannock, surgeon; 
 Dr. M. D. L. Jordan, assistant surgeon; J. K. Hope, 
 quartermaster; S. E. Barbee, commissary; Kev. S. C. 
 Hearn, chaplain; J. E. Crosswell, sergeant major; 
 C. P. Walker, commissary sergeant; D. B. Howard, 
 quartermaster sergeant; J. P. Kendall, ordnance ser- 
 geant, and Joseph B. Jones, ensign. 
 
 Companies '^A'' and '^C" were consolidated and let- 
 tered ''A," and elected the following officers: Cap- 
 tain, B. B. Bunch; first lieutenant, W. H. Wilson; 
 second lieutenant, A. W. Sidebotton; third lieuten- 
 ant, J. B. Milam. Company ^^D" became Company 
 "B," and re-elected all its old officers : Captain, A. W. 
 Caldwell; first lieutenant, A. M. Milliken* second 
 lieutenant, Wes M. Humphries; third lieutenant, T. 
 C. Neal. Company ''E'' became Company ^^C :' Cap- 
 tain, P. G. Swor; first lieutenant, John P. Rushing; 
 
 second lieutenant, — . — . ; third lieutenant, 
 
 H. R. Linderman. Company "K'' became Company 
 ^'D :'' Captain, Joe T. Kendall ; first lieutenant, W. 
 
 E. Harris; second lieutenant, J. W. Howard; third 
 lieutenant, J. M. B. Elliott. Companies "F'^ and "H'' 
 were consolidated and became Copmany ^'E :" Cap- 
 tain, J. P. Cooper ; first lieutenant, S. W. Alexander ; 
 second lieutenant, S. M. Hagler; third lietuenant, F. 
 MarioR Killebrew. Company ^'I'' became Company 
 ^'F:" Captain, Elijah Foust; first lieutenant, John 
 Copeland; second lieutenant, J. C. Tillman; third 
 lieutenant, F. M. Clark. Company "B'' became Com- 
 
42 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 pany ''G :" Captain, H. F. Bowman ; first lieutenant, 
 John Hill; second lieutenant, J. Cardwell Wilson; 
 third lieutenant, John I. Simmons. Company "L" 
 became Company ''H :" Captain, M. M. Fry ; first 
 lieutenant, G. C. Camp; second lieutenant, — . — . 
 
 ; third lieutenant, — . — . . Company 
 
 '^G" became Company '^I:" Captain, John T. Irion; 
 first lieutenant, B. F. Peeples; second lieutenant, 
 James I. Stanton; third lieutenant, D. L. Willett. 
 Company ''M" became Company ''K:'' Captain, J. 
 B. Ward; first lieutenant, J. P. Tyler; second lieuten- 
 ant, A. E. Tucker; third lieutenant, R. P. Andrews. 
 As soon as the reorganization was perfected and the 
 men fully realized that they were to be really con- 
 scripted for two years longer, without the privilege 
 of visiting their homes and loved ones, they began to 
 take '^French leave," singlj^, in couples and in squads. 
 As the other men who had looked at it from every 
 standpoint, and decided that they could not afford 
 to abandon their posts in the face of the enemy, saw 
 their comrades leave the ranks, deep despondency 
 took hold of them, and the officers who had just been 
 chosen or rechosen to position saw their commands 
 slowly melting away and felt themselves powerless 
 to check the current, their faces wore a continued look 
 of seriousness, and every day seemed like a funeral. 
 One morning as I went to the adjutant's quarters to 
 make my morning report I passed Colonel Venable 
 sitting on a campstool in front of his tent, with his 
 face bowed upon his hands. Looking up and recog- 
 nizing me, he said : "Well, sergeant, did any of your 
 men leave last night?" I answered: "Yes, colonel. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 43 
 
 and some who were on guard, even." His face flushed, 
 his eyes flaslied, and he almost liissed the words: 
 ^^Well, I'm going to call out the regiment this evening 
 and tell the men that if any more of them intend to 
 
 go, d them, to go and be done with it." A day or 
 
 so later, as the regiment was going out on outpost 
 duty, our brigade commander. General A. P. Stewart, 
 came along and instructed Colonel Venable to halt 
 the regiment and bring it to a front. And then, in 
 his precise, emphatic and apparently curt language, 
 said: "I want to say to the Fifth Regiment that if 
 any more of the men intend to leave, I hope they will 
 go tonight." And spurring his horse, he galloped 
 away. It is due to the men who left the ranks at this 
 time to say that some of them returned to the regi- 
 ment and that most of the others did valiant service 
 in Forrest's Cavalry. But it is also simple justice to 
 make known to the readers of history the trying cir- 
 cumstances under which the undaunted ones re- 
 mained at their posts. 
 
 Before the end of May the Federal army had closed 
 in around Corinth and cut all the railroads entering 
 the place, thus separating us from our base of sup- 
 plies, and General Beauregard retreated to Tupelo, 
 Miss., and asked to be relieved from command till his 
 health imi)roved. General Bragg being assigned to 
 command of the army. Many of the soldiers were 
 sick and barely able to march. The rearguard hur 
 ried them forward and thus prevented their capture. 
 The movement was begun on the night of Mav 29. 
 1862. 
 
 Captain John W. Harris' Company "C" of the 
 
44 History of Henuy County Commands 
 
 Forty- Sixth Tennessee, which was on detached ser- 
 vice guarding a bridge when the regiment was cap- 
 tured at Island Xo. 10, asked that his company be 
 attached to the Fifth, and accompanied us on the 
 Kentucky campaign, doing valiant service. 
 
 The months of June and July were spent at Tupelo, 
 Miss., drilling and recuperating for the next cam- 
 paign. The opportunity to perfect the drill and dis- 
 cipline of the army was of inestimable value, an<l 
 henceforth we deserved the name of veterans, and 
 were much more readily handled on the battlefield 
 and more easily controlled in camp and on the march. 
 July 23 we broke camp and started to Chattanooga, 
 the wagons and artillery going by dirt road. The 
 Fifth went by rail to Mobile, thence by steamboat to 
 Montgomery and by rail again to Chattanooga. A 
 few weeks were spent here in drilling and preparing 
 for a forward movement. Full of hope and eager to 
 advance, we crossed the Tennessee River on a pon- 
 toon bridge and marched into Kentucky by way of 
 Pikeville, Sparta, Gaine^boro, Hogansville, Mum- 
 fordsville and Glasgow to Bardstown. The people 
 rejoiced to see us and showered every possible favor 
 upon us, and we lived on the fat of the land. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 45 
 
 CHAPTER Y. 
 
 BATTLE OF PERRYVIULE. 
 
 General 'Buell, having concentrated his forces at 
 Louisville, moved out to give General Bragg battle. 
 We retired to Danville and Harrodsburg, by the way 
 of Perryville. October 7 we countermarched to Perry- 
 ville and found the enemy drawn up in line of battle 
 west of the town, and on the morning of the 8th ex- 
 tended his line to his left and took possession of Chap- 
 lain's Hill. To meet this movement, General Cheat- 
 ham was ordered to march his division to the right 
 and prevent our right from being turned. We moved 
 by the right flank to a creek and down the banks of 
 the creek to where the road had been roughly graded 
 up the bluff. General Polk came up just as we reached 
 the bluff, and one of a group of soldiers who were 
 tearing up a Federal flag, held up a piece of it, and 
 said : ''Look here. General, what we have." General 
 Polk replied: ''Come on and let's get one apiece." 
 After climbing up the steep declivity, we were de- 
 ployed into line and ordered to lie down in the timber 
 of small growth, in support of Donelson's Brigade. 
 In a few minutes this brigade was ordered to charge 
 Chaplain's Hill, on top of which was posted the Fifth 
 Missouri Battery of eight guns, supported by the One 
 Hundred and Seventeenth Ohio and One Hundred 
 and Fifth Illinois Regiments. With a yell, Donel- 
 son's brave Tennesseeans rushed over the intervening 
 space of 100 yards, firing as they ran. The Federal 
 
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 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 infantry fired a few rounds and fled pellmell down 
 the hill, and the battery was captured. The sound of 
 firing receded very rapidly as the Confederates pur- 
 sued the fleeing enemy. And very soon we were or- 
 dered to advance. When we reached the crest of the 
 hill we passed between the guns of the captured bat- 
 tery, and saw the dead body of the Federal Brigadier- 
 General Armstrong lying near. We then came into 
 full view of the conflict our comrades were engaged 
 in at a lane about 150 yards down the slope, where 
 they encountered the enemy's second line. But few 
 of the first line could be halted there to help in re- 
 sisting Donelson's terrible onslaught. The sight of 
 
 the struggle going on at 
 the lane caused us to 
 quicken our pace, and 
 breaking into a double- 
 quick, we covered the in- 
 tervening space in the 
 shortest possible time. On 
 the way Corporal Bob Har- 
 ris fell to rise no more, and 
 Lieut. G. C. Camp of Com- 
 pany ''H'' fell dangerously 
 wounded. At the lane were 
 the limbers and caissons of 
 the Missouri Battery. All 
 the horses had been killed 
 except one, which Sergeant 
 Kennerly, Company "D," 
 who was wounded just then, cut loose and rode to the 
 rear. The second line of Federals, when they saw 
 
 m^" 
 
 $\„.-'i 
 
 LIEUT. J. B. MILAM. 
 
History of Heney County Commands 47 
 
 Stewart's Brigade coming into action, broke and fled 
 also, keeping up a desultorj^ firing as tliey retired. 
 The pursuit led through a narrow strip of woodland 
 and then up a long ascent through a cornfield. About 
 100 yards further on Lieutenant J. B. Milam fell, 
 with a severe wound in the leg, and about the same 
 time Ensign J. B. Jones had his thigh-bone broken, 
 but did not loose his hold on the colors, but remarked : 
 ''The bearer of our colors has fallen before this, but 
 the flag has never gone down." Lieuteannt F. M. 
 Clark took the colors, but soon handed them to Color- 
 Guard A. A. Dinwiddle, who said, in reply to Ensign 
 Jones : ''Have no fear, I will try to do my duty." 
 
 Andrew Thompson of Company "B" fell mortally 
 wounded, and said to his captain, A. W. Caldwell : 
 "Tell my mother where I fell," and drawing the gal- 
 lant captain down, kissed his cheek and died. 
 
 By this time all semblance of a line had disap- 
 peared, but the officers urged the men forward, and 
 they continued to advance, loading and firing as they 
 went. In this field the writer of this received a wound 
 in the arm, disabling him from using his gun, and he 
 retired to the rear. Captain John W. Harris was 
 dangerously wounded in passing through the wood- 
 land, and Captain John T. Irion and John R. Peoples 
 placed him behind a large whiteoak tree. J. W. 
 Crutchfield was knocked senseless by the explosion of 
 a bomb. Captain Gillett, acting major, was killed. 
 Colonel Yenable was partially disabled by a ball 
 which mashed his sword scabbard, tearing ofP his belt 
 and breaking his horse's leg. Lieutenant-Colonel 
 
48 
 
 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 8wor had his horse killed under him, and his son, G. 
 Wash Swor, lost an arm. 
 
 To the left of the field a 
 fence divided it from a 
 body of woods, and the left 
 of the regiment followed 
 the fence. Near the top of 
 the long ascent, another 
 fence crossed this at right 
 angles, and just beyond it, 
 on the highest elevation, 
 were placed three Federal 
 l)atteries of heavy field 
 pieces, which continually 
 belched grape and canister. 
 Behind the cross fence was 
 posted the enemy's third 
 line of battle. In front of 
 the fence some thirty or 
 forty yards, a force of infantry was stationed in a 
 gully. This detachment, on our approach, opened a 
 witliering fire of small arms, but the brave Fifth 
 pushed forward in the face of it all. When the occu- 
 pants of the gully saw the determination of the at- 
 tacking party, they clambered up the steep ascent 
 and retreated across the open field beyond, over the 
 fence and disappeared beyond the hill. The advanc- 
 ing regiment made good use of the opportunity and 
 cut down many of them before they could get out of 
 range. 
 
 The gunners of the battery, seeing their support 
 vanisli, waited not for tlie limbers, but seized their 
 
 LIEUT.-COL. WM. C. SWOR. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 49 
 
 guns and drew them out of sight over the crest by 
 hand. When the regiment reached the cross-fence, in 
 front of the battery, Privates G. W. Crawford, Sam 
 Archer and a few others, who were near the fence 
 running east and west, found themselves face to face 
 with the Federal line just across in the next field. 
 Archer was fatally shot and the others retired across 
 the gully. 
 
 The field officers, unaware of the exact situation, 
 urged the men forward a second and a third time, 
 but each time, lacking support on the left, were com- 
 pelled to retire. The gunners of the battery again 
 drew their guns forward and opened fire. When the 
 field officers were informed of the situation, the line 
 was formed and marched by the left fiank into a body 
 of woods. The day was now drawing to a close, but 
 about dark Donelson's Brigade was ordered forward 
 and the Federal line to the left of the battery was 
 driven from its position, but darkness prevented 
 further pursuit. The names of others killed and 
 wounded will be found on the company rolls. 
 
 Cheatham's Tennessee Division captured three 
 Federal batteries and drove back three lines of Fed- 
 erals and won for themselves a distinction for bravery 
 which they ever afterwards maintained on many a 
 bloody field. 
 
 About 9 o'clock p. m. General Bragg ordered the 
 troops to retire to Harrodsburg, which they did dur- 
 ing the night and the following day. Halting only a 
 day here, we retired to Camp Dick Eobinson, and as 
 soon as the stores captured there could be removed, 
 started on our long march to Knoxville, Tenn. On 
 4 
 
50 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 this retreat the ration was two biscuit and two ounces 
 of pickled pork, or three ounces of beef. Private 
 Houston Taylor, who had been left sick on the ad- 
 vance, had partially recovered and, with a companion, 
 while trying to rejoin his command, was captured by 
 bushwhackers and both mutilated, killed and hung 
 to a tree. Colonel J. H. Sharpe of Mississippi, com- 
 manding the rear guard, found their bodies, scoured 
 the vicinity for the perpetrators, found and hung 
 them. 
 
 At Harrodsburg, October 7, Major Lamb, Captain 
 Swor and Lieutenants Sidebottom, Tyler and Howard 
 were detached and sent to West Tennessee to secure 
 recruits. They went to Waverly, crossed the Tennes- 
 see Kiver, came very near being captured at Camden 
 and finding it impracticable to accomplish anything, 
 returned to the command at Murfreesboro. 
 
 After reaching Knoxville an early fall of snow 
 found us without tents and caused much discomfort 
 and suffering. The troops were moved by rail to Tul- 
 lahoma and marched thence to Murfreesboro. 
 
 Many regiments had been greatly reduced in num- 
 bers, and what was called a temporary consolida- 
 tion was ordered by General Bragg. The Fourth and 
 Fifth were combined, each regiment forming five 
 companies. Col. O. F. Strahl and Lt.-Col. A. J. Kel- 
 lar of the Fourth and Maj. J. J. Lamb of the Fifth 
 were assigned as field officers. Companies "A" and 
 "C" combined with Capt. B. B. Bunch and Lieuts. 
 
 — . — . ; A. W. Sidebottom and H. E. Linder- 
 
 man. Companies "B'' and "E," Capt. A. W. Cald- 
 well and Lieuts. S. W. Alexander, W. M. Humphreys 
 
In Confederate States Army. 51 
 
 and T. C. Neal. Companies "D" and ''1/ Capt. J. T. 
 Kendall and Lieuts. B. F. Peeples, W. E. Harris and 
 J. W. Howard. Companies '^F' and "H," Capt. E. 
 
 Foust and Lieuts. — . — . , J. C. Tillman and 
 
 — . — . , and Companies ''G" and "K/' Capt. 
 
 J. B. AVard and Lieuts. John I. Simmons, J. P. Tyler 
 and — . — . . 
 
 Colonel Venable was relieved from duty and or- 
 dered to West Tennessee with other officers to secure 
 recruits. He was taken sick, stopped at a farmhouse 
 a few miles out from Murfreesboro and died there. 
 
 Ex-Governor James D. Porter says of him : "No 
 officer of his rank was more distinguished, and the 
 truth of history compels the statement that he gave 
 to the Fifth Tennessee Kegiment its reputation. It 
 was his leadership that warranted General Polk to 
 refer to it as the brave Fifth Tennessee. He was 
 modest and unassuming; he did not affect the pomp 
 and circumstance of war; he was content to execute 
 and obey orders." No officer of the regiment had a 
 stronger hold on the confidence and affection of both 
 officers and men. The Tennesseeans were much re- 
 joiced to enjoy again the privilege of holding the 
 larger part of their native State and to fight for their 
 immediate homes, and those from West Tennessee to 
 be near enough to loved ones to hear from them 
 oftener and to be visited by some of them. It served 
 to nerve their arms in the day of battle. 
 
52 History of Henry County Commands 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 BATTLE OF MURFREESBORO. 
 
 General Rosecrans advanced from Xashville dur- 
 ing the last days of the year 1862, with the purpose 
 of crushing the Confederate army or driving it from 
 the State. General Bragg formed his army in battle 
 array and awaited the attack. Finding his adversary 
 loth to join the issue of battle, he took the offensive, 
 and on the morning of December 31 General Hardee 
 advanced against the extreme right of the Federal 
 line and drove it back, causing it to gradually change 
 its front almost to a right angle to its original posi- 
 tion. As Polk's Corps rested in position, they could 
 hear the firing on the left gradually extend forward, 
 and as brigade after brigade swung into line, the rattle 
 of musketry and roar of artillery drew nearer, till the 
 time came for Polk's Corps to take up the movement. 
 Withers' Division liad constructed light breastworks 
 of rails and some earth. The position was in the edge 
 of the timber, in front of which lay an open field. 
 Beyond the field, some 400 yards away, a Federal 
 battery had been masked in the edge of the cedar 
 brake. Cheatham's Division was from 500 to 800 
 yards in the rear of Withers'. 
 
 Gen. A. P. Stewart says of his brigade (now con- 
 sisting of the Fourth and Fifth consolidated. Nine- 
 teenth, Twenty-Fourth and Thirty-First and Thirty- 
 Third consolidated, all Tennessee regiments) : ^'We 
 gradually swung left forward and occasionally halted 
 
In Confederate Statues Army. 53 
 
 to readjust the line. Several men were wounded by 
 the battery in front. Moved on from this position to 
 the Nashville pike and faced to the left. Marched a 
 short distance down the road to bring the right under 
 cover of the woods, and then again to the front, cross- 
 ing open ground, between the pike and cedar brake 
 beyond, under heavj^ fire of both artillery and infan- 
 try. We advanced to the relief of the front line, which 
 was giving way, and by a rapid fire, beginning with 
 the Nineteenth on the left, and gradually extending 
 to the right, drove back the enemy, who fled in con- 
 fusion, leaving many dead and wounded behind. Near 
 the edge of the woods came upon the First Missouri 
 Battery that had annoyed us so much, and which the 
 enemy were attempting to move. Our advance was so 
 rapid and -fire so destructive, they were compelled to 
 abandon two pieces and one or two caissons. We 
 pressed rapidly forward and drove the enemy before 
 us. They attempted to make a stand at several points, 
 but, unable to endure our fire, were driven through the 
 cedars and across the open field beyond to the high 
 ground in the vicinity of the railroad. Here they 
 took shelter under the guns of three or four batteries. 
 These batteries opened upon us and for some time 
 we were exposed to a terrific fire of shell, canister 
 and spherical case. We had no artillery and were 
 nearly out of ammunition. The brigade was halted 
 and both sent for. While moving through the cedars 
 Jackson's Brigade came up on our right, with the 
 Fifth Georgia on our immediate right, and with the 
 Fourth and Fifth Tennessee, advanced beyond the 
 general line and delivered a heavv and well-sustained 
 
54 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 fire upon the retreating ranks of the enemy, doing 
 fine execution. Colonel Jacques of the First Louisiana 
 delivered an order to Colonel Tansil (Thirty-First 
 and Thirty-Third Tennessee) from General Cheatham 
 to move by companies to the rear, and other regiments 
 followed this one." But General Stewart soon halted 
 and reformed the line and moved forward again to the 
 edge of the woods, remaining till dark, then withdrew 
 a few hundred yards to the rear to bivouac, gathering 
 up small arms, ammunition and equipments, which 
 were sent to the rear next day in wagons. Pickets 
 were placed in front. On the morrow at daylight the 
 troops were advanced to the edge of the cedar thicket 
 and lay there all day exposed continually to the fire 
 of the enemy's batteries, but protected some by in- 
 trenchments. This was continued for three days. The 
 failure of Breckinridge's attack on the east side of 
 Stone River the evening of January 2, 1863, con- 
 vinced General Bragg of the impossibility of dislodg- 
 ing General Rosecrans from his strong position, and 
 on the night of January 3 he withdrew and retired to 
 Shelbyville and Tullahoma and went into winter 
 quarters. 
 
 Congress, having enacted a law giving each com- 
 pany the privilege of selecting one man in its ranks 
 whom they regarded as the bravest man in each battle 
 to receive a medal from Congress, the following men 
 were selected by the different companies of the Fifth : 
 Company "A," Corp. W. F. Diggs; Company ''B," 
 Sergt. J. A. Aguilar; Company "C," Sergt. L. D. Hol- 
 land; Company "D," Private W. T. (Link) Ballard; 
 Company ^'E," Corp. W. A. Thompson; Company ^^F," 
 
In Confederate States Army. 55 
 
 Private J. J. Hagler; Company ''G/' Private D. C. 
 Baucum; Company "H," Private W. 0. Malin; Com- 
 pany ''I/' Private G. D. Coston ; Company ''K/' Corp. 
 J. B. Johnson. Of these Ballard, Malin and Coston 
 were killed. Other casualties will be found in the 
 company rolls. 
 
 The author was absent on furlough waiting for his 
 wound received at Perryville to heal, and so was not 
 an eye witness or participant in the battle of Mur- 
 freesboro; hence cannot i>o into details so well. 
 
56 History of Henry County Commands 
 CHAPTEK VII. 
 
 THE SUMMER OF 1863. 
 
 While at Shelbyville smallpox appeared in the 
 Fifth Regiment and all the command was vaccinated 
 and the disease stamped out. Stewart's Brigade, 
 after remaining here a few days, was ordered on out- 
 post duty at Guy's Gap, nine miles north of Shelby- 
 ville, on the Murfreesboro pike, and here we remained 
 from February 7 till June 27. These were the halcyon 
 days of our soldier life. Encamped in a rich locality, 
 where the people were hospitable to a fault, we had 
 the best of foraging ground, and fruit, vegetables, 
 milk, eggs, butter, chickens, etc., formed a part of our 
 regular fare, and many of us had each what Lieut. W. 
 E. Harris called a "farm yard," where we were always 
 welcome and from which we always returned loaded 
 with good things to eat, paying for it, of course. When 
 the fine wheat crop ripened, many soldiers were al- 
 lowed to help reap the golden grain that otherwise 
 would have been lost for want of harvesters. The 
 daily drill and weekly inspection were kept up, but 
 hardened by camp life and inured to fatigue by hard 
 marches, we cared not for these necessary duties. We 
 were maneuvered in brigade drill for the first time 
 and our evolutions much improved. 
 
 A large bush arbor was erected and seated with 
 rough lumber, and regular religious services held by 
 the chaplains and other ministers each Sabbath, and 
 prayer meetings held on Wednesday nights. A Sun- 
 
In Confederate States Army. 57 
 
 day school was organized, with John R. Peeples as 
 superintendent, and also singing classes formed, sev- 
 eral dozen copies of the Southern Harmon}^ being 
 ordered from Atlanta. When the open weather of 
 spring came there were protracted services -held at 
 night for weeks. The arbor was lighted by fires built 
 on small scaffolds on three sides. A great religious 
 revival was the result of these meetings, and under the 
 fervent preaching of Chaplains S. C. Hearn of the 
 Fifth Eegiment, McCutchen of the Twenty-Fourth, 
 aided by Lieut. B. F. Peeples of Company ''I," J. W. 
 Pillow of Company '^D," — . — . Butts of Stanford's 
 Battery and others and several citizen ministers, 
 many of the soldiers were warned to ^^flee the wrath to 
 come," and pointed to ''the Lamb of God that taketh 
 away the sin of the world," and very many hapiDily 
 converted, and many devoted and faithful Christians, 
 now widely scattered, look back to those days and 
 nights as the time when they "enlisted under the ban- 
 ner of King Immanuel." Nearly a hundred conver- 
 sions were reported. About sixty of them were bap- 
 tized, mostly by immersion. These were admitted 
 into a Christian association composed of Christians 
 of various denominations. The effect of these meet- 
 ings on the morals of the brigade was very marked. 
 Profanity, obscenity, gambling, card playing for fun 
 became much less common and religion became a com- 
 mon topic of conversation. 
 
 Late in June the Federals advanced towards Tulla- 
 homa and captured Hoover's and Liberty Gaps, and 
 it became necessary to abandon our fortified position, 
 four miles north of Shelb^wille, and retire to Tulla- 
 
58 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 homa. After some skirmishing it was deemed unwise 
 to try to hold the position there and we retreated still 
 further, crossing Cumberland Mountain on July 3 
 and 4, and the Tennessee River at Bridgeport a day 
 or so later. Marched part of the way to Chatta- 
 nooga and then boarded a welcome train reaching 
 Chattanooga on the 7th, and went into camp (or biv- 
 ouac) on the same ground we occupied in August, 
 1862. General Stewart having been promoted to 
 major-general, Colonel Stralil of the Fourth was 
 placed in command of the brigade, and Lieut. -Col. 
 A: J. Kellar of the regiment. Lieut. B. F. Peeples was 
 made captain of Company ''I,'' vice Capt. Jno. T. 
 Irion, resigned ; M. Corbett, second lieutenant of Com- 
 pany ^^C;" Joseph H. Jordan, second lieutenant of 
 Company ''E;" G. W. Crawford, third lieutenant of 
 Company ''E;" J. \j. Lemonds, second lieutenant of 
 Company "I," and Sam Kirkpatrick, third lieutenant 
 of Company "K." Lieut.-Col. W. C. Swor resigned on 
 August 8, 1863, and Maj. J. J. Lamb was promoted to 
 colonel, and later Capt. B. B. Bunch to major. Lieut. 
 J. L. Lemonds, after serving one year as a subaltern 
 in Company ^^C," was discharged at the reorganiza- 
 tion. After a short visit home he returned and en- 
 listed as a private in Company "B," carrying a musket 
 for about a year, when he was elected second lieuten- 
 ant of Company ^'I," and later promoted to first lieu- 
 tenant. During August and the first week in Septem- 
 ber we were occupied in fortifying Chattanooga, and 
 after the Federals advanced, in picketing tlie Tennes- 
 see River. The enemy having crossed Lookout Moun- 
 tain south of us, we abandoned Chattanooga and 
 
In Confederate States Army. 59 
 
 inarched to LaFayette, Ga. While here au order was 
 made for every fifteentli man to be detached as cook- 
 ing detail, and ever afterwards, except when in winter 
 quarters, this rule was continued, and this detail was 
 kept from a mile to five miles in the rear, and our food, 
 ready cooked, brought to us each day, an arrangement 
 we were often thankful for. 
 
60 History of Henry County Commands 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 BATTLE OF CHICKAMAUGA. 
 
 From September 8 to IT Tsre maneuvered, marched 
 and counter-marched between Chattanooga and 
 LaFa^^ette, Ga. On the latter date we moved in the 
 direction of Chattanooga, camping on the night of 
 September 18 at Lee & Gordon's mill, on Chicka- 
 mauga Creek. On the morning of the 19th we crossed 
 the creek a mile below the mill, and after resting 
 awhile double-quicked on in the direction of the firing, 
 which had now begun. Soon passed Hood's Division 
 and learned without doubt that Longstreet's Corps 
 had come to reinforce us. This cheered our hearts 
 and buoyed us up for the coming conflict. But we 
 felt humiliated and mortified when we saw how much 
 better clothed they were than ourselves. 
 
 Soon after we met cavalry filing to the rear and saw 
 their wounded. A mile or so further on we fronted 
 and advanced in line, and stray shells and even min- 
 nies began to fly over us, one of the latter wounding 
 Dick Coley of Company "E," and R. A. Burton of 
 Company ''A." We halted in the edge of the woods 
 and in a little while moved forward in line of bat- 
 tle, partly across an old field grown up in bushes 
 and saplings. Gen. Preston Smith appeared and cau- 
 tioned us not to fire on his men, who were in front. 
 We were soon ordered back to the edge of the woods. 
 During this movement the balls were flying pretty 
 thick from the fighting in front, and W. C. Alexander 
 
In Confederate States Army. 61 
 
 of Company ^^A," J. J. Hagler and W. H. Allen of 
 Company "F," and J. D. Wilson of Company ^'D/' 
 were wounded, and Lieutenant Webber of the Fourth 
 killed. We were again advanced into the old- field 
 under fire, but again were ordered back to the woods, 
 remaining there till nightfall. About sundown the 
 enemy attacked the Confederates just to our right, 
 and Maney's and Churchill's Brigades were moved 
 to the right and soon repulsed them, but the brave 
 Gen. Preston Smith was killed. At night Companies 
 ^^G" and ^^K'^ were placed on picket. All day long 
 the firing continued, being heaviest on our left. On 
 the morning of the 20th, the dead strewn on the bat- 
 tlefield were white with the early frost, and brought 
 to our minds the fact that we were in the midst of 
 death, though for awhile almost deathly silence 
 reigned. But as the sun rose and climbed upward, the 
 crack of rifles on the skirmish line began and was 
 soon followed by the roar of artillery, and ere long 
 the battle was raging right, left and front. All the 
 morning we lay in the edge of the woods exposed to 
 the shelling of a battery. Some of the shells fell 
 short, some passed over, and one striking the ground 
 about fifty yards in front, ricocheted and struck Gid. 
 Comer of Company "I" on the hip, crushing it and in- 
 flicting a mortal wound. It rolled off on the arm of 
 J. W. Pillow of Company ^^D," covering it with blood 
 and benumbing it temporarily, but luckily did not ex- 
 plode. The regiment stood the severe test of the 
 shelling without flinching. 
 
 The enemy was driven back in the evening and we 
 were moved to the right and forward, and again ex- 
 
62 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 posed to heaw shelling. Late in the evening we were 
 moved forward again with Wright's Brigade, Gen- 
 eral Cheatham taking charge and giving the com- 
 mands in person. StrahPs brigade, however, was 
 soon halted, and only Wright's advanced. Long- 
 street's Corps had driven the enemy from their 
 breastworks on our extreme left, and the whole line 
 moved forward, and the enemy fled toward Chatta- 
 nooga. 
 
 As the sound of the firing receded and became less 
 and less distinct in the distance. Generals Polk and 
 Cheatham and others assembled in our front and lis- 
 tened attentively to the rebel yells that took the place 
 of the sounds of cannon and musketry, and Gen. Polk 
 remarked: "Isn't that grand?" We moved forward a 
 little. As night came on we prostrated ourselves on 
 the ground and slept as only tired soldiers can sleep. 
 We had suffered much for water during the two days, 
 as it had to be brought from Chickamauga Creek, 
 two or three miles away. 
 
 Next morning a pleasant episode occurred. A few 
 men in each company had secured rifles at Shiloh. 
 Soon afterward these had been ordered given to Com- 
 pany "K," that the distribution of ammunition might 
 be made easier. At Perryville and Murfreesboro many 
 others had thrown down their muskets and picked up 
 rifles. These, in turn, had been given to other regi- 
 ments, and the Fifth compelled to put up with the 
 heavy old Belgian muskets. But on this morning 
 every man had secured either an Enfield, or a Spring- 
 field rifle from the battlefield, and so when we formed 
 where we liad stacked arms on the pervious evening, 
 
In Confederate States Army. 63 
 
 and tlie order ^'take arms^' was given, the men slionl- 
 dered tlieir rifles and marched away, leaving the row 
 of old muskets stacked, proud of their rifles, which 
 they henceforth used till the end of the war. Col. J. J. 
 Lamb commanded the regiment for the first time in 
 battle, and we were proud of his courage, coolness and 
 military bearing. Maj. Henry Hampton of the 
 Fourth had been assigned to duty with the regiment 
 and Lieutenant-Colonel Finley, also of the Fourth, 
 soon after the battle. 
 
 We followed the enemy into Chattanooga valley, 
 saw them occupy the fortifications we had erected a 
 few weeks before, which we proceeded to inclose with 
 another cordon of entrenchments. A good many pro- 
 motions and changes took place during the next few 
 weeks. Capt. J. T. Kendall, who had been absent on 
 furlough was assigned to duty in Companies ^^D" and 
 "I," and Captain Peeples relieved. Lieut. J. L. Lem- 
 onds of Company ''I'' was promoted to first lieutenant, 
 Sergt. E. H. Rennolds was elected third lieutenant of 
 Company "D'^ and assigned to duty, Sergts. John E. 
 Flack and George H. Wynns of Company ^'I" were 
 elected second and third lieutenants. Lieutenant 
 Wynns being assigned to duty and Lieutenant Flack 
 detached. Sergeant N. C. Howard was elected 
 third lieutenant of Company ''A" and assigned, and 
 G. W. Crawford, second lieutenant of Company "E" 
 and assigned, also Lieuts. W. E. Harris and J. W. 
 Howard of Company "D" were put on detached ser- 
 vice. 
 
 October 8th President Davis visited the army. The 
 troops were formed in line along the works, and as 
 
64 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 he passed we had a good look at him, and gave him 
 lusty cheers. On the 13th the band of the First Ten- 
 nessee went to General Bragg's headquarters and ser- 
 enaded the President, many of us soldiers accompany- 
 ing it. He made a short speech. While encamped 
 around Chattanooga the weather was very rainy, the 
 fatigue duty in fortifying very hard, the rations very 
 short and our clothing scant, .and without tents to 
 protect us, we suffered very much. 
 
 October 25, Cheatham's and Stevenson's Divisions 
 were sent to East Tennessee, going by rail to Charles- 
 ton and marching to Sweetwater. Longstreet's Corps 
 soon relieved us and we returned to Chattanooga val- 
 ley. Our train was wrecked by spreading rails on 
 our return trip and several men injured. The wheels 
 of the boxcar in which Caldwell's company was travel- ' 
 ing broke through the floor and Lieut. G. W. Craw- 
 ford's leg was caught between the wheels and floor 
 timbers, and he could only be extricated with a crow- 
 bar. The damaged cars were tumbled off the track, 
 the train coupled up and we started again. A few 
 miles further on the engine jumped the track and we 
 counted the crossties the balance of the distance. 
 
 Cheatham's Division, composed entirely of Tennes- 
 seeans, was regarded by General Bragg as too clan- 
 nish, and it was decided to break it up by an exchange 
 of brigades. Strahl's Brigade was sent to Stew- 
 art's Division. While the men did not dislike serv- 
 ing under their old commander, they did not want to 
 leave "Old Frank" or their fellow Tennesseans, and 
 much dissatisfactio-n ensued. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 65 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 BATTLE OF MISSION RIDGE. 
 
 The author was absent at Atlanta on a short fur- 
 lough during this battle, hence is not able to give 
 an account as an eye witness. 
 
 Before daylight on the morning of November 24, 
 1863, General Hooker's Corps assaulted the Confed- 
 erate position on Lookout Mountain and carried it. 
 On the evening and night of that day General Bragg 
 withdrew from his fortified line in the valley and oc- 
 cupied a new line along the crest of Mission Ridge. 
 General Sherman threw a pontoon bridge across the 
 river near the northern terminus of the ridge and 
 attacked our right flank. General Hooker marched 
 across the valley to Rossville, at the southern end of 
 the ridge, and attacked our left flank, and General 
 Thomas, with three lines of battle, advanced in front. 
 General Grant commanding the whole. The Confeder- 
 ate skirmish line was posted beyond the foot of the 
 ridge. The Thirty-Third Tennessee, acting as skir- 
 mishers for StrahPs Brigade, were about 200 yards 
 from the foot of the ridge. The' Fourth and Fifth 
 Tennessee were posted in a short rifle pit about one- 
 third way up the slope, as support for the skirmish 
 line. Companies "G" and ^^K" were on detached ser- 
 vice, guarding the division wagon train. 
 
 Late in the evening of November 25th the Federal 
 lines advanced to the attack, and those who wit- 
 nessed it describe it as the grandest spectacle they 
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66 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 ever saw. The commands of the officers could be dis- 
 tinctly heard. On their approach the skirmishers 
 slowly retired before them, followed by the steady ad- 
 vance of the first line. Colonel Lamb stood on the 
 mountain side, just in rear of the colors, without pro- 
 tection, and with his arms folded called out to the 
 men: "I don't want a gun fired till I oive the com- 
 mand, and then every man fire, and continue to load 
 and fire until further orders." When the line reached 
 the foot of the ridge and began the ascent. Colonel 
 Lamb's voice rang out clear and distinct in the awful 
 stillness : ''Ready I Aim ! ! Fire ! 1 1" The regiment 
 took steady aim and poured in a volley, of which 
 every ball seemed to find its mark, and tore great gaps 
 in the Federal line, and brought it to a sudden halt. 
 A cheer from their comrades on the top of the ridge 
 animated and nerved the men, and the rattle of ram- 
 rods sounded distinctly as they reloaded and poured 
 volley after volley into the remnant of the line of blue- 
 coats, and then into the second one as it came up. 
 Neither the first or second line advanced beyond the 
 point where the regiment's fire met them. By the time 
 the third line came up, the first line to the right and 
 left of the Fourth and Fifth had almost reached a 
 point opposite to their position, and then the order to 
 retire was given. Some of the men thought the 
 chances too desperate to undertake to climb the ridge 
 under such a fire as they knew they woukl receive, and 
 remained in the trench and were captured. Others 
 preferred to take any risk rather than go to a Yan- 
 kee prison. When they emerged from the rifle pit 
 they drew a concentrated fire from front and both 
 
In Confederate States Army. 
 
 67 
 
 flanks. Capt. E. Foust was killed and Capt. J. T. 
 Kendall dangerously wounded and died under knife 
 of the Federal surgeon at Chattanooga a few days 
 later. Sam B. Cox, of 
 Company ''I" fell mortally 
 wounded just after leav- 
 ing the rifle pit. Sergt. 
 W. D. Hendricks was shot 
 through the shoulder, and 
 the same ball wounded 
 Jno. R. Peeples, who was 
 just in front of him. Lieut. 
 Geo. H. Wynns, just out of 
 a spell of fever, ran till he 
 was exhausted, fell, and af- 
 ter the Federal lines had 
 passed him, returned to the 
 rifle-pit and surrendered. 
 Lieut. Joe H. Jordan was 
 killed before reaching the 
 
 summit, also Marcus D. Milan and Bose Crutchfield. 
 AY. J. Nash reached the breastworks on top of the 
 ridge, and was so nearly exhausted that his comrades 
 had to drag him over the works. 
 
 The few men of the Fourtli and Fifth who were 
 fortunate enough to reach the crest of the ridge found 
 only a thin skirmish line to repel the advancing hosts 
 of the enemy, but they halted and stood ready for the 
 task. Capt. A. W. Caldwell, observing that a large 
 body of Federals had taken refuge in a deep ravine 
 near the top of the ridge, called on the Fourth and 
 Fifth to charge them, and led the way to the brink of 
 
 CAPT. J. T. KENDALL. 
 
68 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 the ravine, where a heavy and destructive fire was 
 poured into the living mass, killing and wounding a 
 great many. Soon, however, the enemy, who had ad- 
 vanced on the left, were seen marching to cut off the 
 regiment's retreat, and they were forced to retire, 
 and, crossing the ridge, they started down the eastern 
 slope. 
 
 General Bragg dashed up on lus horse and called 
 out : ^^Don't run, boys ; don't run. Here's your coun- 
 try; here's your General, and here's jonr flag." A 
 fleeing Confederate replied : ^'Yes, and here's your 
 mule," as he leaped the bushes in long strides down 
 the decline. About half way down the slope Gen. A. 
 P. Stewart rode up to Ab Dinwiddle, the color-bearer, 
 and said: ^^ Whose colors are these?" Dinwiddle 
 promptly replied: ''Fourth and Fifth Tennessee." 
 General Stewart said: "Give me your colors." Din- 
 widdle replied : ''General, you cannot have my colors, 
 but I will plant them where you direct or die in the at- 
 tempt." "Plant them there beyond that little glade," 
 General Stewart ordered. Dinwiddle promptly 
 obeyed the order, and then General Stewart called 
 out : "Fourth and Fifth Kegiments, Strahl's Brigade, 
 you have never failed me ; you won't now. Kally on 
 your colors and protect your army." Every man of 
 the regiment who was in hearing and others of various 
 commands rallied on the colors, and less than a hun- 
 dred poured a hot fire into the rapidly advancing 
 enemy and checked them till the remnants of other 
 regiments could be rallied down near the Chicka- 
 liiauga Creek and a disastrous rout prevented. 
 
 Night coming on, they retired across the creek and 
 
In Confederate States Army. 69 
 
 dropped down and slept and rested their tired bodies. 
 The retreat soon became orderly and was continued 
 to Dal ton, about thirty miles. At Ringgold Gap 
 Cleburne's Division ambushed the pursuing Federals 
 and put an end to the pursuit. The four (consoli- 
 dated) companies of the Fifth went into action with 
 119 men; 60 of these were killed, wounded or cap- 
 tured. 
 
 Gen. J. E. Johnston superseded General Bragg 
 soon after we reached Dalton, and soon brought order 
 out of chaos. Every department of the army was over- 
 hauled and improved, and he soon inspired the sol- 
 diers with a confidence which remained unshaken till 
 the close of the war. This confidence was exceeded 
 only by that given by General Lee's men to their 
 chief. 
 
 One of General Johnston's first acts was to recon- 
 struct Cheatham's Tennessee Division. Great was the 
 joy of the soldiers of the volunteer State to get back 
 under "Old Frank" and to once more fight together to 
 maintain the reputation they had made at Perry ville 
 and magnified at Murfreesboro and Chickamauga. 
 
 At Dalton comfortable shanties were soon erected, 
 and these protected us from the rigors of the ex- 
 tremely cold winter that followed. The first week in 
 January, 1864, the coldest weather of the war, was 
 experienced, and it was the lot of the regiment to be 
 on provost guard duty in Dalton, and we suffered 
 very much, patrolling the streets and bivouacking in 
 an unfinished hotel, without window or door shutters, 
 and with only a scant supply of wood. 
 
 On February 20, Cheatham's Division was ordered 
 
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 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 to Mississippi to reinforce General Polk. We went by 
 rail to Montgomery, Ala., then by steamer to Selma 
 
 GEr*T B. F. CHEATHAM. 
 
 and by rail ai»ain to Demopolis, whither General Polk 
 had retreated. The enemy had already begnn to re- 
 tire when we reached Demopolis, and next day we 
 
In Confederate States Army. 71 
 
 started on our return. This trip was a great benefit 
 to us in the way of recreation. At every station 
 crowds of ladies, old men and children gathered to see 
 us, and the waving of handkerchiefs and cheers of 
 men and boys gave us a new stimulus, bringing back 
 to our minds the early days of the war, and we re- 
 turned to camp refreshed and inspired for the coming 
 decisive campaign. We found our shanties had been 
 nearly all used b}' Jackson's Brigade for fuel, and we 
 were very wratliy on account of it. March 22 there 
 was a smart fall of snow, and the brigade determined 
 to take vengeance on Jackson's Brigade for the loss 
 of our quarters, and, filling our haversacks with hard- 
 pressed snowballs, we formed in line, with officers on 
 horseback, and charged them in their camp. Though 
 they resisted stubbornly, we drove them out and cap- 
 tured their general. It was a stirring scene; the air 
 filled with flying snowballs, the orders of the officers 
 and the yells of the men seemed much like real war. 
 
 As the open weather of the spring came on an oppor- 
 tunity to hold open-air religious meetings was again 
 afforded our faithful chaplains, and another revival 
 commenced. Services were first held in a small 
 church building east of Dalton, and whe^ the con- 
 gregations outgrew it, a brush arbor was built nam- 
 by, and man^^ soldiers were hopefully converted under 
 the earnest preaching of those who had been so suc- 
 cessful at Guy's Gap, aided by others, among v/hom 
 was Eev. R. W. Norton, formerly principal of Spring 
 Hill Academ}-, in Henry County, and who had l^ecn 
 recently appointed chaplain of the Nineteenth Ten- 
 nessee. Just before the opening of the campaign a 
 
72 History op Henry County Commands 
 
 sad accident occurred. One night during the "altar 
 exercises," Avhile several were kneeling and deeply 
 interested in their salvation, a tree which had beer, 
 burning at the root for some time fell across the 
 kneeling men, killing ten of them and wounding an- 
 other one fatally. None of them, however, belonged 
 to the Fifth. This incident elicited much earnest dis- 
 cussion, many soldiers taking the position that those 
 who were killed would be saved, as others also, they 
 declared, would be who lost their lives in defense of 
 their country. Many others of us, however, though 
 unconverted, felt that it was not safe to risk our 
 chances for heaven on such false theology. 
 
 During the latter part of April, 1864, General John- 
 ston began to fortify his position at Dalton, Rocky 
 Face Ridge, just west of the town, forming a strong 
 natural position. Early in May General Sherman 
 began his advance. Cheatham's Division occupied 
 rifle pits just to the right of Mill Creek Gap. Here 
 brisk skirmishing was kept up for several days. On 
 the evening of May 8, being in reserve, the Fourth and 
 Fifth Regiments were sent to reinforce some cavalry 
 at Dug Gap. After a roundabout march of ten miles, 
 part of it at double quick and part of it up the moun- 
 tain side, we reached there thoroughly fatigued. We 
 found the small force of Confederates stubbornl}^ re- 
 sisting the attack of the enemy in a slight depression 
 in the ridge through which ran the road. Quickly 
 deploying to the right and left, we poured in a heavy 
 fire on the assaulting column. Elevated above the 
 attacking party and protected by rocks and trees, we 
 held a great advantage, and our combined forces were 
 
In Confederate States Army. 73 
 
 enabled to repulse them without any casualties except 
 some slight wounds. The enemy shelled heavily about 
 the close of the day. We threw up fortifications dur- 
 ing the night. We were relieved at daylight next 
 morning. At the opening of the campaign our musi- 
 cians were detailed to act on the infirmary corps, and 
 as nurses at the field hospitals, and did excellent ser- 
 vice in these capacities. 
 
74 History of Henry County Commands 
 CHAPTER X. 
 
 BATTLE OF RE8ACA. 
 
 Part of Sherman's forces having passed through 
 Snake Creelv Gap and advanced toward the Western 
 & Atlantic Railroad, General Johnston abandoned 
 his position at Dalton and marched to Resaca, where 
 we arrived on the evening of May 13. 
 
 After a short rest a line of battle was formed and 
 the Fourth Regiment thrown out as skirmishers. We 
 moved forward about a mile, and on passing over the 
 crest of a hill we came suddenly in view of th(^ enemy. 
 A steep descent led to a small valley, beyond which, 
 on a low ridge, the Federals were posted. The hillside 
 was in tim])er and the valley an open field. Our skir- 
 mishers had already drawn the enemy's fire, and as 
 we came over the hill the line of battle opened on us 
 with a discharge of rifles at a range of about 300 
 yards. We halted here and returned the fire. The 
 crest of the hill was very crooked and we struck it at 
 its most retired part, and thus came into view first. 
 As other parts of the line came in sight of the enemy 
 they also became engaged, thus forming a curved line. 
 General Hardee (in whose corps we now were) came 
 along on foot and ordered us to advance down the side 
 of the hill till the line was much nearer straight. This 
 brought us nearer the enemy and exposed us without 
 protection. Parts of the hillside had considerable 
 undergrowth and seemed to screen us from view, but 
 there were some open spaces, which enabled the 
 
In Confederate States Army. 
 
 75 
 
 enemy to see the troops distinctly. One of these opens 
 was occupied by Companies ''G'' and ^'K/' and the 
 enemy's fire was concentrated upon them, causing 
 them to lose heavily. Firing was kept up till night- 
 fall. Capt. J. B. Ward, Company ''K," was killed, 
 and also Corp. A. D. Beckwith, Company ^'D." He 
 had been a very wicked man, but was converted at the 
 Dalton revival a few weeks previous. He was sitting 
 by a small hickory, too small to protect him, and when 
 struck hj a minnie ball, seemed to realize that the end 
 was nigh. He dropped his 
 gun, commenced to clap 
 his hands, and exclaimed : 
 ''Bless the Lord!" and in a 
 few seconds was dead. This 
 scene affected all who wit- 
 nessed it, and one comrade 
 tells me that it changed the 
 whole current of his life. 
 About twenty were 
 wounded, Maj. B. B. 
 Bunch severely in the 
 thigh, Lieut. A. W. Sidebot- 
 tom in the head, R. P. 
 Kirby fell with a broken 
 ankle, causing the loss of 
 his foot; T. J. Broach re- 
 ceived three wounds ; A. McFarland and M. M. Parker 
 of Company ''K" died of their wounds; Lieut. R. P. 
 Andrews of Company ''K'' and others were wounded. 
 Soon after dark picks and spades were brought up 
 
 MAJ. B. B. BUNCH. 
 
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 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 f^ lipi 
 
 and the whole iiioht spent in fortifying, half of the 
 command working till midnight and the other half 
 
 till morning, and by day- 
 light we were pretty well 
 ensconced in rifle pits. 
 
 On the 14th the author 
 was in charge of the regi- 
 mental picket line, sta- 
 tioned behind slight forti- 
 fications at the foot of the 
 hill. About 10 a. m. the 
 ^ enemy's skirmishers ad- 
 
 ^^^^W^^ vanced and secured posses- 
 I^^^FaBfel sion of a ditch running 
 ^iiB* ^^^H through the valley, in spite 
 Mk ^^^1 of heavy fire from both the 
 ^ ^^^H picket line and line of bat- 
 tle. They were then able 
 to enfilade our slight 
 works and make us lie very low, but, fortunately, none 
 were injured. 
 
 About noon Lieutenant Rennolds secured from Col- 
 onel Lamb the relief of the pickets, something never 
 before or since attempted in the face of the enemy. 
 
 During the 14th and 15th almost continual skir- 
 mishing was kept up and two of the Fifth wounded. 
 A Federal battery shelled our line a good deal. A 
 shell fell into the rifle pit, where it lay sizzing and 
 ready to explode. Lieut. F. M. Clark and A. H. Lank- 
 ford each grabbed at it and together threw it out of 
 the works. It exploded before it struck the ground. 
 The works were strenghened on the night of the 14th. 
 
 LIEUT. A. W. SIDEBOTTOM. 
 
In Confederate States x\rmy. 77 
 
 General Sherman, having thrown a pontoon across 
 the Oostanaula Eiver, beyond our left flank, and 
 crossed troops, thus threatening our communications, 
 General Johnston abandoned Kesaca on the night of 
 the 15th. We crossed the river on bridges and 
 marched all night, and the next day lialted awhile 
 near Calhoun and formed line of battle, but later 
 marched seven miles further and bivouacked as tired 
 and sleepy as we had ever been. On the 17th, marched 
 to within two miles of Adairsville and bivouacked, 
 but the Federals pressed our cavalry rear guard back 
 till we had to form line and other regiments skir- 
 mished with them till night. Retired again at 10 
 p. m. and marched three miles beyond Kingston. The 
 men beginning to succumb to the hard marching and 
 loss of sleep. 
 
 On the 19th we formed in battle order about 10 
 a. m. As about half the Federal army was advancing 
 on each of the two roads. General Johnston planned to 
 attack and try to crush one column before the other 
 could come to its relief, but just as we were ready to 
 attack, a false report that the enemy was coming in 
 by a road to our rear caused him to abandon the plan, 
 and he ordered the line to retire. This we did by the 
 right of companies to the rear. As we were in open 
 fields, on comparatively level ground, a fine view of 
 the movement could be had, and it presented a grand 
 sight. The pace was double-quick for about three 
 miles to Cass Station, where we took up a new posi- 
 tion along a low ridge, and the Fifth Regiment was 
 thrown out as skirmishers. The commands who were 
 in line of battle fortified during the night. 
 
78 History of Henry -CorxTY Commands 
 
 At a council of war held during the early part of 
 the night, two of the corps commanders expressed 
 the opinion that thev could not hold their positions 
 for two hours against Sherman's attack, and it was de- 
 cided to retire behind the Etowah River. Early next 
 morning the army moved back, and the Fifth soon 
 followed, overtaking the command at Cartersville. 
 We crossed the river on a pontoon bridge and went 
 into bivouac. Here for several days we enjoyed a 
 much appreciated rest and transformed the woods 
 into an immense laundry. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 79 
 
 CHAPTER XI. 
 
 BATTLE OF ELLSBURY RIDGE. 
 
 The Federals crossed the Etowah River at three 
 places betweii Rome and the Western & Atlantic Rail- 
 road bridge, and sent two columns to Dallas and one 
 towards Marietta. General Stewart's Division 
 checked the latter at New Hope Church. On May 27 
 we marched to the left of New Hope about four miles 
 and advanced in line of battle, with the Fifth thrown 
 out as skirmishers. We met and checked the advance 
 of the enemy at Ellsbury Ridge, about a mile east of 
 Dallas. There was heavy skirmishing during the day. 
 Sergt. Julian Frazier, Company "I,'' was killed lying 
 behind a clay root, and B. A. Haguewood, Company 
 ''A;" George Poyner, Company '^B;" Ben Kendall, 
 Company "C;" James Thornton, Company '^E,'' and 
 James Rainey of the band, wounded. Lieut. H. L. 
 Linderman being the only commissioned officer pres- 
 ent in Companies '^A" and '^C," Lieut. E. H. Rennolds 
 was assigned to duty with that company temporarily. 
 The line of battle fortified during the day, and at night 
 the pickets dug ^'picket holes" large enough to hold a 
 group of four men each, which practice was ever 
 afterward kept up. 
 
 On the night of the 27th all the troops except the 
 picket line and Lewis' Brigade, as support, were 
 moved to the right. Colonel Lamb was left in com- 
 mand of the picket line of Cheatham's Division, and 
 Gen. W: B. Bate of the picket line of the whole corps. 
 
80 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 The skirmishing continued on the 28th and 29th. On 
 the former day Gen. Bate, by instruction of Gen. 
 Johnston, ordered the picket line supported by Lewis' 
 Brigade to advance and feel of the enemy, to deter- 
 mine whether or not he was still in force on this part 
 of the line. On receiving the order Colonel Lamb 
 sent his acting adjutant, Lieut. J. L. Lemonds, to de- 
 liver it to subordinate officers. He had proceeded but 
 a short distance before the signal gun was fired pre- 
 maturely. Lewis' Brigade moved out of their works 
 and advanced to the attack. They were met by a mur- 
 derous fire of all arms, and after suffering heavy loss, 
 retired to the breastworks. The enemy meanwhile 
 opened a heavy fire all along the line. A masked bat- 
 tery was developed in our front, only 200 yards dis- 
 tant, and the discharges of grapeshot were fearful, 
 indeed. The firing was too high, however, and our 
 men protected or our loss would have been great. 
 Herron of Company "C" was killed. The firing lasted 
 about half an hour. When Lewis' Brigade retired to 
 the works the pickets on that part of the line followed. 
 Wlien Lieutenant Rennolds observed the left of Com- 
 panies "A" and "C" falling back, he inquired the 
 reason, and was told that those to the left had retired. 
 He ordered them to only swing back and keep up con- 
 nection with the right. Colonel Lamb ordered the 
 pickets to return to their posts, and, commencing on 
 the left, came along personally supervising the move- 
 ment. On reaching Companies "A" and '^C" one of 
 the pickets said to him : ^'Look at that Yankee flag. 
 Colonel." As he stopped to look, another one said 
 to him : ''You had better get into the picket hole ; 
 
In Confederate States Army. 81 
 
 YOU are in full view of the pickets there." At that mo- 
 ment a sharpshooter fired at him and he fell mortally 
 wounded. I looked in the direction of the sound of 
 the gun, saw the man who had fired, the smoke of his 
 gun plainly visible, and heard him cry out : ''I hit 
 him ! I hit him !" The men pulled him into the hole, 
 and called loudly for the infirmar^^ corps. As the 
 litter-bearers came into view the sharpshooters opened 
 fire on them, and Barney Daniel was shot through 
 the foot. He crawled and limped away. The others, 
 with the help of the pickets and by taking a circuitous 
 route through the bushes, succeeded in getting Colonel 
 Lamb to the rear. He lived only a day or so. The 
 regiment suffered a great loss by his death. He was 
 one of our bravest and best oflftcers. Henceforth we 
 were commanded by field officers of other regiments. 
 
 On the 29th James Owens and B. G. Deets were 
 both wounded by pieces of the same ball, which struck 
 the barrel of Owens' gun and split. They both ex- 
 tracted the pieces with a knife and did not leave their 
 posts. 
 
 About 9 p. m. on the 29th we were relieved by Ross' 
 Brigade of cavalry, and, after marching four miles, 
 rejoined the division. 
 
82 History of Henry County Commands 
 CHAPTER XII. 
 
 BATTLE OF KENNESAW MOUNTAIN. 
 
 Sherman continued to move by the left flank ta 
 secure control of the Western & Atlantic Railroad, 
 and General Johnston followed the moyement by ex- 
 tending his line to the right. In moving by the right 
 flank we would sometimes be halted where the posi- 
 tion was already fortified, and at others beyond the 
 intrenched line, in which case our arms would be 
 stacked, skirmishers thrown out, and we would begin 
 to fell trees and, placing the logs along the line se- 
 lected by the engineers for our rifle pits, would then, 
 with pick and spade, dig a trench behind the logs and 
 throw the earth in front of them, till, standing in the 
 ditch, we could just see over the logs. Above this a 
 head-log would be placed, leaving just space enough 
 to aim the guns through. 
 
 Skirmishing was kept up continually, we some- 
 times driving the enemy back, and sometimes being 
 driven ourselves. In one of these skirmishes Corp. 
 T. J. Patterson of Company "I" was captured. At 
 another time Lieut. N. C. Howard, who was in charge 
 of part of the picket line when charged by the enemy's 
 skirmishers, found that tliey had been cut off from 
 the line of retreat. Lieutenant Howard directed that 
 they start off one at a time and proceed cautiously 
 to the left, taking advantage of every tree or clump of 
 bushes to screen them from view, he being the last to 
 leave the post. All escaped safely except Dock Ed- 
 
In Confederate States Army. 
 
 8a 
 
 wards and George Forrest, who tried to run the 
 gauntlet, and the latter was killed and the former 
 wounded. On June 15th 
 the Nineteenth Tennessee 
 Kegiment was sent to 
 Maney's Brigade, and the 
 Forty-First took its place 
 in Strahl's. In extendino 
 to the right our line had 
 been retired till our left 
 was exposed to being 
 flanked. General Johnston 
 withdrew to a new line ex- 
 tending along the crest of 
 Kennesaw Mountain and to 
 some distance to the right 
 and left. This position 
 was one of the best fortified 
 lines held by the army of 
 Tennessee during the continuance of the war. Just 
 at the western extremit}^ of the mountain the line 
 curved backward and crossed a foothill, on which was 
 placed one of our batteries, and then crossed a creek. 
 The creek bottom being muddy, the breastworks 
 ceased at its edge and began again beyond the creek. 
 The Fourth and Fifth Regiments were placed in re- 
 serve ready to defend, if need be, this gap in the 
 works. 
 
 About 9 a. m. May 27, 1864, the Federals assaulted 
 the mountain in several lines of battle. The roar of 
 artillery and the continual crash of small arms was 
 terrific beyond description. Many of the shells aimed 
 
 LIEUT. N. C. HOWARD. 
 
84 HISTORY OF Henry County Commands 
 
 at the battery on the hill flew over and fell and ex- 
 ploded around ns (as we stood at attention, ready to 
 moye at a moment's notice), wounding seyeral in the 
 Fourth Kegiment. 
 
 The Federals were repulsed ^nd lost heayily in 
 killed, wounded and prisoners. They, however, took 
 refuge under the upper terrace of the mountain and 
 fortified; in some places not more than fifty yards 
 from our works, in others farther away, where they 
 remained, keeping up a harrassing fire all day and 
 sometimes at night. Just where the mountain dipped 
 down at its western end the most destructive fighting 
 occurred, and became known as the ''Dead Angle.'' 
 Here the enemy's fortified line approached nearest to 
 our fortifications. 
 
 On the night after the attack our rifie pits at this 
 most exposed point were very much widened and the 
 defending force doubled. Our regiment took its turn 
 in occupying this dangerous position. On the 29th 
 the enemy was allowed, under fiag of truce, to collect 
 its dead between the trenches and bury them. On the 
 following night, while in the trenches, we slept none, 
 only dozed a little, skirmishing being kept up pretty 
 well all night, and about midnight a false alarm was 
 given, and there was heavy firing for awhile. These 
 night alarms came to be known as ''lightning-bug 
 fights." Those wlio were trying to snatch a little 
 sleep accused those on watch of mistaking the bugs 
 for gun flashes and firing at them. On the night of 
 the 30th we were in reserve. Another false alarm, 
 however, cut short our rest and sleep. Tlie extension 
 of Sherman's line to the left ai>ain threatened our 
 
In Confederate States Army. 85 
 
 communications, and necessitated our withdrawal to 
 a new position. And so, on the night of July 2, we 
 retired to a position five miles south of Marietta, and 
 proceeded to fortify it. By this time we had become 
 such experts at this that we only wanted two hours 
 to construct fairly good breastworks. On the ad- 
 vance of the enemy much shelling and some skirmish- 
 ing was indulged in. 
 
 Hea\w details of negroes had thrown up a semi-cir- 
 cular fortification around the Chattahoochee railroad 
 bridge, and on the night of July 4 we retired within 
 this line. On the 5th the author was placed in charge 
 of the regimental picket detail. We occupied a posi- 
 tion along the edge of a field and set to work to con- 
 struct some slight works of rails, etc. The enemy's 
 skirmishers soon appeared across the field and fired 
 on us, and advanced on either side of the field, com- 
 pelling us to retire to the works, and some of us 
 barely escaped capture. Private Allen of Company 
 "F" and Seth Speight of Company ^'E" were wounded 
 and Lazarus Johnson of Company ^^I" killed by a 
 shell while bathing in the river. On the Ttli Bush 
 Archer of Company ''E'' was wounded, and M. B. 
 Alexander of Company '^A" was brought in from the 
 picket line with his arm broken by a minnie ball. 
 
 At sundown on the 8th we crossed the Chattahoo- 
 chee River on the bridge, and as the Federals had 
 thrown forces across on our right, the army soon fol- 
 lowed. On Sunday, the 10th, we had preaching by 
 Chaplains McCutchen and Hearn for the first time 
 for weeks. On the 12th we were placed on picket on 
 the river, and in spite of orders against it, the men 
 
86 
 
 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 talked with the Federals and exchanged papers and 
 swapped tobacco for coffee, etc. We were relieved 
 on the IGth and moved hack to rest. 
 
 At dress parade on the 18th an order from General 
 Johnston, annount inu that he had been* relieved by 
 
 GEN. JOE E. JOHNSTON. 
 
 the President and the command turned over to Gen- 
 eral Hood, was read. The men turned away from the 
 parade ground in silence, with sad faces and downcast 
 
In Confederate States Army. 87 
 
 eyes. They instinctively realized that the cautious 
 policy which General Johnston had pursued in the 
 face of overwhelming numbers would be exchanged 
 for one of aggressiveness, for which our weakness in 
 numbers rendered us totally unprepared. The excel- 
 lent morale of the army was destroyed and dread of 
 desperate fighting and consequent disaster settled 
 down on the hearts of all. 
 
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 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 BATTLE OF PEACHTREE CREEK. 
 
 Slieriiian having' crossed the Chattahoochee River 
 several miles east of the Western & Atlantic Railroad 
 bridge, we moved out on the 18th of July to meet him. 
 On the 19th we fortified one line, and on the night fol- 
 lowing another, and on the 20th we moved to the 
 right, and the division formed in two lines, with 
 StrahFs Brigade supporting Carter's, and the three 
 left companies of the Fifth (^'D'' and ^'I,'' ''F'' and 
 "H" and '^G" and ^'K") were thrown out as skirmish- 
 ers, under command of 
 Capt. B. F. Peoples; Lieut. 
 J. L. Lemonds in command 
 of Companies ''D" and ^'I." 
 About 3 or 4 o'clock p. m: 
 we advanced half a mile, 
 Lieut. J. W. Howard lead- 
 ing the charge, cap in hand, 
 leaping the fences like a 
 deer. We charged up to 
 within about sixty or sev- 
 enty-five yards of the 
 enemy's works and halted 
 in a ravine and sought pro- 
 tection behind trees, etc. 
 When Carter's Brigade 
 came up they halted also, 
 .securing all the protection possible, and all the efforts 
 
 LIEUT J. W. HOWARD. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 
 
 of their officers failed to induce them to go farther. 
 A continuous fire was Ivcpt up on both sides till dark. 
 A. M. Pinson of Company ^'I'' was killed; Lieuts. J. 
 L. Lemonds, J. W. Howard, G. W. Crawford, G. C. 
 Camp, H. R. Linderman and S. Kirkpatrick were 
 wounded, also Sergt. W. J. Edgar, Corp. I). C. Ban- 
 cum and Privates G. R. Alley, T. J. Broach, E. M. 
 Doughty, Ed Wallace, S. A. Allen, J. B. Ray and J. 
 R. Runiley. Lieut. Camp 
 lost an eye, G. R. Alley 
 an arm and T. J. Broacii 
 and S. A. Allen died of 
 their wounds. 
 
 Lieut. Lemonds, thougli 
 severely wounded, refused 
 to leave his command 
 till compelled by loss of 
 blood and severe pain to 
 do so. ' 
 
 The general attack hav- 
 ing failed to accomplish 
 anything, we retired after 
 nightfall to our works and 
 bivouacked, and at 3 a. m. 
 on the 21st fell back within 
 the fortifications of Atlanta. 
 
 LIEUT. J. L. LEMONDS. 
 
90 
 
 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 CHAPTER XIY. 
 
 BATTLE OF ATLANTA. 
 
 Hardee's Corps was aroused before dawu and 
 marched through Atlanta and around beyond the De- 
 catur road to strike the enemy's left flank. Formed 
 line of battle in an old field and loaded the guns. 
 While the men were loading Capt. B. F. Peeples paced 
 slowly back and forth in rear of his company, with his 
 head bowed as if in prayer; then, raising his head, his 
 face beaming, he seemed to lose all sense of fear, and 
 moved into and through the fight as if unconscious of 
 
 danger. Walker's and 
 Cleburne's Divisions 
 formed the front line, and, 
 advancing, we struck the 
 enemy in flank, driving 
 them from their half-fin- 
 ished rifle pits, killing Gen- 
 eral McPherson, passing 
 over their dinners, ready 
 prepared and steaming hot 
 in their camp kettles, 
 which was to us a vexa- 
 tious taunt, for we were 
 very hungry and yet had no 
 time to eat. 
 
 Our lines were rectified 
 and we moved through the 
 woods and down the long slope steadily and in fine 
 
 
 ^^m 
 
 CAPT. B. F. PEEPLES. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 
 
 91 
 
 order. Capt. A. W. Caldwell was acting as major of 
 
 the Fourth and Fifth, and, as he saw the ranks of the 
 
 Fifth opening towards the left and away from the 
 
 colors, gave his last command, ''Right oblique," with 
 
 his peculiar accent on the 
 
 last syllable. Just then he 
 
 was struck in the hand by 
 
 a ball and given a wound 
 
 not considered dangerous, 
 
 but, complicated with 
 
 fever, in a few days ended 
 
 the career of this ''boy 
 
 captain," one of our best 
 
 officers. 
 
 Emerging from the 
 woods into a field, we 
 halted in a ravine and re- 
 formed our line and were 
 then ordered to advance. 
 As the regiment reached 
 the brow of the hill they 
 came into full view of a long line of bluecoats, posted 
 hehind a low line of earthworks, who opened a rat- 
 tling fire upon us. With no support on the left and 
 but little on the right, and seeing their comrades 
 falling, the line wavered and sought refuge under the 
 brink of the hill. Ensign A. A. Dinwiddle was mor- 
 tally wounded, but made good his promise to Ensign 
 Jones when receiving the colors at Perry^dlle. Corp. 
 F. C. Robertson of Company "F" and Privates J. N. 
 Feilds, Company "I;" J. K. P. Lawson, Company 
 "K," were killed; John B. House was desperately 
 
 CAPT. A. W CALDWELL. 
 
92 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 wounded and left on the field and died in prison. 
 Thirty-one others were also wounded. Names will be 
 found in compauT rolls. Four of the wounded wel-e 
 officers, and with the six wounded at Peachtree Creek, 
 aggregates ten that had been wounded within three 
 days. This shows that they were in the places of dan- 
 ger, yet they were no braver than the non-commis- 
 sioned officers and privates. 
 
 Adjutant AT. D. Kendall, S. A. Miller, Wash Mitch- 
 ell, W. L. Kumbley, J. W. Crutchfield, J. N. Fields, 
 J. K. P. Lawson, J. G. Hudson, C. S. Williams, L. L. 
 Milam and perhaps others advanced to within fifty- 
 eight yards of the Federal works, and, finding them- 
 selves in great danger and far ahead of their com- 
 rades, dropped down in the weeds and waited for the 
 coming of the balance of the regiment. Convinced in 
 a little while tliat this need not be hoped for, some one 
 asked Adjutant Kendall (the only officer present) 
 what they had better do. He advised them to retire 
 by crawling through the weeds. This they did, leav- 
 ing J. N. Fields and J. K. P. Lawson dead where they 
 lay. 
 
 The officers, perceiving the futility of further 
 efforts to advance, the regiment was formed in the 
 ravine and marched out by the left flank, and, coming 
 into view of the enemy's line, they received a destruc- 
 tive volley, but, increasing their speed to a double- 
 quick, were soon out of sight in the woods, and the 
 battle was over. D. C. Ball and J. M. Coffman were 
 found wounded and helped off the field. We fortified 
 during the succeeding night as usual. The next day 
 there was an arnustice and the dead exchanged and 
 
In Confederate States Army. 93 
 
 buried. On the 24tli the enemy retired about half a 
 mile in our front and fortified a new line. The meas- 
 urement mentioned above was thus rendered possible 
 and carefully made. 
 
 One day, about July 28, Lieutenant-Colonel Shan- 
 non, Twenty-Fourth Tennessee, in charge of the 
 picket line, ordered the pickets to form in line ready to 
 advance and see if the Federals were in their works. 
 Lieut. John I. Simmons of the Fifth Regiment, who 
 was in charge of the picket detail from the Fourth 
 and Fifth, formed as ordered and called for volunteer 
 scouts. A. H. Lankford and Tip Allen of Company 
 "F" responded, and were instructed to reconnoiter 
 the Federal position. The undergrowth in front of 
 the enemy's fortifications had been cut away, but by 
 following a little ravine among some bushes they ap- 
 proached ver3^ near the works. Seeing no enemy, they 
 began to talk louder, and saw just then two other 
 scouts near by. Their voices reached the ears of the 
 Federals hid behind the breastworks, and, rising, they 
 opened fire, and the two other scouts fell dead and 
 Lankford and Allen ran for their lives. Lieutenant 
 Simmons became too impatient to either wait for 
 Colonel Shannon's orders to advance or the return of 
 his scouts, and led his sqaud forward, and, raising the 
 "rebel yell," charged the Federal works. The Fed- 
 erals, remembering Hardee's impetuous onslaught six 
 days previous, and expecting a repetition of it, acted 
 on the adage, "He that fights and runs away, may live 
 to fight another day," and fled from that part of the 
 works. When Lieutenant Simmons and his men 
 reached the works, a dead Federal lay just over the 
 
94 History op Henry County Commands 
 
 rifle pits, with a well-filled knapsack on. Mike Terry 
 needed clothes too bad to leave the knapsack there, 
 and amid a shower of bullets he leaped over the works 
 and secured it. The Federals rallied in an old brick 
 house a few hundred yards away, and after a stay of 
 perhaps a half hour. Lieutenant Simmons thought it 
 best to retire to his picket line. 
 
 On August 25 eT. W. Crutchfield was elected ensign 
 and was the last color-bearer of the regiment. No 
 command ever had four braver ensigns than the 
 Fifth Regiment — William C. Sims, J. B. Jones, A. A. 
 Dinwiddle and J. W. Crutchfield. 
 
 We remained on picket on the east of Atlanta till 
 August 26, when we moved to the left. All this time 
 the enemy had been closing in around Atlanta, shell- 
 ing the doomed city and continuing to extend his lines 
 to his right. 
 
Tn Confederate States Army, 95 
 
 CHAPTER XV. 
 
 BATTLE OF JONESBORO. 
 
 i 
 
 Sherman, having extended his lines till he reached 
 the West Point Railroad, determined to cut the last 
 line of communication with our base of supplies, and, 
 leaving one corps to guard the Chattahoochee railroad 
 bridge, moved with the main army toward Jonesboro, 
 on the Central Railroad. General Hood, not knowing 
 how large a part of the Federal army had thus been 
 detached, sent General Hardee with his own and Gen. 
 S. D. Lee's Corps to drive him back if possible. We 
 left East Point just before sundown of August 30 and 
 marched till nearly daylight of the 31st, and laid 
 down for a short rest. W^ere aroused at break of day 
 and moved on, reaching Jonesboro by 10 o'clock a. m. 
 We found Bate's Division slightly fortified on the 
 west of the town. Cheatham's Division formed on his 
 right and Cleburne's next and Lee's Corps on the ex- 
 treme right, covering the railroad. Cheatham's Di- 
 vision now consisted of the brigades of Gist, Tyler, 
 Wright, Yaughan, Maney and Strahl. General Cheat- 
 ham was sick and the men noted his absence. Strahl's 
 Brigade was posted in an old field just north of the 
 town, in rear of Tyler, as a support. 
 
 About 3 pm. the advance was ordered, and the 
 Fourth and Fifth moved forward. For some reason 
 the balance of the brigade was not formed, and we 
 were separated from them. We met a murderous fire 
 of shrapnel, grape and rifle balls. Finding the enemy 
 
96 History of Henky County Commands 
 
 ill heavy force, strongly posted and fortified, and the 
 morale of our army being well nigh destroyed by its 
 want of confidence in General Hood's military ability 
 and discretion, the attack failed at every point and we 
 were soon halted and retired to our first position. 
 Not, however, till four brave men (Privates Tom 
 Barnhill, E. G. Seaton, G. W. Upchurch and Thomas 
 Wisehart I were wounded. 
 
 At nightfall we were moved to the left of Tyler and 
 spent the night fortifying. The enemy shelled us all 
 night at intervals of fifteen minutes. Some one was 
 kept on the lookout, and when the flash of the cannon 
 was seen he would cry out : '"^Lie down." Every man 
 would drop his pick or spade and prostrate himself 
 in the ditch until the shell had passed over or ex- 
 ploded, and then the work was resumed with vigor. 
 We slept very little. 
 
 On the morning of September 1 we were stretched 
 out in one rank, extending the line to the left. In the 
 evening the enemy made a determined attack on our 
 extreme right and were met by a stubborn resistance. 
 The firing was very heavy. Beginning on our extreme 
 left, brigade after brigade was sent to reinforce our 
 right. Strahl's Brigade reached the position about 
 sundown. The firing soon ceased, and we were not 
 engaged. The overwhelming numbers pressed our 
 right back to the railroad, the last train that passed 
 beiim fired on bv the enemv's artillerv. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 97 
 
 CHAPTER XVI. 
 
 LOVE JOY AND PALMETTO. 
 
 During the niglit of September 1 General Hardee 
 retired to a new position along a series of hills one 
 mile north of Lovejoy Station, and notified General 
 Hood, who destroyed all his stores at Atlanta and 
 retreated with Stewart's Corps and the Georgia mi- 
 litia and formed a junction with Hardee. All night 
 long the explosion of the bombs in the magazines at 
 Atlanta sounded like a heavy engagement was in 
 progress there. 
 
 On the morning of the 2d we fortified the new line. 
 Strahl's Brigade occupied a hill just west of the Cen- 
 tral Railroad, a battery being placed on the highest 
 point. 
 
 About 10 a. m. the author was sent out in charge of 
 the regimental picket. We found the usual picket 
 holes already dug out. The position of the line of 
 battle and picket line was in an open field, the open 
 ground extending over a hill in front, in some places 
 partially grown up in bushes. The enemy soon ap- 
 peared and deployed skirmishers, who advanced to 
 top of hill in front and were posted among the bushes. 
 Just beyond the railroad a battery was placed in the 
 edge of the timber, and soon began throwing shells at 
 our works. About an hour before sundown the skir- 
 mishers advanced, but were repulsed. The pickets 
 were kept on their posts till nightfall of the 3d. 
 
 On the morning of that day the pickets' ammuni- 
 7 
 
98 
 
 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 tion was about exliausted. Lieutenant Rennolds 
 called for a volunteer to go after a supply. Corp. A. 
 H. Lankford, who never shirked duty or danger, 
 offered to undertake the perilous trip. He declined to 
 leave his gun and accouterments, saying: "I don't 
 want to be shot in the back unarmed." The pickets 
 were instructed to fire at every Federal who showed 
 his head to prevent their accurate firing at Lankford. 
 He started up the slope at a pace that would have 
 done credit to an antelope. The balls from the 
 enemy's pickets tore up the ground around him like 
 pebbles thrown into a pond. He reached the works 
 
 safely and was pulled over 
 them by his comrades, 
 ^-<gB|»^ thoroughly exhausted. 
 
 jNp@Hk After resting and having 
 
 Im wt several haversacks filled 
 
 mt WW with ammunition h e 
 
 i k started on the return trip. 
 
 Encumbered with a heavy 
 load, his speed was much 
 retarded, and again the 
 rifle balls flew thick and 
 fast around him. But Prov- 
 idence decreed his escape, 
 and he reached his picket 
 hole almost out of 
 breatli. W. D. Street 
 went on a similar danger- 
 ous errand to fill our canteens with water. These 
 were two of the bravest deeds that I witnessed during 
 the whole war. 
 
 CORP. A. H. LANKFORD 
 
In Confederate States Army. 99 
 
 About 4 p. m. the Federal battery opened a heavy 
 shelling. One shell struck a head log in front of 
 Companies ^^B" and "E," cut it in two and turned 
 it around over the heads of the men. Lowering their 
 pieces, they plowed up the ground between the picket 
 holes, and one shell struck the bank of red clay in 
 front of a picket hole and piled the earth on top of 
 the crouching men. W. D. Street raised up and shook 
 a peck of dirt (more or less) from his knapsack. It 
 was deemed best by Lieutenant Rennolds to order the 
 two picket holes nearest the line of shelling aban- 
 doned till the firing had ceased, when they were re- 
 occupied. 
 
 On the night of September 5 the enemy retired to 
 Atlanta, and on the 6th we advanced to Jonesboro 
 and rested from our long and arduous campaign. 
 For four months we had been almost continuously 
 marching, fortifying, skirmishing and fighting bat- 
 tles. Heavy rains set in and much sickness, dysen- 
 tery, malarial fever, etc., followed. 
 
 On the 18th of September General Hood marched 
 his command to Palmetto, on the Atlanta & West 
 Point Railroad, so as to place it between Sherman 
 and the cornfields of Alabama and Mississippi, which 
 furnished our breadstuffs. 
 
 The continued decimation of all the commands 
 rendered it expedient to still further consolidate 
 them, though it was called temporary. The Fourth, 
 Fifth, Thirty-First, Thirty-Third and Thirty-Eighth 
 Tennessee were each reduced to two companies, and 
 formed into one regiment. Companies "A,'' ''B,'' 
 "C" and '^E" of the Fifth forming one company and 
 
 L.ofC. 
 
100 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 ujyv uY^^y ^^G,'' ^^H," '^I" and '^K'' another, Col. A. 
 J. Keller of the Fourth in command. We no longer 
 liad a field officer. The first company was officered 
 by Lieuts. T. C. Xeal, F. M. Clark and G. W. Craw- 
 ford, and the second by Capt. B. F. Peeples, Lieuts. 
 J. P. Tyler, F. M. Clark and E. H. Rennolds. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 101 
 
 CHAPTER XVII. 
 
 TO SHERMAN^S REAR AND TENNESSEE. 
 
 The next ten days were spent in preparing to move 
 on Sherman's communications. On the 29th we 
 crossed the Chattahoochee and advanced by forced 
 marches to the Western & Atlantic Railroad, reaching 
 the vicinity of Big Shanty on the 3d of October, and 
 set to work to tear up the railroad, piling up the 
 crossties and putting the rails on them, and setting 
 the crossties on fire, thus heating the rails and then 
 bending them around telegraph poles and stumps. 
 
 French's Division was sent to attempt the capture 
 of Sherman's reserve supply of commissary stores, 
 consisting of a million rations, enough to feed a hun- 
 dred thousand men for two months. While march- 
 ing to the railroad we could see the Federal Signal 
 Corps on Kennesaw Mountain signaling over our 
 heads to Altoona Heights, Sherman's famous message, 
 ''Hold the fort, for I am coming." 
 
 General French found the fort at Altoona too 
 strong for his forces to capture. By the time we had 
 torn up the railroad to near Altoona, Sherman's ad- 
 vance forces, sent to relieve Altoona, approached and 
 we turned our faces to the west as if in retreat, but 
 making the circuit of Rome, we returned to the rail- 
 road again, striking it at Dalton, the other two corps 
 at Calhoun and Resaca. Captured 800 prisoners at 
 Dalton, mostly negroes, and put them to work tear- 
 ing up the railroad track. Destroyed it to Mill Creek 
 
102 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 Gap. At noon on the 14tli we were again compelled 
 to desist on approach of the Federals. 
 
 We turned again to the west by way of Walker, 
 LaFayette and Alpine to Gadsden, Ala., making 
 twenty-three miles one day. We were enabled to buy 
 apples, potatoes, sorghum, etc., and we had some 
 recompense for our hard marching. At Gadsden we 
 touched again our railroad communication and ob- 
 tained clothing, better rations, etc. On the night of 
 October 21 Generals Beauregard, Hood, Lee, Cheat- 
 ham, Cleburne, Bates, Clayton and others made us 
 encouraging speeches, asserting that we would be able 
 to hold Tennessee, whither they said we were going. 
 Started again on the 22d, our regiment was in the 
 advance on the 24th and fared sumptuously, as we 
 had first chance at the luxuries of the country. When 
 we halted before sundown a frightened deer ran 
 through the camp and was shot by one of the soldiers. 
 On the 25th, no other command being ready to move 
 when the appointed time arrived, our brigade was 
 again given the advance. 
 
 Beached Decatur on the 2Tth and threatened to 
 attack the fort there. Protests and muttered threats 
 of refusal were heard among the men. Only beef and 
 one ear of corn to each man was issued, and on the 
 28th an ear of corn constituted the ration. Gnawing 
 hunger preyed on us, and parched acorns were greed- 
 ily devoured. The mounted officers had to guard their 
 horses when fed to prevent the corn from being stolen 
 from them. 
 
 About 3 p. m. we withdrew from before Decatur 
 and marched west, reaching Tuscumbia on the 31st. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 103 
 
 Here we rested till November 13; crossed the Tennes- 
 see River on a pontoon bridge, and waited another 
 week for supplies to be hauled up from Cherokee, the 
 temporary terminus of M. & C. R. R., twenty miles 
 distant. Started again on the 21st. There was a 
 slight fall of snow during the day. 
 
 On the 22d we came in sight of a lar.<>e sign 
 stretched across the road, which read: ^Tennessee 
 Line." Hearty cheers greeted it, and we Tennes- 
 seeans stepped more briskly on our native soil. On the 
 23d we guarded the supply train. On the 27th 
 reached Columbia, and on the 28th two corps, Cheat- 
 ham's and Stewart's, crossed Duck River on a pon- 
 toon, six miles above Columbia and marched by dirt 
 road to Spring Hill. Part of the way the road ap- 
 proached so near the pike, on which the Federals were 
 moving, that flankers had to be thrown out, who 
 skirmished with the Federal flankers. We reached 
 Spring Hill, twenty miles, about sundown, and found 
 our advanced troops engaged with a small force of 
 the enemy, in a short line of rifle pits. By some mis- 
 understanding among the generals no attack was 
 made, and night closed in upon us. All through the 
 early part of the night the Federals could be heard 
 passing along the pike only a few hundred yards away. 
 Lieut. N. C. Howard says that he was standing near 
 Generals Hood and Strahl and heard General Strahl 
 say to General Hood: "If you will let me throw 
 my brigade across the pike I will have those fellows 
 in the morning or you may take these stars off my 
 collar." General Hood replied in a tone too low for 
 Lieutenant Howard to understand it. 
 
104 History of Henry County Commands 
 CHAPTER XYIII. 
 
 BATTLE OF FRANKLIN. 
 
 Early on the morning of November 30, 1864, we 
 were put in motion on the pike and made a rapid 
 march of ten miles, and by noon reached the hills two 
 miles south of Franklin. It was 5 o'clock p. m. before 
 all the troops had arrived and been placed in position. 
 Cleburne's Division was immediately on the right of 
 the pike and Cheatlmnrs on the left, in two lines. 
 Other divisions extending far to the right and left. 
 Strahl's Brigade was in the second line with our (con- 
 solidated) regiment next to the pike. 
 
 The fearless General Cheatham was in command of 
 the corps, and when he issued General Hood's order 
 to advance, he shed tears and said : ''It is a mistake, 
 and it is no comfort to me to saj^ we are not responsi- 
 ble.'' The long lines of infantry moved steadily and 
 grandly forward through the open fields, with the 
 precision of trained soldiers on parade. The band of 
 the Fifth struck up ""Dixie," and one of Cleburne's 
 the ''Bonnie Blue Flag,'' and for once, and only once, 
 we went into battle cheered by the sound of martial 
 music. It was the grandest sight I ever beheld. 
 
 A battery went galloping up the pike, and, turning 
 aside, unlindjered on a little knoll and opened fire, 
 as the infantry passed, limbering up and advancing 
 again. The enemy's main line was posted in substan- 
 tial breastworks, which circled around the edge of the 
 town, reaching from the Harpeth River above to the 
 
In Confederate States Army. 105 
 
 river below. Four or five hundred 3^ards in front of 
 this was a line of advanced works, extending for some 
 distance to the left of the pike, and occupied b}^ a line 
 of infantry. These opened fire on our front line as 
 soon as it came within range. Cheatham's first line 
 hardly took time to return the fire, but raised the 
 '^rebel yelP' and charged at double-quick. When the 
 Federals saw them nearing the rifle pits without any 
 sign of halting, they abandoned their defenses and fled 
 toward the second line of intrenchments. Soon after 
 we passed the first line of rifle pits, Capt. B. F. Pee- 
 ples said to the writer : ^'Look how thick the Yankees 
 are coming.'' I replied: "But they are unarmed. 
 Captain." He took a second look, and said : "That's 
 so.'' The charging Tennesseeans had overtaken many 
 of them, demanded their surrender, ordered them to 
 throw down their arms and started them to the rear. 
 The fear of being killed or wounded by the fire of their 
 own men lent wings to their feet, and they rushed 
 through our ranks wherever they could find an open- 
 ing. 
 
 By this time our lines had become broken, and the 
 men rushed onward regardless of order, converging 
 toward the pike till they became solid masses, all 
 anxious to reach, as soon as possible, the breastworks, 
 where their comrades were engaged in a hand-to-hand 
 fight. The first men of our front line reached the 
 works, and fought their foes across them, others 
 readying the ditch in front scrambled across it, and 
 fell d >wn exhausted and out of breath. Others, as 
 they cime up, followed their example, till they soon 
 extended several vards wide along the outer side of 
 
106 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 the works. When the Federals saw the second line 
 of Confederates (or, more properly, masses of men) 
 approaching, the}^ abandoned the position in our im- 
 mediate front. Ensign — . — . Flowers of the Fourth 
 mounted the parapet and waved his flag. W. D. 
 Street, Seth Speight, Jeff Olive and a few others of 
 the bravest spirits crossed the entrenchment and ad- 
 vanced a few yards, but finding themselves almost sur- 
 rounded by Federals and facing a deadly hail of min- 
 nie balls they retired behind the entrenchment, but 
 kept up a fire on the enemy. In vain did the officers 
 urge the men on to cross the breastworks; they were 
 too nearly exhausted and the fire was too deadly even 
 for the bravest to face. 
 
 Just across the pike, about thirty yards away, the 
 works obliqued slightly to the front, and just in their 
 rear stood a large cotton gin. A heavy force of Feder- 
 als was posted in this building, thus making the 
 strength of the defending force much greater here 
 than elsewhere. The heavy firing from both the works 
 and cotton gin, supplemented by a battery, rendered 
 it utterly impossible for Cleburne's Division to carry 
 the position, though composed of as brave men as were 
 ever enlisted. Many of this heroic band, including 
 their indomitable Irish leader, went down before the 
 murderous fire, grape and canister aiding the rifles 
 in the deadly work. Those who escaped finally re- 
 tired. This heavy force then turned their fire upon 
 Cheatham's Division, across the pike. Those who 
 were nearest the works fired at the Federals wherever 
 seen and passed their guns back to their comrades to 
 be reloaded. General Strahl and other officers as- 
 
In Confederate States Army. 
 
 107 
 
 sistecl iu passing the guns back and forth. General 
 Strahl was severely wounded, and while some of his 
 men were trying to remove him, was struck in the 
 head by a minnie ball 
 and killed. 
 
 A braver or more 
 gallant or chivalric 
 man never poured 
 out his blood in his 
 country's cause. For 
 three or four hours 
 the brave men of 
 Cheatham's Division 
 fought in the face of 
 death. Seeing their 
 comrades killed or 
 wounded in great 
 numbers, those that 
 had escaped the 
 deadly fire began, 
 singly and in groups, 
 to seek safety in the 
 rear, until after 
 awhile most of them 
 
 BRIG. -GEN. O. F. STRAHL. 
 
 When the writer 
 saw that all the men able to travel, on his right, front 
 and rear, and many to his left, were gone, he, too, 
 thought it time to seek safety in flight. The enemy 
 in and around the cotton gin were firing heavy volleys 
 at every man, and group of men, whom they could dis- 
 cern in the smoky moonlight. Watching for a lull in 
 
108 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 the firing, 1 started at a rapid gait, but had not gone 
 more than fifty yards before one of the heaviest vol- 
 leys was fired, and the whizzing balls flew thicker 
 than I had ever heard them. My speed was increased 
 to the highest possible limit, but several more volleys 
 were fired before reaching the enemy's first line of 
 works, to say nothing of the continued whirr of min- 
 nies in lesser numbers. Reaching the rifle pits, I fell 
 over the embankment utterly exhausted. How any 
 one could escape in such a hail of rifle balls is most 
 wonderful. The god of battles only could direct the 
 steps of anyone safely through such death-dealing mis- 
 siles. Others had similar experiences. The enemy 
 evacuated the works and town before morning, and 
 retired to Nashville. Some of the Confederates who 
 had remained close under the protection of the breast- 
 works, when the firing ceased, crept out and cau- 
 tiously followed them through the town. 
 
 Next morning we found the dead lying so thick that 
 we could have walked on them without stepping on 
 the ground, a sight I never saw elsewhere. Ex-Gov- 
 ernor Porter says: ^^I looked down upon the up- 
 turned faces of 1,000 dead Tennesseeans." Our killed 
 were, W. J. Edgar and W. W. Ridgeway. Lieut. N. 
 C. Howard, AY. 1). Hendricks, — . — . Ellis and others 
 wei*e wounded. The writer found himself the only 
 one of his original company present for duty. Cap- 
 tain Johnston and Lieutenant Marsh of General 
 StrahPs staff were killed on their horses as they rode 
 up to the works. Franklin was the Gettysburg of the 
 West. 
 
 We spent the day after the battle in burying the' 
 
In Confederate States Army. 109 
 
 dead and caring for the wounded. On the second day 
 we buried the Federal dead, and at 9 a. m. took up 
 our line of march toward Nashville, marching seven- 
 teen miles. 
 
110 History of Henry County Commands 
 CHAPTER XIX. 
 
 BATTLE OF NASHVILLE. 
 
 s 
 
 From December 3 to 15 we remained in front of 
 Xashville fortifying, picketing and moving from place 
 to place. Part of the time the weather was quite se- 
 vere, with a smart fall of snow, and as wood was 
 scarce we suffered a good deal with cold. We burned 
 Mrs. Aaron V. Brown's cedar rails that cost Governor 
 Brown 10 cents each. At first our rations were quite 
 short and rather rough, but later on the Nash- 
 ville & Decatur Railroad, having been patched up and 
 some captured trains brought into use, they became 
 better. The enemy annoyed us a* good deal by almost 
 continual shelling. 
 
 December 15 the enemy turned our left flank by 
 passing between it and the river, and on the night fol- 
 lowing General Hood retired to a new line across the 
 Franklin and Granny White pikes and fortified it. 
 This line stretched across open cornfields to a ridge on 
 the left, and then turned back almost at right angles 
 along this ridge. About a quarter of a mile from this 
 angle, in a depression of the ridge, the remnant of 
 StrahPs Brigade was posted. It was now in command 
 of Col. A. J. Kellar of the Fourth Tennessee, and 
 Lieut.-Col. L. W. Finley of the Fourth commanded 
 the consolidated regiment. 
 
 The writer was put in charge of the regimental 
 picket line about daylight, and was posted in some 
 woodland about 200 vards in front of the fortified line 
 
In Confederate States Army, 111 
 
 and protected ourselves by trees and such other ob- 
 jects as were available. The enemy drove back our 
 cavalry on the extreme left, and we could tell by the 
 sound of the firing that they were gradually getting 
 into our rear. 
 
 They concentrated an artillery fire on the breast- 
 works occupied by Finley's Florida Brigade and 
 partly demolished them, driving the men out, and 
 then about 4 p. m. charged with several lines of bat- 
 tle. The other troops, seeing Finley's troops were 
 falling back, lifted from the works and streamed 
 across the fields, intent only on making sure that they 
 would not spend the winter in a Federal prison. The 
 pickets to our right were driven in, and as we were 
 thus flanked on both sides, I ordered the picket line 
 to retire. As I mounted the breastworks and looked 
 across the valley and noted that as far as I could see 
 our troops were in retreat, I said to Capt. B. F. Pee- 
 ples, who I met just behind the works : ''If you ever 
 expect to get out of here, it is time you were going. 
 Look yonder," pointing to the fleeing Confederates. 
 He glanced in the direction indicated and ordered a 
 retreat. At the same time Lietuenant-Colonel Fin- 
 ley's attention was called to the situation and ordered 
 the regiment to retire. And now began a race for 
 liberty between the enclosing wings of the Federals. 
 The ground was just thawing out of a smart freeze, 
 and the sticky mud which, with the crabgrass, ad- 
 hered to our shoes and soon loaded us as with weights, 
 and fast progress was impossible, and so ever and 
 anon we had to stop and kick off these impediments. 
 To avoid a high ridge in our rear it was necessary to 
 
112 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 take such a direction as brought us continually nearer 
 the pursuing enemy in converging lines. Soon the 
 foremost of our pursuers came within range of the 
 fleeing Confederates and thev kept up a desultory fire 
 on them as they ran. Some of the bolder Confederates 
 would occasionally stop and fire back at tliem and 
 then continue their retreat. We soon came to a gap 
 in the ridge, through which ran a road, and through 
 this gap the demoralized Confederates poured to the 
 rear. Lieutenant-Colonel Finley took a stand in the 
 gap, and, with pistol in hand, tried, by ordering and 
 threatening, to induce the men to halt and make a 
 stand, but the sound of rifies coming nearer and nearer 
 to the line of retreat, rendered it impossible to en- 
 thuse any but the bravest, and soon it was found best 
 to resume the retreat: The road we were traveling 
 led into the pike at an acute angle, but upon nearing 
 this point it was found that the rear of those troops 
 using the pike as a line of retreat was just passing and 
 a Federal battery was throwing shells into the fleeing 
 fugitives, and so we had to change our direction and 
 enter the pike further on. Night soon closed in upon 
 us, and after marching a few miles the different com- 
 mands began to halt and bivouac, the passing men con- 
 tinually calling out : ''Where is such and such a divi- 
 sion?" or "Such and such a brigade?" By this means 
 they were most of them able to locate their commands. 
 Next morning as the march was resumed it was a sad 
 sight to see how few men formed on the colors of the 
 different regiments. Our loss was mainly confined to 
 missing, but tliey comprised about half the regiment. 
 Joe J. Adams of the One Hundred and Fiftv-Fourth 
 
In Confederate States Army. 113 
 
 Tennessee relates that the prisoners were huddled in 
 an old rock quarry at Nashville, without protec- 
 tion or wood in a freezing rain, and next morning him- 
 self and twenty-one others, with frozen hands and feet, 
 had to be hauled to the penitentiary on wagons. 
 
 At Columbia General Hood organized a provisional 
 division under Gen. John C. Brown as a rearguard to 
 assist General Forrest. No higher compliment could 
 be paid to Henry County's gallant soldiery that that 
 both the Fifth and Forty- Sixth Tennessee were se- 
 lected to form part of this heroic band, that day and 
 night stood as a stone wall between the remnant of 
 Hood's army and their victorious pursuers. Several 
 times they halted, faced the enemy and dealt him a 
 blow that caused him to recoil and be careful how he 
 ventured too near these tried and true soldiers of a 
 ^^Lost Cause." General Brown's report speaks in the 
 highest praise of their bravery, endurance, discipline 
 and patience in suffering. 
 
114 History of Henry County Commands 
 CHAPTER XX. 
 
 THE CONFEDERACY'S COLLAPSE. 
 
 We readied Corinth, Miss., on our retreat from Ten- 
 nessee January 2, 1865. We found Lieut. J. L. Le- 
 nionds awaiting us with wagon loads of clothing, etc. 
 which he had collected in Henry County for us. As 
 the boxes were opened and the names of the fortunate 
 ones were called out, many of us were made happy 
 by the sight of warm clothing, so sadly needed, and 
 made doubly valuable because we knew that the hands 
 of loved mothers, sisters and wives had toiled to pre- 
 pare it for us. But some who were less fortunate 
 looked on with longing, if not with envious eyes. 
 
 Nearly all the West Tennessee soldiers were granted 
 thirty days' furlough, and in groups, small and large, 
 we turned our steps homeward. The country through 
 which we passed had so long been in an unsettled con- 
 dition, and been held alternately by both belligerents, 
 that we were often at a loss to know whether those 
 we met were friends or foes. However, we failed to 
 meet any bushwhackers, and all reached home safely. 
 Here we met a royal reception and were treated like 
 lords. Dinners and parties were the order of the 
 day, and mothers, sisters and sweethearts vied with 
 each other in making our stay pleasant. But, alas! 
 all earthly pleasure must have an end, and all too 
 soon we must turn our faces toward the post of duty 
 and say farewell to loved ones. So, some on foot and 
 some on such ponies as our relatives and friends 
 
In Confederate States Army. 115 
 
 could furnish us, we started for our place of rendez- 
 vous (West Point, Miss.). 
 
 Some thought the fate of the Confederacy already 
 sealed and remained at home. Thirty or forty assem- 
 bled at Corinth, and, finding that the army had gone 
 to North Carolina, returned home. Others stopped 
 with Forrest's Cavalry, in Mississippi. Others still 
 pushed on to join our comrades, who were again facing 
 our old enemies under Sherman. We went by rail to 
 Selma, by steamer to Montgomery, by rail to Sparta, 
 Ga., walked to Barnett, and by rail to Augusta. A 
 "camp detention" had been formed at Hamburg, S. C, 
 of which John R. Peoples was adjutant. Here we 
 were organized into provisional companies and regi- 
 ments for discipline, convenience in issuing rations 
 and for order in marching, and a sufiflciency of officers 
 assigned to these. Capt. B. F. Peeples commanded a 
 company and the other officers of the Fifth were 
 supernumeraries. 
 
 The "provisional brigade" marched from Hamburg 
 to Chester and again boarded the cars, going to Ral- 
 eigh, and at Smithville rejoined the army and rejoiced 
 to find it again under Gen. Joe Johnston, who was re- 
 treating, still followed by his old foe. General Sher- 
 man. We continued to retreat to Greensboro, and 
 here we were permanently consolidated with other 
 commands under a general law recently enacted by 
 the Confederate Congress. The Fourth and Fifth 
 Regiments formed one company. The captain and sec- 
 ond lieutenant were selected from the Fourth, and 
 First Lieut. A. W. Sidebottom from the Fifth, the 
 latter being technically the last officer of the old regi- 
 
116 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 ment. Lieutenant Sidebottom was returning from 
 prison and did not reach the regiment in time to as- 
 sume command. But 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, reinforced by the 
 coast garrisons, General Johnston saw the futility of 
 further resistance and surrendered his army. 
 
 I have never witnessed such a scene as that which 
 presented itself, when it became fully known that we 
 were to lay down our arms. All phases of human feel- 
 ing were exhibited. Some raved and swore that they 
 would never submit to it. Some paced back and forth 
 like caged lions. Some seated themselves on logs and 
 buried their faces in their hands. Some wept like 
 <!hildren, and the faces of others took on a look of 
 stolid and stoical submission, and others still looked 
 on at this unusual exhibition of emotions with feel- 
 ings of wonder and astonishment. 
 
 Of the 1,300 men who followed the flag of the regi- 
 ment to the front only thirty 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 fifteen battle- 
 fields 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 battle- 
 field. The following are the names of the fortunate 
 ones who had lived to share all the regiment's cam- 
 paigns : 
 
 Capt. B. F. Peeples, Company "I." 
 
 Adjutant W. D. Kendall. 
 
In Confederate States Army. H'^ 
 
 Ensign John W.Crutchfield. 
 First Lieut. S. W. Alexander, Company E.^ 
 First Lieut. James P. Tyler, Company K.^^ 
 Second Lieut. N. C. Howard, fompanyj^ ^^ 
 Second Lieut. Thomas C.Neal, Company B. 
 
 Second Lieut. Edwin H. Rennolds Company ^:^-,. 
 Second Lieut. George W. ^^a^^^^^' ^^^^^^^^^ .^n 
 Second Lieut. Robert P. Andrews, Company K. 
 Second Lieut. Sam J. Kirkpatrick, Company K. 
 OrdnancQ Sergt. J. Peter Kendall. 
 Sergt. Jeff T. Olive, Company ''E." ^^ 
 Sergt. William G. Trent, Company E. 
 Sergt. Al G. Brevard, Company '^K." ^^ 
 Sergt. Richard B. Barns, Company K. 
 Corp. Rufus B. Olive, Company ''A." 
 Corp. John K. Breast, Company '^K.'' ^^ 
 Private William D. Street, Company A 
 Private George W. Upchurch, Company A. 
 Private T. M. Jones, Company '^B." ^^ 
 
 Private John M. Thompson, Company ''B. ^^ 
 Private W. Perry Alexander, Company '^C. 
 Private Robert C. Rogers, Company "D." 
 Private Dan W. Jackson, Company ^'G.'^ 
 Private W. W. Smith, Company "G.'^^ 
 Private G. M. Herring, Company "K." 
 Private J. T. Sawyer, Company ''K.''^ 
 Private Dan Sawyer, Company ^'K.''^^ 
 Private Charlie Trout, Company ''K.'' 
 (I use here the company letters of the reorganiza- 
 tion at Corinth, as they were used for three years. ) 
 
 \11 the officers of the regiment who were present 
 havin- been made supernumeraries by the permanent 
 
118 History of Henuy County Commands 
 
 consolidation, decided not to await the formalities of 
 the actual surrender, but having done all they could 
 do, would at once return home, obtained permits from 
 their superior officers and started for their distant 
 homes. Stoneman's raiders, having burned several 
 bridges in North Carolina, trains were irregular and 
 transfers often necessary. We walked from Black- 
 stock (near Chester) to Abbeville, S. C. Then by 
 rail to Newberry, walked to Washington, Ga., and by 
 rail to Augusta, Ga., where we found Federal officers 
 who were authorized to parole us. Then by rail to 
 Atlanta, where we found officers sent by General 
 Wilson from Macon, who said that our paroles were 
 not good and paroled us again. It seemed very strange 
 to see two companies of cavalry holding the city, 
 which Sherman's army failed to capture for so long a 
 time, while thousands of Confederates were passing 
 through the city ( or the piles of bricks where the city 
 once stood), and yet making no resistance to their 
 sometime foes. 
 
 We walked a hundred miles to Dalton, and as we 
 passed over the railroad we destroyed in October pre- 
 vious, we sincerely wished it had not been done. At 
 Dalton we took a train to Chattanooga, where we 
 were gratuitously furnished an escort with fixed bayo- 
 nets and sent by rail to Nashville. We were marched 
 with many others up to the provost marshal's office 
 and told that our paroles would avail nothing, and 
 that we must take an oath of allegiance to the United 
 States Government or go to prison. So we stood up 
 under the ''Stars and Stripes" we had so long been 
 fighting and forswore all allegiance to our loved 
 
In Confederate States Army. 119 
 
 Confederacy. We spent a night in an enclosure ad- 
 joining the "penitentiary." A slice of "wasp nest" 
 and a small one of pickled pork was doled out to us. 
 Next morning we bade goodby to Lieutenants Tyler, 
 Andrews and Kirkpatrick, who went by steamer to 
 
 LIEUT. -COL. LUKE W. FINLEY. 
 
 Hickman, Kj.y took a train to Johnsonville, hired a 
 man to put us over the river and scattered to our 
 homes to carrv the sad news of the downfall of our 
 
120 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 new republic and to take up our duties again as citi- 
 zens. 
 
 The nineteen non-commissioned officers and privates 
 who remained at their posts laid down their arms and, 
 with sad hearts, turned their faces and footsteps to the 
 West. The new regiment, of which the Fifth formed 
 a part, was composed of the remnants of the Fourth, 
 Fifth, Nineteenth, Twenty-Fourth, Thirty-First, Thir- 
 ty-Third, Thirty-Fifth, Thirty-Eighth and Forty-First 
 Tennessee Regiments and Fifth Confederate Regi- 
 ment. Col. James D. Tillman of the Forty-First, 
 Lieut.-Col. Luke W. Finley of the Fourth and Maj. C. 
 S. Deakin of the — Regiment were assigned as field 
 officers. 
 
 Lieutenant-Colonel Finley writes thus of their 
 homeward march : '^Westward we took up our line 
 of march. Our route lay through Asheville, N. C. 
 
 * * * As I saw them marching route-step home, 
 serious, patient, thoughtful, I could not but recall 
 their valor on many a field. * * * On many an 
 occasion, as I stood at the head of that column and 
 looked down its ranks, I was filled with joy at their 
 presence, and thought of their valor on many a field. 
 
 * * * As we approached Asheville I thought of 
 the loyalty of her citizens. * * * As we neared 
 the city I said to my senior in command: 'Let us un- 
 furl the flag once more; let Asheville's mothers and 
 daughters see the battle flag waving over the sons of 
 Tennessee.' A distinguished Federal soldier had 
 taken charge of the city. My senior said: 'No, it 
 might give offense.' After proceeding some distance 
 he turned to me and said: 'I wish von would take 
 
In Confederate States Army. 121 
 
 command of the regiment. I desire to see a friend on 
 business some two miles out.' After his departure on 
 that beautiful May morning in 1865, I said to the en- 
 sign: ^Unfurl that flag.' 
 
 " ^Unfurl that flag/ and every startled man 
 Fell into line ; firm soldierly had sprung. 
 
 ^'The listless look was gone ; the languid eye 
 Now flashed again with patriotic flame ; 
 
 The heads just bowed were proudly held erect, 
 And warriors hearkened as the orders came. 
 
 "Now, those who bore their arms passed swiftly on, 
 And ranked themselves unbidden at the front ; 
 
 While step to step, a ragged wall of gray. 
 
 They marched as soldiers from the battle brunt. 
 
 ^ 
 
 "And ^Dixie' wakes the echoes of the hills 
 With stirring notes, as spirited and true 
 
 As when at first Confederates, brave and strong. 
 Rung out her changes as they met the blue. 
 
 "j&e slipped the covering off the flag. At the com- 
 mand, ^Attention I' that band of men walked erect, 
 and the ensign lifted his colors. In a moment you 
 could see the effect on that body who had so often 
 stood under its folds in the hour of battle. Like the 
 white cockade mounted in the sight of the followers 
 of Bri.ie, the effect was electrical; the eye was 
 kindlel, the soul filled, and the boys, with sturdy 
 tread, followed the ensign, animated by the simple 
 
122 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 strains of fife and drum. *Did they, like birds in 
 spring, show gladness and become melodious, or was 
 it the electric spark of sympathy and the heroic sense 
 of fidelity to their cause?' The fifer and drummer 
 took their places at the head of the colunm and struck 
 up a Southern air as we entered the ctiy. Those with 
 guns took their places at the head of the column fol- 
 lowing the music — the colors held by the ensign, with 
 the color-guards around it — the others following in 
 the line of march. As we entered Asheville, at the 
 command, 'Right shoulder, shift arms,' the command, 
 with heads erect, with wills unbowed, with an energy 
 of movement instinct with life and love of liberty, 
 moved forward along the various streets from its 
 eastern limit to its western slope. Strangely, but 
 nevertheless in truth, there were some soldiers in 
 Federal uniform that did not manifest joy as we 
 passed, but from every cottage and every residence, 
 from every door and every window waved a kerchief. 
 Here and there, perhaps, tears fell as the inmates of 
 that home thought of an unburied son or brother upon 
 the fields of Virginia. At any rate, the heart of Ashe- 
 ville was touched and showed its sympathy. 
 
 "We passed the academic grounds. Along the fence 
 in its entire front the girls stood admiring and won- 
 dering at the approaching line. On a vacant lot, on 
 the opposite side of the street, stood Clingman, Vance, 
 and others, noted soldiers and citizens of Asheville. 
 As the battalion approached and reached the line of 
 girls, the nearest said : ^Let me touch that flag.' She 
 caught it and kissed it, and the next did likewise, and 
 as the ensign passed, everyone in that long line paid 
 
In Confederate States Army. 123 
 
 this tribute of love and sympathy to the flag borne by 
 the Confederates — the workmanship of ladies of Ala- 
 bama's capital. 
 
 "With reverence they kissed the flag in tears, 
 As, one by one, each maiden, with bowed head, 
 
 Came softly forward, while their hallowed thoughts 
 Had ushered in the presence of the dead. 
 
 "And so the story of the buried love 
 
 Will live through time, sped on from tongue to 
 tongue. 
 With harps attuned unto the heart's own chord. 
 
 That last unfurling shall be softly sung. 
 
 "Westward and homeward we moved and passed 
 along down by the banks of the French Broad, think- 
 ing of our homes, and the singular romance became a 
 memory." 
 
 After marching overland to Knoxville this un- 
 daunted little band, less than a score, "broke ranks'' 
 for the last time, and, boarding the cars, were trans- 
 ported to Johnsonville, and, separating, returned to 
 their homes after four years of absence, and took up 
 again the peaceful avocations of life. Nevermore will 
 they meet on earth. May they, when the last "tattoo" 
 is sounded, lie down amid friends, honored and loved, 
 and when Gabriel shall, with his trumpet, call the 
 sleeping nations to respond to eternity's "reveille," 
 may all of them receive the Master's plaudit, "Well 
 done, good and faithful servants," and "enter in 
 through the gates into the city." 
 So mote it be. 
 
124 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 ROLL OF FIFTH REGIMENT, TENNESSEE 
 INFANTRY. 
 
 FIELD^ STAFF AND BAND. 
 
 CoL William E. Travis; resigned on account of ill 
 health May, 1862, and served as a recruiting officer. 
 
 Lt.-Col. John D. C. Atkins; elected to Congress 
 August, 1861, and resigned ; served in Congress until 
 the Government failed. 
 
 Maj. William C. Swor; elected lieutenant colonel 
 at reorganization; resigned 1863, and served as 
 recruiting officer. 
 
 Adj. Calvin D. Venable; elected lieutenant colonel 
 August, 1861, and colonel at reorganization; died 
 December, 1862. 
 
 Surgeon Dr. R. T. Clark ; resigned August, 1861. 
 
 Asst. Surg. Dr. F. F. Porter ; captured at Jackson, 
 Tenn., April, 1862 ; resigned ; afterward served as sur- 
 geon of General Lyons' command. 
 
 Commissary Samuel E. Barbee; promoted to Di- 
 vision Commissary, and served through the war. 
 
 Quartermaster O. D. Edwards; resigned 1861. 
 
 Chaplain, Rev. E. E. Hamilton ; resigned May, 1862. 
 
 Sergt. Maj. Hugh P. Dunlap; transferred to One 
 Hundred and Fifty-Fourth and afterward in Tenth 
 Kentucky Cavalry, and captured on Morgan's raid 
 in Ohio, and carried to Charleston and put under 
 fire. 
 
 Band Leader Chas. P. Daniel ; discharged, ill health. 
 
 Band Leader Wm. F. Cooper; served through war. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 125 
 
 Musician Johnnie Ballard; discharged, under age. 
 
 Musician W. P. Boyd; served through the war. 
 
 Musician W. H. (Barney) Daniel; wounded at 
 Ellsbury Ridge; served through the war. 
 
 Musician J. J. Daniel ; served through the war. 
 
 Musician G. D. (Doodle) Daniel; served through 
 the war. 
 
 Musician Wash. B. Mitchell ; wounded and captured 
 at Atlanta. 
 
 Musician John S. Orr; wounded at Rocky Face 
 Ridge; served through the war. 
 
 Musician Pack R. Orr ; wounded at Ellsbury Ridge; 
 served through the war. 
 
 Musician James B. Rainey; wounded at Ellsbury 
 Ridge, and died at Atlanta, August, 1864. 
 
 Musician Jule Wells ; served through the war. 
 
 Musician James M.. Wright; served through the 
 war. 
 
 Musician Joe Moore; served through the war. 
 
 Roll of Company "A," Fifth Tennessee Infantry. 
 
 Capt. B. B. Bunch, Jr.; re-elected at reorganiza- 
 tion; promoted to major October, 1863; wounded at 
 Resaca; captured at hospital, Oxford, Ga., July, 1864; 
 served through the war. 
 
 First Lieut. James M. Trousdale , discharged at re- 
 organization. 
 
126 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 Second Lieut. George W. McNutt; discharged; ill 
 health, November 16, 1861. 
 
 Third Lieut. Thomas M. White; discharged at re- 
 organization. 
 
 First Sergt. Thomas Wynns; discharged, over age. 
 
 Second Sergt. A. W. Sidebottom; promoted to sec- 
 ond lieutenant November 16, 1861; re-elected at re- 
 organization; promoted to first lieutenant October, 
 1863; wounded at Resaca; captured at hospital, Ox- 
 ford, Ga., July, 1864; served through the v^ar. 
 
 Third Sergt. William F. Chilcutt; wounded at Shi- 
 loh, and afterwards served in cavalry. 
 
 W. L. Allen; died at hospital, July, 1862. 
 
 G. R. Alley; wounded at Shiloh and Peachtree 
 Creek ; lost an arm and discharged. 
 
 W. H. Allen. 
 
 John Aycuff; served through the war. 
 
 Clark Bailey. 
 
 L. J. Bevil ; died at hospital, May, 1862. 
 
 W. R. Bevil. 
 
 Joseph Blakemore. 
 
 J. B. Bond ; died at Columbus, Ky. 
 
 John W. Bradshaw; died at hospital, Memphis, 
 April 6, 1861. 
 
 William Bradshaw; died at Atlanta, April 13, 
 1863. 
 
 J. A. Bucy; killed at Shiloh. 
 
 J. M. Bucy. 
 
 M. V. Burton ; served through the war. 
 
 R. A. Burton; wounded at Chickamauga, and de- 
 tailed as mail carrier to Henry County. 
 
 S. A. Burton. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 
 
 127 
 
 W. A. Burton. 
 
 W. F. Caldwell ; died at Tupelo, July 16, 1862. 
 
 A. W. Christenberry ; joined the Federals. 
 
 D. W. Christenberry ; died at home, August 4, 1861. 
 M. y. Crouch; died at Shelbyville, Tenn., March 
 
 26, 1863. 
 
 T. J. Crouch ; died at home August 15, 1861. 
 W. R. Crouch ; served through the war. 
 J. W. Dalton. 
 Jacob Dice ; served through the war. 
 
 E. M. Edgar. 
 
 W. J. Edgar ; wounded at Atlanta ; killed at Frank- 
 lin. 
 
 W. R. Elkins; killed at Shiloh. 
 
 Thomas Finley ; died at home during the war. 
 
 Thomas M. Freeland; died at hospital, June 3, 
 1862. 
 
 J. H. Gibson; died at 
 Madrid Bend, 1862. 
 
 W. A. Gibson; died at 
 home, August 7, 1861. 
 
 W. L. Grainger; died at 
 Columbus, Ky. 
 
 E. M. Guill ; wounded at 
 Shiloh. 
 
 LaFayette Guill ; wound- 
 ed at Shiloh. 
 
 T. B. Guill; wounded on 
 picket at Corinth, and died 
 at hospital, June 12, 1862. 
 
 B. A. Haguewood ; shot g. a. haguewood. 
 through with ramrod at 
 Perry ville; served through the war. 
 
128 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 T. N. Hill. 
 
 R. W. Holt ; served through the war. 
 R. W. Jackson. 
 
 Crofford Key; wounded at Shiloh. 
 J. P. King. 
 
 Robert N. King ; died at home, August 14, 1861. 
 S. N. King. 
 Michael Manning. 
 John Mar gain. 
 
 L. L. McChristian; served through the war. 
 A. J. Meacham ; killed at Shiloh. 
 James M. Mitchell; wounded at Shiloh; (color 
 guard. ) 
 
 Polk Mitchell ; served through the war. 
 W. A. Moody; died at Tupelo, Miss., July 15, 1862. 
 G. y. Xairon ; died at Memphis, March, 1862. 
 Hampton Nairon ; died at home. 
 
 E. H. Neese ; died at home, August 8, 1861. 
 
 F. M. Oliver ; died at Chattanooga, August 21, 1863. 
 Rans Oliver; killed at Perryville. 
 
 I. W. Perry; died at Chattanooga, November 12, 
 1862. 
 
 J. W. Perry ; killed at Shiloh. 
 
 W. W. Perry ; died at Union City, July 15, 1861. 
 
 Levi Pfleuger; served through the war. 
 
 T. Jeff Pfleuger; died at home, August 5, 1861. 
 
 Thomas G. Randle; died at Greenville, Ala., June, 
 1863. 
 
 T. K. Ratteree. 
 
 Robert Rigsby. 
 
 L. T. Shults; killed at Shiloh. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 129 
 
 Abram Simmons; captured at Mission Ridge; 
 served through the war. 
 
 W. S. Simmons; died at LaGrange, Tenn., May 
 20, 1862. 
 
 G. W. Swor; wounded at Perrwille; lost an arm; 
 discharged. 
 
 Alex Trousdale. 
 
 Felix Trousdale. 
 
 F. G. Thompson ; died at hospital, July, 1862. " 
 
 John J. Thompson ; wounded at Sliiloh ; discharged. 
 
 Sam. W. Thompson; elected first sergeant at reor- 
 ganization; wounded at Perryville; served through 
 the war. 
 
 George W. Upchurch; served through the war. 
 
 J. W. Vaughan; wounded at Shiloh and died. 
 
 Needham Whitfield; killed at Shiloh. 
 
 Charles S. Williams ; served through the war. 
 
 R. W. Williams; served through the war. 
 
 Sol. Williams. 
 
 L. G. Wilson ; died at Union City, August 3, 1861. 
 
 Fed Wlmberly; wounded at Perryville and Mis- 
 sion Ridge; served through the war. 
 
 J. W. Worsham; died at hospital, July, 1862. 
 
 Jesse S. Wynns; died at Columbus, Miss., July 
 5, 1862. 
 
130 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 Roll of Company *'B," Fifth Tennessee Regiment^ 
 Infantry. 
 
 Capt. J. H. Long; discharged at reorganization. 
 
 First Lieut. Henry T. Bowman; elected captain at 
 reorganization; detached and served as major of 
 Twentieth Tennessee CavalrT. 
 
 Second Lieut. W. D. Kendall; appointed adjutant 
 at reorganization; served through the war; present 
 at surrender. 
 
 Third Lieut. Holman Fuqua; discharged at reor- 
 ganization; appointed on post duty in north Ala- 
 bama, and killed in his office. 
 
 First Sergt. David Holly; discharged under con- 
 script law. 
 
 Second Sergt. T. J. Etheridge; served one year. 
 
 Fourth Sergt. W. Fletchei; Etheridge; wounded at 
 Shiloh; served in Company ^'G/' Seventh Tennessee 
 Cavalry. 
 
 Fifth Sergt. — . — . ; killed at Shiloh. 
 
 First Corp. John I. Simmons; elected lieutenant 
 at reorganization ; served through the war. 
 
 Second Sergt. J. Cardwell Wilson ; elected lieuten- 
 ant at reorganization; wounded at Perrwille; de- 
 tached at consolidation; served as captain Com- 
 pany "F/' Twentieth Tennessee Cavalry ; killed at Ft. 
 Pillow. 
 
 Fourth Sergt. Wm. P. Edmonds; served through 
 the war. * 
 
 Ricliard Atkins; served through the war. 
 
 T. W. Barnhill; wounded at Jonesboro; served 
 through the war. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 131 
 
 Al. A. Barns; discharged, ill health. 
 
 C. L. Barns ; transferred to cavalry and died. 
 
 K. W. Barns; wounded at Shiloh; served one year. 
 
 D. C. Baucum ; wounded at Peachtree Creek ; served 
 through the war. 
 
 Charlie Bowman; died April 2, 1862. 
 
 Sam Bowman; discharged, ill health. 
 
 Joe Brannon. 
 
 Jessee Buchanan; served three years. 
 
 Thos. Buchanan ; served three years. 
 
 Wm. R. Calloway; served through the war. 
 
 J. W. Carmack. 
 
 E. E. Counsel; served through the war. 
 J. W. Darnell. 
 
 T. L. Easley ; served two years. 
 
 H. F. French ; died May 18, 1862. 
 
 J. C. Hastings; served one year. 
 
 W. H. Hastings; served one year. 
 
 David Hawley. 
 
 L. Hester; wounded at Shiloh by gun bursting in 
 his hands; served through the war. 
 
 Pies. Hester. 
 
 W. H. Holliday; served two years. 
 
 W. C. Holliday; served two years. 
 
 John Hill; elected lieutenant at reorganization; 
 died during the war. 
 
 Dan. W. Jackson; wounded at Atlanta; served- 
 through the war. 
 
 Robert Jackson ; served through the war. 
 
 Allen Jones; served through the war. 
 
 T. J. Jones; transferred to cavalry. 
 
 James Kendall; discharged, ill health. 
 
132 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 J. F. Kendall ; served through the war. 
 
 J. Peter Kendall; appointed ordnance sergeant; 
 served through the war. 
 
 Frank Kendall; served one year. 
 
 Sam Kendall; captured and lost sight of. 
 
 Luke M. Lee; served one year. 
 
 J. M. Mallor}^; died at Columbus, Ky. 
 
 Mike Manning; discharged. 
 
 W. S. Markham; served one year. 
 
 Jack Markham ; served one year. 
 
 Jarrett McClure; served three years. 
 
 W. D. McClure; died in 1861. 
 
 J. A. McFarland; died July 20, 1861. 
 
 J. D. McFarland ; died during the war. 
 
 John W. McFarland; discharged, ill health. 
 
 L. H. Xance; discharged, ill health; re-enlisted in 
 Company ''B," Forty-Sixth Tennessee. 
 
 W. C. Norred; wounded at Corinth; served one 
 year. 
 
 G. W. Norred ; discharged, ill health. 
 
 John Phillips; killed. 
 
 C. F. Potts; wounded at Kesaca and disabled, but 
 served through the war; one year in Forty- Sixth 
 Tennessee. 
 
 J. M. Handle. 
 
 Frank M. Kails ; wounded ; served through the war. 
 
 Sam H. Ralls; served through the war. 
 
 W. H. Rhodes; served a year or more. 
 
 J. W. Robertson ; discharged , over age. 
 
 John R. Rumbley; wounded at Peachtree Creek; 
 served through the war. 
 
 Wm. L. Rumbly ; wounded at Atlanta and died. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 133 
 
 Marshall Samford; wounded in Georgia; served 
 through the war. 
 
 W. H. Simmons ; served through the war. 
 
 J. Frank Smith; discharged, disability of eye. 
 
 J. Sydney Smith. 
 
 W. W. Smith; served through the war; present at 
 surrender. 
 
 Kobert Tevis ; killed at Shiloh. 
 
 Jno. T. Turbeville; killed at Shiloh. 
 
 Frank M. Upchurch ; served two or three years. 
 
 J. T. Upchurch ; died in 1861. 
 
 James Venable ; served three and a half j^ears. 
 
 Joe S. Venable ; died of measles, July 30, 1861. 
 
 W. G. Ward ; served one year. 
 
 B. L. Wisehart; wounded at Jonesboro, losing an 
 arm. 
 
 A. C. Wright; discharged. 
 
 J. W. Wvnns. 
 
 Roll of Company ^'C," Fifth Regiment, Tennessee 
 Infantry. 
 
 Capt. Thomas H. Conway ; wounded at Shiloh ; died 
 April 20, 1861, at McLemoresville on his way home. 
 
 First Lieut. S. Turbeville; appointed quartermas- 
 ter, September, 1861 ; discharged at reorganization. 
 
 Second Lieut. Geo. W. Jackson; discharged at re- 
 oriranization. 
 
134 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 Third Lieut. J. LaPayette Lemonds; promoted to 
 first lieutenant, September, 1861; discharged at re- 
 organization ; re-enlisted in Company "D" ; elected 
 lieutenant in Comjany ''G"; wounded at Perr^-yille, 
 Murfreesboro and Peachtree Creek; post adjutant 
 West Point, Miss., January, 1865 ; served through the 
 war. 
 
 First Sergt. James H. Turbeville; served one year. 
 Second Sergt. L. B. Stalls; died Union City Aug. 
 1st, 1861. 
 
 Third Sergt. Jas. B. Milam ; elected third lieutenant 
 
 of Company ^'A" at reor- 
 ganization; wounded and 
 captured at Parryville; de- 
 tached at consolidation and 
 captured in Henry County 
 while recruiting company 
 of cavalry; served through 
 the war. 
 
 P^urth Sergt. Thomas P. 
 Jackson; served one year. 
 First Corp. John A Jack- 
 son; served through war. 
 
 Second Corp. Joe J. 
 Adams ; transferred to 
 Company "F," One Hun- 
 dred and Fifty-Fourth Ten- 
 nessee. 
 
 Third Corp. E. T. Looney ; discharged, ill health. 
 Fourth Corp. Jas. H. Wharton. 
 Clinton Aden; elected third lieutenant, September, 
 1861; discharged at reorganization, and served as 
 
 CORP. JOE J. ADAMS. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 135 
 
 captain in Company "I,-' Tenth Tennessee Cavalry 
 till close of the war. 
 
 M. Bruce Alexander; captured at Harrodsburg ; 
 wounded at Chattahoochee Bridge, July 7, 1864; dis- 
 charged for disability. 
 
 Wm. C. Alexander ; wounded at Chickamauga ; cap- 
 tured at Nashville; served through the war. 
 
 W. Perry Alexander; wounded and captured at 
 Perry ville; served through the war; present at sur- 
 render. 
 
 Thos. J. Allman; served through the war. 
 
 Wm. E. T. Atkins ; fell from train, .August, 1862 ; 
 served one year. 
 
 Thomas P. Baker; captured at Nashville; served 
 through the war. 
 
 Wm. C. Berkley; served one year. 
 
 Wm. H. Boothe; wounded at Shiloh. 
 
 Andrew J. Bouie ; died on train, May 3, 1862. 
 
 James H. Bouie ; killed at Shiloh. 
 
 James K. Boyd; died at hospital. 
 
 John L. Brake; wounded in Georgia; served 
 through the war. 
 
 Wm. Brake; wounded and captured at Perryville; 
 wounded at Atlanta; served through the war. 
 
 Wm. Britt (Irish) ; discharged, over age. 
 
 V. H. Caldwell. 
 
 John H. Charles ; died during the war. 
 
 Joseph Coleman; wounded at Shiloh. 
 
 Hugh M. Collins ; served one year. 
 
 P. D. Considine (Irish). 
 
 E. L. Counsel. 
 
 T. L. Darnall; died at home. 
 
13G History of Henry County Commands 
 
 Patrick Davitt (Irish) ; discharged, over age. 
 
 James M. Diggs ; died at Memphis, March 29, 18G2. 
 
 R. P. Diggs; elected sergeant at reorganization; 
 captured at Perrvville ; served through the war. 
 
 W. F. Diggs; elected corporal at reorganization. 
 
 Daniel Dismond (Irish) ; accidentally killed by fall 
 from train. 
 
 Owen D. Edwards; captured at Xew Madrid and 
 Mission Ridge ; served through the war. 
 
 S. E. Emory. 
 
 Richard Floyd; killed at Perryville. 
 
 Edward Garner; wounded at Shiloh. 
 
 Wm. Harris. 
 
 S. M. Hicks. 
 
 John W. Hogg; wounded at Shiloh; served one 
 year. 
 
 M. B. Holland; served through the war. 
 
 R. W. Holt. 
 
 D. B. Howard; appointed quartermaster sergeant 
 May, 1862; served through the war. 
 
 John W. Janes. 
 
 R. P. Johnson; promoted to captain in Fifty-Fifth 
 Tennessee. 
 
 Solomon Jones ; promoted to captain in Fifty-Fifth 
 Tennessee. 
 
 Wm. F. Jones ; wounded at Perryville ; captured at 
 Nashville; served through the war. 
 
 Thomas Karney; died August IT, 1861. 
 
 Benj. Kendall; wounded at Ellsbury Ridge, lost 
 an arm and discharged. 
 
 R. J. Lacy. 
 
 Jonathan J. Lamb; elected major at reorganiza- 
 
In Confederate States Army. 137 
 
 tiou; promoted to colouel, Xovember, 1863; wounded 
 at Ellsbtiry Ridge and died. 
 
 Terry Leonard. 
 
 Wm. Logan (Irish). 
 
 Batie H. Martin; transferred to Company ''D/' 
 Forty-Sixth Tennessee. 
 
 Hugh M. McBride; died at Columbus, Ky. 
 
 Malcolm McLeod; wounded and captured at Shi- 
 loh and died. 
 
 — . McMiniway (Irish). 
 
 John A. Melton ; wounded at Shiloh ; wounded and 
 captured at Mission Ridge; served through the war. 
 
 Samuel H. Melton; died at Union Cit}^, August 13, 
 1861. 
 
 LaFayette L. Milam ; captured a flag at Shiloh ; 
 was captured at Nashville ; served through the war. 
 
 Marcus D. Milam ; killed at Mission Ridge. 
 
 Dr. M. Guinn Milam; discharged, ill health, July, 
 1863. 
 
 T. J. Miller ; wounded at Shiloh. 
 
 W. H. Miller; died in service. 
 
 Thomas Moon. 
 
 Lon Moore; died at Xew Madrid, Mo. 
 
 Patrick Mullen (Irish). 
 
 M. W. H. Nichols. 
 
 Wm. Powers. 
 
 J. M. Pritchett; secured a substitute. 
 
 J. Ed. Ray; appointed quartermaster at reorgani- 
 zation; promoted to division quartermaster; served 
 through the war. 
 
 Randolph Ray; wounded at Shiloh and discharged. 
 
 Timothy Reagan ( Irish ) . 
 
138 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 Patrick Keneliaii (Irish). 
 
 Hugli M. Renfroe; served one year. 
 
 Augustus Rhodes; died December 18, 18(31. 
 
 John Riley. 
 
 George W. Rose; died December 4, 18G1. 
 
 Henry M. Rose; served two years. 
 
 Robert C. Rose ; died October 4, 1861. 
 
 W. W. Rust; wounded at Shiloh. 
 
 Alex Seawright; died at Oxford, Miss., June, 1862. 
 
 Patrick Shehan (Irish). 
 
 Cornelius Shenehan (Irish). 
 
 Michael Shields (Irish). 
 
 William D. Street; captured at Island No. 10; 
 wounded at Franklin; served through the war; was 
 one of the thirty present at the surrender. 
 
 J. AY. Taylor (sergt.) ; wounded at Atlanta; served 
 through the war. 
 
 W. H. Turbeville. 
 
 John Younger. 
 
 Wm. YS-elsb (Irish). 
 
 Robert E. White ; died in the service. 
 
 Americus L. Williams. 
 
 W. PI. Wilson; elected sergeant in 1861, and first 
 lieutenant at reorganization; promoted to captain, 
 October, 1863; wounded at Mission Ridge; detaclied 
 and was detective on M. & W. Pt. Railroad; served 
 through the war. 
 
 Thomas Woodcock (Irish). 
 
In Confederate States Army. 139 
 
 KOLL OF Company ^'D/' Fifth Regiment, Tennessee 
 Infantry. 
 
 Capt A. Wayne Caldwell ; re-elected at reorganiza- 
 tiou ; wounded at Atlanta and died. 
 
 First Lieut. Amos M. Milliken ; re-elected at reor- 
 ganization; detached for awhile, November, 1862; 
 wounded at Atlanta. 
 
 Second Lieut. Wes. M. Humphreys; re-elected at 
 reorganization; relieved at consolidation and trans- 
 ferred to Company ^'G,'' Seventh Cavalry; served 
 through the war. 
 
 Third Lieut. Thos. C. Neal; re-elected at reorgani- 
 zation ; wounded at Atlanta ; served through the war. 
 (One of thirty present at surrender.) 
 
 First Sergt. Rufus C. Hill; served two or three 
 years. 
 
 Second Sergt. Isaac Gore; discharged, ill health. 
 
 Third Sergt. J. David Bradley ; wounded at Shiloh ; 
 served through the war. 
 
 Fourth Sergt. Wm. Stephens; served through the 
 war. 
 
 First Corp. George Key; served one year. 
 
 Second Corp. T. K. Lawrence; served two years. 
 
 Third Corp. G. W. McLain; served two or three 
 
 years. 
 
 Fourth Corp. J. B. Seaton ; wounded at Franklin ; 
 served through the war. 
 
 J. A. Aguilar (Jesse Mexican) ; elected sergeant 
 at reorganization ; served two years. 
 
 John Brannan ; served one year. 
 
140 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 Wm. Brannan; served one year. 
 
 Dr. John C. Bras well ; served two years. 
 
 D. C. Cabe; discharged; served afterwards in 
 Twentieth Cavalry. 
 
 Wm. Cabe; died at home on furlough. 
 
 E. D. Collier; served two years and afterwards in 
 cavalry. 
 
 A. Jack Cunningham ; served through the war. 
 
 Peyton Dalton; killed at Perryville. 
 
 Wm. Dalton ; served through the war. 
 
 Rufus Davis; died in hospital. 
 
 Alonzo Dodd; almost lost power of speech; served 
 through the war. 
 
 James Gore; died in hospital. 
 
 J. D. Gore; discharged, ill health. 
 
 Wm. Gore; died in hospital. 
 
 Mack Hall ; served two years. 
 
 Wm. Hall ; served through the war. 
 
 John Harrell; died at Columbus, Ky. 
 
 Wm. Harrell. 
 
 James Hastings; served through the war. 
 
 Wm. T. Hayes; served through the war. 
 
 Jno. T. House; wounded at Atlanta and died in 
 prison. 
 
 Wm. Humphreys; served two years. 
 
 Wm. A. James; served through the war. 
 
 Jeff Jimmison; served two years. 
 
 Samuei Johnson ; discharged. 
 
 D. Jobe; killed by Federals near home. 
 
 Harrison Jones ; served through the war. 
 
 Louis Jones; unknown fate. 
 
 Taswell Jones. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 141 
 
 T. M. Jones; served through the war; present at 
 surrender. 
 
 Wm. Jones; served through the war. 
 
 Shelley Key ; served one year. 
 
 M. Green Koen ; wounded at Atlanta. 
 
 Dock Lamb ; served through the war. 
 
 Thomas W. Lamb ; wounded at Shiloh ; lost an arm ; 
 discharged. 
 
 J. Hosea Malone; wounded at Perryville; served 
 through the war. 
 
 Jessee Mathis; killed at Shiloh. 
 
 John W. Maxwell ; served one year. 
 
 Marion Maxwell; died at Union City. 
 
 Maston Maxwell ; served three and a half years. 
 
 C. P. G. McGehee ; wounded and captured at Perry- 
 ville and died. 
 
 Perry McLain; served two years. 
 
 Frank McMichael; served through the war. 
 
 Thomas B. Miller; killed at Shiloh. 
 
 Pate Nance; served through the war. 
 
 Bias Paschall ; served one and a half years. 
 
 Ed. Paschall ; served one year. 
 
 James Paschall ; died in hospital. 
 
 Thomas Paschall; wounded at Shiloh; died in hos- 
 pital. 
 
 Daniel Paty. 
 
 James Piercy ; served one and a half years. 
 
 Geo. W. Poyner; wounded at Ellsbury Ridge, los- 
 ing a foot ; discharged. 
 
 Weyman Poyner; served through the war. 
 
 E. Green Seaton; wounded at Chickamauga and 
 Jonesboro; served through the war. 
 
142 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 J. K. (Tip) Shell; wounded and captured at At- 
 lanta ; served through the war. 
 
 Thomas Smith; perhaps died during the war. 
 
 H. Somers ; served one year. 
 
 P. L. Somers ; served one year. 
 
 James I. Staguer; served one year. 
 
 Eli Stephens; discharged, ill health. 
 
 John Stiles; served one year. 
 
 Robert Stiles; served one year. 
 
 Wni. Stiles; died during the war. 
 
 Andrew Thompson; killed at Perrwille. 
 
 Hilliard Thompson; served through the war. 
 
 John M. Thompson; wounded at Shiloh; served 
 through the war. 
 
 Matt Thompson; killed at Perryville. 
 
 R. Van Thompson; wounded at Perryville; served 
 through the war. 
 
 Wm. G. Thompson ; wounded at Perryville and At- 
 lanta ; served through the war. 
 
 Thos. Turner ; served one year. 
 
 R. Allen Wade; discharged, ill health. 
 
 Jas. H. Walker; discharged, ill health. 
 
 J. F. Wall ; wounded at Shiloh ; killed at Murfrees- 
 boro. 
 
 Mit Wall; served about two years. 
 
 Pleas Wicker; served two years. 
 
 John D. Wilson ; served one year. 
 
 Pink Wilson; discharged, over age. 
 
 James Woods; discharged for bad eyesight at Tu- 
 pelo. 
 
 John Yow; killed by falling tree at Columbus, Ky. 
 
 Polk Yow; served one year. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 143 
 
 Roll of Company ^'E,'' Fifth Regiment, Tennessee 
 Infantry. 
 
 Capt. M. Smith Corbett; resigned, July, 18G1. 
 First Lieut. Alfred Rushing; died January, 1862. 
 Second Lieut. Calvin Rushing; discharged at reor- 
 ganization. 
 
 Third Lieut. Will McCutchen; resigned, March, 
 
 1862. 
 
 First Sergt. Merideth Corbett; elected lieutenant 
 at reorganization ; served through the war. 
 
 B. F. Akers; served one year. 
 
 J. M. Arnold; served one year. 
 
 W. P. Arnold ; served one year. 
 
 J. D. Atchison; served one year. 
 
 D. C. Ball ; wounded at Atlanta ; served through the 
 war. 
 
 A. H. Baker; discharged at Columbus, Ky. 
 
 Will Baker; served through the war. 
 
 K. A. N. Barker; served one year. 
 
 Charley Barns; served one year. 
 
 Thomas Barns ; served one year. 
 
 J. F. Baucuni ; died August 7, 1861. 
 
 Richard Blanchett; served one year. 
 
 Tim Blanchett; served one year. 
 
 Tom Browden. 
 
 J. F. Browning ; died March 20, 1862. 
 
 W. H. Bunn ; died in hospital. 
 
 Bose Childress; wounded at Ellsbury Ridge and 
 discharged. 
 
144 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 James H. Combs ; elected first sergeant at reorgani- 
 zation; wounded at Resaca; served through the war. 
 
 Jacob Corljett; discharged, ill health, July, 1861. 
 
 W. M. Davidson ; served one ^ear. 
 
 Wash Farmer; cut off at evacuation of Corinth. 
 
 J. B. Florence; served about eighteen months. 
 
 K. L. Floyd ; killed at Perrjwille. 
 
 Sterling Floyd; served three years or more. 
 
 George Forrest; killed on picket at Pine Mountain. 
 
 Ky Forrest; served one year. 
 
 James Garner; discharged, over age. 
 
 John Garner; discharged, over age. 
 
 Clay Gordon ; died at home on furlough. 
 
 J. W. Hill; died March 29, 1862. 
 
 Clint Harris; transferred to General Cheatham's 
 staff; killed at Shiloh. 
 
 Ab Hawley; served through the war. 
 
 Al Herron; killed at Ellsbury Ridge. 
 
 L. D. Holland; died at home on furlough. 
 
 E. P. Holliman; served a year or more. 
 
 E. G. Hudson; elected second lieutenant at reor- 
 ganization ; wounded at New Hope Church and died. 
 
 Joe G. Hudson; elected second sergeant; served 
 through the war. 
 
 J. H. Hudson; died August 1, 1861. 
 
 O. C. Hudson ; serA^ed through the war. 
 
 Burrell Jones; served one year. 
 
 Berry Jordan; served one year. 
 
 George Lashh^e; elected second lieutenant, March, 
 1862; discharg(Hl at reorganization. 
 
 Will Lashlee; died at Columbus, Ky. 
 
 Thos Markham. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 145 
 
 Billy Martin ; served through the war. 
 
 John Maynard; died at Columbus, Ky. 
 
 J. H. J^Iaynard ; died' April 20, 1862. 
 
 John McGill; died at Columbus, Ky. 
 
 John McElyea; died May 15, 1862. 
 
 B. M. Melton ; wounded at Shiloh and died. 
 
 J. P. Morris; served one year. 
 
 R. J. Myrick ; died April 17, 1862. 
 
 James Pafford; served through the war. 
 
 John Palmer; cut off at evacuation of Corinth. 
 
 Moses Parker; served one year. 
 
 Ive Pierce ; served one year. 
 
 J. L. Presson; killed at Shiloh. 
 
 Will Prince; captured and disappeared. 
 
 Thos Randle; transferred. 
 
 James Reddick ; discharged under conscript law. 
 
 Paul Rice. 
 
 John P. Rushing ; elected lieutenant at reorganiza- 
 tion; detached at consolidation. 
 
 Berry Snyder; discharged, over age. 
 
 Dood Spence ; served one year. 
 
 James Stagner; died at Columbus, Ky. 
 
 Joe Summers; served one year. 
 
 Al Surratt; wounded at Shiloh. 
 
 Pleas. G. Swor; elected captain, July, 1861; re- 
 elected at reorganization; served through the war. 
 
 James Thornton; wounded at Ellsbury Ridge, los- 
 ing a leg; discharged. 
 
 John Thornton; died at Columbus, Ky. 
 
 Wm. Throckmorton; died, perhaps, in 1862. 
 
 B. A. Totty; wounded and captured at Mission 
 Ridge; served through the war. 
 
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146 History of Henuy County Commands 
 
 Robert Ward; served one year. 
 Robert B. Warren ; served one year. 
 B. H. Webb ; died at Columbus, Ky. 
 Jobn Williams; discharged and died at home. 
 O. T. Wilson; served one year. 
 Wm. Womack; discharged, ill health. 
 Isaac Wygul; elected lieutenant at reorganization; 
 killed at Perrwille. 
 
 Roll of Company "^F," Fifth Regiment, Tennessee 
 Infantry. 
 
 Capt. Joe H. Porter; appointed surgeon, August, 
 1861 ; resigned, May 20, 1862. 
 
 First Lieut. Horace T. Blanton, Jr. ; promoted to 
 captain, August, 1861; discharged at reorganization; 
 served as major of Napier's Cavalry. 
 
 Second Lieut. James P. Cooper; promoted to cap- 
 tain at reorganization; wounded at Shiloh ; wounded 
 and captured at Perrwille; served through the war. 
 
 Third Lieut. Joe T. Kendall ; appointed adjutant 
 August, 1861 ; elected captain of Company '^K'- at re- 
 organization ; wounded at Mission Ridge and died un- 
 der the surgeon's knife. 
 
 First Sergt. Finis E. White; transferred to Carnes^ 
 Battery; promoted to lieutenant and served through 
 the war. 
 
 Second Sergt. D. F. (Oce) Alexander; elected a 
 
In Confederate States Army. 147 
 
 lieutenant in August, 1861 ; discharged at reorganiza- 
 tion; served as captain in cavalry until close of the 
 war. 
 
 Third Sergt. W. L. Cooper ; served in cavalry ; killed 
 at Brice's Cross Koads. 
 
 Fourth Sergt. John Porter; killed at Shiloh. 
 
 First Corp. Henry H. Askew; killed at Perryville. 
 
 Second Corp. Wm. H. Porter; appointed cadet in 
 regular army; served in cavalry; killed at Brice'» 
 Cross Boards. 
 
 Third Corp. W. W. Porter. 
 
 Fourth Corp. N. Calvin Howard; transferred to 
 Company '^A"; served as sergeant and was elected 
 lieutenant" in October, 1863; wounded at Franklin; 
 served through the war ; present at surrender. 
 
 Elisha Askew; knocked senseless by shell at Shi- 
 loh. 
 
 F. M. Beck. 
 
 Andrew V. Boden; captured; served through the 
 war. 
 
 G. Bloomfield Boden; wounded at Atlanta; 
 wounded and captured at Mission Ridge, and died in 
 prison. 
 
 James W. Boden ; captured at Murfreesboro and es- 
 caped; served through the war. 
 
 J. Wes Bowden; captured at Perryville; served 
 through the war. 
 
 Stephen Caplinger; died at hospital. 
 
 Eldridge E. Carter; wounded at Perryville and 
 died. 
 
 William Chapman; discharged, over age. 
 
 Francis Childers; killed at Kennesaw Mountain. 
 
148 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 Robert P. Cole; promoted to captain in Twelfth 
 Kentucky Cavalry. 
 
 James H. Courts ; served in cavalry. 
 
 Mastin D. Crawford; promoted to lieutenant and 
 discharged at reorganization ; served in Company '^B," 
 Twentieth Tennessee Cavalry. 
 
 M. M. (Dock) Crutchfield; discharged, over age. 
 
 James E. Daniel; elected sergeant at reorganiza- 
 tion ; wounded at Shiloh ; served through the war. 
 
 E. M. (Heck) Doty; wounded at Peachtree Creek; 
 served through the war. 
 
 William Flannagan. ^ 
 
 Isaac Forrest. 
 
 John Forrest. 
 
 Ky Forrest. 
 
 AVilliam Forrest. 
 
 Mastin Freeman; discharged, ill health. 
 
 James Gross. 
 
 John Gross. 
 
 Marion Gross; wounded at Shiloh. 
 
 William Gross. 
 
 Silas M. Hagler; elected first sergeant, August, 
 1861 ; lieutenant at reorganization ; died August 1, 
 1862. 
 
 Alf Hammond. 
 
 A. H. Hancock; wounded at Perryville; served 
 through the war. 
 
 James H. Hancock; knocked senseless by shell at 
 Shiloh; served in Woodward's Cavalry; captured and 
 escaped. 
 
 Robert P. Hancock ; served through the war. 
 
 Will Johnson. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 149 
 
 Thomas Jones. 
 
 Frank Kendall ; served through the war. 
 
 J. J. Looney. 
 
 John Lowry. 
 
 John Martin. 
 
 Will Matheny. 
 
 Thomas McMinn. 
 
 A. W. Moore; died in 1861. 
 John Nichols. 
 
 Jeff T. Olive; elected sergeant; wounded at Shiloh 
 and at Atlanta ; served through the war ; one of thirty 
 present at surrender. 
 
 Rufus B. Olive ; elected corporal ; wounded at Mur- 
 freesboro( colorguard) ; served through the war; one 
 of thirty present at surrender. 
 
 Robert Phillips; discharged, over age. 
 
 Ed Ralls; killed at Shiloh. 
 
 Jeff Rushing. 
 
 Sam Smiley; discharged, over age. 
 
 Gid Smotherman. 
 
 James Snyder; perhaps killed. 
 
 Thomas Spain ; killed at Shiloh. 
 
 B. Frank Taylor ; knocked senseless by shell at Shi- 
 loh; wounded at Perryville; served through the war. 
 
 Houston Taylor; killed hj bushwhackers in East- 
 ern Kentucky. 
 
 Joe Veasey; died in 1862. 
 
 James White. 
 
 John Wliittaker. 
 
 William Whittaker; wounded at Shiloh. 
 
 George Yates. 
 
 David Young; served through the war. 
 
150 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 EoLL OF Company "G," Fifth Regiment^ Tennessee 
 Infantry. 
 
 Capt. James E. Fowler; discharged at reorganiza- 
 tion. 
 
 First Lieut. William F. ( Gus ) Harris ; detached at 
 reorganization for special service and soon captured. 
 
 Second Lieut. John T. Irion; elected captain at re- 
 organization; wounded and captured at Perryville; 
 resigned, 1863, and appointed inspector of Cheat- 
 ham's Division hospitals. 
 
 Third Lieut. W. A. Foust; discharged at reorgani- 
 zation. 
 
 First Sergt. Bose D. Crutchfleld; killed at Mission 
 Ridge. 
 
 Second Sergt. T. Jeff Broach; wounded three times 
 at Resaca; wounded at Peachtree Creek, and died 
 from loss of blood after amputation. 
 
 Third Sergt. Willis L. Hagler; served three and 
 one-half years. 
 
 Fourth Sergt. George W. Moody; discharged, ill 
 health. 
 
 Corp. Ep W. Simmons; captured at Nashville; 
 served through the war. 
 
 Corp. Bennett Scott ; died at Columbus, Ky. 
 
 Corp. Henderson Liles; killed at Shiloh. 
 
 Corp. Jack T. Wilburn; transferred to engineer 
 corps. 
 
 Abner Akers; on intirmary corps; discharged, over 
 age. 
 
 Uriah Akers; discharged, ill health. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 151 
 
 J. W. Arnett; killed at Perryville. 
 
 Jerry Ashley; died at Columbus, Ky. 
 
 Brooks Barbee; killed. 
 
 John A. Barton. 
 
 J. J. Bass; served about fourteen months. 
 
 J. H. Batey; served about eighteen months. 
 
 Robert Bell; served through the war. 
 
 Bud Bevil; served through the war. 
 
 Sid W. Blackwood ; served through the war. 
 
 Harrod Bomer ; died at Columbus, Ky. 
 
 Addison Broach ; discharged for disability. 
 
 Charles W. Burgess; wounded at Shiloh, losing an 
 arm; discharged. 
 
 AVesley Burgess; served through the war. 
 
 Beverly Bush ; wounded at Shiloh and died. 
 
 Perry Bush; died in hospital at Columbus, Miss. 
 
 N. J. Bushart ; killed in railroad accident at Rienzi, 
 Miss., 1862. 
 
 William Bushart ; killed at Shiloh. 
 
 John A. Carter ; killed in Henry County, Tenn. 
 
 William D. Cate; discharged for physical disabil- 
 ity; re-enlisted in Tenth Cavalry; served through the 
 war. 
 
 William H. Christian; discharged at Columbus, 
 
 Js:y. 
 
 Gid M. Comer; killed at Chickamauga. 
 P. H. Comer; served one year. 
 Eli W. Compton ; served through the war. 
 James C. Compton; died at Tupelo, Miss., July 19, 
 1862. 
 
 Marshall Compton; died at Tupelo, June 15, 1862. 
 George D. Coston; killed at Murfreesboro. 
 
lo2 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 John Coston. 
 
 Sam D. Cox; wounded and captured at Mission 
 Eidge, and died in prison at Chattanooga. 
 
 John W. Crutchfield ; knocked senseless by shell at 
 Perry^'ille; wounded at Atlanta; promoted to ser- 
 geant-major and to ensign ; served through the war. 
 
 Arch Davis; discharged, ill health; re-enlisted in 
 cavalry. 
 
 Green B. Deets; on color-guard; wounded at Mis- 
 sion Eidge; served through the war. 
 
 Joe Dollahite. 
 
 J. Newt Fields; promoted to sergeant; killed at 
 Atlanta. 
 
 W.H Fields; transferred to cavalry. 
 
 John E. Flack; promoted to first sergeant; elected 
 lieutenant, October, 1863; detached; served through 
 the war. 
 
 Julian Frazier; promoted to first sergeant, October, 
 1863 ; wounded at Shiloh ; killed at Ellsbury Ridge. 
 
 George A. French; discharged, ill health. 
 
 J. P. French ; served a while in cavalry. 
 
 Richard French; died. 
 
 W. R. Gooch; discharged, over age. 
 
 J. K. Polk Harmon; transferred to Company "G," 
 Seventh Cavalry, and served till close of the war. 
 
 Isham B. Harris; appointed quartermaster. 
 
 E. J. Hastings; discharged, ill health. 
 
 Green Hastings; dfed at Corinth. 
 
 William Hastings; served tlirough the war. 
 
 David E. Haymes. 
 
 John R. Haymes; died at Corinth, March 25, 1862. 
 
 J. Wesley Hicks; joined the Federals. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 153 
 
 W. H. Hurtman; discliarged, ill health. 
 
 J. H. Irvin; died at Jackson, Tenu. 
 
 Joe H. Johnson; died from effects of measles. 
 
 E. Pink Kirby; wounded at Resaca (lost a foot) ; 
 served through the war. 
 
 Samuel H. Lamb ; died at Chattanooga, July, 1863. 
 
 J. L. Lemonds; elected second lieutenant, July, 
 1863; promoted to first lieutenant; served throib^lj 
 the war. ( See Company '^C." 
 
 John L. Lewis ; captured and died in prison. 
 
 W. H. Liles; died in autumn of 1861. 
 
 J. B. Lipe; discharged and joined the Federals. 
 
 William G. Lily; died (probably at Columbus, 
 
 Ky.). 
 
 J. N. Lowry; died June 10, 1862. . 
 
 V. B. Lowry ; served one year. 
 
 W. H. Lowry; served one year. 
 
 T. A. Mabry; died at Tupelo, Miss. 
 
 N. J. Malone. 
 
 Richard T. Malone; transferred to Forty-Sixth 
 Tennessee, and died. 
 
 William C Martin ; discharged, ill health, 1863 ; re- 
 enlisted in Company ''Gr," Seventh Tennessee Cav- 
 alry. 
 
 P. P. McAdoo; served two years. 
 
 W. J. Mc Bride ; died at Columbus, Ky. 
 
 John McCord; died at Columbus, Ky. 
 
 Robert W. McCrory ; killed at Murfreesboro. 
 
 J. W. McCullough; served one year. 
 
 S. Houston Medlin ; cajjtured ; served through the 
 war. 
 
 R. A. Moody; wounded (perhaps at Perryville). 
 
154 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 J. Calvin Morrow; captured at Mission Ridge; 
 served through the war. 
 
 W. J. Nash; served through the war. 
 
 Jasper O'Daniel. 
 
 Joe O'Daniel. 
 
 William O'Daniel. 
 
 James Owens ; killed at Lovejoy, Ga. 
 
 Richard Owens ; served through the war. 
 
 Samuel Owens; served through the war. 
 
 S. D. Palmer ; died at home on furlough. 
 
 Thomas Patterson ; captured on picket at Pine 
 Mountain, Ga. ; served through the war. 
 
 William D. Patterson ; wounded at Shiloh ( Colonel 
 Venable dismounted and sent him to the rear on his 
 horse ) . 
 
 B. F. Peoples; elected first lieutenant at reorgani- 
 zation; promoted to captain, August 14, 1863; senior 
 officer of the regiment at the surrender. 
 
 J. K. Polk Peeples; discharged, under age; re-en- 
 listed ; captured at Mission Ridge ; served through the 
 war. 
 
 John R. Peeples; wounded at Mission Ridge; ap- 
 pointed adjutant of Fifty-Second Tennessee; adju- 
 tant of Camp Direction, Hamburg, S. C, at close of 
 the war. 
 
 Isaac Petty ; served one year. 
 
 xVaron M. Pinson ; killed at Peachtree Creek. 
 
 I. Henry Pinson; wounded at Atlanta; served 
 through the war. 
 
 W. Shelly Puckett ; died at home on furlough ( first 
 death in the regiment). 
 
 S. C. Robbins. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 155 
 
 William H. Russell ; died at Columbus, Ky. 
 
 Bennett Scott ; died at Columbus, Ky. 
 
 Daniel Shofner; transferred to Twenty-Second 
 Tennessee. 
 
 T. D. Shofner ; transferred to Twenty-Second Ten- 
 nessee. 
 
 Henry Simmons; joined the Federals. 
 
 John A. Simmons ; discharged. 
 
 Bailey N. Sparks; killed at Shiloh. 
 
 George W. Stayton ; discharged, over age. 
 
 J. I. Stayton; elected lieutenant at reorganization; 
 transferred to cavalry. 
 
 J. J. Stroud; killed at Perrwille. 
 
 W. Harris Sullivan ; died at Corinth, May 25, 1862. 
 
 William Thom])son ; served through the war. 
 
 Joe W. Travis ; died. 
 
 Carter Trevathan; died. 
 
 James J. Vancleave (hospital steward) ; died Au- 
 gust 4, 1862. 
 
 Thomas Yaughan. 
 
 Robert Walters ; discharged, ill health. 
 
 D L. Willett ; elected second lieutenant at reorgan- 
 ization ; detached at consolidation. 
 
 John A. Williams ; discharged, over age. 
 
 L. M. Williams. 
 
 Stephen Williams; captured at Nashville; served 
 through the war. (The wit of the regiment.) 
 
 — . — . Williams ; died at Columbus, Ky. 
 
 Mai*ion Wood. 
 
 H. A. Workman; died at home on furlough, March 
 18, 1862. 
 
 James Workman ; died at Shelbyville, 1863. 
 
156 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 George H. Wynns; elected sergeant at reorganiza- 
 tion ; promoted to lieutenant, October, 1863 ; captured 
 at Mission Kidge; served through the war. 
 
 W. H. Wynns ; served one year, and later with For- 
 rest's Cavalry. 
 
 T. Wes Wynns. 
 
 Henr}' Young; served three yeavs. 
 
 James Young; served three years. 
 
 Roll of Company ^^H," Fifth Regiment^ Tennessee 
 Infantry. 
 
 Capt. James D. Dumas; discharged at reorganiza- 
 tion. 
 
 First Lieut. D. J. Bowden; discharged at reorgan- 
 ization; served as second lieutenant Company ''D," 
 Nineteenth Tennessee Cavalry. 
 
 Second Lieut. James H. Collins; discharged at re- 
 organization. 
 
 Third Lieut. J. T. Freeman ; discharged at reorgan- 
 ization. 
 
 First Sergt. Sim W. Alexander; elected first lieu- 
 tenant at reorganization ; served through the war. 
 
 Second Sergt. Joseph B. Jones; appointed ensign; 
 wounded and captured at Perry ville; detached as hos- 
 pital steward ; served through the war. 
 
 Third Sergt. William G. Trent; served through the 
 war. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 157 
 
 Fourth Sergt. Joe H. Jordan, elected first ser- 
 geant at reorganization; second lieutenant, October, 
 1863 ; killed at Mission Ridge. 
 
 Fifth Sergt. C. L. Crowder; discharged. 
 
 First Corp. Roland Carter ; served through the war. 
 
 Second Corp. George M. Ridgway ; wounded at Shi- 
 loh. 
 
 Third Corp. William Oliver; died during the war. 
 
 J. Q. Adams; died. 
 
 L. Alexander; discharged. 
 
 Bush Archer; wounded at Chattahoochee Bridge; 
 served through the war. 
 
 Sam Archer; killed at Perryville. 
 
 M. B. Barr ; died at Corinth,^ July 19, 1862. 
 
 T. N Bell; discharged; re-enlisted in Company "G," 
 Seventh Cavalry. 
 
 A. B. Berryman; transferred. 
 
 William M. Bowden; wounded at Perryville; 
 served through tlie war. 
 
 Jacob W. Brogden; wounded at Murfreesboro ; 
 wounded and captured at Nashville; served through 
 the war. 
 
 George AV. Brown ; wounded at Shiloh ; discharged. 
 
 William Brown; discharged. 
 
 Tom Bullock ; served through the war. 
 
 Ben Bunton; captured at Mission Ridge and died 
 in prison. 
 
 T. Wes Bunton; cut off from command in Missis- 
 sippi; joined Company ^'K," Twentieth Cavalry, and 
 killed at Estanola. 
 
 J. W. Cardwell ; discharged. 
 
 A. Carroll ; discharged. 
 
158 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 Elias Carter; died in hospital at Columbus, Miss. 
 
 Richard A. Colev; wounded at Chickamauga ; 
 served through the war. 
 
 William Collev; discharged, ill health. 
 
 Allen G. Coltharpe ; wounded at Shiloh ; discharged. 
 
 George W. Crawford; wounded at Murfreesboro 
 and Peachtree Creek; elected lieutenant, October, 
 1863; served through the war. 
 
 Court Crutchfield. 
 
 Tom J. Dumas; captured at New Madrid. 
 
 William D. Dumas; detailed on Engineer Corps; 
 served through the war. 
 
 Z. D. (Dock) Edwards; wounded near Pine Moun- 
 tain on picket and captured at Nashville; served 
 through the war. 
 
 Alex Farmer; served two years. 
 
 Will H. Farmer; served through the war. 
 
 Sam H. Fizer; wounded at Shiloh; discharged; re- 
 enlisted in Company "K," Twentieth Cavalry. 
 
 William Fizer; discharged. 
 
 B. F. Freels; discharged. 
 
 George Hayes; discharged. 
 
 William Hayes; discharged. 
 
 William Hill ; died. 
 
 Spence W. Hunt ; captured at New Madrid ; served 
 in Twentieth Cavalry. 
 
 J. H. Jones; transferred. 
 
 John N. Jones; died in hospital. Columbus, Miss., 
 June 3, 1862. 
 
 Permenas Jones ; died at Columbus, Miss. 
 
 Simeon Jones; died at Chattanooga, August, 1862. 
 
 Frank Killebrew ; died at Columbus, Ky. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 159 
 
 F. Marion Killebrew; elected third lieutenant at 
 reorganization; killed at Perryville. 
 
 G. W. Lowry; served through the war. 
 Harrison Martin; died at home on furlough, Au- 
 gust, 1861. 
 
 M. N. McNeilly; elected lieutenant, October, 1863; 
 served through the war. 
 
 B. P. McWhirter. 
 
 I. Murrell; died. 
 
 William O'Kelly (Irish) ; lost sight of in Georgia. 
 
 A. Olive; died. 
 
 Joe Oliver. 
 
 William Oliver; wounded at Perryville and died of 
 wound. 
 
 M. B. Owensby; captured at New Madrid; served 
 in cavalry. 
 
 Rufe Owensl)y; died. 
 
 J. I. Parrish ; died at Cairo, 111. 
 
 Frank V. Pegram. 
 
 T. C. Phillips ; detailed with pontoon train ; served 
 through the war. 
 
 Thomas Phillips; served through the war. 
 
 William Phillips; died in hospital at Columbus, 
 Miss. 
 
 Terrill Price; wounded at Mission Ridge. 
 
 E. Reynolds; died at home with measles, 1861. 
 
 Robert Ridgway; died. 
 
 AYes W. Ridgway; killed at Franklin. 
 
 James E. Sanders; wounded in Georgia; served 
 through the war. 
 
 Addison Sheridan ; killed at Perrwille. 
 
 LaFayette Sims; died June 7, 1862. 
 
160 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 Marion Sims; died. 
 
 William C. Sims; ensign at Shiloli; supposed to 
 have been killed by bushwhackers in Kentucky. 
 
 Dr. A. J. Smith ; transferred. 
 
 A. J. Snodgrass ; served through the war. 
 
 Dock Speight. 
 
 Seth Speight; wounded at Chattahoochee Bridge; 
 discharged. 
 
 J. H. Stunson; wounded at Shiloh; died May 7, 
 1862. 
 
 Mike Terry ; served through the war. 
 
 G. M. Thomason ; transferred. 
 
 H. A. Thompson; discharged. 
 
 W. A. Thompson ; wounded four times at Murfrees- 
 boro and captured; discharged; mail carrier. 
 
 J. H. Timmons; discharged. 
 
 James M. Todd ; discharged. 
 
 Joe W. Tribble; wounded at Atlanta; served 
 through the war. 
 
 Bud Ward. 
 
 John W^ Webb ; killed at Shiloh. 
 
 Late Young. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 161 
 
 Roll op Company "I," Fifth Regiment^ Tennessee 
 Infantry. 
 
 Capt. William D. Hallum ; wounded at New Madrid 
 (first one in tlie regiment) ; discharged at reorganiza- 
 tion; enlisted Company ^^E," Twentieth Cavalry (vet- 
 eran of Mexican War). 
 
 First Lieut. T. B. Haynes; discharged at reorgan- 
 ization. 
 
 Second Lieut. James Haynes; wounded at Shiloh; 
 discharged at reorganization; served in cavalry and 
 killed in battle in Mississippi. 
 
 Third Lieut. Henry C. Greer; discharged at reor- 
 ganization ; served as lieutenant-colonel of T^ventieth 
 Cavalry. 
 
 First Sergt. James Bowles; discharged, over age. 
 
 C. T. (Tip) Allen; wounded in the neck at Perry- 
 ville, coughed up the ball and walked back to Knox- 
 ville, Tenn; captured at Nashville; served through 
 the war. 
 
 J. W. Allen ; served through the war. 
 
 Samuel A. Allen; wounded at Peachtree Creek and 
 died. 
 
 W. H. Allen; wounded at Chickamauga; served 
 two and one-half years. 
 
 J. K. Polk Alexander; wounded at Shiloh and Mis- 
 sion Ridge; served through the war. 
 
 Robert Baker. 
 
 W. D. Baker; served through the war. 
 
 W. H. Barbee ; wounded at Mission Ridge and died. 
 
 N. J. Barham ; furnished a substitute. 
 11 
 
162 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 Tom Barker; discharged, ill health. 
 
 Ed Bohanan; served through the war; wagonmas- 
 ter. 
 
 Kice Bostwick ; joined the Federals. 
 
 A^'alter Bowden ; joined cavalry. 
 
 Wni. Bowles; discharged, over age. 
 
 Smith C. Breedlove; on infirmary corps; served 
 through the war. 
 
 Kobert H. Breedlove; served through the war. 
 
 John Brewer ; served through the war. 
 
 Tom Bryant ; served one year. 
 
 Alf Busbee; died at Union City. 
 
 B. B. Busbee; served through the war. 
 
 Ransom Busbee; died at Corinth, Miss. 
 
 Ed. Chapman; wounded at Murfreesboro and cap- 
 tured ; joined the Federals. 
 
 F. M. Clark; elected lieutenant at reorganization; 
 served through the war. 
 
 John Cody. 
 
 Jack Coleman; served through the war. 
 
 G. J. Coleman ; wounded at Atlanta ; served through 
 the war. 
 
 John Copeland ; elected first lieutenant at reorgani- 
 zation; wounded and captured at Perr\wille and es- 
 caped; served through the war. 
 
 Thomas Copeland ; discharged, over age ; re-enlisted 
 in Company "E," Twentieth Cavalry. 
 
 John Carson ; died at Chattanooga. 
 
 John R. Crosswell ; appointed sergeant major; 
 elected third lieutenant in 1863 ; wounded at Atlanta ; 
 served through the war. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 163 
 
 W. A. Dillahunty; transferred to Tenth Tennessee 
 Cavalry. 
 
 Ab A. Dinwiddle ; ensign ; wounded at Shiloli ; 
 wounded and captured at Murfreesboro ; wounded at 
 Atlanta, and died at hospital at Macon, Ga., August 
 8, 1864. 
 
 Matt B. Dinwiddle; color guard; wounded at At- 
 lanta; served as second lieutenant in Company ''B/ 
 Twentieth Tennessee Cavalry; served to close of the 
 war. 
 
 Sid Ellis; lost sight of during the war. 
 
 Alex Fields; died at Union City. 
 
 Henry Fields; died. 
 
 Abe Foster; discharged, ill health. 
 
 George W. Foster; served through the war. 
 
 Elijah Foust; elected captain at reoi^ganization ; 
 wounded and captured at Mission Ridge; died at 
 Camp Chase, January 10, 1864. 
 
 James Freeman ; discharged, under age. 
 
 Albert Gibson; served one year. 
 
 Frank Gibson; discharged, under age. 
 
 John Gibson; served one year. 
 
 J. Monroe Gilbert; discharged, and re-enlisted in 
 a Texas regiment'. 
 
 A. B. Goodin; discharged, ill health; re-enlisted in 
 cavalry. 
 
 Richard Grenade ; served through the war. 
 
 ^y. Bird Greer; wounded and made cripple; dis- 
 charged. 
 
 W. H. Green; discharged on account of lameness. 
 
 Joe J. Hagler; wounded at Chickamauga; captured 
 at Mission Ridge; served through the war. 
 
164 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 Thomas Hannah ; discharged, ill health. 
 
 Wm. Hannah ; served one year, and in cavalry and 
 killed. 
 
 Samuel Haynes; discharged, under age. 
 
 S. C. Hearn; appointed chaplain, 1862; served 
 through the war. 
 
 James Hicks; died in hospital. 
 
 Ad Jones; served through the war. 
 
 Eli Jones; wounded at Perryville; served through 
 the war. 
 
 Lazarus Johnson; killed while bathing in Chatta- 
 hoochee River, July 7, 1862. 
 
 W. M. Kennedy. 
 
 Joe LaFlore; served one year; served also in cav- 
 alry. 
 
 A. H. Lankford; promoted to corporal; wounded 
 at Atlanta; captured at Xashville; served through 
 the war. 
 
 W. S. Lankford ; served through the war. 
 
 J. D. Looney ; served through the war. 
 
 Thomas L. May ; served two and one-half years. 
 
 Tom Marshall. 
 
 Robert McAdoo; discharged, over age. 
 
 Jas. H. McCampbell ; transferred to Company ^'F," 
 One Hundred and Fift^^-Fourth Tennessee. 
 
 Gid Milam; captured and died at Rock Island. 
 
 John Miller; probably discharged. 
 
 Shoat Mitchell; served one year. 
 
 James Moffett; promoted to first sergeant; served 
 through the war. 
 
 W. A. Morphis; wounded at Shiloh; served two or 
 three vears. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 165 
 
 Tom Morris; served one year. 
 
 Richard Mullins. 
 
 Link Kewton; discharged, over age. 
 
 James Xolen; died at Colnmbus, K3^ 
 
 John O'Brien; wounded at Shiloh, and died in hos- 
 pital. 
 
 C. P. Owensby; captured at Mission Ridge; served 
 through the war. 
 
 Bedford Parrish; captured and afterwards served 
 in cavalry. 
 
 John Patterson; discharged, over age. 
 
 J. O. Penick; cut off at Corinth; served as lieuten- 
 ant in Tenth Cavalry. 
 
 John Penick; died at Union City. 
 
 James Perkins ; secured a substitute. 
 
 W. E. Petree. 
 
 James Randle ; discharged, ill health. 
 
 Thomas Reynolds; died at Memphis, April, 1862. 
 
 Wm. Reynolds; served one year. 
 
 Louis Ridley; discharged. 
 
 Frank C. Robertson ; killed at Atlanta. 
 
 Wm. Robertson; served one year. 
 
 Albert Rogers; served one year. 
 
 John Ross; captured at Nashville; served through 
 the war. 
 
 Silas Simmons; captured at Nashville; served 
 through the war. 
 
 Nick Stubbs; served two and a half years. 
 
 Elias Sullivan ; died at Corinth, Miss. 
 
 Harrison Sullivan. 
 
 J. C. Tillman; elected second lieutenant at reor- 
 ganization. 
 
166 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 Haywood Thomas; served one year. 
 
 Matt Thomas; killed at Shiloh. 
 
 George Thomason ; transferred to some other regi- 
 ment. 
 
 Joe Thompson; wounded at Shiloh; discharged. 
 
 A. Green Trevathan; transferred to Forty-Sixth 
 Tennessee Infantry. 
 
 Jack Underwood ; served one year. 
 
 Ben Vincent ; discharged. 
 
 Edward Wallace; wounded at Shiloh. 
 
 W. T. Ward ; served through the war. 
 
 W. M. Wiubush; wounded at Shiloh and Chicka- 
 mauga; served througli the war. 
 
 John Wright; captured at Shiloh^ joined the Fed- 
 erals. 
 
 Roll of Company ''K/' Fifth Regiment^ Tennessee 
 Infantry. 
 
 Capt. H. W. Ballard ; discharged at reorganization. 
 
 Capt. Joe T. Kendall ; elected captain at reorgani- 
 zation; wounded at Mission Ridge and died under 
 Federal surgeon's knife. (See Company "F"). 
 
 First Lieut. George C. Street; discharged at reor- 
 ganization. 
 
 Second Lieut. Wes E. Harris; elected first lieuten- 
 ant at reorganization ; detached, August, 1863. 
 
 Third Lieut. R. A. Brisendine; discharged at reor- 
 ganization. 
 
Ix Confederate States Army. 167 
 
 First Sergt. J. Wm. Howard; elected second lieu- 
 tenant at reorganization; wounded at Peach tree 
 Creek; served through the war. 
 
 Second Sergt. Wm. McClure; discharged, over age. 
 
 Third Sergt. D. P. McClure; captured at Mission 
 Ridge; served through the war. 
 
 Fourth Sergt. Edwin H. Rennolds; elected first 
 sergeant at reorganization; third lieutenant, October 
 10, 1863; wounded at Perryville; served through the 
 war; one of thirty present at surrender. (Author.) 
 
 Fifth Sergt. J. W. Pillow; captured at Mission 
 Ridge; served through the war. 
 
 First Corp. AYm. B. Duff ; died at Atlanta, July 3, 
 1863. 
 
 Second Corp. Philip Kennerly; wounded and cap- 
 tured at Perryville; killed at Mission Ridge. 
 
 Third Corp. J. M. B. Elliott; elected third lieuten- 
 ant at reorganization; discharged October, 1863. 
 
 Fourth Corp. John S. Rennolds; died at Corinth, 
 April 17, 1863, of typhoid fever. 
 
 Henry Adams; captured at Mission Ridge; served 
 through the war. 
 
 James Adams; served one year. 
 
 Merideth Alexander; served one year. 
 
 E. R. Atchison; discharged, over age. 
 
 J. J. Atchison; discharged, over age. 
 
 John M. Arnn; served one year; joined the Fed- 
 erals. 
 
 J. A. Austin; discharged (perhaps). 
 
 W. T. (Link) Ballard; killed at Murfreesboro. 
 
 A. Dillard Beckwith; promoted to corporal; killed 
 at Resaca. ( Died rejoicing. ) 
 
168 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 Dr. C. Ed Bradley; discharged, ill health. 
 
 Thos. J. Brisendine ; wounded and captured at Mis- 
 sion Ridge; lost an arm; served through the war. 
 
 W. Thomas Browning; captured at Mission Ridge; 
 died in prison. 
 
 Carroll Bruce. 
 
 Ed R. Bumpass; served one year. 
 
 John Burnley; served one year. 
 
 Louis Bustle; discharged; joined Federals; killed 
 at Fort Pillow. 
 
 Cal W. Cherry; captured at Mission Ridge; served 
 through the war. 
 
 LaFayette Cherry ; served in Lyons' Escort. 
 
 John M. Coffman; promoted to first sergeant; 
 wounded at Atlanta; served through the war. 
 
 W. Bens Cook ; served one year. 
 
 Jacob Cox; captured at Mission Ridge; served 
 through the war. 
 
 Joe Dick ; served one year. 
 
 Robert W. Ditterline; served one year. 
 
 Robert Dixon. 
 
 S. R. Drown; wounded at Shiloh; discharged. 
 
 Z. O. Drown ; discharged for disability. 
 
 Jack Dublin; discharged, November, 1861, (to care 
 for his mother and sister, his father having been 
 killed by the explosion of gun. Lady Polk). 
 
 Alvin H. Dugger; wounded at Shiloh; died at hos- 
 pital. 
 
 Jons. E. Dunaway. 
 
 A. Y. Duncan ; after one year served in Twentieth 
 Tennessee Infantrv. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 169 
 
 Hugh M. Dimlap; killed in a skirmish while serv- 
 ing in a company of partisan rangers. 
 
 Isaac Dunlap; served one year. 
 
 J. E. Dunning; wounded at Mission Kidge; served 
 through the war. 
 
 Alvin Edwards ; served one year. 
 
 — . — . Ellis ; wounded at Franklin ; served through 
 the war. 
 
 Jarrell Fields; served one year. 
 
 W. Shade Forrest ; served one year. 
 
 K. H. Foy; wounded. 
 
 D. G. Fuller; served one year. 
 
 John Fuller; served one year. 
 
 Wm. D. Gordon; wounded at Shiloh (probably 
 discharged ) . 
 
 Joe Haggard; served one year. 
 
 S. M. Y. Haggard; served one year. 
 
 Eobert Harris ; promoted to corporal ; killed at Per- 
 ry ville. 
 
 Wm. D. Hendricks ; promoted to sergeant ; wounded 
 at Murfreesboro, Mission Ridge and Franklin; served 
 through the war. 
 
 M. J. Henry; transferred. 
 
 George Hooks ; served one year. 
 
 Mordecai Holland; disappeared. 
 
 J. Kincaid Hope; appointed quartermaster, May, 
 1862 ; served through the war. 
 
 Abe Hudgens ; died during the war. 
 
 James G. L. Kennerly; wounded and captured at 
 Perrj^ille; served through the war. 
 
 Jas. P. Kesterson; served one year. 
 
 Ed G. Kyle; served one year. 
 
170 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 Joe T. Kyle; served one year. 
 
 H. A. Wise Laurie; wounded at Shiloh; served 
 through the war. 
 
 Elijah McClure; discharged, over age. 
 
 W. A. McEwin ; served one year. 
 
 Frank M. McGuire; captured at Mission Ridge; 
 served through the war. 
 
 Alex McMullen; wounded at Shiloh; died at hos- 
 pital, April 25, 1862. 
 
 Thomas Middleton; detailed as blasksmith. 
 
 Samuel A. Miller; served through the war. 
 
 Alf W. Mooney ; served one year. 
 
 Meek B. Mooney; wounded at Shiloh. 
 
 Tandy G. Morris, Jr. ; shocked by shell at Murfrees- 
 boro ; served through the war. 
 
 Wm. C. Morrison; served one year. 
 
 Harvey M. Murrell; wounded at Shiloh; captured 
 at Mission Ridge; served through the war. 
 
 Isaac H. Murrell ; died April 7, 1862. 
 
 J. L. Murrell ; discharged, ill health ; re-enlisted in 
 cavalry. 
 
 J. Perry Murrell ; killed at Shiloh ; first man killed 
 in battle with the regiment. 
 
 R. Wales Murrell; served about three years and 
 afterwards in Third Kentucky Cavalry. 
 
 R. H. (Dock) Newport; captured at Mission Ridge; 
 died in prison. 
 
 B. F. Newton ; served one year. 
 
 Robert W. Overby ; served one year. 
 
 James F. Parker; promoted to Corporal; served 
 three and one-half years. 
 
 H. L. Perry; joined the Federals. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 171 
 
 Alonzo Pillow ; transferred to Hume's Battery ; pro- 
 moted to first lieutenant ; served through the war. 
 
 James A. Powell ; discharged, ill health. 
 
 Chas. B. Pro vine; captured at Mission Ridge; died 
 in prison. 
 
 J. M. Rathburn; died March, 1862. 
 
 Samuel Ridgway; captured at Mission Ridge; 
 served through the war. 
 
 George W. Robertson; killed at Sliiloh. 
 
 J. Ed Rogers; detailed as teamster to Gen. A. P. 
 Stewart; served through the war. 
 
 Robert C. Rogers, teamster; served through the 
 war ; present at surrender. 
 
 Z. Scott; died in 1861. 
 
 F. Mart Sinsel; killed at Shiloh; (veteran of Mexi- 
 can war). 
 
 Alonzo Steele; discharged, under age. 
 
 Wm. H. Story; died at Holly Springs, Miss., April 
 7, 1862. 
 
 Joe Taylor; served one year. 
 
 H. Marsh Tibbs ; served through the war. 
 
 Hugh M. Tyler; discharged, ill health. 
 
 J. Wiseman Vest; served one year. 
 
 Con P. Walker; appointed commissary sergeant. 
 May, 1862 ; captured at Nashville ; served through the 
 war. 
 
 J. Wes. Walber ; served about one year. 
 
 J. T. Wheeler ; served one year, or more. 
 
 Dave Willis; served one year. 
 
 Ed E. Willis ; served one year. 
 
 Wm. Willis; served one year. 
 
 James A. Wilson ; served one year. 
 
172 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 J. D. Wilson; captured at Mission Kidge; served 
 through the war. 
 
 J. G. Wilson; died June 1, 1862. 
 
 J. Wes. Wilson; (probably) discharged. 
 
 M. L. Wilson ; discharged, ill health. 
 
 James B. Young; served through the war; (acci- 
 dentally shot one of his fingers off). 
 
 EoLL OF Company '^L," Fifth Kegiment^ Tennessee 
 Infantry. 
 
 Capt. J. T. Winfrey; discharged at reorganization. 
 
 First Lieut. B. P. Utley; discharged at reorganiza- 
 tion. 
 
 Second Lieut. J. S. Watkins; discharged at reor- 
 ganization. 
 
 Third Lieut. John Ballard; discharged at reorgani- 
 zation. 
 
 First Sergt. H. S. White. 
 
 Second Sergt. George C. Camp; elected lieutenant 
 at reorganization; wounded and captured at Perry- 
 ville; detached and served with Forrest's Cavalry; 
 afterwards ordered back to the regiment; wounded 
 at Peachtree Creek. 
 
 G. W. Allison ; died April 27, 1862. 
 
 Jonathan Bailey; died at Louisville, Ky. 
 
 J. M. Box ; died' June 8, 1862. 
 
 Joe Box. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 173 
 
 J. T. Camp; served in cavalry. 
 
 J. A. Childers; died March 7, 1862. 
 
 Wm. Conley ; elected second lieutenant at reorgani- 
 zation. 
 
 A. J. Fry; died December 12, 1862. 
 
 M. M. Fry; elected captain at reorganization; de- 
 tached at consolidation. 
 
 Clay Gordon-; died of measles. 
 
 A. M. Gossett. 
 
 D. A. C. Gossett ; had smallpox at Shelby ville. 
 
 Bryant Guiley; elected first sergeant at reorgani- 
 zation. 
 
 D. B. Guiley; wounded at Perr;\^dlle and died. 
 
 J. Harper ; wounded at Atlanta. 
 
 G. T. Harrison; captured at Nashville; served 
 through the war. 
 
 Thomas Harrison; wounded at Perry^dlle. 
 
 Pleas Henderson. 
 
 W. E. Henderson ; died May 31, 1862. 
 
 J. Hollinsworth ; died June 6, 1862. 
 
 P. Kennedy; killed at Mission Ridge. 
 
 Andy Mackey; captured at Perryville. 
 
 J. A. Malin ; killed at Shiloh. 
 
 W. C. Malin; killed at Murfreesboro. 
 
 W. C. Mcllwain ; died January 25, 1863. 
 
 W. H. Merrick ; died July 23,^ 1862. 
 
 Will Merrill ; died of fever. 
 
 Nelson Nowell; died of smallpox. 
 
 J. K. Sanders; killed at Perryville. 
 
 William Stegall. 
 
 W. H. Thompson ; died March 20, 1862. 
 
 Georo'e Thornton. 
 
174 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 H. Thornton ; died June 8, 1862. 
 
 M. Tubbs; died May 18, 1862. 
 
 Ed Wallace; wounded at Peaehtree Creek. 
 
 W. T. Ward; wounded at Atlanta. 
 
 H. L. White ; elected sergeant at reorganization ; 
 wounded at Perryville and died. 
 
 J. N. Wood ; died February 20, 1863. 
 
 XoTE — This company was from Benton County. 
 Its total enlistment must haye been at least eighty, 
 but the aboye are all the names I haye been able to 
 secure, after diligent effort. 
 
 Roll of (Company ''M," Fifth Regiment, Tennessee 
 Infantry. 
 
 Capt. John A. Lauderdale; appointed assistant 
 quartermaster, 1862. 
 
 First Lieut. J. B. Ward; elected captain at reor- 
 ganization; killed at Resaca. 
 
 Second Lieut. J. Lucius Bowman ; killed at Shiloh. 
 
 Third Lieut. A. J. Alexander; dist-harged at reor- 
 ganization. 
 
 W. D. Allen. 
 
 Robert P. Andrews; elected second lieutenant; 
 seryed through the war. 
 
 W. H. Armstrong. 
 
 W. H. Barnes. 
 
 R. B. Barnes; seryed through the war. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 175 
 
 J. M. Bartlett. 
 
 John B. Bass; wounded at Atlanta. 
 
 E. Beard. 
 
 J. D. Bennett. 
 
 M. Blanton. 
 
 R. D. Board. 
 
 A. Bolton. 
 
 E. F. Bradley. 
 
 John K. Breast; wounded at Atlanta; served 
 through the war. 
 
 ' xl. L. Brevard; elected first sergeant; wounded at 
 Atlanta ; served through the war. 
 
 Arch E. Brevard; wounded at Murfreesboro ; de- 
 tached to quartermaster department. 
 
 J. H. Brevard. 
 
 E. B. Brevard ; elected sergeant ; wounded at At- 
 lanta; captured at home on furlough, January, 1865; 
 served through the war. 
 
 J. A. Brigance. 
 
 J. H. Brigance. 
 
 B. Brooks. 
 
 J. H. Brooks; killed at Belmont. 
 
 W. Brother. 
 
 G. L. Burnes; died during the war. 
 
 W. T. Burnes. 
 
 E. By num. 
 
 D. S. Campbell. 
 
 J. D. Campbell. 
 
 Peter Capote; wounded at Perry^dlle. 
 
 A. Caton. 
 
 R. Clark. 
 
 J. Click; wounded at Eesaca. 
 
176 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 T. W. Click. 
 
 W. H. Click. 
 
 J. M. Cook. 
 
 W. D. Cook. 
 
 S. Cypert. 
 
 J. L. Daniels. 
 
 S. F. Daniels.- 
 
 H. H. DeBow. 
 
 Thomas Dillon; served through the war. 
 
 J. Dixon. 
 
 R. Edmiston. 
 
 W. J. Elder. 
 
 A. E. Ellis. 
 
 Alex A. Farris; wounded at Perryville; lost an 
 arm ; detailed as mail carrier to Hickman, Ky. 
 J. Fletcher. 
 
 F. A. Fore. 
 
 C. W. Furlong. 
 
 D. Gallagher. 
 Peter George. 
 
 J. R. Gillett; appointed assistant quartermaster; 
 killed at Perryville. 
 
 B. F. Gonley. 
 L. B. Gregory. 
 B. C. Hamby. 
 J. S. Hasey. 
 H. Hayes. 
 
 G. M. Herring; served through the war; one of 
 thirty present at surrender. 
 
 R. B. Hopkins ; served through the war. 
 W. J. Huffman ; wounded at Atlanta and died. 
 J. B. J6hnson; captured at Jonesboro; joined the 
 Federals. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 177 
 
 J. S. Johnson. 
 
 C. C. Jones. 
 
 J. H. Jones; wounded at Belmont and Jonesboro. 
 
 A. H. King; served through the war. 
 
 J. C. Kirk ; killed at Ellsbury Ridge. 
 
 Sam J. Kirkpatrick; elected third lieutenant; 
 wounded at Peachtree Creek ; served through the war ; 
 one of thirty present at surrender. 
 
 F. Kittrell. 
 J. T. Landis. 
 T. J. Lane. 
 
 J. K. Polk Lawson; killed at Atlanta. 
 
 J. Lamotte ; served through the war. 
 
 J. Mahan. 
 
 A. McFarland ; wounded at Resaca, died of wound. 
 
 P. McMannis. 
 
 H. Melrose. 
 
 W. F. Mitchell. 
 
 J. M. Morgan. 
 
 P. Moxlev. 
 
 S. M. Moxley. 
 
 W. C. Moxlev. 
 
 C. G. Panister. 
 
 Matt M. Parker; captured four Yankees at Mur- 
 freesboro; wounded at Resaca and died. 
 
 J. Paulsgrove; wounded at Atlanta; lost an arm; 
 probably discharged. 
 
 G. W. Powell.^ 
 C. G. Prather. 
 J. R. Price. 
 W. H. Pyle. 
 
 J. Quinn. 
 
 12 
 
178 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 J. C. Kamey. 
 
 S. K. Ramey; died during the war; 
 
 J. B. Ray ; wounded at Peachtree Creek. 
 
 L. W. Roach. 
 
 W. Rolfe. 
 
 W. F. Rowe. 
 
 R. B. Russell. 
 
 Daniel Sawyer; served through the war. 
 
 J. L. Sawyer; served through the war. 
 
 W. B. Shaw. 
 
 A. J. Smith. 
 
 P. W. Stanley. 
 
 G. N. Taylor. 
 
 J. R. Taylor. 
 
 A. W. Thomas. 
 
 Charlie Trout; served through the war. 
 
 A. E. Tucker ; elected lieutenant at reorganization ; 
 killed at PerrTsille. 
 
 Henry A. Tyler; discharged, ill health, 1861; served 
 as captain of Company "A," Twelfth Kentucky Cav- 
 alry. 
 
 James P. Tyler; elected lieutenant at reorganiza- 
 tion; served through the war; one of thirty present 
 at surrender. 
 - Robert Tyler; killed at Belmont. 
 
 H. T. Watson. 
 
 J. W. Wiles. 
 
 R. S. Young. 
 
 Note — This company was from Hickman, Ky., in- 
 cluding a squad from Southern Illinois; was com- 
 posed of excellent fighting material. Have been un- 
 able to secure complete casualties. 
 
HISTORY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Forty-Sixth Regiment, 
 
 TENNESSEE INFANTRY* 
 
 During the summer of 1861 plans were made to en- 
 list another infantry regiment in Henry County, as 
 the continual increase of the Federal armies by 
 heavy levies showed conclusively that the Confeder- 
 ate-forces must be reinforced to meet them, and our 
 grand old county never lagged behind when men and 
 means were needed. Following the wise example of 
 Colonel Travis, it was deemed best to try and secure 
 the whole command from its geographical limits, and 
 it not only succeeded, but proved advantageous in 
 many ways. 
 
 The commanding officers of the two militia regi- 
 ments were instructed by Governor Harris to collect 
 all suitable firearms from the citizens and turn them 
 over to the ordnance department. Col. J. D. Wilson 
 of the One Hundred and Fourteenth Regiment was 
 very efficient in this work. Col. John M. Clark pro- 
 posed to take the lead in the enlistment, attended the 
 regimental musters early in October and urged the 
 formation of companies, and the enrolling, which was 
 179 
 
180 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 already begiiu, was pushed forward with great alac- 
 rity, and soou ten companies were enlisted. 
 
 The Fifth Eegiment was composed mainly of young- 
 unmarried men, but a large proportion of the Forty- 
 Sixth were men who left wives and children to enter 
 the service. There were many, however, who were 
 mere boys, who a few months before had taken the 
 places on the farm of their older brothers, who had 
 rushed to arms at the first call, and there were also 
 not a few men who were in the full strength of young 
 manhood. 
 
 Noveml)er 29, 1861, the companies were assembled 
 at Paris, Tenn., and the regiment organized by the 
 election of field officers. ( The names of officers, both 
 regimental and company, will be found in the proper 
 places on the rolls which follow this history.) On 
 Monday, December 16, the regiment rendezvoused at 
 Paris, and was ordered to go into camp at Union 
 City, whither they were transported by rail. On 
 reaching this point they were set to work building 
 winter quarters. Shortly afterward Capt. John W. 
 Harris' Company ''C' was detached to guard the 
 Mobile & Ohio Railroad bridge over the Obion River 
 south of I^nion City. Before the winter quarters were 
 completed the regiment was ordered to Island Xo. 10 
 in the Mississippi River, whence they were moved 
 January 10, 1862, going by rail to Hickman, Ky., 
 where Company "E," Captain Tharpe, and Company 
 'T," Captain Poyner, both under command of Major 
 Brown, were left as provost guard for the town. The 
 other seven companies were transported on the 
 steamer AYinchester, and landed on the Tennessee 
 
In Confederate States Army. 
 
 181 
 
 shore of the Mississippi River opposite Ishmd No. 10. 
 
 Pitching their tents, it was necessary to floor them 
 with rails and carpet them with cornstalks to elevate 
 their blankets above the water, with which the rains 
 had covered the river bottom. Stick and mud chim- 
 neys were built to the tents to warm them. 
 
 Onh^ a short while elapsed before the measles, that 
 great scourge of new levies, broke out in camp, and 
 soon many of the poor fellows were prostrated upon 
 their rough beds in the middle of winter, without 
 mother, wife or sister to care for them, and Surgeon 
 S. H. Caldwell and his assistant, Dr, T. J. Taliaferro, 
 had their hands and brains and hearts full of duties. 
 But they did all that 
 human skill could do 
 with the very limited 
 means at their com- 
 mand. No houses suitable 
 for liospital purposes Were 
 to be found nearer than 
 Hickman, Ky., whither 
 many of them were sent. 
 The ladies of this patriotic 
 town exhibited that kind- 
 ness of heart so character- 
 istic of Southern woman- 
 hood, and to this day the 
 men who were so tenderly 
 cared for and supplied 
 with delicacies are full of 
 gratitude to these noble ladies. 
 
 Only a part of the regiment was armed and these 
 
 DR. S. H. CALDWELL. 
 
182 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 only with sliotouns, squirrel rifles and old muskets. 
 One compauy had only seven guns. They were em- 
 ployed thro wi no up fortifications, being drilled a very 
 little. Company ''D" volunteered to man the floating 
 battery and were drilled in artillery tactics. There 
 were about forty pieces of heavy ordnance on the 
 island and on the main land opposite. 
 
 General Polk evacuated Columbus, Ky., March 9, 
 1862, retiring first to New Madrid, Mo., and on the 
 12th crossed to the Tennessee side, marched to Tip- 
 tonville and moved down the river on steamers. On 
 the 13 til the Federal gunboats appeared and bom- 
 barded the Confederates night and day for twenty- 
 three days. The infantry, for the most part, were 
 kept out of range and suffered few casualties. Two 
 of the Forty-Sixth, LaFayette Bowden of Company 
 "F," and William Howsden of Company "x\," were 
 killed by the explosion of a shell. They were marched 
 and counter-marched from point to point to meet ex- 
 pected attacks, the enemy having passed the island 
 at night with part of their gunboats and landed in- 
 fantry forces below them. Reelfoot Lake, running 
 parallel with the river, barring their retreat in that 
 direction, they were formed in two lines about two 
 hundred yards apart, facing outwardly, and kept in 
 line all night of April 7. On the 8th, there being no 
 way of escape, they were surrendered to the Federal 
 forces. The two companies from Hickman having re- 
 joined the regiment, were included. 
 
 Many who were unarmed, while those with arms 
 were absent, built rude rafts of logs and loose lumber 
 and escaped across Keelfoot Lake, through the high 
 
In Confederate States Army. 183 
 
 water, and returned to their homes. Most of these 
 rejoined the regiment after its exchange or enlisted 
 in cavalry. The regiment was first carried to New 
 Madrid, Mo., and the officers separated from the men, 
 not meeting again until they returned from prison. 
 The officers were carried first to Camp Chase and a 
 few days later to Johnson's Island in Lake Michigan. 
 The privates were imprisoned at Camp Douglass near 
 Chicago. At both places they were quartered in bar- 
 racks. 
 
 The confinement was very irksome and they suf- 
 fered in many ways; but these sufferings would have 
 been greatly intensified had their imprisonment oc- 
 curred in the winter time instead of summer. There 
 were some deaths from disease, which will be men- 
 tioned in the company rolls. Ex-Gov. Andrew Johnson 
 visited Camp Douglass, and made a speech to the men, 
 advising them to take the oath of allegiance to the 
 United States and return home. Nearly all of the men 
 received the advice with scorn. A very few, however, 
 listened to his seductive plea and were thus released. 
 The commander of the prison threatened dire ven- 
 geance on all rebels who used any influence to per- 
 suade men not to take the oath. 
 
 The enlisted men left Camp Douglass September 
 8, and were carried to Cairo by rail, and thence to 
 Vicksburg by steamers and there reunited with their 
 officers, who came on different boats, and on the 23d 
 of September were exchanged. 
 
 The regiment was then reorganized at Jackson, 
 Miss., under the provisions of the conscript law. 
 Jonathan S. Dawson was elected colonel, Robert 
 
184 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 A. Owens, lieutenant-colonel, and Joseph D. Wilson, 
 major. Lieut. Isaac M. Hudson was appointed adju- 
 tant, James T. Williams, quartermaster, and Dr. J. 
 T. Matliis, surgeon. 
 
 After remaining in camp a few davs they were sent 
 to Holly Springs to assist in the attack on Corinth by 
 Price and YanDorn, but met the Confederate forces 
 retiring after a fruitless attack on Corinth's fortifi- 
 cations. 
 
 The regiment was then sent to Port Hudson and 
 consolidated with the Forty-Second Tennessee, and 
 Col. I. N. Hulme, of the latter regiment, placed in 
 command. Maj. J. D. Wilson and several company 
 officers of the Forty-Sixth becoming supernumeraries, 
 were ordered to Tennessee to collect the men who had 
 escaped at Island 10, and to secure new recruits for 
 the regiment and forward them to the command. A 
 Camp Direction was established at Blue Creek Church 
 in Humphreys County, and details of officers were sent 
 o^er the Tennessee River to gather up the men, and 
 secure others and conduct them to the rendezvous. 
 Henry County being within the Federal lines, and a 
 regiment of Iowa Cavalry stationed at Ft. Heiman, it 
 was a difficult and dangerous task. But it was so 
 skillfully conducted, and with their thorough knowl- 
 edge of the country, and the sympathy and coopera- 
 tion of the loyal citizens of Henry County, they gen- 
 erally escaped capture. 
 
 There was a nest of Union sympathizers, how- 
 ever, near Big Sandy Station, through whose ter- 
 ritory it was necessary to pass with the greatest cau- 
 tion. Bv the middle of December tiftv or sixtv men 
 
In Confederate States Army. 185 
 
 had been collected, aud these Major Wilson carried 
 to Port Hudson, leaving the camp in charge of other 
 officers. Another, but smaller detachment, having 
 been gathered up, were also conducted to the regi- 
 ment in February, 1863, and the remaining officers 
 accompanying it, the camp was broken up. Captain 
 Harris' Conipany ''C," which had been attached 
 to the Fifth Tennessee, was orderd back to the Forty- 
 Sixth, and thus the whole regiment was united 
 ao-ain. In December the Forty-Second was separated 
 and the Forty-Sixth and Fifty-Fifth consolidated. 
 Col. Alex J. Brown of the Fifty-Fifth succeeded to 
 the command, and the two regiments remained to- 
 gether till the close of hostilities. They were placed 
 under Brigadier-General Maxey of Texas. Colonel 
 Hamilton of Mississippi was appointed drillmaster. 
 He was a trained and skillful tactician and brought 
 the regiment to a high state of discipline and drill. 
 The officers were required to diligently study '^Har- 
 dee's Tactics," and to recite a lesson each day. 
 
 The winter was spent at Port Hudson, drilling each 
 day and doing guard, picket and fatigue duty. An 
 expedition was fitted out during the winter to at- 
 tempt the capture of the Federal gunboat Star of the 
 West, doing picket duty on the Mississippi River. 
 Several members of the Forty-Sixth volunteered as 
 members of the attacking party, and the effort proved 
 successful, the boat being captured and destroyed. 
 Private Asa B. Swett distinguished himself greatly, 
 being one of the first to board the vessel. 
 
 March 14, 1SG3, the Federal gunboats shelled Port 
 Hudson for a f(^w hours, but then withdrew, aft(- 
 
18G History of Henry County Commands 
 
 one had ])een disabled and snnk. Tlie land forces 
 meantime liad advanced from Baton Kouj^e, and 
 Qnarles' Brigade was moved out to meet them, but 
 they also retired without a collision. May 1 the regi- 
 ment, with others, was put on a forced march to Wil- 
 liams' Bridge, on the Amite River, to intercept, if 
 possible, a Federal cavalry raid through Mississippi 
 and Louisiana. The command traveled thirty-five 
 miles between noon of the 1st and afternoon of the 
 2d, but reached the bridge twelve hours after the Fed- 
 erals had passed. Remained in camp there till the 
 7th of May, and then marched by easier stages to 
 Chrystal Springs, and went by rail to Jackson, Miss., 
 on the 13th to meet Grant's advance prior to his in- 
 vestment of Vicksburg. They were stationed in the 
 breastworks on the west of the town. The Federals 
 advanced and placed sharpshooters in a plum thicket 
 in front, where they were enabled to compel the Con- 
 federates to lie low in the trenches. Col. R. A. Owens, 
 ever brave and unwilling to give the least evidence of 
 disinclination to share danger with his men, seemed 
 to them to unnecessarily expose himself, and one of 
 them called his attention to the danger he was in. 
 He stepped down into the trench, and, throwing up 
 his hand at the time, a sharpshooter who fired at him 
 sent a ball through his hand, disabling it for life and 
 keeping him from his command for some time. One 
 of the regiment watched for the man who fired the 
 shot and when next he appeared, fired at him, saw 
 him fall and his comrades take him from the field. 
 
 Grant withdrew to the environment of Vicksburg, 
 and the Forty-Sixth followed General Johnston in all 
 
In Confederate States Army. 187 
 
 the hard marching for the next seven weeks in his at- 
 tempt to open communication with Pemberton's be- 
 leaguered army at Vicksburg. This post having sur- 
 rendered on July 4, Grant again advanced eastwardly 
 and General Johnston fell back before his victorious 
 foe. 
 
 The regiment bore its part in the fighting around 
 Jackson and of the hard marching rearward to For- 
 rest Station. Here the Federals, having given up the 
 pursuit, they camped for two weeks, then went by 
 rail to Enterprise, camping at that point for three 
 weeks, and were then ordered to Mobile, by the Mobile 
 & Ohio Railroad, reaching that point August 30, and 
 remained in camp there till late in November, 1863, 
 drilling and doing some police duty in the city. Col. 
 W. A. Quarles, having receive'd his commission as 
 brigadier-general, was placed in command, and the 
 Forty-Sixth remained in his brigade till the close of 
 the war. Colonel Brown of the Fifty-Fifth having 
 died, Lieut.-Col. R. A. Owens of the Forty-Sixth was 
 promoted to colonel and placed in command of the 
 Forty-Sixth and Fifty-Fifth regiments. Maj. J. D. 
 Wilson was advanced to the rank 'Of lieutenant-col- 
 onel and Capt. S. C. Cooper to that of major. Late in 
 November, 1863, the brigade was ordered to Chatta- 
 nooga, Tenn. The train conveying them was halted 
 at Ringgold on the 25th and the command hastily 
 left the train and formed in line of battle to repel a 
 rumored advance of the enemy. A line of skirmishers 
 was thrown out and after waiting a while and finding 
 it was a false alarm, tliey again boarded the train and 
 proceeded to Chickamauga Station. Here the sound 
 
188 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 of heavy firin.t>- told how a battle was raging on Mis- 
 sion Iiidge. Soon the roads were filled with the 
 routed troops of Bragg's army, many of them being 
 wounded. Quarles' Brigade guarded the military 
 stores that were being loaded on the trains. About 
 4 o'clock a. m. on the 26th they took up their line of 
 march to the rear, reaching Dalton on the evening of 
 the 2Tth. 
 
 They were set to work in a few days building win- 
 ter quarters and were soon comfortably housed. The 
 weather meantime was severely cold, and the ex- 
 posure very great, but the men bore it with the for- 
 titude of veterans, as they now really were. January 
 19 they were ordered back to Mobile, and leaving their 
 comfortable quarters, they returned to that city. They 
 did police duty in Mobile on alternate days, march- 
 ing back and forth to camp several miles. Later the 
 duty was reduced to one day in three. 
 
 In February they were sent by rail to Meridian to 
 meet Sherman's advance, and did a great deal of 
 marching and maneuvering for several days, when 
 the regiment returned again to Mobile and remained 
 till May 21, when Quarles' Brigade was finally trans- 
 ferred to the Army of Tennessee, then in North Geor- 
 gia, going by steamer to Montgomery and by rail to 
 Ac worth. They reached Xew Hope Church just after 
 a corps of Sherman's army had '^butted against" 
 Stewart's Division (as a Federal general expressed 
 it) and had been brought to a sudden halt. 
 
 During the months of June, July and August, 1864, 
 the Forty-Sixth and Fifty-Fifth took part in the 
 daily and nightly marching, fortifying, maneuvering. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 189 
 
 skirmishing and fiohting that befell the Army of Ten- 
 nessee while they tried to hold at bay Sherman, with 
 his unlimited amount of men and means, and pre- 
 vented his advancing more than forty miles in a hun- 
 dred days. 
 
 They were fortunate enough not to be placed in a 
 position wliere their losses were heavy till July 28, 
 but on that fateful day it was their lot to. meet danger 
 and disaster that equaled the aggregate losses of 
 some other commands during weeks of fighting and 
 proved that they were made of the same stern mate- 
 rial of other troops from old Henry and covered it 
 with a halo of glor}^ and won for it a renown that any 
 command might be proud of. 
 
 The Federals, who had been continually extending 
 their lines to the right, reached, on the morning of 
 July 28, 1864, a highway called the ''Lick Skillet 
 Road," and at once began to fortif}^ their position. 
 General Hood, who had succeeded General Johnston 
 in command, ordered Gen. A. P. Stewart to attack 
 them with his corps and drive them back. 
 
 Loring'S Division was in the first line, and 
 after they had advanced and been repulsed, Wal- 
 thall's Division ( of which Quarles' Brigade formed 
 a part) was then ordered forward. After pass- 
 ing through a small field they halted a moment in 
 a ravine, perfected the alignment and again moved 
 steadily forward through thick oak undergrowth, less 
 than a hundred yards towards the Federal trenches, 
 in front of which the undergrowth had been cut, away 
 for about twenty paces. As the line emerged from the 
 thicket they came into full view of the enemy's works. 
 
190 
 
 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 scarcely a dozen 
 hear them as they 
 of command, fired 
 
 yards away, and could distinctly 
 cocked their rifles, and, at the word 
 such a volley that the Confederate 
 line was shattered and 
 brought to a sudden halt. 
 Ensign P. A. Sullivan fell 
 desperately wounded at the 
 first volley. He handed the 
 colors to Capt. W. S. 
 Adams of the Fifty-Fifth 
 Tennessee. Captain Adams 
 fell pierced by at least 
 twenty bullets. Lieutenant 
 Hemphill, also of the Fifty- 
 
 ENSIGN P. A. SULLIVAN. 
 
 Fifth, raised the standard, 
 but was soon shot through 
 the mouth. Then W. D. 
 Wilson of Company "D" 
 elevated the colors and was 
 struck in the arm by a min- 
 nie ball, from the effects of 
 which he wears to this day 
 an armless sleeve, and the 
 colors fell into the enemy's 
 
 hands. LIEUT.-COL. J. D. WILSON. 
 
 Lieutenant-Colonel Wilson received a dangerous 
 wound in the body and fell across a log. Private 
 
In Confederate States Army. 191 
 
 Sinotherman of Compaiiv ^'D" pulled him down be- 
 hind the log and Col. R. A. Owens gave him his can- 
 teen of water, thus supplying a wounded soldier's 
 first and most urgent need. Colonel Wilson was cap- 
 tured and languished in prison till the close of the 
 war. Lieut. Frank Dumas and Adam A. Hope (a 
 most pious Christian) were killed, and Louis Smoth- 
 erman, William Mathis and Newt Vancleave died of 
 their wounds. Many others were killed, wounded and 
 captured, amounting to about 150 out of the 250 with 
 which the Forty- Sixth and Fifty-Fifth entered the 
 battle. The engagement did not last exceeding fif- 
 teen minutes, some placing it at only five minutes. 
 C. M. Kennerly says that he expended sixteen car- 
 tridges at men standing between two trees, whose 
 places were filled by others as fast as they fell. 
 
 The attack having failed, those who escaped death 
 or wounds were withdrawn to places of protection 
 and proceeded to fortify their position. 
 
 When Sherman withdrew from before Atlanta and 
 moved upon Hood's communications, Stewart's Corps 
 was retained with the Georgia militia for the defense 
 of the city, while the other two were sent to meet the 
 flank movement, and thus fortunately missed the dis- 
 astrous battle of Jonesboro. 
 
 When Hood turned the tables and started for Sher- 
 man's rear, Walthall's Division struck the Western 
 & Atlantic Railroad at Big Shanty, and the Forty- 
 Sixth and Fifty-Fifth supported a Mississippi regi- 
 ment that attacked a block house, and after a few 
 rounds from a battery a white flag was raised and 
 sixty-five Federals were captured. A freight train 
 
192 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 loaded with jL»Tain was also captured, the boiler cut up 
 and tlie pieces used to parch coru iu. The meu were 
 
 then set to work to tear up 
 th(^ railroad, aud did their 
 full share in this work all 
 the way up to Dalton. 
 
 The reoimeut accompa- 
 nied Hood on his expedi- 
 
 MAJ. S. C. COOPER. 
 
 tiou to Tennessee, and was 
 
 almost annihilated at 
 
 Franklin. It occupied a 
 
 place in the first line. They 
 
 first droye the pickets from 
 
 their holes, and then a line lieut. r. b. hendricks. 
 
 of battle from li^ht rifle pits, and followed them 
 
 closely to their main fortifications. The regiment oyer- 
 
 lapped a short distance on Cleburne's Division and 
 
 many of his dead were passed. 
 
 Th(^ Federals opened with canister when the Con- 
 federates were within al)out 200 yards, and with rifles 
 soon afterward. Ensign Sulliyan crossed the ditch 
 and planted his colors beside the embankment. ]\Iaj. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 193 
 
 S. C. Cooper, in command of the regiment, led his 
 men up to the works and fell desperately wounded. 
 Lieut. K. D. Hendricks received his death wound. His 
 diarv stained with his life blood lies before me as I 
 write. Lieut. William L. Hope fell within forty yards 
 of the works, pierced with thirteen wounds, but sur^ 
 vived for five days. The men crouching behind the 
 breastworks fired under the headlogs at the Federals. 
 Some one (perhaps an officer) raised a white flag on 
 a bayonet, and the fire slackened somewhat. Capt. 
 P. M. Hope said to Ensign Sullivan : 'Taul, the cause 
 is lost, shelter yourself," and, crouching near the 
 works, was struck by a ball and died almost instantly. 
 As Sullivan looked at him he, too, was struck by a ball 
 and fell senseless. On regaining consciousness, he 
 saw that the Confederates were gone, and a Federal 
 said to him : *'Come over the works, your men are 
 gone behind the cotton-gin," gave him his hand and 
 helped him over the works, and carried him over to 
 where the others were gathered behind the gin. Capt. 
 E. A. C. McGehee was killed near the works, and 
 Capt. J. D. Paschall, wounded. C. M. Kennerly, on 
 reaching the breastworks, dropped in the ditch and 
 shot under the headlog, killing a Federal who was 
 loading his gun. Then propping his feet against the 
 works, knocked up the enemy's guns as they tried to 
 shoot him. When the white flag was raised he threw 
 his gun behind him and crawled over the breastworks. 
 A Federal soldier tried to shoot him, but another 
 knocked down the gun and said: ^^That man is sur- 
 rendering.'' The names of others killed, wounded ant] 
 captured will be found in the company rolls. 
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194 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 As an example of the depletion of the regiment dur- 
 ing the campaign of 1864, it is related by Lieut. M. V. 
 B. Valentine that Companies ''D'' and ^^E" entered the 
 campaign at New Hope in Maj with seventy-two men, 
 and came out of it at Nashville in December with only 
 two men and one officer (Lieut. V.) for duty; and Maj. 
 S. C. Cooper says that the regiment went into the bat- 
 tle at Franklin with one hundred and twenty-five men 
 and came out with only twenty-five. 
 
 The Forty-Sixth took part in the disastrous Battle 
 of Nashville, and had the honor of forming part of 
 the rear-guard on the retreat from Tennessee. When 
 the other West Tennessee troops were furloughed at 
 Corinth in January, 1865, the Forty-Sixth was not 
 granted this coveted boon, but were sent with the shat- 
 tered columns of the once proud Army of Tennessee to 
 North Carolina, to meet once more Sherman's hosts, 
 and there fought their last battle at Bentonville, laid 
 down the arms they had used so well, -and came back 
 to their loved State and County to tell the widows 
 and orphans of their dead comrades how their loved 
 and honored kinsmen had freely shed their precious 
 blood for the ''Lost Cause'- and to prove themselves 
 by their after lives that brave men are worthy of 
 trust and confidence as well in peace as war. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 195 
 
 Roll of the Field and Staff^ Forty-Sixth Regi- 
 ment^ Tennessee Infantry. 
 
 Col. John M. Clark; captured at Island 10; de- 
 tached at reorganization; served in Thirty-Third 
 Texas. 
 
 Lieut.-Col. J. W. Johnson; captured at Island 10; 
 discharged at reorganization. 
 
 Maj. James S. Brown; captured at Island 10; dis- 
 charged at reorganization. 
 
 Surgeon, Dr. S. H. Caldwell ; captured at Island 10 ; 
 resigned at reorganization; afterward served as sur- 
 geon of Twentieth Tennessee Cavalry. 
 
 Assistant Surgeon, Dr. Thomas J. Taliaferro; cap- 
 tured at Island 10; resigned at reorganization. 
 
 Adjutant Jonathan S. Dawson; captured at Is- 
 land 10; elected colonel at reorganization. 
 
 Sergt.-Maj. Joseph D. Wilson; captured at Island 
 10; elected major at reorganization; promoted to 
 lieutenant-colonel ; wounded and captured at Atlanta ; 
 served through the war. 
 
 Quartermaster B. F. Ridgway. 
 
 Commissary, Samuel J. Ray; discharged at reor- 
 ganization; afterwards commissary of Twentieth 
 Tennessee Cavalry. 
 
 Quartermaster Sergt. J. Wade Barton ; escaped. Is- 
 land 10. 
 
 Commissary Sergt. Adam A. Hope; captured at 
 Island 10 ; killed at Atlanta. 
 
 Ensign Paul A. Sullivan; wounded at Perryville 
 
196 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 and at Atlanta; wounded and captured at Franklin; 
 served through the war. 
 
 Ordnance Sergt. James Aycock ; escaped, Island 10. 
 
 Roll of Company "A," Forty-Sixth Regiment, Ten- 
 nessee Infantry. 
 
 Ca^. James W. Weldon; captured at Island 10 
 discharged at reorganization. 
 
 First Lieut. Pink Chilcutt; captured at Island 10 
 died in prison. 
 
 Second Lieut. Alex Morgan ; captured at Island 10 
 died at home. 
 
 Third Lieut. Cullen Phillips; escaped at Island 10. 
 
 First Sergt. Robert Lowry ; escaped at Island 10. 
 
 Second Sergt. Thomas Chilcutt ; captured at Island 
 10 ; died in prison. 
 
 Third Sergt. J. W. Chilcutt ; captured at Island 10. ; 
 died in prison. 
 
 Fourth Sergt. George Roberts ; escaped at Island 10. 
 
 Fifth Sergt. Andrew M. Wilson; captured at Is- 
 land 10, and afterward escaped ; captured at Atlanta ; 
 served through the war. 
 
 First Corp. A. J. Morton ; escaped, Island 10. 
 
 Second Corp. Hugh Chilcutt; captured at Island 
 10 ; died in prison. 
 
 Third Corp. Joe T. Lax; escaped at Island 10; re- 
 turned to regiment and served through the war. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 197 
 
 Fourth Corp. P. C. Boyd; captured at Island 10. 
 
 D. J. Alexander ; captured at Island 10. 
 
 B. H. Angell ; captured at Island 10. 
 
 Jesse Bradsliaw ; escaped at Island 10. 
 
 Richard Bradshaw ; captured at Island 10. 
 
 Calvin Causey ; escaped at Island 10. 
 
 James Champlin. 
 
 Henry Coleman ; escaped at Island 10. 
 
 Travis C. Coleman; wounded at Kennesaw by can- 
 non shot ; served through the war. 
 
 Harrison Cooper ; captured at Island 10. 
 
 Clark Eaves; escaped at Island 10; returned to 
 regiment ; served through the war. 
 
 James English ; captured at Island 10. 
 
 Milton Flynn; escaped at Island 10; joined the 
 
 Federals. 
 
 Jack Fowler; escaped at Island 10; returned to the 
 regiment ; served through the war. 
 
 Robert Freeland; escaped at Island 10. 
 
 Thomas Gibson ; captured at Island 10. 
 
 W. S. Gresham ; captured at Island 10. 
 
 N. Guill ; escaped at Island 10. 
 
 A. J. Halsted ; died of measles at home on furlough. 
 
 Elisha Hawes; transferred to Company "B.^^ 
 
 Easton W. Hays; escaped at Island 10. 
 
 J. J. Henderson; escaped at Island 10. 
 
 William F. Henderson ; captured at Island 10 ; es- 
 caped from prison. 
 
 Dock Howsden ; escaped at Island 10. 
 
 Sam Howsden ; escaped at Island 10. 
 
 William Howsden; wounded by piece of shell at 
 Island 10 and died April 8, 1862. 
 
198 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 John Lax. 
 
 Aaron Linnville; escaped at Island 10. 
 
 Joseph Kennerly; escaped at Island 10. 
 
 E. A. C. McGehee; captured at Island 10; elected 
 captain at reorganization; killed at Franklin. 
 
 A. H. McLain. 
 
 M. A. McLain. 
 
 Thomas McSwain; escaped at Island 10; served in 
 Wheeler's Cavalry. 
 
 Robert Moody; captured at Island 10; died in 
 prison. 
 
 E. N. Moody; escaped at Island 10. 
 
 James D. Morgan ; escaped at Island 10. 
 
 D. G. Morton ; escaped at Island 10. 
 
 A. B. Oliver ; captured at Island 10 ; elected lieuten- 
 ant at reorganization; accidentally killed by falling 
 tree. 
 
 J. T. Parks ; escaped at Island 10. 
 
 Gabe Powers. 
 * John Phillips ; killed at New Hope. 
 
 A. C. Ratteree. 
 
 John Reed; captured at Island 10; died in prison. 
 
 John Robbins; escaped at Island 10; killed by 
 guerrillas. 
 
 J. M. Roberts; transferred to Company "B." 
 
 Thomas Robertson; died of measles, December, 
 1861. 
 
 J. D. Rowlett; captured at Island 10; wounded at 
 Atlanta. 
 
 J. Shelley; died of measles. 
 
 James Simpson. 
 
 Samuel Smith ; escaped at Island 10. 
 
In COlSlFEDERATE STATES ARMY. 199 
 
 John Smoot ; escaped at Island 10 ; returned to regi- 
 ment; wounded and lost a hand at Nashville; served 
 
 through the war. 
 
 John Sroot; escaped at Island 10; returned to regi- 
 ment ; served through the war. 
 
 J ^Y, Steele; escaped at Island 10; served m cav- 
 
 airy. 
 
 Claudius Swor; died January, 1862. 
 
 — . — . Townley. 
 
 — — . Townley. 
 
 Felix G Trousdale; escaped at Island 10; trans- 
 ferred to Company "A," Fifth Tennessee. 
 
 T. M. Vaughan ; escaped at Island 10. 
 
 David Walker; died July, 1862. ^ 
 
 Ben Wallace; escaped at Island 10; returned to 
 reo-iment ; served through the war. 
 
 S. Y. Watson ; escaped at Island 10 ; enlisted m cav- 
 
 A. M. Weston ; escaped at Island 10. 
 
 John Weston ; escaped at Island 10. 
 
 William Willoughby ; captured at Island 10 ; served 
 
 through the war. ., . , . t^ 
 
 Robert A. Wilson ; enlisted in Seventh Alabama In- 
 fantry ; served till disbanded; then with Napier's Cav- 
 alrv, and in this company; wounded at Atlanta July 
 28^1864; on light duty till surrender, June, 18b5; 
 served longer than any other man from the county. 
 
 William Winchester ; escaped at Island 10. 
 
 G. W. Wisehart; escaped at Island 10. 
 
 John Wright; died of measles. 
 
200 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 Roll of Company "B," Forty- Sixth Regiment Ten- 
 nessee Infantry. 
 
 Capt. John A. Allen, M. D. ; captured at Island 10 ; 
 discharged at reorganization. 
 
 First Lieut. George Hart; captured at Island 10; 
 died in prison. 
 
 Second Lieut. John F. Upchurch; escaped at Is- 
 land 10; served in cavalry. 
 
 Third Lieut. Calvin Edgar. 
 
 First Sergt. W. Green Randle; escaped at Island 
 10. 
 
 Second Sergt. John W. Nance; escaped at Island 
 10 ; returned to regiment ; served through the war. 
 
 Ezekiel P. Adams; captured at Island 10; killed 
 at Franklin. 
 
 Edmund Allman. 
 
 James Allman. 
 
 S. A. Barnhill ; died August, 1862. 
 
 Joseph Beard ; escaped at Island 10 ; discharged, ill 
 health. 
 
 Sam Beard; escaped at Island 10; served in Com- 
 pany "G," Seventh Cavalry. 
 
 George Biles; captured at Island 10. 
 
 W. D. Bostick. 
 
 Frank Bowman; elected lieutenant at reorganiza- 
 tion; served through the war. 
 
 J. L. Brundridge ; died February, 1862. 
 
 William N. Darnell. 
 
 John Dean ; captured at Island 10. 
 
 Richard Diggs ; died February, 1862. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 201 
 
 R. T. Edgar; captured at Islaud 10; took oath in 
 prison. 
 
 William (rlover. 
 
 George Grisliam. 
 
 James Hart. 
 
 Elijah Hawes; captured at Island 10; died in 
 prison. 
 
 E. Howe; died August, 1862. 
 
 G. W. Jackson; died February, 1862. 
 
 Thomas Jackson ; captured at Island 10. 
 
 Elijah Johnson; captured at Island 10; died in 
 prison. 
 
 John AV. Kemp. 
 
 William Kendall. 
 
 John F. Lee; captured at Island 10. 
 
 R. A. Lee ; escaped at Island 10 ; served in cavalry. 
 
 J. M. Lucas; captured at Island 10; died in prison. 
 
 P. M. Marberry; escaped at Island 10. 
 
 James Mathis: captured at Island 10. 
 
 Jesse Mathis; captured at Island 10. 
 
 Jack McDougall; captured at Island 10; killed at 
 Atlanta. 
 
 L. H. Nance; died at Atlanta, June, 1864. 
 
 W. Thomas Nance ; escaped at Island 10 ; served in 
 Tenth Cavalry; returned to regiment; captured at 
 Nashville; served through the war. 
 
 Henry Poole; captured at Island 10; perhaps died. 
 
 Pink Poole ; captured at Island 10 ; perhaps died. 
 
 Henry Powell; captured at Island 10; died in 
 prison. 
 
 William Ralls; captured at Island 10; wounded at 
 Atlanta. 
 
202 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 R. J. Russell; captured at Island 10. 
 W. W. Smith ; captured at Island 10. 
 James Whittaker. 
 
 Jeptha Williams; captured at Island 10; died in 
 prison. 
 
 Roll of Company "C," Forty- Sixth Regiment, Ten- 
 nessee Infantry. 
 
 Capt. John W. Harris; wounded and captured at 
 Perryrille; discharged at reorganization. 
 
 First Lieut. Bird McKinne}^ ; discharged, ill health. 
 
 Second Lieut. Charles Pinson; discharged, ill 
 health. 
 
 Third Lieut. Willi.ua S. Frier; resigned, April, 
 1862. 
 
 First Sergt. Samuel W. Cochran; elected third 
 lieutenant, April, 1862; promoted second lieutenant, 
 July, 1862 ; first lieutenant, September, 1862 ; elected 
 captain at reorganization; wounded at Atlanta; 
 served through the war. 
 
 Second Sergt. William Winsett; killed at Atlanta, 
 July 28, 1864. 
 
 Third Sergt. Charles Kelly ; secured a substitute. 
 
 Fourth Sergt. Wash Greer; killed at Atlanta, July 
 28, 1864. 
 
 Fifth Sergt. John W. Palmer; served through the 
 war. 
 
 Corp. Jack Hall; killed at Atlanta. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 203 
 
 Pleas Ashley ; served through the war. 
 
 Britt Barbee; transferred to Company ^'I," Fifth 
 Tennessee. 
 
 M. A. Barbee; died June, 1862, at Tupelo, Miss. 
 
 N. J. Blackwood. 
 
 Sid. W. Blackwood; transferred to Company ''I," 
 Fifth Tennessee. 
 
 John Bowers ; served through the war. 
 
 J. N. Cannon. 
 
 J. F. Cate; died July 19, 1862. 
 
 J. W. Cate; killed by shell at Port Hudson. 
 
 E. W. H. Cochran; transferred to Company "K;" 
 wounded at Atlanta; died in hospital. 
 
 James Cope. 
 
 Wesley Covington. 
 
 Henry Cuthbertson ; served through the war. 
 
 E. F. Deets; died June, 1862. 
 
 David Emerson ; served through the war. 
 
 Joseph N. Giles ; killed at Perry ville. 
 
 W. H. Greer; discharged, ill health. 
 
 W. W. Greer ; killed at Port Hudson. 
 
 B. M. Grissom; died at Corinth, Miss., May, 1862. 
 
 James Grissom; killed or died. 
 
 John Grissom. 
 
 Wm. Grissom; served through the war. 
 
 Jack Hall ; killed at Atlanta. 
 
 John Hall; killed at Atlanta. 
 
 L. Green Hastings. 
 
 P. E. Hays; served also in Company "E," Twen- 
 tieth Cavalry. 
 
 W. M. Hays ; died June, 1862. 
 
 W. F. Hester; knocked down by shell at Atlanta; 
 
204 History of Henry Co-unty Commands 
 
 captured at Franklin; escaped that night; served 
 through the war. 
 
 J. H. Hicks; died February 6, 1863. 
 
 \V. E. Hicks; served three and one-half years. 
 
 B. A. Hinchey ; served about two years. 
 
 Benjamin Horn. 
 
 William Horn. 
 
 G. B. Housman; disappeared on Kentucky cam- 
 paign. 
 
 George Jackson ; served three and one-half years. 
 
 Thomas Lacy. 
 
 W. J. Lassiter ; died January 16, 1863. 
 
 John AY. Myrick; killed at New Hope Church. 
 
 L. A. Myrick; died May, 1862. 
 
 W. H. Myrick ; died January, 1862, at home on fur- 
 lough. 
 
 Bryant Peel ; lost sight of during the war. 
 
 B. G. Peeples; discharged, ill health, at Tupelo, 
 Miss. 
 
 J. P. Pettyjohn; died June, 1862. 
 J. W. Powell. 
 
 Charles A. Puckett; died May, 1862. 
 Larkin Panes ; discharged, ill health. 
 
 C. K. Rigsby ; killed at Perryville. 
 John Rigsby; killed at Atlanta. 
 
 Jacob Robertson; served through war; present at 
 surrender. 
 
 J. V. Robertson ; captured at Jackson, Miss. ; served 
 through the war. 
 
 J. W. Smithson; wounded at Perryville and died. 
 
 Pleasant Stanfleld ; served through the war. 
 
 J. W. Underwood; died August, 1862. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 205 
 
 L. Mart Walton; secured a substitute; re-enlisted 
 in Company ^^E," Twentieth Cavalry. 
 
 S. H. Wiley; served through the war; present at 
 surrender. 
 
 Joel Wren. 
 
 Roll of Company ''D/^ Forty- Sixth Regiment, Ten- 
 nessee Infantry. 
 
 Capt. Sylvester C. Cooper; captured at Island No. 
 10; re-elected at reorganization; promoted to major; 
 wounded and captured at Franklin; served through 
 the war. 
 
 First Lieut. Richard H. Crank; captured at Island 
 No. 10; discharged at reorganization. 
 
 Second Lieut. James E. Calloway; captured at Is- 
 land No. 10; discharged at reorganization. 
 
 Third Lieut. G. Addison Duncan ; escaped at Island 
 No. 10. 
 
 First Sergt. Wm. R. Newport; Captured at Island 
 No. 10 ; wounded at Jackson, Miss. ; served through 
 the war. 
 
 Second Sergt. Charles W. Kennerly; captured at 
 Island No. 10; wounded at Atlanta; captured at 
 Franklin ; served through the war. 
 
 Third Sergt. Thomas Lankf ord ; captured at Island 
 No. 10 ; killed at Peachtree Creek. 
 
 Fourth Sergt. Reuben Valentine; captured at Is- 
 land No. 10 ; served through the war. 
 
206 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 (Note — All the sergeants were re-elected at reor- 
 ganization.) 
 
 ^\. Powell Abbott ; escaped from Island No. 10. 
 
 Ed Arnn; captured at Island No. 10; discharged 
 
 George Atkins. 
 
 Jack Atkins; discharged because of nearsighted- 
 ness. 
 
 Banks Baldwin ; escaped from Island No. 10. 
 
 Castillo Barfield. 
 
 Samuel Bomer; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 Willis Bonner; (veteran of Mexican War). 
 
 Wilev Brake; captured at Island No. 10; killed at 
 Peachtree Creek. 
 
 Charles B. Calhoun ; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 John A. Carson; captured at Island No. 10; died 
 in prison, April 27, 1862. 
 
 Kobert A. Carson; captured at Island No. 10; 
 served through the war. 
 
 Wm. Cauley; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 Joshua Charles. 
 
 James Council; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 Austin Douglass; escaped at Island No. 10; served 
 in cavalry. 
 
 Keuben Edgar; captured at Island No. 10; served 
 through the war. 
 
 Wm. Haguewood. 
 
 James Hendricks; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 Samuel Hendricks; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 Pleas M. Hope; elected first lieutenant at reor- 
 ganization; promoted to captain; killed at Franklin. 
 
 Wm. L. Hope; captured at Island No. 10; elected 
 
In Confederate States Army. 20? 
 
 third lieutenant at reorganization ; wounded at Frank- 
 lin and died. 
 
 G. Horace Jackson; captured at Island No. 10; 
 wounded at Franklin ; serA^ed through the war. 
 
 Henry Jackson. 
 
 John Jackson ; escaped at Island No. 10 ; wounded 
 at Franklin ; served through the war. 
 
 James Jobe ; escaped at Island No. 10 ; returned to 
 the regiment ; served through the war. 
 
 K. M. Jobe, Jr. ; died February, 1862. 
 
 T. Jerome Kindred (drum major) ; captured at 
 Island No. 10 ; served through the war. 
 
 Wm. T. Kindred ; captured at Island No. 10 ; served 
 through the war. 
 
 Will Kirby; captured at Island No. 10; served 
 through the war. 
 
 W.^D. King; died May, 1862. 
 
 George Lannom. 
 
 Jake Lannom. 
 
 Hall Laurie ; captured at Island No. 10 ; discharged, 
 ill health. 
 
 James T. Littleton; captured at Island No. 10; de- 
 tailed on Pioneer Corps; served through the war. 
 
 Aaron Lowry. 
 
 Jack Lowry. 
 
 Orren Lowry. 
 
 Batie H. Martin; captured at Nashville; served 
 through the war. 
 
 B. G. Martin ; died May 5, 1862. 
 
 Wm. Mathis. 
 
 Jack McDougal. 
 
 Alex Morris. 
 
208 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 John Overcast; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 Wm. S. Overcast; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 Granville H. Parker; captured at Island No. 10; 
 died June, 1862. 
 
 Willis Pillow; captured at Island No. 10; took 
 oath in jjrison. 
 
 Abner Potts. 
 
 A. R. Potts; died July, 1862. 
 
 Monroe Provine ; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 Carroll Ray. 
 
 James K. Ray ; escaped at Island No. 10 ; served in 
 cavalry. 
 
 J. T. Ray. 
 
 Matt Ray; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 Wright Ray. 
 
 John Rickman; captured at Island No. 10. 
 
 — . — . Roach ; captured at Island No. 10 ; took oath 
 in prson. 
 
 Fisher Roach ; captured at Island No. 10 ; took oath 
 in prison. 
 
 — . — . Rose; captured at Island No. 10; took oath 
 in prison. 
 
 Dr. S. S. Sargent; discharged on account of weak 
 eyes. 
 
 John Smith ; captured at Island No. 10, and at At- 
 lanta; served through the war. 
 
 Lud Smith ; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 Dotson Smothermon; captured at Island No. 10; 
 wounded at Atlanta and at Franklin. 
 
 J. G. Smothermon ; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 Louis Smothermon; captured at Island No. 10; 
 killed at Peach tree Creek. 
 
In Confederate States xIrmy. 209 
 
 Bferry Stephens ; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 Jake Strobs; captured at Island No. 10; trans- 
 ferred to Seventli Ken tuck y. 
 
 Buck Sturdivaut; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 Adley Taylor; captured at Island No. 10; killed on 
 picket, July 20, 1864. 
 
 Charlie T. Taylor; captured at Island No. 10. 
 
 David Taylor; escaped at Island No. 10; died at 
 home. 
 
 Harvey Taylor; captured at Island No. 10. 
 
 Herbert Taylor; captured at Island No. 10. 
 
 Jack Taylor ; captured at Island No. 10 ; discharged, 
 over age. 
 
 Newt Taylor; captured at Island No. 10; served 
 through the war. 
 
 Thomas S. Valentine; captured at Island No. 10; 
 discharged, ill health. 
 
 M. Van B. Valentine; elected second lieutenant at 
 reorganization ; wounded at Franklin ; served through 
 the war. 
 
 S. M. Vancleave; died at Macon, Ga., September 
 5, 1864. 
 
 W. H. Vandyck; captured at Island No. 10; dis- 
 charged, weak eyes. 
 
 J. Brown Venable; died April, 1862. 
 
 Ashley Weatherford. 
 
 James W. Willis; captured at Island No. 10; djed 
 January, 1863. 
 
 James Wilson; captured at Island No. 10. 
 
 M. E. Winters. 
 
 14 
 
210 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 Roll of ( \)MrANY ''E/ ' Forty-Sixth Re(umext, Ten- 
 nessee iNFANTgY. 
 
 Capt. William A. Tharpe; captured at Island No. 
 10 ; re-elected at reoroanization ; detached on recruit- 
 ing serAice, January, 1864. 
 
 First Lieut. James C. Williams ; captured at Island 
 No. 10 ; re-elected at reorganization, and detached on 
 recruiting serAice. 
 
 Second Lieut. Frank Barfield; escaped at Island 
 No. 10. 
 
 Third Lieut. S. W. Muzzell ; escaped at Island No. 
 10. 
 
 First Sergt. A. B. Futhey; captured at Island No. 
 10. 
 
 Second Sergt. Monroe Moody; captured at Island 
 No. 10; took oath in prison. 
 
 Fourth Sergt. G. H. Watkins; captured at Island 
 No . 10 ; elected first sergeant at reorganization ; 
 wounded at Atlanta; served through the war. 
 
 First Corp. Isaac Akers; captured at Island No. 
 10; discharged, over age. 
 
 Eugene Boatwright (drummer) ; served through 
 the war. 
 
 Green Boden; captured at Island No. 10; served 
 through the war. 
 
 Charles Bonier; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 Gaston Busbee; captured at Island No. 10; died 
 in hospital. 
 
 Green Cannon. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 211 
 
 Jacob Cannon; captured at Island No. 10; served 
 through the war. 
 
 Pink Cannon; captured at Island No. 10. 
 
 — . — . Casey. 
 
 Wm. Casey. 
 
 J. Y. Cole; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 Marion Cole; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 Robert Cole; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 Thos. A. Cole; captured at Island No. 10; took 
 oath in prison. 
 
 James Cooney. 
 
 Drake Cottrell; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 Frank Dot}^; captured at Island No. 10; took oath 
 in prison. 
 
 Kin Doty ; captured at Island No. 10 ; took oath in 
 prison. 
 
 Henry Dowdy; captured at Island No. 10; served 
 through the war. 
 
 John H. Ewing ; captured at Island No. 10 ; wound- 
 ed at Atlanta and Franklin ; served through the war. 
 
 Warren Foster; captured at Island No. 10; killed 
 at Atlanta. 
 
 Houston Fowler; captured at Island No. 10; 
 served' through the war. 
 
 Wm. Gibson; captured at Island No. 10; served 
 tlirough the war. 
 
 Pink Green; captured at Island No. 10; served 
 through the war. 
 
 F. Marion Gregson; captured at Island No. 10; 
 elected sergeant at reorganization ; wounded and cap- 
 tured at Atlanta; served through the war. 
 
•212 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 Solomon GriSvSom; captured at Island No. 10; died 
 in prison. 
 
 W. H. Haymes ; died April, 1862. 
 
 Wm. Haynes; died at Island No. 10. 
 
 James Harris; captured at Island No. 10; dis- 
 charged, ill health. 
 
 McGowen Hastings. 
 
 Wm. Hester; captured at Island No. 10; served 
 through the war. 
 
 J. W. Hinson; captured at Island No. 10; served 
 through the war. 
 
 C. T. Hughes; died October 9, 1862. 
 
 Thomas Hughes; captured at Island No. 10. 
 
 John Jackson; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 John Johnson; died January, 1862. 
 
 Dock Jones; captured at Island No. 10; served 
 through the war. 
 
 Scid Lee; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 Ben Lews; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 J. H. Lowry; captured at Island No. 10; died in 
 prison. 
 
 Tobe Lowry; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 C. C. Malone; captured at Island No. 10; dis- 
 charged. 
 
 George Malone ; captured at Island No. 10 ; died in 
 prison. 
 
 Lawrence Malone ; captured at Island No. 10 ; took 
 oath in prison. 
 
 J. Monroe Marshall; captured at Island No. 10; 
 served through the war. 
 
 Samuel Mayfield ; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 Andrew McCampbell. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 213 
 
 W. J. Moody; captured at Island 10; died in prison. 
 
 Wm. Muzzell; died in hospital. 
 
 Joe O'Daniel. 
 
 Ed Palmer; captured at Island No. 10. 
 
 James Palmer; captured at Island No. 10. 
 
 Wash Palmer. 
 
 James Perkins. 
 
 Wm. Powell ; captured at Island No. 10 ; killed at 
 Atlanta. 
 
 Sumner Kadford; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 — . — . Rider ; captured at Island No. 10. 
 
 Daniel Smith. 
 
 John Smith. 
 
 James Swift. 
 
 Peter Swift; discharged. 
 
 Thomas B. Swift. 
 
 Clay Trout; captured at Island No. 10; served 
 through the war. 
 
 Peter Wall. 
 
 John Watkins; captured at Island No. 10; trans- 
 ferred to the navy at Mobile ; served through the war. 
 
 Robert Waters; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 Joe Weatherby; captured at Island No. 10. 
 
 James Webb. 
 
 Wm. Webb. 
 
 Jeff Workman. 
 
 H. C. Williams; captured at Island No. 10; took 
 oath in prison. 
 
 John R. Williams; captured at Island No. 10; 
 served through the war. 
 
 Capus Wilson; captured at Island No. 10; died at 
 Mobile. 
 
214 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 Henry Wright; discharged, ill health. 
 Wm. J. Yarboro ; captured at Island No. 10 ; served 
 through the war. 
 
 Robert W.lii\)ung; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 Roll of Company ''F/' Forty-Sixth Regiment, Ten- 
 nessee Infantry. 
 
 Capt. John C. Po^ner; captured at Island No. 10; 
 discharged at reorganization. 
 
 First Lieut. George W. 8cott; escaped at Island 
 No. 10. 
 
 Second Lieut. Brodie T. Howard; escaped at Is- 
 land No. 10; re-enlisted in Company ^'K," Twentieth 
 Tennessee Cavalry. 
 
 Third Lieut. Miles F. Tyler; escaped at Island No. 
 10. 
 
 First Sergt. Wm. T. Sims; captured at Island No. 
 10 ; elected captain at reorganization ; served through 
 the war. 
 
 Second Sergt. W." S. Jones; escaped at Island No. 
 10. 
 
 Third Sergt. J. Harvey Sims; captured at Island 
 No. 10; died in prison June, 18G2. 
 
 Fourth Sergt. Wes Callicutt; elected second lieu- 
 tenant at reorganization; served through the war. 
 
 Fifth Sergt. George Milliken; escaped at Island 
 No. 10. 
 
 First Corp. Pink Scott; captured at Island No. 10; 
 served through the war. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 215 
 
 Second Corp. W. Logan Tharpe ; captured at Island 
 No. 10 ; served tlirougli the war. 
 
 Third Corp. LaFayette Bowden; killed at Island 
 No. 10. 
 
 Robert A. Acklin ; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 Jeff Ayr}^; transferred to Company ''K'\ 
 
 Wm. Baldwin; captured at Island No. 10; took 
 oath in prison. 
 
 Henr}^ Baldwin ; escaped at Island No. 10 ; returned 
 to regiment. 
 
 Wm. Berry; escaped at Island No. 10|l 
 
 John Buckley; escaped at Island No. w. 
 
 L. H. Burton; captured at Island No. 10; dis- 
 charged, ill health. 
 
 Anderson Byars; captured at Island No. 10; died 
 at Port Hudson. 
 
 Zack Byars; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 Robert Caldwell; escaped at Island No. 10; served 
 through the war. 
 
 Stephen Cantrell; escaped at Island No. 10; re- 
 turned to regiment; died April, 1863. 
 
 Carr Coleman ; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 Lewis Coleman; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 Wm. Crews ; escaped at Island No. 10 ; returned to 
 regiment; served through the war. 
 
 Shelby Crittenden ; escaped at Island No. 10 . 
 
 Thomas Crowder; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 Wm. Crowder; captured at Island No. 10; elected 
 first sergeant at reorganization; served through the 
 war. 
 
 James L. Dobbins; captured at Island No. 10; 
 served through the war. 
 
216 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 Frank Dumas; captured at Island Xo. 10; elected 
 lieutenant at reorganization; killed at Atlanta. 
 
 J. Evans; captured at Island No. 10; died August, 
 1862. 
 
 Warren Freeman; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 Samuel Groomes ; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 Kichard Haley ; transferred to some other company. 
 
 Wm. Harrell ; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 Bradford Hartsfield; captured at Island No. 10; 
 died August, 1863. 
 
 Anderson Hellard; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 — . — . Hendricks. 
 
 — . — . Hendricks. 
 
 Alvius Hill ; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 Robert Howard ; captured at Island No. 10 ; served 
 through the war. 
 
 Wm. House ; captured at Island No. 10 ; transferred 
 to company of sharpshooters; killed at Nashville. 
 
 John Jenkins; died during the war. 
 
 Wm. M. Jones; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 R. S. Journey; captured at Island No. 10; died in 
 prison, May 15, 1862. 
 
 F. L. Key ; captured at Island No. 10 ; died in prison 
 July, 1862. 
 
 Sea ton Key; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 Thompson Key; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 Wm. Key; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 Rufus King; escaped at Island No. 10; returned 
 to regiment ; left sick at Port Hudson ; fate unknown. 
 
 Wm. E. Kirby ; -captured at Island No. 10 and at 
 Port Hudson. 
 
 Ab. Lampkins; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 217 
 
 Matthew Lampkins; captured at Island No. 10; 
 served through the war. * 
 
 Robert Lampkins ; captured at Island No. 10. 
 
 Louis Lafon ; discharged. 
 
 F. M. Luter; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 R. A. Luter: escaped at Island No. 10; returned to 
 regiment; captured at Nashville; served through the 
 
 war. 
 
 Charles Marshall; captured at Island No. 10; 
 served through the war. 
 
 M. Y. Maxwell ; transferred to Company ''D," Fifth 
 Tennessee. 
 
 Wm. S. McCall; escaped at Island No. 10; served 
 in cavalry. 
 
 John McMichael; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 Euphrates Moore; captured at Island No. 10; died 
 August, 1862. 
 
 Newt Moore; escaped at Island No. 10; served 
 in Twentieth Cavalry. 
 
 Jeff W. Nicholls; captured at Island No. 10; died 
 September, 1862. 
 
 Ransom Nicholls; captured at Island No. 10 and 
 at Nashville ; served through the war. 
 
 Thomas Parham; escaped at Island No. 10; joined 
 the Federals. 
 
 Edward Powell; died of measles. 
 
 S. O. Powell; captured at Island No. 10; died in 
 prison, July, 1862. 
 
 W. H. Powell; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 Green Prince; escaped at Island No. 10; joined cav- 
 alrv and was killed bv beino thrown from his horse. 
 
218 History of HExXRy County Commands 
 
 Jolm Prince; escaped at Island No. 10; returned 
 to re^t»iment ; served three and one-half years. 
 
 Albert Kidgway; captured at Island Ko. 10; died 
 during the war. 
 
 Joe Ridgway; captured at Isalnd No. 10; served 
 through the war. 
 
 LaFayette Kidgway; captured at Island No. 10; 
 served through tlie war. 
 
 Calvin Edwards; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 J. M. Scott; captured at Island No. 10; served 
 through the war. 
 
 Peter Scott; captured at Island No. 10; joined the 
 Federals. 
 
 J. Samuel Scott ; captured at Island No. 10 ; elected 
 first sergeant at reorganization; served through the 
 war. 
 
 A. J. Sheridan; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 George Sheridan ; ciiptured at Island No. 10 and at 
 Nashville; served through the war. 
 
 Henry Sheridan; captured at Island No. 10; es- 
 caped at Cairo. 
 
 John Sheridan ; captured at Island No. 10 ; took 
 oath in prison. 
 
 Marion Sims; died at home on furlough. 
 
 Ezekiel Somers; died during the war. 
 
 AVm. Stephens ; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 George Stewart; escaped at Island No. 10; served 
 in Company ''H," Twelfth Kentucky Cavalry; wound- 
 ed and lost an arm at Ilarrisburg. 
 
 Thomas Stewart ; escaped at Island No. 10 ; served 
 in Company ''H/' Twelfth Kentucky Cavalry. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 219 
 
 W. F. Stiles; transferred to Company "D/' Fifth 
 Tennessee. 
 
 Harrison Sullers; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 John Wade; captured at Island No. 10; lost sight 
 of in Mississippi, October, 1862. 
 
 John Webster; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 Shadrach Webster; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 K. W. Wiggins; captured at Island No. 10; dis- 
 charged, ill health. 
 
 J. J. Wilkerson; captured at Island No. 10; died 
 in prison, June, 1862. 
 
 Elisha Winters; died at Island No. 10. 
 
 John W. Winters; discharged, ill health. 
 
 Roll of Company ''G," -Forty-Sixth Regiment, Ten- 
 nessee Infantry. 
 
 Capt. William B. Vancleave, Jr. ; captured at Is- 
 land No. 10 ; discharged at reorganization. 
 
 First Lieut. Robert Maddox; captured at Island 
 No. 10; re-elected at reorganigation ; captured on re- 
 cruiting service in Henr}^ County; served through 
 the war. 
 
 Second Lieut. Thomas Nicholls; escaped at Island 
 No. 10. 
 
 Third Lieut. James Hicks; captured at Island No. 
 10; discharged at reorganization. 
 
220 History of Hekry County Commands 
 
 First Sergt. — . — . Kasco; escaped at Island No. 
 10; joiDed Federals. 
 
 Second Sergt. F. Marion Hastings ; captured at 
 Island No. 10; elected second lieutenant at reorgani- 
 zation; captured on recruiting service; wounded at 
 Atlanta and Bentonville, N. C. ; served through the 
 war; present at surrender. 
 
 James Boden. 
 
 John Burnett; captured in Georgia. 
 
 Zack Childers; joined the Federals. 
 
 Wm. Childers; joined the Federals. 
 
 Morrison Davis; captured at Island 'No. 10; took 
 oath in prison. 
 
 Columbus Dortch; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 James Gately ; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 T. Henry Greene; died at Island No. 10. 
 
 Lud Grissom; died in hospital. 
 
 Newt M. Grissom ; captured at Island No. 10 ; died 
 in prison. 
 
 Scott Holden; captured at Island No. 10; took 
 oath in prison. 
 
 Thomas Hughes; captured at Island No. 10; died 
 in prison. 
 
 Wm. Huie. 
 
 Thomas Jenkins; died April, 1862. 
 
 Wm. McCaskill ; served through the war. 
 
 Robert McFarland. 
 
 Wm. McGowen; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 Daniel McKissick. 
 
 Stephen Pierce. 
 
 Peyton H. Randle; captured at Island No. 10; 
 elected captain at reorganization. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 221 
 
 Luke Redden. 
 
 Henry Sexton. 
 
 S. B.' Sproul. 
 
 Jacob Straub; captured at Island No. 10; served 
 through the war. 
 
 Newton Vancleave ; wounded at Atlanta ; died Sep- 
 tember, 1864. 
 
 S. M. Vancleave; wounded at Atlanta; died at Ma- 
 con, Ga., September 5, 1864. 
 
 Nezor Vaughan ; escaped aT Island No. 10. 
 
 Roll of Company "H," Forty-Sixth Regiment, Ten- 
 nessee Infantry. 
 
 Capt. J. M. Hannah; captured at Island No. 10; 
 discharged at reorganization. 
 
 First Lieut. W. D. Haynes ; captured at Island No. 
 10; elected captain at reorganization. 
 
 Second Lieut. W. L. Smith ; captured at Island No. 
 10. 
 
 Third Lieut. J. R. Anderson ; discharged, ill health. 
 
 First Sergt. D. M. Lankford; captured at Island 
 No. 10 ; discharged, ill health ; re-enlisted in Company 
 <<E," Twentieth Tennessee Cavalry; wounded at 
 Brice's Cross Roads; served through the war. 
 
 Second Sergt. James McClintock. 
 
 Third Sergt. T. J. Smith; died at home; 
 
 J. T. Atkins. 
 
222 TIiSTORY OF Henry County Commands 
 
 Tim Barliam; captured at Island Xo. 10; dis- 
 cliarged, under age. 
 
 Joe Baxter; captured at Island No. 10. 
 
 Jasper Bird; captured at Island No. 10. 
 
 James W. Bird; captured at Island No. 10; dis- 
 charged, under age. 
 
 Johnson Busbee; captured at Island No. 10; died 
 in prison. 
 
 Justin Busbee; died near Chattanooga. 
 
 L. C. Cooper; captured at Island No. 10; died in 
 prison. 
 
 W. P. Covington ; captured at Island No. 10. 
 
 Wm. Davis; captured at Island No. 10. 
 
 Henry Dilda ; captured at Island No. 10. 
 
 John Dill ; captured at Island No. 10 ; serA ed 
 through the war. 
 
 H. f'odge; captured at Island No. 10; served 
 through the war. 
 
 J. N. Fowler; died at home. 
 
 W. H. Fowler; captured at Island No. 10; served 
 through the war. 
 
 H. Hannah ; killed at Atlanta. 
 
 Wm. Hannah; captured at Island No. 10; killed at 
 Atlanta. 
 
 H. Hinson ; captured at Island No. 10; served 
 through the war. 
 
 T. O. Jackson; captured at Island No. 10; served 
 through the war. 
 
 James Joiner. 
 
 R. C. Jones; captured at Island No. 10; served 
 through the war. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 223 
 
 Bob Jones; captured at Island No. 10; discharged, 
 over age. 
 
 T. E. Lawrence; discharged, over age. 
 
 V. McAdoo; captured at Island No. 10; wounded 
 while on picket at Atlanta and died. 
 
 George McCain ; captured at Island No. 10 ; took 
 oath in prison. 
 
 John McCain ; died at home during the war. 
 
 Kobert McCain ; captured at Island No. 10 ; wound- 
 ed at Atlanta; served through the war. 
 
 Wm. McCain; captured at Island No. 10; served 
 through the war. ( Only private of the company pres- 
 ent at the surrender. ) 
 
 Robert McClintock; captured at Island No. 10; 
 served through the war. 
 
 Robert Patterson; captured at Island No. 10; 
 served through the war. 
 
 Joseph P. Poe; captured at island No. 10; dis- 
 charged, over age. 
 
 Elijah Pruett; captured at Island No. 10; served 
 through the war. 
 
 William Pruett; captured at Island No. 10; served 
 through the war. 
 
 S. G. Ramey; captured at Island No. 10; died at 
 Port Hudson, November 17, 1862. 
 
 W. W. Randall; captured at Island No. 10; died 
 in prison. 
 
 J. R. Rogers; captured at Island No. 10; died in 
 prison. 
 
 Dan W. Rushing; captured at Island No. 10; died 
 at Mobile. 
 
224 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 J. B. Stuart ; elected third lieutenant, April, 1862 ; 
 captured at Island No. 10 ; discharged-. 
 
 Thomas F. Sullivan; died at Madrid Bend, Mo., 
 April, 1862. 
 
 E. P. Sullivan ; captured at Island No. 10 ; died in 
 prison. 
 
 M. Thompson ; died April 2, 1862. 
 
 Henry Vancleave ; died November, 1862. 
 
 John Vaughan; captured at Island No. 10; served 
 through the war. 
 
 Perry Vaughan ; captured at Island No. 10 ; wound- 
 ed at Atlanta; served through the war. 
 
 J. T. Watkins; captured at Island No. 10; trans- 
 ferred to the Navy and captured; served through the 
 war. 
 
 L. W. Wilson ; captured at Island No. 10 ; killed at 
 Atlanta. 
 
 Tiffus Wilson ; captured at Island No. 10 ; wounded 
 at Atlanta and died. 
 
 R. V. Wren; captured at Island No. 10; died in 
 prison. 
 
 W. C. Wilson ; captured at Island No. 10 ; killed at 
 Atlanta. 
 
 Henry W. Wright ; captured at Island No. 10 ; dis- 
 charged, over age. 
 
 L. M. Young; died at Union City, January, 1862. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 225 
 
 Roll of Company ''I/' Forty-Sixth Regiment, Ten- 
 nessee Infantry. 
 
 Capt. Robert A. Owens; captured at Island No. 10; 
 elected lieutenant colonel at reorganization; pro- 
 moted to colonel ; wounded at Jackson, Miss. ; served 
 through the war. 
 
 First Lieut. John H. Williams ; captured at Island 
 No. 10; discharged at reorganization. 
 . Second Lieut. Isaac M. Hudson ; captured at Island 
 No. 10 and again at home on recruiting service; ap- 
 pointed adjutant at reorganization; served through 
 the war. 
 
 Third Lieut. W. P. Caldwell ; escaped at Island No. 
 10. 
 
 First Sergt. W. R. Williams; captured at Island 
 No. 10. 
 
 Second Sergt. M. L. Williams; escaped at Island 
 No. 10. 
 
 Third Sergt. W. D. Thompson; captured at Island 
 No. 10 ; served three years. 
 
 First Corp. J. B. Owens ; escaped at Island No. 10 ; 
 served in Company ''F/' Twentieth Tennessee Cav- 
 alry. 
 
 J. W. Almond; died April 7, 1862. 
 
 J. W. Atkerson; captured at Island No. 10; served 
 through the war ; present at the surrender. 
 
 Richard Atkins. 
 
 D. C. Caldwell ; died January 7, 1862. 
 
 Anthony Cooper. 
 
 Caldwell Cooper. 
 
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226 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 Henry Cooper; escaped at Island No. 10; enlisted 
 in cavalry. 
 
 James Fowler; captured at Island No. 10; took 
 oath in prison. 
 
 Henry Griffin. 
 
 J. M. Hays ; died April 1, 1863. 
 
 W. E. Kino-; died February, 1862. 
 
 D. C. Lee ; captured at Island No. 10 ; died in prison. 
 
 J. P. Lee; captured at Island No. 10; escaped from 
 prison. 
 
 H. C. Lee ; captured at Island No. 10 ; escaped. 
 
 G. C. Lemonds; captured at Island No. 10. 
 
 — . — . Scarl)oro. 
 
 — . — . Scarboro. 
 
 — . — . Thompson. 
 
 Noali Thompson; escaped at Island No. 10; joined 
 some other command and disappeared. 
 
 D. M. L. Walker ; captured at Island No. 10 ; served 
 through the war. 
 
 Kichmond Walker; died at Island No. 10. 
 
 J. Wesley Watkins. 
 
 Wm. Watkins. 
 
 Wm. Whitfield ; died July 30, 1862. 
 
 Crofford Williams ; captured at Island No. 10 ; dis- 
 charged, ill health. 
 
 J. M. L. Williams; escaped at Island No. 10; died 
 at home. 
 
 R. D. Williams; captured at Island No. 10; died 
 April 10, 1862. 
 
 B. F. Wimberly; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 Wm. W. Wimberly; escaped at Island No. 10;. 
 served in cavalry and died. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 227 
 
 KoLL OF Company ''K," Forty-Sixth Eegiment^ Ten- 
 nessee Infantry. 
 
 Capt. John D. Paschall ; captured at Island No. 10 ; 
 re-elected at reorganization; wounded at Franklin; 
 served tlirougli the war. 
 
 First Lieut. Wyatt Yow; captured at Island No. 
 10; discharged at reorganization. 
 
 Second Lieut. Elisha Paschall; captured at Island 
 No. 10; elected first lieutenant at reorganization; 
 served through the war. 
 
 Third Lieut. Robert D. Hendricks; captured at Is- 
 land No. 10; elected second lieutenant at reorganiza- 
 tion; detached and served as train inspector at Co- 
 lumbus, Ga. ; wounded at Franklin and died Decem- 
 ber 2, 1864. 
 
 First Sergt. David Arnn; captured at Island No. 
 10; took oath in prison and joined Federals. 
 
 Matt. Ashlock ; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 J. B. Atkins; discharged, ill health. 
 
 Thomas Ayry; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 Eugene Boatwright (drummer boy). 
 
 Bloomfield Boden; captured at Island No. 10. 
 
 Wm. Brisendine; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 Jeff Butler; captured at Island No. 10. 
 
 Henry Cochran ; captured at Island No. 10 ; wound- 
 ed at Atlanta and died. 
 
 Marsh Cole; discharged, ill health. 
 
 Berry Ford; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 Robert C. Foster ; captured at Island No. 10 ; elect- 
 
228 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 ed third lieutenant at reorganization ; served through 
 the war. 
 
 Wm. Gallimore; escaped at Island Xo. 10. 
 
 Porter Hill ; died of measles. 
 
 Elias Holden ; died June 26, 1862. 
 
 Jeff Jimmison; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 Thompson Key; captured at Island No. 10.; died 
 in prison. 
 
 William Key; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 John Mason ; captured at Island No. 10 ; died in 
 hospital in Mississippi. 
 
 Wright Mason; captured at Island No. 10; served 
 through the war. 
 
 J. K. Polk Martin; captured at Island No. 10; 
 elected first sergeant at reorganization; served 
 through the war. 
 
 T. H. Mathis ; died July 29, 1863. 
 
 James Morton ; discharged, ill health. 
 
 Frank Nance. 
 
 Richard Nance; captured at Island No. 10. 
 
 Wm. Nance ; captured at Island No. 10 ; discharged, 
 over age. 
 
 Bedford Orr ; captured at Island No. 10. 
 
 Cyrus Orr; captured at Island No. 10; served 
 through the war. 
 
 James Orr; captured at Island No. 10; killed at 
 Atlanta. 
 
 James Palmer; captured at Island No. 10; killed 
 at Atlanta or Franklin. 
 
 Thomas Paschall; captured at Island No. 10; lost 
 sight of in Mississippi. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 229 
 
 Samuel Pascliall; captured at Island No. 10; 
 served through the war. 
 
 Wm. Kussell; discharged, ill health. 
 
 V. D. Spradling; died April 2, 1862. 
 
 Thomas Stephens; escaped at Island No. 10; re- 
 turned to regiment; served through the war. 
 
 Frank Stephens. 
 
 — . — . Tharpe; wounded at Kennesaw Mountain. 
 
 Wilson Thomason ; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 Linn Turner; served a jesiv in First Kentucky In- 
 fantry; after its disbandment, enlisted in this com- 
 pany ; killed at Atlanta. 
 
 Loony Turner; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 John H. Vaughan; captured at Island No. 10; 
 served through the war. 
 
 Perry Vaughan ; captured at Island No. 10 ; served 
 through the war. 
 
 E. T. Walker ; escaped at Island No. 10. 
 
 Fred Wilson ; captured at Island No. 10. 
 
 James Wilson; captured at Island No. 10; served 
 through the war. 
 
 W. C. Wilson; captured at Island No. 10. 
 
 W. D. Wilson ; captured at Island No. 10 ; wounded 
 and lost an arm and captured at Atlanta; served 
 through the war. 
 
 Henry Young; captured and died after exchange. 
 
230 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 Sketch of Company '-G," Seventh Regiment^ Ten- 
 nessee Cavalry. 
 
 In the autumn of 1861, Capt. J. G. Stocks of Mem- 
 phis, came to Par is, bringing with him a few men as a 
 nucleus of a cavalry company which he announced his 
 determination to form. The young cavaliers of Henry 
 County flocked to his standard, and soon he had en- 
 listed about one hundred men. These were mustered 
 into the Confederate service and fully organized, and 
 went into camp at the old fair grounds, one mile north- 
 west of town, and were constantly drilled and trained 
 till the last day of the year, when they marched to Co- 
 lumbus, Ky., camping awhile at Poyner's Mill, and at 
 Camp Beauregard, near Feliciana, Ky. Returning to 
 Camp Beauregard they were joined by McCutchen's 
 company, recently enlisted in Weakly county, and 
 henceforth these two companies, forming a squadron, 
 were closely allied during all the campaigns that fol- 
 lowed. 
 
 Uniting alsc with Miller's Mississippi Battallion 
 and Colonel Brewer's, all under command of Colonel 
 Miller, they followed a Federal force under General 
 Smith, who had come out from Paducah, going as far 
 as New Concord, Ky., and later reconnoitered along 
 the Tennessee River. February 15th, 1862, while en- 
 camped at Paris, Colonel Miller took the company on 
 a reconnoisance in the direction of Ft. Heiman. When 
 within one and a half miles of this place they came in 
 sight of some Federals posted in a yard near Mt. Car- 
 mel church. Withdrawing a short distance, and dis- 
 
In Confederate States Army. 
 
 231 
 
 .jgrm^, 
 
 mounting, they formed and advanced in one rank and 
 a sharp skirmish ensued. The small force soon retir- 
 ing, placed out a rear guard. James Boyd, J. M. 
 Fields and John Paschall were wounded. March 1st, 
 the company was sent to Columbus, Ky., to destroy 
 the stores left there on its evacuation by General 
 Polk. Keturniug to Paris, Major King's Battalion 
 and Stocks' and McCutchen's companies encamped a 
 mile or more west of Paris, on the Dresden road, and 
 were engaged in shipping 
 all the supplies that could 
 be secured from the sur- 
 rounding country, sending 
 them Southward by the 
 Memphis & Ohio Railroad. 
 On March — , Major King, 
 who was in command at 
 Paris, sent Rev. Asa Cox, 
 in charge of a scouting 
 party, consisting of C. W. 
 Tandy and two other men, 
 to secure information of 
 the enemy's movements in 
 the direction of Ft. Hei- 
 man. Taking the Obion 
 road, they met a negro 
 
 man near Owens' Hill, from whom they learned that 
 a column of Federals of all arms were en route to 
 Paris by the Mouth of Sandy Road. Private Cox tried 
 to get into this road in advance of the enemy at 
 Wright's shop. Failing in this, he turned towards 
 the Conyersville road. Reaching this he and Tandy 
 
 REV. ASA COX. 
 
232 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 exchanged horses with two citizens and pushed on at 
 full speed. Beaching camp and giving the alarm, the 
 Canfederates scarcely had time to form before the 
 Federals, who had surprised and captured the pickets 
 near Currier's Mill, appeared on the hill west of the 
 Memphis & Ohio depot, and, unlimbering a section of 
 artillery, commenced to shell the camp. 
 
 ^laj. King's force formed under cover of the timber, 
 prepared an ambuscade and waited the evening's at- 
 tack. The shelling ceased soon after and the cavalry 
 advanced, but the plan of surprise was defeated by a 
 drunken Confederate, who rose up and fired prema- 
 turely. After a few rounds the enemy retired and 
 took up their march back to Ft. Heiman. Lieut. John 
 Yow and Private Glover of King's Battalion were 
 killed. The Federals carried off several dead. The 
 success of Private Cox's scout secured for him the 
 confidence of the officers, and many times afterward 
 he did valuable scouting. Major King - retired to 
 Henry Station, where he continued to collect and 
 ship all accessible supplies, and later to Humboldt, 
 destroying the railroad as they fell back. 
 
 April 1, 1862, the command was surprised in camp 
 at Union City. Fell back in pretty good order to 
 Trenton, losing most of their baggage, however. Here 
 a regimental organization was effected May 24, 1862, 
 Captain Stocks' Company becoming Company ^'G'^ 
 and McCutchen's Company ^'H" of the Seventh Ten- 
 nessee Cavalry. For the next fortnight they were 
 employed in covering the withdrawal of Confederate 
 forces from Ft. Pillow to North Mississippi, and were 
 
In Confederate States Army. 233 
 
 within three miles of Memphis when that place sur- 
 rendered. 
 
 June 10, 1862, the regiment was permanently or- 
 ganized by the election of William H. Jackson, col- 
 onel; J. G. Stocks, lieutenant-colonel, and W. L. 
 Duckworth, major. Lieut. F. F. Aden was promoted 
 to Captain, Lieut. Benjamin M. Diggs to first lieuten- 
 ant and Lieut. J. J. Blake to second lieutenant, and 
 W. N. Grifiin to third lieutenant. The summer of 
 1862 was spent in scouting in North Mississippi, and 
 in August . General Armstrong advanced into West 
 Tennessee with about 5,000 cavalry and attacked the 
 enemy at Bolivar and Medon and fougKt a Federal 
 Brigade at Britton's Lane, both sides retiring. 
 
 September 29 the command moved to Holly Springs 
 and thence advanced with Van Dorn and Price to at- 
 tack Corinth. Companies ^'C and "H," forming the 
 advance guard, served as pickets, scouts and couriers 
 during that disastrous short campaign, and covered 
 the retreat. On the second day these two companies 
 built a temporary bridge over the Hatchie Kiver, by 
 which the army was enabled to escape from the Fed- 
 eral forces closing in from front and rear. They took 
 part in Van Dorn's great cavalry dash to Grant's 
 rear, capturing and destroying |5,000,000 or |6,000,- 
 000 worth of stores at Holl}^ Springs and capturing 
 2,500 prisoners. 
 
 Advanced again into West Tennessee and fought at 
 Davis' Mill, Middleton and Bolivar. At Davis' Mill, 
 January 1, 1863, Lieut. Benjamin M. Diggs was mor- 
 tally wounded while gallantly leading the company. 
 Colonel Jackson having been made brigadier-general, 
 
234 
 
 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 Lieutenant-Colonel Stocks was promoted to colonel, 
 and Major Duckworth to lieutenant-colonel. 
 
 The spring and summer of 1863 was spent in guard- 
 ing North Mississippi from 
 incursions moving out 
 from Memphis, and the 
 whole territory from Jack- 
 son, Miss., to the M. & C. 
 Railroad was traversed in 
 various directions and at 
 various times. 
 
 From January 1, 1862, to 
 August of the same year 
 Company ''G," Seventh 
 Tennessee Cavalry, 
 ma relied from ten to fifty 
 miles each twenty-fpur 
 hours, and drilled on foot 
 in the morning and on 
 .horseback in the evening, 
 whenever time could be found. The scarcity of cav- 
 alry in the West rendered this hard service necessary. 
 In May or June they engaged in a running fight 
 near Hernando with a Federal detachment, with no 
 casualties, but fifteen or twenty Federals were killed 
 and wounded. 
 
 To detail minutely all the movements of the Sev- 
 enth Cavalry would be beyond the scope of this his- 
 tory, so it will only be possible to refer to many occur- 
 rences in a general way and specifically only where 
 Company ^'G" performed a conspicuous part. Early 
 in the fall of 1863, Colonel Stocks resigned on account 
 
 LIEUT. B. M. DIGGS. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 235 
 
 of failing health, and Lieutenant-Colonel Duckworth 
 was promoted to colonel, and some time later Capt. 
 C. C. Clay was advanced to the position of major. 
 Early in October Col. T. H. Bell, formerly of the 
 Twelfth Tennessee Infantry, was sent to West Ten- 
 nessee, within the Federal lines, to collect and bring 
 out recruits, and Company ^^G" was detached to ac- 
 company him, doing excellent but hard service, and 
 with a few other troops were enabled by General For- 
 rest's skillful management and hard fighting by his 
 troops to successfully escort about 1,800 recruits 
 through the cordon of Federal troops along the M. & 
 C. Kailroad. Henceforth they had a general in whose 
 ability they had implicit trust. Late in February, 
 1864, Generals Smith and Grierson advanced from 
 Memphis with a force of 7,000 men to destroy the 
 Mobile & Ohio Railroad and pillage the rich prairie 
 country along its route. Col. Jeff Forrest's Brigade 
 (to which the Seventh Tennessee belonged) met their 
 advance at Egypt Station and stubbornly resisted 
 and checked its forward movement, falling back to 
 Soonkatonchee Creek, four miles south of West Point, 
 where it was attacked by a superior force, which it 
 fought for two or three hours. General Forrest says 
 of this fight that "about 300 men of the Second and 
 Seventh Tennessee received repeated charges of seven 
 regiments of the enemy in open ground and drove 
 them back every time, finally driving them from 
 the field, capturing three stands of colors and one 
 piece of artillery. A great deal of the fighting was 
 almost hand to hand." 
 
 These Confederate forces, reinforced by others, fol- 
 
236 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 lowed them as they retreated and came upon them ten 
 miles from Pontotoc, where they attempted to .make 
 a stand, and charged the Second and Seventh Regi- 
 ments in three lines, but these regiments, though 
 nearly out of ammunition, repulsed them and drove 
 back each line in succession. ^'Standing firm," Gen- 
 eral Forrest says, '^they repulsed the grandest cav- 
 alry charge I ever witnessed.'' The retreat of the 
 enemy now became a rout, but the Confederates were 
 nearly out of ammunition and too nearly exhausted 
 to press the pursuit vigorously. 
 
 On the night of the 22d, General Forrest instructed 
 Captain Aden to send a commissioned officer and 
 twenty-five or thirty men to harass the enemy and 
 keep them frightened till morning, and to send cou- 
 riers back to bring up the command. This was suc- 
 cessfully and faithfully performed, but the records 
 omit the names of those who performed this trying 
 and praiseworthy service. 
 
 In the month of March, General Forrest again en- 
 tered West Tennessee, this time making his entree 
 near Purdy. Capt. F. F. Aden, with his company, 
 was detached to escort Tennessee's Governor (Isham 
 G. Harris) to Paris, Tenn., to visit his family. Near 
 Mansfield they encountered a battalion of Federals 
 and a spirited engagement took place. The Federal 
 force retired with the loss of two killed, including 
 their major, and several wounded. Company ''G" had 
 two wounded. The company numbered only forty 
 men. Returning from Paris the company rejoined 
 the regiment at Trenton. 
 
 While General Forrest took the main command to 
 
History of Henry County Commands 237 
 
 attack Paducah, he ordered Colonel Duckworth to 
 proceed to Union City with the Seventh Tennessee, 
 Twelfth Kentucky and McDonald's Battalion and 
 capture the Federal force there. Colonel Duckworth 
 found it strongly fortified, but by a display of force 
 and a clever ruse influenced Col. Isaac E. Hawkins, 
 commanding, to surrender his force, after some sharp 
 skirmishing. Seven hundred prisoners, many horses 
 and much army stores were the fruits of this capture. 
 
 While the attack and capture of Ft. Pillow was 
 being made the Seventh was stationed at Randolph 
 to prevent any reinforcements being sent from Mem- 
 phis to the relief of that place. The regiment, after 
 camping a few days at Jackson, Tenn., returned with 
 the other cavalry to North Mississippi. 
 
 June 10 they moved from Baldwin to Brice's X 
 Roads to repel the second attempt to capture the Con- 
 federate cornfields of Eastern Mississippi and imme- 
 diately charged the enemy over a broad field and then 
 through tangled brushwood and, though stubbornly 
 resisted, drove them back, and with the aid of other 
 commands, soon turned the defeat into a rout, and 
 pressed the Federals far into the night, only halting 
 when thoroughly exhausted. Company ^'G'' lost two 
 of its bravest and best men in this battle. Dr. Thomas 
 C. Simmons and Frank Wakeland and several were 
 also wounded, among them Capt. F. F. Aden. A month 
 later the Federals made another attempt to reach 
 the rich grain-producing region called Egypt, this 
 time getting as far as Harrisburg, west of Tupelo. 
 Being confronted by Confederates under command 
 of Gen. S. D. Lee, they fortified, and General Lee 
 made the mistake of attacking them in their in- 
 
238 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 trenchments, instead of flanking them, as could 
 
 have been easily done. 
 After heavy fighting for 
 nearly two days the enemy 
 again retreated towards 
 ^Memphis. The Confeder- 
 ates pursued, but were not 
 in condition to press them 
 as rapidly as at Okolona 
 and Brice's X Roads. Com- 
 pany "G" entered the eng- 
 gagement with twenty- 
 seven men. Only eleven of 
 these escaped unhurt. 
 Lieut. James Haynes, Mor- 
 ris Womack, Reuben Yan- 
 dyck and S. Fields were 
 killed and others wounded. 
 September 16, 1864, Gen- 
 eral Forrest started into 
 North Alabama and Middle Tennessee, with the pur- 
 pose of cutting General Sherman's line of communica- 
 tions. Crossing the Tennessee River at Colbert's 
 Shoals, and striking the Nashville & Decatur Rail- 
 road at Athens, captured the forces guarding it, thence 
 to near Pulaski, and destroyed many trestles and 
 bridges. The Seventh Regiment bore its part nobly 
 in this arduous and dangerous work. At Athens 
 Lieut. J. J. Blake was desperately wounded. The nu- 
 merous Federal columns sent to intercept Forrest 
 were now converging upon him, and he was compelled 
 to retire with his small force. Reaching the Ten- 
 
 CAPT. F. F. ADEN. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 
 
 239 
 
 nessee River it was found so swollen as to be unford- 
 able, and the means of ferriage was so limited that 
 the enemy was closing 
 upon him before his com- 
 mand could be crossed. To 
 the Seventh Regiment was 
 again awarded the hazard- 
 ous task of keeping them at 
 bay till the river could be 
 placed between the main 
 body and, the swiftly ad- 
 vancing enemy. The ever 
 gallant Seventh retired 
 slowly, doggedly contesting 
 every inch of ground. But 
 when the safety of their 
 comrades was assured it 
 was impossible to cross 
 in the face of the watch- 
 ful Federals. Capt. H. C. McCutchen of Com- 
 pany ^^H" was the senior officer present, and after a 
 hjLirried council of the officers, it was decided that 
 each company commander should seek to escape with 
 his command in whatever direction they might sever- 
 ally think best. Strange to say that each company re- 
 maining intact succeeded in making its escape with- 
 out the loss of a man. The river was crossed at va- 
 rious places and the regiment rendezvoused at Jack- 
 son, Tenn. 
 
 October 22 General Forrest started on his raid to 
 the Tennessee River via Paris to Paris Landing, at 
 which place and at old Ft. Heiman three transports 
 
 LIEUT. J. J. BLAKE. 
 
240 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 and a gunboat were captured and a supply of much- 
 needed clothing and shoes obtained. They marched 
 thence to a point opposite Johnsonville, where artil- 
 lery was mounted under cover of night and next even- 
 in«' shells and hot shot were thrown across the river 
 with such success that everything combustible was 
 destroyed, including three gunboats, eleven trans- 
 ports, eighteen barges and warehouses and military 
 stores to the amount of about |8,000,000. General 
 Hood was now at Florence, Ala., on his way into Mid- 
 dle Tennessee, and the cavalry again crossed the 
 river, the Seventh Tennessee and Forrest's old regi- 
 ment at PerryAille, and to them was again given the 
 post of honor and danger as advance guard. 
 
 At Henryville, Summertown, Mt. Pleasant, General 
 Polk's farm and at Columbia they fiercely attacked 
 and drove back the Federals. On November 28 the 
 brigade (Rucker's) crossed Duck River, seven miles 
 east of Columbia, and pushed the Federal rear guard 
 back to Franklin. In that bloody and disastrous en- 
 gagement the Seventh was on the extreme left and 
 drove back the advance forces to the main defenses. 
 Early on November 1 they were again in the advance 
 and following close on the heels of the Federals to 
 Nashville. When General Thomas assumed the of- 
 fensive on December 14 our lines were cut in two and 
 the Seventh nearly hemmed in between the Federals 
 and the Cumberland River. Keeping a bold front to 
 the enemy, they slowly retired on the Harding pike 
 till night, and next day rejoined the main force at 
 Franklin and, with the other cavalry- commands, 
 strengthened by Brown's provisional division, pro- 
 
In Confederate States Army. 241 
 
 teeted the rear of Hoods stricken and decimated army 
 till it had placed the Tennessee River again between 
 themselves and their pursuers. 
 
 When General Wilson started from Decatur, Ala., 
 on his successful and destructive raid in Alabama 
 with 22,000 cavalry and General Forrest prepared as 
 best he could to meet it, the Seventh Tennessee was 
 at West Point, Miss., and formed a part of Gen. A. W. 
 Campbell's Brigade, and they were at once (March 
 27, 1865) put in motion towards Selma, Ala., Wil- 
 son's objective point. On the 31st they encountered 
 LaGrange's Brigade eighteen miles east of Tuscaloosa 
 and skirmished with them on that and succeeding 
 day, dri\ang them back fifteen miles. Later in the 
 day they came up with ('roxton's and drove them back, 
 making important captures, but the Federal forces, 
 having crossed the Cahaba River and burned ^the 
 bridge, further pursuit was impossible. 
 
 Forrest assembled the remnants of his redoubtable 
 cavalry at Gainesville, Ala., and under agreement be- 
 tween his superior and the Federal General Canby 
 the surrender of his forces took place, April 12, 1865. 
 The horses in the Confederate army being furnished 
 and owned by the men who rode them, were exempted 
 in the surrender of equipment, and thus the cavalry- 
 men rode home, and hitching their steeds to their 
 father's plows, went back to the corn and cotton fields 
 from which they had enlisted three and one-half years 
 previously. 
 
 Of the 161 men enlisted in Company ^^G" there were 
 present at the surrender thirty men. Their names 
 will be found noted on the roll following this sketch. 
 
 16 
 
242 History of Heney County Commands 
 
 No braver troop or more daring escort followed the 
 chivalric Forrest, who commanded the best cavalry 
 the world has ever seen. 
 
 Roll of Company "G," Seventh Regiment^ Tennes- 
 see Cavalry. 
 
 Capt J. G. Stocks ; elected lieutenant-colonel at or- 
 ganization; promoted to colonel spring of 1863; 
 wounded in Mississippi; resigned on account of ill 
 health, October, 1863. 
 
 First Lieut. Felin F. Aden ; promoted to captain, 
 June 10, 1863; wounded at Brice's X Roads; served 
 through the war; one of thirty present at surrender. 
 
 Second Lieut. J. J. Blake ; wounded at Athens, Ala. ; 
 served through the war. 
 
 Third Lieut. Benjamin M. Diggs; promoted to sec- 
 ond lieutenant, June 10, 1863; mortally wounded at 
 Davis' Mill, October, 1863. 
 
 First Sergt. William M. Griffin; elected third lieu- 
 tenant at reorganization ; discharged. 
 
 Second Sergt. Pleas J. Diggs; served through the 
 war. 
 
 Third Sergt. W. A. Wright; promoted to orderly 
 sergeant ; served through the war ; one of thirty pres- 
 ent at surrender. 
 
 Fourth Sergt. — . — . Culberhouse ; served one year. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 24B 
 
 First Corp. Thomas Diggs; wounded at Franklin; 
 served through the war. 
 
 Second Corp. J. J. Bishop ; served in Company '^E," 
 Twentieth Tennessee Cavalry. - 
 
 Third Corp. William H. Courts ; wounded and died. 
 
 Fourth Corp. Henry A. Humphreys; elected first 
 sergeant, 1863 ; served through the war ; one of thirty 
 present at surrender. 
 
 James S. Aden; elected first sergeant at reorgan- 
 ization, 1862; captured near Grenada, December,. 
 1862; discharged, 1863. 
 
 John D. Aden ; served through the war. 
 
 Van Alexander ; elected sergeant at reorganization ; 
 died at hospital in Mississippi. 
 
 John E. Anderson ; served through the war ; one of 
 thirty present at surrender. 
 
 William Archer ; joined the Federals after one year. 
 
 S. P. Atkisson; served through the war; one of 
 thirty present at surrender. 
 
 B. F. Ballard ; corporal at reorganization ; captured 
 at Corinth, Miss., October, 1862. 
 
 Joe Beard, died in 1862, on furlough at home. 
 
 Sam Beard, served through the war; one of thirty 
 present at surrender. 
 
 — . — . Beard ; killed at Fort Pillow. 
 
 Buck Bell ; served one year. 
 
 T. N. Bell. 
 
 Jack Biles; killed at Athens, Ala. 
 
 John W. Blythe ; served one year. 
 
 James M. Blake; served through the war; one of 
 thirty present at surrender. 
 
 L. A. Blake ; served through the war. 
 
244 History of Henuy County Commands 
 
 Mack Blake ; served through the war ; one of thirty 
 present at surrender. 
 
 Wilson Blake ; discharged, ill health. 
 
 James H. Blanchett; wounded at Shiloh in throat 
 and coughed up the ball ; served one year. 
 
 John W. Blythe ; served one year. 
 
 James Bowden ; served one year. 
 
 Alex Bowles ; served about a year. 
 
 James M. Boyd ; wounded and captured at Mt. Car- 
 mel Church and escaped. 
 
 W. Monroe Brisendine ; served one year. 
 
 William Brisendine. 
 
 Pearl Bridges ; served one year. 
 
 Porter Bridges ; served one year. 
 
 F. M. Brogden ; served through the war. 
 
 Charlie Burton ; captured at Corinth, October, 1862. 
 
 T. Jeff Burton ; wounded and lost arm in service. 
 
 Arch Carter ; served one year. 
 
 Dick Caton. 
 
 George T. Caton ; served about a year. 
 
 James H. Chiles; served through the war; one of 
 thirty present at surrender. 
 
 James Coff man ; served one year. 
 
 William Coffman; served through the war. 
 
 T. T. Coleman ; wounded at Okalona ; died February 
 22, 1864. 
 
 James E. Collins ; served about a year. 
 
 Kichard Collins; served one year. 
 
 J. D. Cook ; served one year. 
 
 Zack Cook ; served one year. 
 
 James M. Courcy; served through the war. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 245 
 
 Kev. Asa Cox ; scout ; discharged as minister, Octo- 
 ber, 1863. 
 
 Meshech M. Cox; wounded at Nashville; served 
 through the war; one of thirty present at surrender. 
 
 Hart Crutchfield ; served one year. 
 
 Fox Dalton; served through the war. 
 
 William Daniel; died at Irby Mills, Miss., January 
 7, 1864. 
 
 Ben Darby ; served one year. 
 
 James M. Douglass (blacksmith) ; served through 
 the war; one of thirty present at surrender. 
 
 James Duncan ; served one year. 
 
 B. A. Dunlap ; served through the war ; one of thirty 
 present at surrender. 
 
 W. Fletcher Etheridge; wounded at Mansfield, 
 Tenn. 
 
 Harrison Fields; served one year. 
 
 J. W. Fields ; wounded at Mt. Carmel Church ; died 
 in Mississippi. 
 
 R. M. Gilbert; wounded at Davis' Mill; served 
 one year. 
 
 Thomas Granger. 
 
 I. K. Grogan; served one year. 
 
 Thomas H. Grubbs ; served through the war ; one of 
 thirty present at surrender. 
 
 James Gwinn; went home sick after a year's ser- 
 vice. 
 
 J. K. Polk Harmon; captured at Duck Hill, Miss., 
 and paroled. 
 
 G. L. Harris ; served a short while. 
 
 James Haynes; promoted to lieutenant; killed at 
 Harrisburg. 
 
246 History of Heney County Commands 
 
 Sam Haynes; served about two years. 
 
 Richard Holt; served through the war. 
 
 Pleas J. Howard ; served oue year. 
 
 Porter Howard; served one year. 
 
 N. S. Hicks ; served one year. 
 
 Richard Hicks ; served one year. 
 
 George Hudspeth ; served one year. 
 
 Wes M. Humphreys ; promoted to lieutenant ; served 
 through the war. 
 
 William Hutchins; discharged, over age. 
 
 James Jenkins ; served one year. 
 
 Monroe Jenkins; served one year. 
 
 William Jenkins; served one year. 
 
 Felix F. Johnson; served through the war; one of 
 thirty present at surrender. 
 
 John Jones ; served through the war. 
 
 Clint Kelsoe; served about a year. 
 
 C. H. Koen ; served through the war ; one of thirty 
 present at surrender. 
 
 — . — . Koen ; served about a year. 
 
 David Lemonds; discharged, ill health. 
 
 John Linton; died at hospital in Mississippi, June 
 17, 1863. 
 
 E. T. Looney ; served one year. 
 
 Jesse Looney ; served through the war. 
 
 James Louden ; served one year. 
 
 Richard Lumbrick ; served one year. 
 
 Newton E. Manly ; served through war. 
 
 James Martin ; served one year. 
 
 J. K. Polk Martin ; served through the war. 
 
 Jno. Watt Martin ; served one year. 
 
 Wm. C. Martin ; served one year. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 247 
 
 Wm. W. McConnell ; served through the war. 
 
 John McConnell ; served a short while. 
 
 Clem. C. McDearmon ; served one year. 
 
 Kobt. J. McFarland ; captured on furlough. 
 
 Wm. H. McFarland ; captured on furlough. 
 
 John W. McGehee ; served through the war ; one of 
 thirty present at surrender. 
 
 Wm. P. Melton ; served one year. 
 
 — . — . Milam ; died in hospital in Mississippi. 
 
 Pleas Miller ; served about one year. 
 
 Wm. H. Miller ; served about one year. 
 
 Joe Moore; discharged, ill health. 
 
 Henry T. Morris; served through the war; one of 
 thirty present at surrender. 
 
 Wm. D. Morris; served through the war; one of 
 thirty present at surrender. 
 
 Jas. Neal; served about one year. 
 
 James Nunn ; served one year. 
 
 James Olive; wounded in Mississippi. 
 
 James Page; died at Trenton of measles in 1862. 
 
 John Paschall ; wounded at Mt. Carniel church ; cap- 
 tured and escaped. 
 
 Littleton Perry ; served one year. 
 
 George Poore; served one year. 
 
 Howard Poyner; captured while serving in Tenth 
 Tennessee Cavalry, and escaped, and served awhile 
 in Company "G.'^ 
 
 Jno. B. Eainey ; served about one year. 
 
 Geo. Renf roe ; served oiie year. 
 
 Jack Renf roe ; served one year. 
 
 — . — . Reynolds ; perhaps captured at Paris. 
 
 John Rigsby ; served one year. 
 
248 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 Samuel liigsby; served a rear or more. 
 
 AV. Matt. Rowe; served a short while. 
 
 Johu Rushing; discharged, ill health, 1862. 
 
 James Seawright ; served one year. 
 
 J. Logan Seawright; served one year. 
 
 Wm. Seawright ; served one year. 
 
 — . — . Scarboro; wounded at Guntown. 
 
 Hugh Shipley; served about one year. 
 
 Britt Simmons ; served one year. 
 
 Dr. Thos. C. Simmons ; killed at Brice's crossroads. 
 
 James Stone ; served about one year. 
 
 Billie Stubblefield; served through the war. 
 
 Watson Stubblefield ; wounded at Mansfield. 
 
 Wm. Stubblefield ; served one 3^ear. 
 
 S. B. Sproul; discharged, ill health. 
 
 Chas. W. Tandy; Avounded near Tupelo; served 
 though the war ; one of the thirty present at surrender. 
 
 Thos. H. Tayloe; enlisted and commanded Com- 
 pany "D,'' Nineteenth Cavalry. 
 
 Rufus H. Todd ; served about one year. 
 
 Jno. S. VanDyck; captured; served through the 
 war. 
 
 Reuben VanDyck; wounxled at Brice's crossroads; 
 died ten days later. 
 
 Will O. VanDyck ; served through the war. 
 
 Alex Wade ; served one year. 
 
 Frank Wakeland; killed at Brice's crossroads. 
 
 J. H. Walker ; wounded at Qkalona. 
 
 ]M orris Warnock ; killed at Harrisburg. 
 
 Alex Wesson ; killed at Athens, Ala. 
 
 — . — . Wheeler ; served about one year. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 249 
 
 J. T. Wilkins; served through the war; one of 
 thirty present at surrender. 
 
 Jno. H. Wright ; served about two years. 
 
 S. C. Wright ; served through the war ; one of thirty 
 present at surrender. 
 
 — . — . Yarborough; wounded at Guntowu, Miss. 
 
 Thos. J. Yates ; served one year. 
 
 Sketch of Companies '^I" and '^K/' Tenth Regi- 
 ment, Tennessee Cavalry. 
 
 During the summer of 1862, tlie Federal commander 
 at Ft. Heiman (Col. Lowe of the Fifth Iowa Cav- 
 alry), issued orders requiring every man in Henry 
 County to come to the fort and take the oath of alle- 
 giance to the United States, and announced that the 
 failure to comply with this requirement would sub- 
 ject the offender to arrest and imprisonment. Most 
 of the older men with families dependent upon them, 
 realizing that they must forsake their loved ones and 
 flee south, go to prison or comply, decided to take 
 what seemed to them the least of three evils, and took 
 the oath. The younger men, however, and especially 
 those who had served a year under the stars and bars, 
 were not as a rule willing to transfer their allegiance 
 to the government they had sworn to oppose, and 
 man;/ of them mounted their horses, crossed the Ten- 
 nessee river and took refuge among the hills of 
 
250 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 Humphreys and other counties in middle Tennessee, 
 where they found many others seeking an asylum. 
 These hardy spirits naturally gravitated toward each 
 other and soon formed themselves into companies, 
 first as 'Tartisan Rangers," and later as regular mili- 
 tary commands. 
 
 On the 25th day of August, 1862, five of these com- 
 panies rendezvoused at Waverly and organized a bat- 
 talion, with T. H. Napier as lieutenant-colonel. One 
 of these companies was commanded by the redoubtable 
 Capt. D. F. Alexander, formerly a subaltern in the 
 Fifth Infantry, and many of his men were from Henry 
 County. About this time another battalion was formed 
 in Hickman and Perry Counties. One of these com- 
 panies was in command of Capt. Thos. Fletcher, with 
 Clinton Aden as first lieutenant, who afterwards be- 
 came its captain. Some of this company was also from 
 Henry County. Lieutenant-Colonel Napier, who was 
 a very brave man, did valuable service with his bat- 
 talion in obstructing the navigation of the Tennessee 
 River, and at one time capturing three Federal 
 steamers at the mouth of Cypress Creek with two 
 pieces of light artillery. At another time he attacked 
 and defeated a Federal column near Waverly, which 
 had been sent out to endeavor to drive him away or 
 capture him. Major Cox's Battalion did much of the 
 same kind of service between the mouth of Duck River 
 and Savannah. 
 
 When General Forrest made his first raid into West 
 Tennessee, in December, 1862, both these battalions 
 were ordered to accompany the expedition, and shared 
 all the dangers and exposures of the campaign. At 
 
In Confederate States Army. 
 
 251 
 
 Parker's Cross Roads Lieutenant-Colonel Napier and 
 others. were killed and several wounded. 
 
 After a few days rest the expedition against Fort 
 Donelson was undertaken. The command fought 
 valiantly; but the Federals were so thoroughly forti- 
 fied that the attack failed with considerable loss. The 
 fearless Capt. D. F. Alex- 
 ander fell dangerously 
 wounded in the very fore- 
 front. Henry Ridley lay 
 down in front of his strick- 
 en captain and shielded 
 him from further danger. 
 When ordered to retire his 
 men bore him to a house 
 to be cared for, where he 
 was captured and impris- 
 oned. 
 
 Returning to Columbia, 
 Napier's and Cox's Battal- 
 ions were united and 
 formed the Tenth Tennes- 
 see Cavalry. N. N. Cox was made colonel ; E. B. Treze- 
 vant, lieutenant-colonel, and W. E. Demoss major. 
 Colonel Trezevant was soon afterwards killed in a 
 sharp fight at Thompson's Station. Major Demoss 
 was promoted to lieutenant-colonel, and Capt John 
 Minor to major. During Forrest's chase of Streight's 
 Raiders the Tenth Cavalry held the line of Town 
 Creek to prevent reinforcements advancing from the 
 direction of Corinth. They were soon after sent to 
 East Tennessee and placed under Gen. Joe Wheeler. 
 
 CAPT. D. F. ALEXANDER. 
 
252 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 While crossing the Holstoii River at Kingston, in 
 August, 1863, using an old leaky ferry boat, it sank 
 with a boatload of men. Newt Bowden of Company 
 ^'F,'' and Martin Bevil and James McCorkle of Com- 
 pany' ''K'' and two others (none of whom could swim) 
 were drowned. D. I). Brisendine of Company "I," 
 William Greer of Company ''K'' and several others 
 saved themselves by swimming out. 
 
 In September the Tenth fell back towards Chatta- 
 nooga, covering the right wing of the army. 
 
 Upon the investment of Chattanooga by General 
 Bragg, they were sent back to East Tennessee and 
 fought under General Dibbrell at Philadelphia, led 
 Longstreet's advance to Knoxville, fought around 
 that city and covered his retirement towards Virginia. 
 At General Watkins' farm near Mossy Creek Station, 
 January 4, 1864, while on picket, Lieut. Howard 
 Poyner, Dillard Poyner, H. A. Boden, J. F. Bushart, 
 D. D. Brisendine, W. P. Erwin and Henry Diggs 
 were captured. The two former of these escaped by 
 jumping from the train while in motion near Nash- 
 ville. 
 
 The Tenth Regiment spent the winter of 1863-4 in 
 arduous campaigning in upper East Tennessee, and 
 then transferred to Dal ton in the early spring. To 
 accomplish this it was necessary to make a long de- 
 tour through the mountains of western North Caro- 
 lina. During the summer of 1864 the Tenth helped 
 to protect the flanks and cover the rear of Johnson's 
 army from Dalton to Atlanta, and were under fire 
 almost every day. 
 
 Wl)ile the infantry were resting after the fall of 
 
In Confederate States Army. 253 
 
 Atlanta, they accompanied Wheeler on his raid to 
 Sherman's rear and destroyed part of the railroad as 
 far as Knoxville, Tenn., burning much valuable prop- 
 erty and stores of the enemy. 
 
 They crossed the Cumberland Mountains and dam- 
 aged the Nashville and Chattanooga railroad between 
 Bridgeport and Nashville, and the Nashville and De- 
 catur railroad, and at Mount Pleasant, being near 
 the homes of many of the regiment, they were fur- 
 loughed and allowed to visit their loved ones, whom 
 they had not seen for two long years. 
 
 They rendezvoused at Milan and joined Forrest, 
 and with his command preceded Hood's advance into 
 Middle Tennessee, fought in the battles and skir- 
 mishes of that disastrous campaign and retreated with 
 the army as part of the rear guard to North Alabama. 
 
 Reporting at Corinth, Miss., the Tenth was con- 
 solidated with the Sixteenth Tennessee Cavalry and 
 renumbered the Twenty-First. Col. A. N. Wilson of 
 the old Sixteenth was placed in command. 
 
 It was attached to Bell's Brigade of Jackson's Di- 
 vision. 
 
 It did hard marching and fighting in the spring of 
 1865, in trying to arrest the progress of Wilson's 
 hosts marching on Selma, Ala., but was prevented 
 from reaching that point by high water and the de- 
 struction of bridges, and nothing was left for them 
 to do but surrender, which they did at Gainesville, 
 Ala., and scattered to their several homes. 
 
 During the two and a half years of its service Com- 
 pany "K" participated in more than a hundred en- 
 
254 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 gagements. Its casualties amounted to twenty-five 
 per cent of its members. 
 
 On the last campaign they were cut up into detach- 
 ments and fought wherever and whenever the enemy 
 was met, and were surrendered at sundry places and 
 in squads and companies. 
 
 EoLL OF Henry County Members of Company "I," 
 Tenth Regiment Tennessee Cavalry. 
 
 Capt. Clinton Aden; served through the war. 
 
 Second Lieut. Howard Poyner; captured at Mor- 
 ristown, Tenn., and escaped by jumping from train. 
 
 First Sergt. Will Owensby; wounded and captured 
 at Parker's Cross Roads. 
 
 Second Sergt. James F. Bushart; captured at Mor- 
 ristown, Tenn. ; served through the war. 
 
 Thomas Barnes ; served through the war. 
 
 Hud A. Boden; captured at Morristown, Tenn., 
 January, 1864; served through the war. 
 
 Newt Bowden; drowned at Kingston, Tenn., Au- 
 gust, 1863. 
 
 D. D. Brisendine ; captured at Parker's Cross Roads 
 and escaped ; rejoined regiment at LaGrange Furnace ; 
 served through the war. 
 
 Henry Diggs; served through the war. 
 
 W. Pink Erwin; captured at Morristown and pa- 
 
In Confederate States Army. 255 
 
 roled in prison; served in Lyons' escort; captured in 
 Henry County in January, 1865. 
 
 Wm. Greer. 
 
 A. Thomas Milliken; served through the war. 
 
 Bart V. Owensby; served through the war. 
 
 E. P. (Doc) Owensby; served through the war. 
 
 Dillard Poyner; captured at Morristown, and es- 
 caped by jumping from train. 
 
 Henry Kose; served awhile with the company. 
 
 John Eose. 
 
 EoLL OF Henry County Members of Company '^K/' 
 Tenth Eegiment Tennessee Cavalry. 
 
 Capt. D. F. Alexander; captured at Ft. Donelson, 
 1863. 
 
 Second Lieut. J. Oscar Penick ; served through the 
 war. 
 
 First Sergt. Wm. J. Bowden; wounded in East 
 Tennessee; served through the war. 
 
 Second Sergt. Wm. A. Dillahunty; transferred 
 from Fifth Tennessee Infantry, August, 1863; served 
 through the war. 
 
 Samuel A. Allen; transferred to Company "I," 
 Fifth Tennessee (which see.) 
 
 Martin Bevil; drowned at Kingston, Tenn., August, 
 1863. 
 
 Eobert H. Breedlove; served through the war. 
 
 Varner Caldwell; lost sight of at Parker's Cross 
 Eoads. 
 
256 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 James M. Carter; wounded at Parker's Cross 
 Roads ; served through the war. 
 
 Mart L. Cate; killed near Spring Hill, Tenn., in 
 the spring of 1863. 
 
 W. H. Green ; captured scouting in Henry County, 
 Tenn., December 29, 1862 and paroled; served 
 through the war. 
 
 Wm. H. Greer ; served through the war. 
 
 y\'m. B. Greer; served through the war. 
 
 Jas. A. Haymes; detached in 1861; was the only 
 one of the company in the battle of Franklin; served 
 through the war. 
 
 John D. Looney ; captured in East Tennessee, latter 
 part of 1863, and probably paroled. 
 
 Jas. McCorkle; drowned at Kingston, Tenn., in the 
 summer of 1863. 
 
 B. F. Mclntyre; wounded and lost a leg near Dan- 
 dridge, Tenn. 
 
 J. Mitchell Milam; served through the war. 
 
 J. T. (Tice) Palmer; served through the war. 
 
 James Scott ; died in the spring of 1863, at Waverly, 
 Tenn. 
 
 Else Workman; captured scouting between Hunt- 
 ington and Paris, December 29, 1863 ; served in Com- 
 pany ''E," Twentieth Tennessee Cavalry. 
 
 The four following named men joined the company 
 after consolidation with the Sixteenth Tennessee Cav- 
 alry : 
 
 J. Polk Cate; served through the war; present at 
 surrender. 
 
 Manly Hannah; served through the war; present 
 at surrender. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 257 
 
 James M. Todd; served through the war; present 
 at surrender. 
 
 Ed H. Todd; served through the war; present at 
 surrender. 
 
 Companies ''F,/' ''F/ 
 
 SEE Cavalry. 
 
 General Forrest, during his raid into West Ten- 
 nessee, in December, 1862, so effectually destroyed 
 the Mobile & Ohio Railroad, between Corinth and 
 Union City, that the Federals never attempted its 
 rehabilitation, and the army posts along its line were 
 soon abandoned; and though the M. & C. Railroad 
 was still held and operated, the interior of West Ten- 
 nessee was virtually free from the bands of thieves 
 and outlaws (in the name of Federal soldiers) which 
 had infested it.' Emboldened by this favorable condi- 
 tion. Gen. T. H. Bell, formerly colonel of the Twelfth 
 Tennessee Infantry, boldly entered West Tennessee 
 and began recruiting for the Confederate Army. 
 
 In December, 1863, General Forrest having been 
 assigned to command of the Cavalry Department of 
 North Mississippi and West Tennessee, instructed 
 General Bell to collect all the recruits at Jackson, 
 Tenn., and then with what forces he could assemble, 
 pushed his way through the cordon of Federal posts 
 stretched from Memphis to Corinth, and by hard 
 17 
 
258 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 marchino:, fierce fighting and fatigueing labor, build- 
 ing bridges across the swollen streams, etc., succeeded 
 in safely escorting these new levies, amounting to 
 about 1,800 men, to his camps in North Mississippi. 
 
 By combining and transferring and organizing, 
 these raw recruits were speedily organized into com- 
 panies and regiments. Three of these companies were 
 composed mainly of Henry County men, and were 
 placed in Col. R. M. Russell's regiment and numbered 
 the Twentieth Tennessee Cavalry (though in Lins- 
 ley's Annals of Tennessee it is sometimes called the 
 Fifteenth). Colonel Russell had served as colonel 
 of the Twelfth Tennessee Infantry. Lieut. Col. H. 
 C. Greer had been a lieutenant in Company "I," Fifth 
 Tennessee Infantry, and Maj. H. F. Bowman had 
 filled the position of captain of Company '^B" of the 
 same regiment, both of the latter being Henry County 
 men. Capt. W. D. Hallum of Company "E" was a 
 veteran of the Mexican War, and had commanded 
 Company ''I'' of the Fifth Infantry until its reorgani- 
 zation. His company of cavalry was recruited from 
 the southern portion of Henry Ceunty where he had 
 enlisted his company of infantry. 
 
 Capt. J. C. Wilson of Company ^^F" entered the 
 Fifth Infantry as corporal in Company ^'B." At the 
 end of the first year he was elected lieutenant, was 
 desperately wounded at Perryville and captured. 
 When exchanged he found the consolidation of the 
 Fourth and Fifth had left him a supernumerary. Se- 
 curing authority to organize a cavalry company, he 
 recruited it in the northeastern quarter of the county, 
 
In Confederate States Army. 
 
 259 
 
 almost up to the frowning guns of Fort Heiman. It 
 became Company ''F'- of the Twentieth Cavalry. 
 
 Company ''K" of this regiment was enlisted by 
 Capt. H. F. Bowman, formerly of Company ''B," 
 Fifth Tennessee Infantry; but on his promotion to 
 major, Lieut. Macon H. Freeman was promoted to the 
 captaincy, and commanded it until near the close of 
 the war with signal ability and bravery. 
 
 The Twentieth Regiment was placed in Bell's Brig- 
 ade with the Second (Colonel Barteau), Sixteenth 
 (Colonel Wilson), and the Nineteenth (ColQuel New- 
 som), all new commands 
 except the Second. These 
 new soldiers, however, 
 were doomed soon to have 
 a smell of gunpowder, for 
 Forrest enlisted soldiers to 
 fight. A goodly number of 
 them, be it said, had ''seen 
 the elephant" at Shiloh, 
 having served their first 
 year in infantry. 
 
 In February, 1863, Gen- 
 eral Smith started from 
 Memphis on his raid into 
 the prairie country of Mis- 
 sissippi, which culminated 
 in his defeat at Okalona. 
 
 General Forrest, in his preparation to meet it, fear- 
 ing that Smith might cross the Tombigbee at Aber- 
 deen, Miss., and advance on the east of that stream, 
 detached Bell's brigade to pass the river at Columbus 
 
 CAPT. M. H. FREEMAN. 
 
260 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 to meet him if needed. Fiuding Smith was descend- 
 ing on the west side of that stream, General Bell re- 
 ^rossed the river, and kept on the flank of the retreat- 
 ing Federals whom Forrest had driven back the day 
 before. On the morning of February 22, Colonel Bar- 
 teau, commanding Bell's Brigade, approached Oka- 
 lona from the east and found the Federals drawn up 
 in line. Forrest coming up just then was received 
 with cheers and lent confidence to the men, and while 
 EusselFs, Wilson's and Newsom's regiments, all made 
 up mainly of men now under fire for the first time, 
 attacked in front (dismounted), while the Second 
 Tennessee (mounted) attacked on the Federal right 
 flank. McCullough's Brigade coming up just at this 
 juncture, the enemy gave way and fled. The Twen- 
 tieth took part in the continuous charge that extended 
 far towards Memphis. 
 
 March 15, 1863, another expedition into West Ten- 
 nessee and Western Kentucky commenced. While 
 other forces were sent to capture the forces at Union 
 City, Buford's Division, to which Barteau's Brigade 
 belonged, pressed on to Paducah, where they arrived 
 on the 25th. While Thompson's Brigade threatened 
 the front Russell's Regiment occupied a row of build- 
 ings near the river used to store military supplies, 
 and with long range rifles poured such accurate and 
 continuous fire into the port holes of two gunboats 
 as to drive them under shelter of the fort. Securing 
 supplies of horses, equipment and stores, the Confed- 
 erate command withdrew after nightfall. 
 
 Returning to Jackson, Tenn., General Forrest de- 
 cided on the capture of the post at Fort Pillow, and 
 
In Confederate States Army. 
 
 261 
 
 on April 11 began his march to that yjlace. Pressing 
 up under cover of timber and ravines to within sixty 
 yards (in some places) of the Federal works, a de- 
 mand for a surrender was made but refused by the 
 Federal commander. When ordered to attack the 
 dashing Confederates dismounted, rushed over the 
 ditches and breastworks, and poured a hot fire into 
 the Federals as they fled out of .the fort and hurried 
 down the bluff towards the river. 
 
 The fight was soon over, but not until fourteen val- 
 uable officers and men were killed and eighty-six 
 wounded. 
 
 Capt. J. C. Wilson of the Twentieth Tennessee fell 
 near the works while charging at the head of his com- 
 pany. He was carried by his men on stretchers eigh- 
 teen miles to Dr. Brodie's, where he died after linger- 
 ing several days. 
 
 Returning to Jackson 
 and gathering recruits, 
 supplies and horses, For- 
 rest's command, on the 
 10th, started back to Mis- 
 sissippi, Bell's Brigade con- 
 veying the prisoners and 
 artillery via LaGrange. 
 
 Everything being secur- 
 ed. Bell's and Xeely's brig- 
 ades returned to West Ten- 
 nessee to visit their homes 
 and secure recruits. Bell's 
 Brigade was thus increased 
 in numbers from 1,001 to 
 
 CAPT. J. C. WILSON. 
 
262 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 1,717 fighting men; and on the 22d Buford withdrew 
 all the forces again to Tupelo, Miss. 
 
 Just before the battle of Brice's Cross Roads Rus- 
 sell's Regiment was stationed at Corinth, but moved 
 southward to meet the advancing enemy. When the 
 line of battle was formed the regiment occupied the 
 left center. Two strong lines of Federals attacked 
 them vigorously, the front line coming within thirty 
 paces of the Confederates, who then drew their re- 
 volvers and drove them back with great slaughter. 
 
 About 2 p. m., after some destructive artillery fir- 
 ing, the whole line advanced and carried the strong 
 Federal position, driving them back upon the muddy 
 crossing of Tishimingo Creek, and the retreat became 
 a rout, RusselPs Regiment being prominent in the 
 rapid pursuit which lasted for two days, or until the 
 command, both men and horses, were well nigh worn 
 down. 
 
 When the Federals under General Smith essayed 
 for the third time to penetrate the rich country con- 
 tiguous to the M. & O. railroad, it was Bell's Brigade 
 that gave them the first real check, about four miles 
 west of Tupelo, and brought on the battle of Harris- 
 burg. In the general engagement on July 14th, it oc- 
 cupied the centre just to the right of the Tupelo road. 
 When Gen. S. D. Lee ordered the line to advance and 
 attack the enemy, now pretty well fortified, they 
 answered with a yell and charged in the face of a hot 
 arid destructive fire which they were not able to en- 
 dure, and soon retired. All the colonels of Bell's 
 Brigade were wounded during this engagement. 
 
 An expected attack was awaited until night and 
 
In Confederate States Army. 263 
 
 then the whole force was withdrawn during the dark- 
 ness and a new position taken up about three miles 
 south of Tupelo. 
 
 The Federal commander, instead of attacking next 
 morning, began to retire, and the Confederates pur- 
 sued promptly. At Town Creek, four miles beyond 
 Tupelo, the enemy prepared an ambuscade and Bell's 
 Brigade was driven back a short distance, but rally- 
 ing advanced again with Crossland's Kentucky Brig- 
 ade. In spite of fierce attacks upon their position the 
 Federals maintained it until nightfall, and then con- 
 tinued the retreat. The Confederates and their horses 
 were so worn down by hard marching and fighting 
 that the pursuit was not pushed with the usual, vigor, 
 though Chalmers followed for some distance. 
 
 A few days later ( commencing August 18tli ) , Gen- 
 eral Forrest made a dash into Memphis in the hope 
 of frightening the heavy Federal forces at Abbeville 
 to fall back. The Twentieth Tennessee was held in 
 reserve in the suburbs of Memphis and did not act- 
 ively take part in the fighting. 
 
 Russell's Regiment formed part of the command 
 led by Forrest into North Alabama and Middle Ten- 
 nessee in September, 1864, and shared fully in the 
 fighting at Athens, Sulphur Trestle, Pulaski, and 
 other places on the N. & D. railroad, losing some of 
 its best men killed and wounded, Company ^^E" es- 
 pecially suffering heavily. Returning to West Ten- 
 nessee the expedition to Fort Heiman, Paris Landing 
 and Johnsonvile was undertaken, the Twentieth Ten- 
 nessee supporting the artillery which destroyed so 
 many vessels and such vast amounts of army stores. 
 
264 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 Marching soutliward, Russell's Regiment and some 
 others were furloughed home to secure ^'esh horses 
 and clothing. 
 
 During Hood's campaign to Nashville the Twenti- 
 eth Cavalry shared fully in all the dangers and suffer- 
 ing of this ill-starred campaign, and especially as 
 part of the rear guard on the retreat to Corinth. 
 
 During the two and a half months from the first 
 of January to the middle of March, the Twentieth 
 Regiment prepared for the final struggle, and then 
 set out to Selma to help in the fruitless attempt to 
 check the raid of General Wilson through the heart 
 of the Confederacy. But the destruction by the 
 enemy of the bridges across the Cahaba River effect- 
 ually prevented their reaching Selma, and nothing 
 was left to be done but to submit to the inevitable, 
 and to lay down their arms, which they did at Gaines- 
 ville, Ala., with the balance of Forrest's renowned 
 cavalry. 
 
 It needs to be said that Quartermaster S. J. Ray, 
 Surgeon T. C. McNeill, Lieuts. N. W. McNeill. Wm. 
 H. Courts and M. B. Dinwiddie, all of Company "B,'" 
 were Henry County men, besides other non-commis- 
 sioned officers and privates ( whose names I have been 
 unable to obtain ) , served in the Twentieth Tennessee 
 Cavalry. So that it may be safely said that about 
 one-fourth of its members were citizens of Henry 
 County. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 265 
 
 Roll of Company ^'E/' Twentieth Regiment, Ten- 
 nessee Cavalry. 
 
 Capt. W. D. Hallum; wounded at Brice's Cross 
 Roads and Athens, Ala; served through the war. 
 
 First Lieut. T. A. Carter ; wounded at Brice's Cross 
 Roads. 
 
 Second Lieut. A. J. Pettyjohn ; served about a year. 
 
 Third Lieut. A. B. Goodin ; served through the war. 
 
 First Sergt. W. W. McCaskill ; served one and one- 
 half years. 
 
 Second Sergt. J. J. Bishop ; served a year or more. 
 
 Third Sergt. Richard Pinson; wounded at Brice's 
 Cross Roads; died of smallpox. 
 
 Fourth Sergt. J. J. Bowden; wounded at Okalona. 
 
 Fifth Sergt. T. B. Parrish ; served through the war. 
 
 First Corp. Reuben Bonier ; served through the war. 
 
 Second Corp. T. J. Smith ; served a year or more. 
 
 Third Corp. J. W. Palmer; wounded at Brice's 
 Cross Roads. 
 
 Fourth Corp. I. E. Workman ; served two years. 
 
 I. N. Akers ; served about two years. 
 
 Wm. Anderson. 
 
 D. Baker; served about two years. 
 
 G. G. Baker; served through the war. 
 
 W. H. Barfield; served two years. 
 
 T. W. Barham ; killed at Pulaski, Tenn. 
 
 W. H. Barham ; died during the war. 
 
 G. S. Biles ; served through the war. 
 
 J. M. Bird; served through the war. 
 
266 . History of Henry County Commands 
 
 AV. J. Bird; captured in Tennessee; served through 
 the war. 
 
 Wm. S. Bomer; served through the war. 
 
 E. Bowden; served through the war. 
 
 W. F. Bowden; served through the war. 
 
 Eli S. Browu. 
 
 J. A. Browning. 
 
 R. Busbee. 
 
 J. F. Bushart ; served two years or more. 
 
 T. Caples. 
 
 Silas Cate ; served through the war. 
 
 Wm. Cate. 
 
 F. Clendenin. 
 Wm. R. Clements. 
 E. Cobb. 
 
 E. Comer. 
 P. Comer. 
 Wm. Cooper. 
 Thomas Copeland. 
 
 Isaac Crews; killed in Georgia. 
 
 G. Dolen. 
 
 F. E. Dunlap. 
 S. H. Dunlap. 
 F. S. Fields 
 W.. H. Fields. 
 Wm. Foust. 
 Lewis W. French. 
 J. R. Galbraitli. 
 Arch Gibson. 
 
 B. Gooch. 
 J. A. Goodin. 
 W. B. Greer. 
 
In Confederate States Aemy. 267 
 
 Wm. Hagler; wounded; served through the war. 
 R. Hancock. 
 
 Alex Harmon ; served through the war. 
 J. P. Hastings. 
 P. R. Hays. 
 J. Hicks. 
 W. R. Hicks. 
 J. M. Hitchcock. 
 / R. H. Jones ; killed June 10, 1864. 
 
 A. J. Hughey ; captured and died in prison. 
 R. H. Jones; killed at Brice's Cross Roads. 
 
 C. T. Kelly ; died June 3, 1864, in Mississippi. 
 Perry Kemp. 
 
 Jackson King; killed in Georgia. 
 
 D. M. Lankford; wounded. 
 John Ligon. 
 
 A. Linton. 
 
 A. J. Loony; served through the war. 
 
 E. T. Loony; served through the war; present at 
 surrender. 
 
 J. D. Lowry; wounded at Pulaski; served through 
 the war ; present at surrender. 
 
 J. C. Lowry; captured in Obion County; died in 
 prison. 
 
 T. W. Lowry. 
 
 J. G. Malone. 
 
 G. W. Malone. 
 
 W. H. H. Massey. 
 
 Porter McGlafflin. 
 
 J. W. McCord ; killed at Fayette Station, Tenn. 
 
 J. Medlin. 
 
 A. M. Muzzell ; served through the war. 
 
268 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 Daniel Muzzell; wouDded at Brice's Cross Roads, 
 and died October 6, 1864. 
 J. M. Myers. 
 Pat Nance. 
 Ed Palmer. 
 A. W. Penick. 
 T. M. Pinson. 
 T. J. Pinson. 
 Wm. Pride. 
 
 A. R. Rasbury. 
 Wm. M. Rasbury. 
 Thomas Reeves. 
 J. Rhodes. 
 
 J. Rice. 
 James Roe. 
 
 J. A. Smith; wounded at Memphis and at Oxford, 
 Miss. 
 
 W. M. Stalls. 
 R. P. Stanfield. 
 William Waddy. 
 Willis Waddy. 
 R. A. Walters. 
 Sam Walters. 
 L. Mart Walton. 
 
 B. Webb. 
 James Webb. 
 Wm. Webb. 
 Isaac Wetherby. 
 
 ' W. R. Wetherby. 
 A. Wiley; served through the war. 
 Else Workman; (after exchange) served through 
 the war. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 269 
 
 George Yarbro. 
 
 James Young. 
 
 Captain Hallum says there were one hundred and 
 forty men enlisted in his company. Only the above 
 names can be secured. 
 
 Roll of Company ^^F/' Twentieth Regiment Ten- 
 nessee Cavalry. 
 
 Capt. J. Cardwell Wilson ; killed at Fort Pillow. 
 
 First Lieut. T. Jeff Kendall; served through the 
 war. 
 
 Second Lieut. G. C. Lemonds. 
 
 Third Lieut. A. J. Morton. 
 
 Thomas Albritton. 
 
 H. C. Bailey. 
 
 T. J. Bennett; served through the war; present at 
 surrender. 
 
 D. S. Buckman. 
 
 D. O. Calloway; served through the war; present 
 at surrender. 
 
 William F. Chilcutt. 
 
 Babe Cooper. 
 
 J. H. Courts ; wounded at Brice's Cross Roads, los- 
 ing an arm; discharged. 
 
 Frank M. Crouch. 
 
 David C. Crouch; wounded at Harrisburg. 
 
270 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 — . — . Crutchfield ; served through the war ; present 
 at surrender. 
 
 R. E Duke. 
 
 Gus Edwards. 
 
 Tom J. Edwards. 
 
 Henry E. Frazier; served through the war. 
 
 Joe Frazier. 
 
 Robert Freeland. 
 
 Samuel French ; killed at Harrisburg. 
 
 Carman Gardner. 
 
 J. D. Gardner. 
 
 Cage Guill. 
 
 James Grubbs; killed at Athens, Ala. 
 
 John Grubbs. 
 
 Dock Hastings ; served through the war ; present at 
 surrender. 
 
 Elijah Hays. 
 
 J. W. Henderson; died April 20, 1863. 
 
 A. J. Ingram. 
 
 Tobe Jackson. 
 
 Jesse King ; served through the war ; present at sur- 
 render. 
 
 Rube Lee; wounded at Guntown, Miss.; served 
 through the war; present at surrender. 
 
 Polk Lee. 
 
 Clark Martin. 
 
 James Martin. 
 
 I. N. Moody; served througli tln^ war; present at 
 surrender. 
 
 L. P. Moody; served tlirougli the war; present at 
 , surrender. 
 
In Confederate States Army. - 271 
 
 John Neese; served through the war; present at 
 surrender. 
 
 — . — . Osborne ; wounded. 
 
 J. B. Owens ; wounded near Jackson, Tenn. ; served 
 through the war; present at surrender. 
 
 Joshua Parks; served through the war; present at 
 surrender. 
 
 Levi Pfleuger. 
 
 Wm. Pfleuger; served through the war; present at 
 surrender. 
 
 A. J. Powers; served through the war; present at 
 surrender. 
 
 William Ralls; w^ounded. 
 
 E. O. Raudle. 
 
 Smith Randle. 
 
 J. C. Rogers; jierhaps died. 
 
 Wm. Shankle; served through the war; present at 
 surrender. 
 
 George Sheridan. 
 
 Dock Sparks; died in Mississippi. 
 
 Jno. P. Sroat. 
 
 J. H. Thompson; wounded at Harrisburg; served 
 through the w^ar; present at surrender. 
 
 Noah Thompson; killed at Athens, Ala. 
 
 Clark Thrognorton. 
 
 Ballus H. Upchurch; died May 10, 1864. 
 
 Peter Venable. 
 
 Gray Walker; discharged. 
 
 Thomas Warbritton ; killed at Harrisburg. 
 
 James Williams; killed at Athens, Ala. 
 
 John Williams; killed at Athens, Ala. 
 
272 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 Hardin Wilson ; served through the war; present at 
 surrender. 
 
 Samuel Wilson. 
 
 Wni. N. Wilson ; serA^ed through the war ; present at 
 surrender. 
 
 Duncan AVimberly; served through the war; pres- 
 ent at surrender. 
 
 Franklin Wimberly. 
 
 Jackson Wimberly; served through the war; pres- 
 ent at surrender. 
 
 Wm. Wynns; served through the war; present at 
 surrender. 
 
 Roll of Company ^^K/' Twentieth Regiment, Ten- 
 NF^SEE Cavalry. 
 
 Capt. Henry T. Bowman; elected major of regi- 
 ment. 
 
 First Lieut. Macon H. Freeman; promoted to cap- 
 tain; resigned near the close of the war. 
 
 Second Lieut. A. J. Killebrew; wounded at Esti- 
 nola. 
 
 Third Lieut. J. G. Bunton; killed at Estinola. 
 
 First Sergt. I. E. S. Alexander; served through the 
 war. 
 
 'Second Sergt. C.S.Moore; wounded at Brice's Cross 
 Roads. 
 
 Third Sergt. J. W. Moore. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 27B 
 
 Fourth Sergt. F. E. Garrett; served through the 
 war. 
 
 Fifth Sergt. Wash P. Bumpass ; served through the 
 war. 
 
 First Corp. J. W. Fields; died at Okalona, Miss., 
 October, 1864. 
 
 Second Corp. J. E. Haskins; died at Lauderdale 
 Springs, September, 1864. 
 
 M. Bruce Alexander. 
 
 Charley Beard; killed at Harrisburg. 
 
 John K. Beard ; killed at Fort Pillow. 
 
 Jacob A. Bonier; promoted to second lieutenant, 
 and in September, 1865, to first lieutenant; served 
 through the war ; present at surrender. 
 
 S. C. Bowman. 
 
 W. K. Bowman ; died at hospital, July, 1864. 
 
 O. Buckley. 
 
 D. F. Bullock ; served through the war. 
 
 D. C. Cabe ; served through the war. 
 
 Achilles Y. Clark ; promoted to first sergeant ; elect- 
 ed first lieutenant and promoted to captain, February, 
 1865 ; served through the war. 
 
 C. Colly; served through the war. 
 
 Cornelius Coley; wounded at Brice's Cross Roads 
 and died. 
 
 T. W. Coley (veteran of Mexican War) ; served 
 three and one-half years. 
 
 J. B. Ezell ; served three and one-half years. 
 
 T. J. Fields; wounded at Harrisburg; served 
 through the war. 
 
 S. H. Fizer; wounded at Harrisburg; served 
 through the war; present at surrender. 
 18 
 
274 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 Wm. Fizer; wounded; served through the war; 
 present at surrender. 
 
 N. J. Garrett; served through the war; present at 
 surrender. 
 
 T. P. Garrett; served through the war; present at 
 surrender. 
 
 George Gilmore; served until September, 1864. 
 
 W. W. Givens ; served until October, 1864. 
 
 H. T. Hodges. 
 
 J. E. Hoofman; served through the war. 
 
 Brodie T. Howard; served through the war. 
 
 T. B. Howard; served until December, 1864. 
 
 G. W. Hunt; served until December, 1864. 
 
 Spence P. Hunt; served through the war; present 
 at surrender. 
 
 W. S. Hunt; killed in Selma campaign. 
 
 Calvin Kennedy; wounded at Harrisburg; served 
 through the war. 
 
 A. J. Killebrew ; served through the war. 
 
 J. K. Killebrew; wounded at Harrisburg and died 
 July 27, 1864. 
 
 J. M. Killebrew; served through the war. 
 
 K. H. Kirk. 
 
 A. Lafon; served through the war. 
 
 E. Martin; served through the war. 
 
 Geo. D. MaA^o; served until October, 1864. 
 
 W. C. Mayo; died at hospital in Alabama, Septem- 
 ber, 1864. 
 
 A. J. McWhirter; served until September, 1864. 
 
 J. W. Midjett; wounded at Athens and died. 
 
 J. H. Mizell ; served until January, 1865. 
 
 Newton Moore; served through the war. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 275 
 
 Simpson Moore; wounded at Harrisburg. 
 
 W. W. Olive ; served through the war. 
 
 0. H. Owens ; served until December, 1864. 
 
 E. H. Palmer ; promoted to first sergeant ; wounded 
 at Harrisburg and died in hospital. 
 
 A. J. Pentecost; wounded at Harrisburg; served 
 through the war. 
 
 John D. Poyner; served through the war; present 
 at surrender. 
 
 W. H. Reynolds; served through the war 
 
 T. G. Riddle; killed at Harrisburg. 
 
 A. J. Ridgway; served until August, 1864. 
 J. A. Ridgway; served through the war. 
 
 W. A. Ridgway; promoted to third lieutenant 
 L. Roberts ; served through the war. 
 G. M. D. Ross; served through the war. 
 John Sexton; wounded at Harrisburg; served 
 through the war. 
 George Sheridan. 
 
 J. M. Sheridan; served through the war. 
 Wm. Stokes; served through the war. 
 W. Logan Tharpe; served through the war. 
 
 B. L. Thompson; killed accidentally at Tibbee,- 
 Miss., March e3,.1864. 
 
 Samuel A. Webb ; wounded at Brice's Cross Roads ; 
 served through the war; present at surrender. 
 
 W. E. Wiggins; served through the war; present 
 at surrender. 
 
 Tolbert F. Williams; wounded at Harrisburg; 
 served through the war. 
 
 J. B. Young. 
 
276 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 Capt. N. W. McNeill's Cavalry Company. 
 
 Capt. N. W. :McXeill enlisted a small company of 
 cavalry in the summer of 18G3, and after serving about 
 a year it was consolidated with W. H. Hawkins' Com- 
 pany ^'B" of the Twentieth Tennessee Cavalry, and 
 Captain McNeill was assigned as first lieutenant, W. 
 H. Courts was second lieutenant and M. B. Dinwid- 
 die third lieutenant. I give the names of all the Henry 
 County men whom Captain McNeill could remember : 
 
 Lieut. N. W. McNeill ; promoted to captain ; served 
 through the war. 
 
 Lee Baker ; served through the war. 
 
 Abb Beck ; killed at Ft. Pillow. 
 
 Ed Bohannon ; served through the war. 
 
 Fauney Bradley; killed at Estanola. 
 
 Eeuben Burdett; served through the war. 
 
 Keuben Burrow; killed at Ft. Pillow. 
 
 Thomas Cason ; killed at Harrisburg. 
 
 Richard Crawford; died near Tupelo, Miss. 
 
 Mastin D. Crawford; served through the war. 
 
 Carroll Jones; served through the war. 
 
 Mace H. Lankford ; wounded at Harrisburg. 
 
 James Ward; served through the TVar. 
 
 Thomas Wood ; served through the war. 
 
 Robert White; wounded at Athens, Ala., and died. 
 
 .Vlex Wright ; served through the war. 
 
 George Wright; served through the war. 
 
 Polk Wright; served through the war. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 277 
 
 Gen. H. B. Lyon's Escort. 
 
 Capt. D. F. Alexander, tired of waiting to be ex- 
 changed after his capture at Ft. Donelson, obtained 
 a parole by paying a lawyer |100.00 to secure it for 
 him, and made his way home. As soon as able to ride 
 he was again in the saddle, and reporting to Gen- 
 eral Forrest while on his Tennessee River raid in the 
 fall of 1864, was sent by him with a picked company 
 to cross the Tennessee River and keep the telegraph 
 wires cut between John son ville and Nashville, to pre- 
 vent Federal reinforcements being sent to Johnson- 
 ville, while General Forrest attacked the gunboats, 
 transports and depot of supplies at that point. This 
 perilous mission he skillfully accomplished with sig- 
 nal ability and complete success. 
 
 General Forrest then gave him authority to enlist 
 a new cavalry company ( his old company having been 
 broken up and the men distributed in other compa- 
 nies while he was absent in prison). He found' no 
 trouble in gathering about him a band of bold spirits, 
 and the new company was at once selected by Gen. 
 H. B. Lyon as his escort, and accompanied him on 
 his daring raid in the winter of 1864-5, in which he 
 made almost a complete circuit, starting from West 
 Tennessee, crossing the Tennessee and Cumberland 
 Rivers, and thence through Southern Kentucky and 
 Middle Tennessee to North Alabama and destroying 
 a great deal of Government property. They helped 
 to fight Wilson on his advance to Selma, Ala., and 
 surrendered, with other cavalry commands, at Colum- 
 bus, Miss. 
 
278 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 The following are the names of some of the men 
 who served under Captain Alexander, part of them 
 in the Tenth Tennessee Cavalry and part in Lyons' 
 Escort. The lapse of forty years has so mixed the 
 members of the two companies in Captain Alexan- 
 der's memory that he is unable to separate them : 
 
 Capt. D. F. Alexander. 
 
 Lieut. R. P. Cole. 
 
 Lieut. — . — . Oliver. 
 
 Sergt. — . — . Melton. 
 
 D. D. Brisendine. 
 
 Hud A. Boden. 
 
 LaFayette Cherry. 
 
 Will Cooney. 
 
 Jack Daniel. 
 
 A. V. Duncan. 
 
 John Dunlap. 
 
 W. Pink Erwin. 
 
 S. Harmon. 
 
 Samuel McClish. 
 
 — . — . Miller; killed. 
 
 Bart Owensby. 
 
 Dock Owensby. 
 
 Dillard Poyner. 
 
 Howard Poyner. 
 
 Hugh Renfroe. 
 
 George Renfroe. 
 
 Henry Ridley. 
 
 Henry M. Rose. 
 
 John Rose. 
 
 John Vandyck. 
 
 Will Vandyck. 
 
 James Walker. 
 
History of Henry County Commands 279 
 
 Capt. Robert Ayres^ Cavalry Company. 
 
 During the summer and fall of 1861, Capt. Robert 
 Ayres of Benton recruited a company of cavalry, most 
 of whom were from that county, though there were 
 some twenty-five or thirty from Henry. This company 
 was not attached to any battalion or regiment at first. 
 It was stationed at Danville, on the Tennessee River, 
 to guard the railroad bridge there during the winter 
 o,f 1861-2. Soon after the fall of Ft. Henry the Fed- 
 eral gunboats ascended the river to Danville and 
 shelled the camp of Ayres' Company, drove them off 
 and burned the bridge. 
 
 The company was stampeded and scattered for a 
 while, but later rallied and joined the Confederate 
 forces in North Alabama, and did valiant service 
 under General Roddy on post, provost and guard duty, 
 as well as field service. 
 
 During the latter part of the war the company was 
 attached to Nixon's Regiment and were surrendered 
 near Greensboro, Ala., in May, 1865. 
 
 The following Henry County men are all whose 
 names could be secured at this late day : 
 
 Robert F. Bomer; served through the war. 
 
 William C. Bomer ; served through the war. 
 
 A. J. Bradshaw. 
 
 Peter Buchanan ; served through the war. 
 
 James Clendenin ; served through the war. 
 
 Anderson French; served through the war. 
 
 Thomas French; served through the war. 
 
 — . — . Guinn ; served through the war. 
 
280 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 James Anderson Haymes; served through the war. 
 
 Cal Lemonds. 
 
 Alex McCullough; served through the war. 
 
 R. Wes Redmond; served through the war. 
 
 Thomas H. Robbins ; served through the war. 
 
 ^'Horse'^ Russell; served through the war. 
 
 O. W. Thomas. 
 
 Wes Sexton; served through the war. 
 
 Elias Wall ; served through the war. 
 
 W. J. Wiseman. 
 
 William Young ; served through the war. 
 
 Company ^'C," P'ourth Confederate Regiment. 
 
 When the fortifications at Fort Henry were com 
 menced, troops from various points were assembled 
 there, and several regiments were organized. One of 
 the companies entering into the organization of the 
 Fourth Confederate Regiment was commanded by 
 Capt. Joe Alexander of Weakley County and a squad 
 of men from the Fifteenth and Twentieth Districts of 
 Henry County crossed the Tennessee River and en- 
 listed in this company, afterward commanded by Capt. 
 AVallace of Weakley County. This company was cap- 
 tured at Ft. Donaldson, and after being exchanged, 
 fought at various places in Mississippi. 
 
 I have no detailed account of the fighting done by 
 this contingent of Henry's soldiery, but doubt not it 
 
In Confederate States Army. 281 
 
 was on a par with that of other sons of our grand old 
 county. I append the names of such of them as have 
 been transmitted to me by Comrade R. S. Monroe: 
 
 John Akers. 
 
 Thomas P. Monroe. 
 
 Robert S. Monroe. 
 
 Isaac N. Moody. 
 
 Richard Phillips. 
 
 Andrew J. Powers. 
 
 Andrew Wei don. 
 
 Benjamin Wilson. 
 
 Peter Wilson. 
 
 Calvin Knight. 
 
 Col. W. W. Faulkner's Twelfth Kentucky Cav- 
 alry. 
 
 Sergt. D. N. Wright of Company ^^D" of this regi- 
 mentj in writing a sketch of it for Dr. J. Berrian 
 Lindsley's Annals of Tennessee, says : "Possibly Ken- 
 tuckians were in the majority when the original or- 
 ganization took place; however, the majority was 
 small." And he says further that there were Henry 
 County men in Companies "E," "F" and "G." This 
 certainly entitles it to a notice in this history. 
 
 The companies composing it were recruited along 
 the Kentucky and Tennessee line during the summer 
 of 1863, and the organization of the regiment was 
 completed in the western part of Madison County, 
 
282 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 Tennessee, about the 20th of September, 1863. A bat- 
 talion of the regiment under Lieut..-Col. W. D. Lan- 
 nom assisted materially in safely escorting the un- 
 armed forces gathered from West Tennessee, in the 
 march from Jackson, Tenn., to North Mississippi. In 
 the organization of Forrest's Cavalry Department the 
 regiment was assigned to McCullough's Brigade. 
 When Buford's Division - was organized, March 1, 
 1864, Faulkner's Regiment was placed in the Ken- 
 tucky Brigade, composed of the Third, Seventh and 
 Eighth Kentucky Mounted Infantry, with Col. A. P. 
 Thompson in command as senior colonel. When Col- 
 onel Thompson was killed in the attack on Paducah 
 Colonel (afterwards Brigadier-General) H. B. Lyon 
 succeeded to the command, and no brigade in any 
 army ever made a better record, and the Twelfth Ken- 
 tucky was not a whit behind the other regiments in 
 making and maintaining this splendid reputation. 
 
 Henry County men in Twelfth Kentucky Cavalry: 
 
 Capt. Robert P. Cole. 
 
 Lieut. John Yow ; killed at Paris, Tenn. 
 
 J. W. Cole. 
 
 A. H. Foster ; in Company "F ;" served through the 
 war. 
 
 Gus Henry; in Company "E." 
 
 S. H. Holcolm; in Company "E." 
 
 W. H. Mathis; in Company "G." 
 
 W. S. McCall. 
 
 F. Marion McClure; in Company "G.'' 
 
 John Nance; wounded at Pulaski, Tenn. 
 
 Wliliam Ray. 
 
 R. T. Roberts. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 283 
 
 . — . Sexton ; iu Company "G." 
 
 G. Wash Sims. 
 Thomas Stewart. 
 
 Partial Roll of Henry County Soldiers in Com- 
 pany ^'D" OF Col. John F. NE\ysoM'S Nine- 
 teenth Tennessee Cavalry. 
 
 Capt. Thomas H. Tayloe; wounded at Harrisburg. 
 
 First Lieut. M. B. Owensby. 
 
 Second Lieut. D. J. Bowden. 
 
 John Barnes. 
 
 Franl?: Clore. 
 
 William Cowan. 
 
 James Dumas. 
 
 James Grooms. 
 
 John Jackson. 
 
 Perry Jackson. 
 
284 History of Heney County Commands 
 
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 COL. JAMES D. PORTER. 
 
ROLL OF 
 Henry County Soldiers 
 
 IN MISCELLANEOUS COMMANDS. 
 
 I have deemed it best in compiling this list to in- 
 clude not only those who were citizens of the county 
 at the time of their enlistment, but also those who 
 have since resided in tlie county so long as to become 
 thoroughly identified with it. Some who are entitled 
 to be thus included will likely be omitted because of 
 my failure to secure their names. 
 
 Col. James D. Porter, Jr. ; acting adjutant-general 
 on B. F. Cheatham's staff during the entire war, do- 
 ing efficient and valuable service, showing peculiar 
 capability and exhibiting exceptional bravery on 
 many battlefields. 
 
 Col. James M. Ray ; of Sixtieth North Carolina In- 
 fantry. 
 
 Col. James F. Caldwell ; served through the war in 
 Texas as commissary of General Polignac's Brigade; 
 died in July, 1865, of disease contracted in the ser- 
 vice. 
 
 Lieut.-Col. H. C. McNeill; of Thirty-Third Tennes- 
 see Infantry; killed in Georgia campaign in 1864. 
 
 285 
 
286 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 Maj. Thomas K. Porter; as captain of Porter's Bat- 
 tery, and later in command of a battalion of artillery ; 
 wounded at Ft. Donaldson and Hoover's Gap. 
 
 Capt. William K. Dunlap; in artillery; died in 
 1861 of typhoid fever ; a promising officer. 
 
 Capt. Will W. Wilkins ; on General Hardee's staff. 
 
 Capt. John T. Postlethwaite ; Company ^'D," First 
 Tennessee Heavy Artillery. 
 
 Lieut. George McNeill; in Third Company, Wash- 
 ington Artillery ; wounded at Antietam. 
 
 Lieut. Eugene Harris ; on General Cheatham's staff. 
 
 Lieut. J. X. M. Lynch; in Company ^'C," Thirty- 
 Third Tennessee Infantry. 
 
 Lieut. Alonzo Pillow; in Hume's Heavy Artillery; 
 captured at Island 10 ; served through the war. 
 
 Lieut. John P. Matthewson; Company "H," Third 
 Kentucky Mounted Infantry ; served through the war. 
 
 Lieut. B. Gan Curd ; in Twelfth Tennessee Infantry 
 (wounded perhaps) ; served through the war. 
 
 Lieut. John H. Curd; in First Arkansas Infantry; 
 killed at Murfreesboro. 
 
 Lieut. John A. Bowman ; in an Arkansas regiment. 
 
 First Lieut. James T. Dunlap, Jr.; in Tenth Ten- 
 nessee Infantry; wounded and captured at Ft. Don- 
 elson; after exchange as aide on staff of Gen. Ben 
 H. Hill. 
 
 First Lieut. Ben A. Jobe; enlisted in the Eigh- 
 teenth Tennessee Infantry; captured at Ft. Donel- 
 son ; escaped at St. Louis ; served then in Fourth Ten- 
 nessee Cavalry; selected as a member of Wharton's 
 Scouts and promoted to lieutenant; captured in 
 Arkansas ; served through the war. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 287 
 
 First Lieut. N. G. Haynes; Company ''I/' Ninth 
 Texas Cavalry. 
 
 Second Lieut. W. P. Smallwood; M. D. in Georgia 
 State Scouts; promoted to captain of Company ''E," 
 Twelfth Georgia Infantry. 
 
 Lieut. T. K. Porter Wright; in Company "K/' Sev- 
 enth Arkansas Infantry; wounded at Shiloh, Chicka- 
 mauga and Ringgold Gap; captured at Franklin; 
 served through the war. 
 
 Sergt. John H. Dunlap; in Morton's Battery; 
 wounded at Harrisburg; served through the war. 
 
 Sergt. John R. Harding; in Company ''H," Third 
 Kentucky Mounted Infantry; as courier brought out 
 the last dispatches from Vicksburg ; wounded at Shi- 
 loh and Franklin ; served through the war. 
 
 First Sergt. James F. Ponder; Company '^B/' Six- 
 teenth Aabama Infantry; wounded at Chickamauga; 
 served through the war. 
 
 M. T. Barfield; in Company -C/' Fifty-Seventh 
 North Carolina Infantry; wounded at Kingston, 
 Tenn. 
 
 William Bonier; in some command; died at Jack- 
 son, Tenn., 1863. 
 
 John W. Borum; in Thirty-Eighth Tennessee In- 
 fantry. 
 
 Ransom T. Borum ; in Thirty-Eighth Tennessee In- 
 fantry. 
 
 William F. Bowden; in some command. 
 
 Frank A. Brooks; in Thirty-Third Tennessee In- 
 fantry. 
 
 W. A. Bryan ; in some North Carolina regiment. 
 
 Robert D. Caldwell, Jr.; in Miller's Mississippi 
 
288 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 Cavalry Battalion; discharged, ill health; died at 
 home, January 11, 1865. 
 
 John A. Coats; in some Texas regiment. 
 
 J. T. Coulter; Company ''A," Forty-Ninth Tennes- 
 see Infantry; captured at Ft. Donelson and at At- 
 lanta, July 28, 1864 ; escaped near Griffin, Ga. ; served 
 through the war. 
 
 R. R. Crawford; died during the war, while serving 
 in some unknown command. 
 
 William Crawford ; in Company ^^C," Seventh Ken- 
 tucky Mounted Infantry; wounded at Paducah; 
 served tlirough the war. 
 
 William M. Crawford; in Thirty-First Infantry; 
 captured at Nashville ; served through the war. 
 
 Richard D. Curd; in Twelfth Tennessee Infantry; 
 promoted to lieutenant at final consolidation; served 
 through the war. 
 
 Thomas Davison; in Forty-Sixth Tennessee Infan- 
 try (probably). 
 
 Charles F. Doty; in some Arkansas command. 
 
 W. A. Douglass ; in First Confederate Cavalry. 
 
 Sylvester G. Duke; in Third Kentucky Mounted 
 Infantry. 
 
 A. H. Duncan ; in Seventh Kentucky Mounted In- 
 fantry. 
 
 A. V. Duncan; in Twentieth Tennessee Infantry. 
 
 E. H. Duncan ; in Twentieth Tennessee Infantry. 
 
 A. B. Emerson ; in Forty-Eighth Tennessee Infan- 
 try; captured at Ft. Donelson. 
 
 N. C. Hill; in Eighth South Carolina Infantry; 
 wounded at Knoxville (losing an eye). 
 
In Confederate States Army. 289 
 
 J. H. Hooper; in Company ^^A," Thirteenth North 
 Carolina Infantry ; served through the war. 
 
 E. B. Isbell; in Thirty-Seventh Georgia Infantry; 
 wounded and captured at Murf reesboro ; wounded 
 and captured at Chickamauga ; served through the 
 war. 
 
 D. C. Kent; in Company '%" Thirty-Eighth Ten- 
 nessee Infantry; one year in Fourth Alabama Cav- 
 alry; wounded at Brice's X Roads; served til] the 
 surrender. 
 
 R. G. Kirby ; in Nineteenth or Twentieth Tennessee 
 Cavalry; served till close of the war. 
 
 Ephraim Lasater, drowned in Tennessee River on 
 his way to join some command, January, 1863. 
 
 Harrison Lasater; in some cavalry command; 
 served through the war. 
 
 John Lasater ; in some cavalry command. 
 
 Rufus Lasater; in some cavalry command; died in 
 the service. 
 
 N. J. Manly; in Company "G," One Hundred and 
 Fifty-Fourth Senior Tennessee Infantry. 
 
 N. H. McRae ; served in some command. 
 
 Summerfleld Melton; in some Kentucky command. 
 
 R. H. Mills; in Osceola L. Gordon's Louisiana 
 Scouts. 
 
 Bailey Moore; in Forty-Sixth Tennessee Infantry. 
 
 G. B. C. Morris; in Company "A/' Fifteenth Ten- 
 nessee Infantry; discharged for disability; re-en- 
 listed. 
 
 J. M. Morris; in Company "F/' Fifty-First North 
 Oarolina Infantry; captured at Cold Harbor and es- 
 caped ; served through the war. 
 
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290 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 McKethan Morris; served through the war in same 
 command. 
 
 W. H. Olive; in Thirty-Third Tennessee Infantry; 
 served through the war. 
 
 P. P. Pullen; in Company "B," second Kentucky 
 Cavalry. 
 
 William D. Ramsay; in some command; 
 
 P. D. T. Roberts; in Company "G," Sixteenth North 
 Carolina Infantry; promoted to hospital steward; 
 served through the war. 
 
 Dr. Robert A. R. Simmons; in a Mississippi regi- 
 ment; died during the war. 
 
 — . — . Sutherlin; in some Tennessee regiment in 
 Virginia and died there during the war. 
 
 George D. Van Horn; in Company "E/' Seventh 
 Arkansas Infantry ; wounded at Shiloh, Murfreesboro 
 and Chickamauga; promoted to regimental quarter- 
 master; served also in Swett's Battery. 
 
 J. Lus Wasson; in Fourth Alabama Cavalry; 
 wounded at Moulton, Ala. ; served through the war. 
 
 W. Pink Wasson; in Fourth Alabama Cavalry; 
 served through the war. 
 
 James R. Wilkins; served in some command 
 throughout the war. 
 
 W. G. Wynns; in Forrest's Cavalry; wounded near 
 Columbia, Tenn. ; served through the war. 
 
 W. H. Wynns; first in Company ''G," Fifth Ten- 
 nessee Infantry, then in Wheeler's Cavalry and with 
 Morgan; wounded near Columbia; served till close 
 of the war. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 291 
 
 Woman^s Devotion to the Confederacy ♦ 
 
 This history would be incomplete and manifestly 
 partial did I fail to record the unflagging devotion 
 with which the noble women of Henry County bore 
 uncomplainingly their part in the great struggle. It 
 is true as Holy Writ that '^As his part is that goeth 
 down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarry eth 
 by the stuff." (1st Sam. 30:24.) Many fair hands, 
 all unused to hard labor or privation, toiled day and 
 night that their fathers, brothers, husbands and sons 
 might be supplied with clothing to warm them and 
 with food to satisfy their hunger. 
 
 When the Army of Tennessee reached Corinth, 
 Miss., on our return from the Nashville campaign, we 
 found thirty-five wagon loads of clothing for the West 
 Tennesseeans in Hood's ragged and barefooted army, 
 which had been secured by officers detailed to collect 
 and transport it to that point. 
 
 It is impossible to write of the individual sacriffces 
 and labors of these faithful ones, and it can only be 
 treated in a general manner. To endeavor to recount 
 the deeds of our ladies worthy of remembrance would 
 be to not only fill this book, but volumes without num- 
 ber. Many of these deeds will never be known by the 
 public till that great day, when the books kept in 
 heaven shall be opened* and when ''honor shall be ren- 
 dered to whom honor is due," and when "that which 
 has been done in a corner shall be proclaimed from 
 the housetops." Only a few days ago I heard a lady 
 
292 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 relate casually how she had lain awake many a night 
 weeping and wondering how she could provide food 
 and clothing for her little ones while her husband was 
 away in the army. 
 
 The fathers, brothers, husbands and sons of such 
 noble women could not be otherwise than good citi- 
 zens, loyal patriots and brave soldiers. 
 
 The Colored Cooks* 
 
 There is another class that deserves '^honorable 
 mention." The colored cooks in the army were an 
 important adjunct. Many an officer was enabled to 
 devote his hours off duty to studying "Hardee's Tac- 
 tics," and was also enabled to keep his uniform in 
 presentable condition, by the aid of a cook, and many 
 a hot, tired and hungry soldier, returning to camp 
 from drill, near noon, was regaled by the rich odors 
 arising from the steaming camp kettle, which his cook, 
 furnished him by a doting father, had filled with 
 tempting viands. And many a sick or wounded Con- 
 federate has been tenderly waited upon and cared for 
 by the negro who played with him in boyhood and 
 now tried to do for "young massa" what "ole missus" 
 would have done, but was too far away to do. I ap- 
 pend the names of such as I have been able to learn 
 about : 
 
 Joe Warren ; with Col. W. E. Travis ; was a faithful 
 
In Confederate States Army. 
 
 29a 
 
 THE COLORED COOKS. 
 
294 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 servant till close of the war, and is yet true to the Con- 
 federacy. 
 
 Louis Fitzgerald ; with Col. Ed Fitzgerald. 
 
 Wash Wilson ; with Lieut.-Col. J. D. Wilson ; when 
 Colonel Wilson was wounded and captured he came 
 home, bringing such articles as were in his care. 
 
 Hiram Kendall; with Adjt. W. D. Kendall; his 
 faithful services are gratefully remembered by Adju- 
 tant Kendall. 
 
 Bill Caldwell ; with Capt. A. W. Caldwell ; true till 
 the Captain's death. 
 
 Nat Harris; with Capt. H. W. Ballard and Lieut. 
 W. E. Harris ; was a freedman, but served them well. 
 
 Henry Love; with Captain D. F. iVlexander; when 
 Captain Alexander was captured, brought his horses 
 home safely, several hundred miles, through the 
 enemy's country, and after securing clothes for him, 
 carried both clothes and horses to him. 
 
 Charles Street; with Lieut. G. C. Street. 
 
 Dan Humphreys; with Lieut. Wes H. Humphreys; 
 remained with him two years, till he was relieved by 
 consolidation; then went to Sergt. Henry A. Hum- 
 phreys in Company "G," Seventh Tennessee Cavalry, 
 and was loyal to the end. 
 
 Isaac Killebrew; with Lieut. J. J. Blake; standing 
 by him faithfully till the war closed. 
 
 Fielding Kennolds ; with E. H. and J. S. Rennolds ; 
 sought them on the battlefield of Shiloh and brought a 
 day's cooked rations for the whole mess, and carried 
 Mr. Thomas Reynolds ( of the Memphis Appeal ) , who 
 was taken violently sick, from the battlefield on his 
 back. No truer soul ever served his young masters. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 295 
 
 Allen Cox ; with Rev. Asa Cox ; was faithful unto 
 death, and was carefully nursed and buried by his 
 grateful master. 
 
 Elias Daniel; with Sergt. J. E. Daniel; who fol- 
 lowed the regiment at Shiloh till Sergeant Daniel was 
 wounded, brought him off the field and nursed him 
 tenderly. Was only seventeen years old. 
 
 Henry Bomer ; with Lieut. J. A. Bomer. 
 
 Jarrett Hallum ; with Capt. W. D. Hallum. 
 
 Humph Clark ; with Hunt brothers, Company "H," 
 Fifth Tennessee Infantry. 
 
 Ben Vandyck; with Capt. J. T. Irion and Lieut. 
 W. F. Harris. 
 
 Thornt Aden ; with Capt. F. F. Aden and brothers, 
 J. S. and John D. 
 
 Jack Haynes ; with Lieuts. T. B. and James Haynes 
 and H. C. Greer, Company "I," Fifth Tennessee. 
 
 Cable McCampbell ; with Lieut. J. H. McCampbell. 
 
 Joe Cooney ; with Capt. Charles D. Cooney. 
 
 Jerry Atkins ; with W. E. T. Atkins. 
 
 Henry Brannock; with Dr. J. M. Brannock. 
 
 Lud Venable ; with Col. C. D. Venable. 
 
 Henry Lamb; with Col. J. J. Lamb, and after his 
 death with B. F. Taylor ; faithful to the end. 
 
 Wilson Dunlap ; with John Dunlap, and then with 
 Col. James D. Porter ; brought |2,500 from Arkansas 
 to Gen. John H. Dunlap safely through the Federal 
 lines. 
 
 — . — . Yandyck ; with Vandyck brothers. Company 
 "G," Seventh Tennessee Cavalry. 
 
296 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 General Notes* 
 
 One mess in Company ''D/' Fifth Tennessee Infan- 
 try, was composed of Andrew, Matthew, John, Hil- 
 liard. Van and William Thompson. The first three 
 were brothers, the next two brothers and the last two 
 also brothers and cousins of all the others. They were 
 all good soldiers. Andrew and Matthew were killed 
 at Perryville and the two others survived the war. 
 
 Mrs. John Martin (formerly Mrs. Hope) was the 
 mother of five sons, all of whom were good soldiers — 
 Adam A., William L., Pleas M. and J. K. Hope and 
 Batie H. Martin. The first three gave their lives to 
 the Lost Cause, and no better soldiers carried a gun or 
 wielded a sword. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Green Berry Wilson furnished four 
 true sons to the service of their country — Col. J. D., 
 Capt. J. C. and Privates Kobert A. and Andrew M. 
 Wilson. The two former were officers of distinction, 
 and the second shed his life-blood at Ft. Pillow. 
 
 Capt. W. T. Sims, Harvey, Marion, B. L. and Wash 
 Sims were all sons of William Sims and wife. 
 
 F. M. Crouch, Company 'T," Twenty-First Tennes- 
 see Cavalry ; D. C. and T. J. of the Fifteenth Tennessee 
 Infantry and W. R. of Company "A," Fifth Ten- 
 nessee Infantry, were brothers and true soldiers. 
 
 Brodie T., D. B., James G. and N. C. Howard were 
 all sons of James H. Howard and wife, and all wore 
 the gray with honor and distinction. 
 
 Col. James D. Porter, Maj. Thomas K., Surgeon J. 
 
In Confederate States Army. 297 
 
 H. and Cadet William H. Porter, all sons of Dr. 
 Thomas K. Porter, composed another quartet of gal- 
 lant soldiers. 
 
 Mrs Adeline Irion Simmons gave five brave sons to 
 the "Lost Cause" — Lieut. John L, Ep W. and W. H. 
 of Company ''B," Fifth Tennessee Infantry; Dr. 
 Thomas C. Simmons of the Seventh Tennessee Cav- 
 alry, and Dr. Robert A. R., in a Mississippi regiment. 
 
 Mrs. Rachel Milam was the mother of seven sons, 
 six of whom were Confederate soldiers. Dr. T. R. 
 was a lieutenant in Faulkner's Company of cavalry 
 and battalion surgeon ; Riley served in the Forty-Sixth 
 Tennessee Infantry, and the other four — Lieut. James 
 B., Dr. Gwinn and Privates L. L. and Marcus D. 
 Milam — in Company '^C," Fifth Tennessee Infantry. 
 
 Rev. Ben Peeples and wife gave four noble sons to 
 do battle for their country — Capt. Ben F., Company 
 "G,'' Fifth Tennessee Infantry; Adjt. John R. of the 
 Fifty- Second Tennessee Infantry, Private J. K. Polk 
 of Company "G," Fifth Tennessee, and George T. of 
 the Forty- Sixth Tennessee Infantry. No better sol- 
 diers ever answered to roll-call. 
 
 Col. R. D. Caldwell's four sons. Col. James F., Sur- 
 geon Samuel H, Capt. A. .Wayne and Private Robert 
 D., Jr., all enlisted in their country's service, and only 
 Samuel H. was fortunate enough to survive tlie war. 
 
 But it was reserved to Esq. George Bowman and 
 wife of the Fourteenth District to make the largest 
 contribution of sons: Maj. H. F. of the Twentieth 
 Teiiiiessee Cavalry, Lieut. J. Lucius of Company ''M," 
 Fifth Tennessee Infantry; Lieut. Frank of Company 
 "B," Forty-Sixth Tennessee Infantry; Lieut. John H. 
 
298 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 of an Arkansas regiment, and Privates Charles and 
 Hamuel of Company ^'B," Fifth Tennessee Infantry — 
 seven in all. 
 
 Parents who gave all their sons to the defense of 
 their homes, whether one or more, deserve great honor, 
 but the above-named exceptional instances deserve 
 especial mention. 
 
 Four men served faithfully as letter carriers, taking 
 great risks in running the blockade and keeping us in 
 semi-continual communication with our loved ones. 
 They were Esq. William Green, R. A. Burton, W. A. 
 Thompson and Alex A. Farris, Esquire Green visit- 
 ing the southern part of the county, Burton the east- 
 ern and Thompson the western, while Farris took the 
 greater risk in bringing letters out of Hickman, Ify., 
 each of them, however, conveying any letters placed 
 in their hands. 
 
 Wlienever one of these "conductors on the under- 
 ground railroad" appeared in camp there was great 
 bustle and anxiety. Eyes sparkled, faces flushed, 
 hearts fluttered, and from all parts of the camp men 
 hurried to the postoffice. A soldier's blanket was 
 j^pread on the ground and the mail carriers' saddle- 
 liags, stuffed almost to bursting, was unbuckled and 
 its contents dumped upon it, and then a half dozen 
 of the best readers called out the names of the fortu- 
 nate recipients, and these, tearing open the missives 
 which father, mother, wife, sister, sweetheart or other 
 loved one had penned, they eagerly scanned them, and 
 soon the eyes "all unused to weeping" would glisten 
 with teardrops that would, "all unbidden, flow," and 
 coursing down the bronzed cheek, leave furrows in the 
 
■ In Confederate States Army. 299 
 
 dust from the drill field or pine soot from the camp- 
 fire. These men, especially Esquire Green, deserve 
 much credit for "doing well what their hands found 
 to do.'' He was over age, and so a non-conscript, and 
 the others were disabled by wounds and detailed for 
 this special service. 
 
300 History of Henry County Commands 
 
 Conclusion* 
 
 And now my work is ended, and I commit it with 
 all its faults and short comings to the hands of the 
 comrades of my early manhood and their relatives 
 and friends, asking for it a charitable reception. It 
 is the result of years of thought and labor in collec- 
 tion and preparation. Its compilation has been per- 
 formed under many difficulties, and sometimes in se- 
 vere physical pafti and suffering, nearly a thousand 
 miles from the homes of those whom it was necessary 
 to consult to secure the data, which had to be com- 
 pared and harmonized. It has often been difficult to 
 decide in the abundance of material what should be 
 included and what should be omitted. But it has been 
 a labor of love, and often a name or incident has 
 brought up the faces of old comrades as distinct as 
 if seen on yesterday and wakened memories of their 
 companionship. There is much compensation in the 
 encouragement and commendation of those who 
 shared with me the dangers and sufferings which it 
 recounts and of their wives who remember the "days 
 that tried men's sonis,'' and of their fair daughters, 
 wliose bright eyes have filled with tears as they talked 
 of those far awa}^ years. 
 
 I thank God that I have been spared to finish it, 
 and may He bless it for gopd and make it a "savor of 
 life unto life" to all who read it. The book has been 
 written with no desire to keep alive the animosities 
 and bitterness engendered by the war, but in the be- 
 
In Confederate States Army. 301 
 
 lief that all true soldiers on either side accord to their 
 sometime enemies honest^^ of purpose. But the object 
 has been solely to put on record the names and deeds 
 of brave men, whose chivalric heroism is worthy of 
 any age and any cause. 
 
 Neither has the object been to foster the military 
 spirit, for the author fully believes that 
 
 ^'Were half the power that fills the world with terror, 
 Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts 
 
 Given to redeem the human mind from error 
 There were no need of arsenals or forts. 
 
 ^^The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ! 
 
 And every nation that should lift again 
 Its hand against its brothers, on its forehead 
 
 Would wear forevermore the curse of Cain. 
 
 ^^Down the dark future, through long generations, 
 The echoing sounds grow fainter, then cease ; 
 
 And, like a bell, with solemn, sweet vibrations, 
 
 I hear once more the voice of Christ say : Teace.^ 
 
 ^Teace, and no longer from its brazen portals 
 The black of war's great organ shakes the skies ! 
 
 But beautiful as songs of the immortals. 
 The holv melodies of love arise." 
 
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