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When the War broke out he raised a company and became Colonel of the 17th Mississippi Infantry. He served in the Army of Virginia in this capacity in 1861 and 1862. For gallantry in the Battle of Leesburg he was promoted to Brigadier General on March 4, 1862. He was at 1st and 2nd Manassas, Leesburg, Seven Days, Lee’s campaign into Maryland, the capture of Harper’s Ferry, First Battle of Fredericksburg before being transferred to his brigade to Vicksburg in January 1863. He headed the expedition to meet Porter’s gunboats on Deer Creek, fought at Baker’s Creek, and Jackson, MS. He participated in the Battle of Franklin, and covered Hood’s retreat from Nashville. He fought at Reseca, Ga. In 1864, and surrendered with Johnston in North Carolina, where he was paroled at Greensboro with the rest of the Army.
“Reminiscences of the Boys in Grey 1861-1865″ (Texas) by Mamie Yeary, 1912 (FHL film 1,000,598 item 1; pages 202-204, in alphabetic order by surname)
Forward: In offering to the public these “Confederate Reminiscences” my only apology is to place in permanent form, and in the very words of the participants, as far as practicable, the personal experiences of the “men behind the guns,” the “boys in the line,” … Many interesting papers, too lengthy for the scope of this work, have been abridged to contain the most important parts. … While editing the data so kindly sent me, I have entered fully into each skirmish, battle, march and campaign. …
Green C. Duncan, Wharton [Wharton Co.], TX; was born Oct. 10, 1841, near Bloomfield [Nelson Co.], KY. Enlisted in the Confederate Army in September, 1861, at Memphis [Shelby Co.], TN, as First Sergeant in Co. A, Marsh Walker’s 41st TN Infantry; Frank Ragsdale first Captain and Marsh Walker, first Colonel. In September, 1862, the company was transferred to the 8th KY Inf., and made Co. K, Buford’s Brigade, Loring’s Division. In the spring of 1864 the brigade was mounted and transferred to N.R. Forrest’s command as Lyon’s Brigade and placed in Buford’s Division. We served under Forrest the remainder of the war. Was never wounded, but had five horses shot; two killed and three wounded; all under me except one. I had just dismounted from him and was standing by his side when shot. On April 8, 1862, the brigade, with others, was surrendered by Gen. McCowan at Tiptonville, TN, near Island No. 10. I was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant and afterwards to First Lieutenant, which was my rank at the close of the war. Was in the battles of …; Hood’s retreat to TN River, from there to Selma, AL, March, 1865.
The following is not a complete copy of Marshall E. Adcock’s
Pension application but rather an extraction of information given
in his application. There is more info about how he was captured
when he was having trouble keeping up and was caught on the
north side of Duck River without a bridge (it had been destroyed)
and several more statements about his ailments.
–MarieB
Information extracted from
M. E. Adcock’s Conf. Pension #6304 (Dekalb Co. TN)
The Confederate Records show that M. E. Adcock
Private Co. A 16th TN Inf CSA was enlisted May 18, 1861 on the Co. muster
roll dated April 30 1864(Last on File) he is reported present.
The Union Records who that one M. E. Adcock(also borne as Marshall E. Adcock)
Private 16th TN Inf CSA deserted Dec 18
Marshall States
” I was in the Battle of Franklin & Nashville and on Hood’s retreat was
captured at Columbia or near there. Was sick and carried to hospital at
Nashville. One of my neighbors Tim Adcock was at Nashville with a wagon
and I was permited to come home with him. Was sick and unable to services
of labor til long after close of the war.
Source:
* Web page
E.P. Hudson of Greenville (R.F.D. No. 2), S.C. wishes to learn of any Confederates who may have nursed his father, P.W. Hudson of Company F, 16th South Carolina Regiment, who, on Hood’s retreat from Nashville, was left at Pulaski, Tenn. and died on February 12, 1865, in the hands of the Federal army.
- a notice in an issue of the Confederate Veteran
Name: Cotton, John Smith
DOB: April 25, 1825 DOD: August 1907 Age at Enlistment: 36
Date of Enlistment: November 21, 1862 Place of Enlistment: Murfreesboro, TN
Rank at Enlistment: Private Rank at Discharge: Private
Causality (KIA, WIA, Captured): Captured on Hood’s Retreat from Nashville.
Comments: Was a conscript that was brought into service at Murfreesboro. Was detached as a nurse in Rome, GA in 1863. Sent back to the Company in 1864. He was captured on Hood’s Retreat from Nashville.
Private James Green Moody
Wounded at Perryville, Chickamauga, and Adairsville. Later Captured on Hood’s Retreat. Picture from U.C.V. Company B scrapbook.
Womack, Felix G. Pvt. E CSR, Pension
Enlisted 5/15/61.
Received a flesh wound at Atlanta and was in the hospital for a month or two. States he was worn down and captured on the retreat from Nashville and paroled due to his condition at Shelbyville. Had a wife and seven children.
Smith, Allen Pvt. H CSR, Pension
Enlisted 5/18/61. AWOL from 11/18/1862 to 12/18/62. Present on 4/64 muster.
Pension #9938 filed 3/9/1908 accepted.
Living in Warren Co. Born in Bledsoe Co. Was 70y/o. Received a flesh wound at Atlanta and was in the hospital for a month or two. States he was worn down and captured on the retreat from Nashville and paroled due to his condition at Shelbyville. Had a wife and seven children. J.C. Biles and Charles M. Rutledge vouched for him.
Col. Hiram Bledsoe (CSA)
Page 540 of this book says he covered Hood’s retreat.
Doniphan’s Expedition and the Conquest of New Mexico and California
By John Taylor Hughes,
KY Historical Marker……
(Reverse) Woodford County’s Civil War Generals – Brigadier General Abraham Buford, 1820-1874; Confederate cavalryman; cousin of John and N. B. Buford. Graduate West Point, 1841; frontier service Kansas and Indiana terr., 1842-1846; brev. capt. Mexican War; raised, equipped a Kentucky Brig. for CSA, commissioned brig. general, 1862. Covered Bragg’s retreat from Ky.; in Vicksburg campaign; twice raided Western Ky. and Paducah, capturing horses and vast supplies, spring 1864; led brigade in CSA victory, Brice’s Cross Roads, Miss., June 1864; covered Hood’s retreat after defeat at Nashville December 1864; defeated at Selma, Ala., March 1865. He lived at Bosque Bonita in Woodford Co., owning famous race horses Nellie Gray, Inquirer, Crossland, and Versailles.
25th Alabama Cavalry Battalion
[By Charles S. Rice, Huntsville, AL]
Although the 25th Alabama Cavalry Battalion was not formed until very late in the war, its origins go back to the summer of 1862, when Lemuel Green Mead of Jackson County resigned as captain of Co. “C”, 50th Alabama Infantry Regiment and was recommissioned a cavalry captain with orders to operate behind enemy lines in North Alabama and Tennessee. Mead quickly recruited a company of partisan rangers, but the Union withdrawal in September 1862 limited his activities. However, the Union Army returned to North Alabama in mid-1863, and Mead’s operations began again in earnest. Mead’s forces so rapidly increased that on 18 January 1864 he was authorized to expand his company into a cavalry battalion. Mead’s men constantly harassed the Union invaders, attacked the railroad, captured wagon trains and forage parties, and forced the Union Army to keep several regiments tied down to defend against them. Mead’s cavalry cooperated with Col. Alfred A. Russell’s 4th Alabama Cavalry Regiment in November and December 1864, in support of Gen’l John Bell Hood’s Nashville campaign. Mead’s most famous independent operation was the seizure of the Union post at Paint Rock Bridge on 31 Dec 1864, where he captured Co. “G”, 13th Wisconsin Infantry, and a Napoleon howitzer. A letter from Col. Russell (17 Jan 1865) indicates that Gen’l Nathan B. Forrest wanted Mead’s battalion attached to his own command, which would have been done “but for the contrary influence of some of the staff officers of Brigadier General [Philip D.] Roddey and S. D. Cabaniss, inspector of conscription.” On 11 March 1865, Lemuel Mead was promoted to colonel and authorized to reform his men into a regiment. Companies “A”, “C”, “E”, “F”, and “G”of Mead’s Battalion became Companies “A”, “B”, “C”, “D”, and “E” of the 25th Alabama Cavalry Battalion. Captain Milus E. “Bushwhacker” Johnston, who had been acting as major, was promoted to lieutenant colonel and placed in command. At the same time, Mead’s Tennessee companies became the 27th Tennessee Cavalry Battalion. Mead was recommended by Gen’l John B. Gordon for temporary promotion to brigadier general, but the war ended before that occured. Johnston’s 25th Alabama Battalion surrendered at Huntsville on 11 May 1865. Col. Mead held out on Brindley Mountain for a few weeks longer before finally disbanding the remainder of his men. Field officers: Col. Lemuel Green Mead; Lt. Col. Milus E. “Bushwhacker” Johnston; and Major Eugene C. Gordon.
Historical resources:
- Bibliography
- Muster roll (via email)
7th Alabama Cavalry Regiment
The 7th Alabama Cavalry regiment was organized at Newbern, 22 July 1863, raised as part of the brigade of Gen’l James H. Clanton. Recruits came from Greene, Montgomery, Pickens, Randolph, and Shelby counties. Ordered to Pollard, the regiment remained in that vicinity for nearly a year. In the fall of 1864, the 7th reported to Gen’l Nathan Bedford Forrest at Corinth, Mississippi and was reassigned to Rucker’s Brigade.
It took part in the raid on Johnsonville and was engaged in the fighting as Gen’l John Bell Hood moved up to Nashville. The 7th also bore the brunt of the night attack of the enemy at Brentwood, suffering severely in killed and wounded. During Hood’s retreat, the regiment fought daily and nightly, repelling the repeated assaults of the enemy’s swarm of cavalry.
When the 7th reached Corinth, only 64 rank and file (effectives) were left of the 350 with which it began the campaign. After recruiting a few weeks, the regiment joined Gen’l Abraham Buford, at Montevallo, 300 strong. Ordered to West Florida, the 7th reached Greenville, then turned and confronted Union Gen’l James Wilson’s Corps from Benton to Girard, fighting and obstructing his march. At Girard, the regiment was in the line and took part in the last fighting of the great war. It moved by way of Dadeville and Wetumka, and it surrendered at Gainesville, 14 May 1865.
Field and staff officers: Col. Joseph Hodgson (Montgomery); Lt. Cols. Henry J. Livingston (Autauga; resigned); Turner Clanton (Montgomery); Majors Turner Clanton (promoted); Francis C. Randolph (Montgomery); and Adjutant William t. Charles (Montgomery; captured, and escaped).
Historical resources:
Frank Herron
3rd Tennessee Infantry
Reminiscences of the Boys in Gray 1861-1865
Compiled by Miss Mamie Yeary, McGregor, Texas, Morningside Publishing Company, 1912
FRANK HERRON, Graham, Texas – Born Feb. 29,1843, at West Point, Tenn. Enlisted in the Confederate Army in May, 1862, at Lawrenceburg, Tenn., as private in Company K, Third Tennessee Infantry, Gen. Bell’s Brigade, Walker’s Division, Hardee’s Corps, Army of Tenn. First Captain was Frank Mathis, and first Colonel, Walker. After the battle at Chickamauga I received a discharge and went home but soon after joined the Forty-eighth Tennessee Cavalry, which served under Gen. Forrest.
Was wounded at the battle of Raymond, Miss., on May 12, in the right thigh and a thin piece of bone about two inches long was taken out. Here I was captured and four months later made my escape, rejoined my command and was again captured on Gen. Hood’s retreat from Franklin, Tenn., and was sent to Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio, where I remained until the war closed. Was in the battles of Chickasaw Bayou, Raymond, Miss; Chickamauga, and others with Gen. Forrest until I was captured under Gen. Hood on his retreat from Franklin.
Source – web site
Brown, Richard F. – In battles at Manassas, Richmond, Chickamauga, Ringgold Gap, Atlanta, Jonesboro, and Franklin. Wounded twice in leg at Richmond, Ky. Wounded twice in arm at Franklin, Tenn., while carrying battleflag. Captured on Dec. 31, 1864, on Hood’s retreat from Nashville. Carried to Camp Chase, Ohio. Paroled in May 1865.
Source:
History of the 3d, 7th, 8th, and 12th Kentucky C.S.A.
By Henry George
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12th KY Cav
Brigade Div Corps
| Nov ’64 |
Jan ’65 |
Lyon’s/Crossland’s |
Buford’s |
Forrest’s |
Army of Tennessee |
8th KY Infantry
Brigade Div Corps
| Nov ’64 |
Dec ’64 |
Crossland’s |
Buford’s |
Forrest’s |
Army of Tennessee |
7th KY Infantry Brigade Div Corps
| Nov ’64 |
Jan ’65 |
Crossland’s |
Buford’s |
Forrest’s |
Army of Tennessee |
3rd KY Infantry
Brigade Div Corps
| Nov ’64 |
Jan ’65 |
Crossland’s |
Buford’s |
Forrest’s |
Army of Tennessee |
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