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as third lieutenant. Wm. C. Goodwin resigned as sec- ond lieutenant, August, 1863, and A. F. Clarke took his place. George W. Williams resigned the place of first lieutenant, and A. F. Clarke, by promotion, took his place, and M. R. Watkins took the position of sec- ond lieutenant. Captain Thurman lost a leg at Fred . ericksburg, and was for a time retired, but was nomin. ally the captain of the company. In the absence of the captain, the first lieutenant, Clarke, commanded the company, and after his capture, the command devolved upon lieutenant M. R. Watkins. This com- pany was in many engagements, and probably lost as many men as any company from Newton county.
The number of engagements are as follows: First Manassas, July 21st, 1861 ; Leesburg, Garrett's Farm Savage Station, Malvern Hill, Maryland Heights. Sharpsburg, second Fredricksburg, second day at Get. tysburg, third day at Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Knox- ville, November 16th, 1864 ; Knoxville, November 29th, 1864; Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Horse-shoe, May 12th, 1864; Hanover Junction, Cold Harbor, June 3, 1864 ; Cold Harbor, June 5th, 1864; Petersburg, June 21st ; Petersburg, June 22d; Charlestown, Berryville, Va., Rock Fish Gap, Cedar Run. These battles were up to the first of March, 1865. From that time up to a few days before the surrender of General Lee at Appomattox on the 9th of April of same year. was a continuous series of battles and skirmishes with the en- emy in defense of the Confederate Capital. A few days before the surrender of General Lee, this company was captured and taken to Washington City, and from thence the officers were taken to Rock Island.
The casualties of this company were seventeen killed and died of wounds, twenty-two died of disease, thirty-five discharged from disability, six discharged
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from wounds. The total enrollment, from first muster to the surrender, was 139 men.
Mr. M. R. Watkins, who made out the roster from which this information is taken, added the following interesting statement, which indicates the spirit that prompted these self-sacrificing soldiers, and how un- complainingly they bore the hardships and dangers of the battle-field :
"The Newton Rifles, the first company formed in Newton county, was organized at Decatur March 1st, 1861 ; Montgomery Carleton, captain, being elected on March 9th, 1861. The company was mustered into State service by Captain Yerger. On the 13th of May following, it left Newton county for Corinth, at which place it entered the organization of the Thirteenth Regiment on the 15th of May, William Barksdale, colonel. From there we were ordered to Union City, Tenn., and remained six weeks ; from there to Jack- son, Tenn., where we remained but one day, and re- ceived orders to go to the scene of action at Manassas plains, where we arrived just in time to participate in the first of the many bloody battles in which the vet- erans of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia distinguished themselves and shed lustre on the cause. This com- pany was composed of young men, who responded with alacrity to the first call of their beloved country to meet and repel the invaders of their homes and liber- ties. Many of our boys, noble heroes, have fallen a willing sacrifice to their country's cause, while others wear the wooden leg or the empty sleeve; but others yet remain, a small remnant of as brave and patriotic an army as ever trod the earth, to avenge the loss of our comrades by emulating their devotion and heroism in a cause that deserves, if it may not achieve, success.
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' Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori,' is our motto. (It is sweet and glorious to die for one's country.) M. R. WATKINS, 2d Lieutenant Commanding. RICHMOND, VA., March 1, 1865."
THE HARPER RESERVES.
The next company reported is Harper Reserves, after- wards Company C., 36th Mississippi Regiment. This report is made by Mr. George P. Clarke, a member of the company. The company went out with ninety men. Captain Partin (who was the doctor who died in 1893 at Decatur), was the first commanding officer. He was succeeded by G. M. Gallaspy, who died at Hickory, March, 1894 ; 1st Lieutenant, John Watts ; 2d Lieutenant, John Dyess. This company was re- cruited until it had in all 110 men.
The engagements in which this company participa- ted are as follows : Farmington, May 9th, 1862 ; Iuka, September 19th, 1862; Corinth, October 3d and 4th, 1862; Seige at Vicksburg from May 18th to July 4th, 1863; skirmish at Adairsville, Ga., May 17th, 1864 ; skirmish at Cass Station, May, 1864; New Hope church, 1864; Latimer House, June, 1864; Kennesaw Mountain, June 27th, 1864 ; Smyrna church, July 9th, 1865 ; Atlanta, Ga., July and August, 1864 ; Lovejoy, Ga., September, 1864; Altoona, Ga., October 7th, 1864 : Tilton, Ga., October 9th, 1864; Franklin, November 30th, 1864; Murfreesboro, December, 1864; Nash- ville, December 15th and 16th, 1864; Spanish Fort, March, 1865.
It will be seen that this company was in nineteen battles and skirmishes, including the seige of Vicks- burg ; that it lost fourteen killed, fifteen wounded and two missing. These engagements comprise some of
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the most important battles of the war south of Vir- ginia.
CAPT. REYNOLDS' COMPANY.
Mr. Thos. J. Reynolds, superintendent of education of Newton county, furnishes a report of his company. This company was made up from the eastern and south- eastern portions of the county. First Captain, Wiley B. Johnson, of company D, 3d regiment Mississippi volunteer infantry ; entered Confederate service in the summer of 1861. W. J. Johnson, captain ; W. E. Thomas, 1st Lieutenant; T. J. Reynolds, 2d Lieuten- ant; A. Gressett, 3d Lieutenant. Capt. Johnson resigned and Lieut. Gressett died during the second year of the war. Then the roster stood : W. E. Thomas, Captain ; T. J. Reynolds, 1st Lieutenant ; G. W. John- son, 2d Lieutenant ; J. P. Gressett, 3d Lieutenant.
First light engagements of this company were : Pass Christian, Chickasaw Bayou, Baker's Creek and Jack- son; then came Resaca, Cartersville, Good Hope Church, Peach Tree Creek, battles around Atlanta, Lovejoy Station - all in Georgia - Decatur, Ala .; Columbia, Tenn .; Franklin and Nashville, Tenn., mak- ing a total of fourteen battles. Total enrollment, 145 rank and file ; killed in battle, 20; wounded and not killed, 18; died of disease, 29. He closes by saying there are probably not exceeding twenty members of the company now living.
Win. M. Lewis, the present treasurer of the county of Newton, has kindly furnished the necessary informa- tion of three companies from Newton county. Mr. Lewis was too young at the time to be a soldier, but has succeeded in getting up good information in regard to the part taken by these three companies and which is cheerfully transferred to these pages. The com-
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panies referred to are the Pinkney Guards, Tatum's In- fantry, of 36th Mississippi, and Rayborn's Cavalry company. Mr. Lewis writes :
THE PINKNEY GUARDS, CO. B.,
"Was a volunteer infantry company, and was organ- ized in May, 1861; composed of citizens of Stamper and Union, with Capt. G. F. Flint as commanding officer. They were mustered into service by Capt. J. M. Jayne, of Brandon, at Union, on the 21st day of August, 1861 ; ordered to Enterprise under Gen. John W. O'Farral. In forming the 8th Mississippi Regiment Capt. Flint was elected Colonel. They were drilled in this camp of instruction a month or more as State troops, then mustered into Confederate service and ordered to Pensacola, where the term of enlistment ex- pired (twelve months).
The first roster stood after the regiment was formed : P. P. Austin, Captain ; B. B. Martin, 1st Lieutenant ; J. P. Maxey, 2d Lieutenant; A. Red, 3d Lieutenant ; J. F. Kennedy, Orderly Sergeant ; R. W. Berton, 2d Ser- geant ; R. G. Cleavland, 3d Sergeant; G. W. Smith, 4th Sergeant, and T. J. Red, 5th Sergeant ; W. G. Peteet, 1st Corporal ; M. W. Stamper, 2d Corporal ; Tobe Smith, 3d Corporal ; A. H. Corley, 4th Corporal; W. J. Robuck, Ensign.
The regiment was then enlisted for the war and the following changes were made : Lieutenants Martin and Red came home, and corporals Stamper and Smith were elected as lieutenants. After the evacuation of Pensacola the regiment went into the Army of Ten- nessee and participated in all of its successes and reverses until the close of the war, surrendering in North Carolina, losing about twenty per cent. in killed
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and about twenty-five per cent. missing and by deaths from sickness. The company numbered at first 120, and was recruited from time to time with 30, making a total of 150."
CAPT. TATUM'S COMPANY.
He writes of Tatum's company of volunteer infantry : "The company was organized at Union in March, 1863 ; numbered 113 men ; composed of citizens from Newton and Neshoba counties, about one-half from each. Tatum brought 25 to 30 men from Beech Springs neighborhood, and joining Dr. Lewis and J. B. Fulton, at Union, making a good company of 113. In the or- ganization Tatum was elected Captain ; Lit Thornton, 1st Lieutenant ; W. M. Walton, 2d Lieutenant, and John Rayburn, 3d Lieutenant; Charles Holland, Orderly Sergeant. The company went to Meridian and was organized into a regiment about the 12th of - March, 1862, with E. Brown, as Colonel. He was from Copiah county. This regiment was accepted as twelve months troops and was ordered to Corinth before the Shiloh fight, at which place the regiment enlisted for the war.
The engagements of the company were at Iuka, Corinth, Abbeville and Coffeeville, under General Price, of Missouri ; Snyder's Bluff, under General Hebert; Vicksburg seige under General Pemberton; : all the Georgia campaign from Adairsville to Atlanta, under General J. E. Johnson ; all around Atlanta and at Franklin and Nashville, under General Hood, and at Blakeley under General Maury. After the death of several officers in command, F. L. Thompson, of Union, Adjutant of the 36th Regiment, was petitioned for by the company to General Hebert to have him ap- pointed as captain of the company. Capt. Thompson,
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a very gallant and efficient officer, was killed at Nash- ville, and Lieut. Smith succeeded to the command of the company.
This company was surrendered at Blakely, Ala., 9th April, 1865, during one of the hottest contests that it had met in any engagement during the war. About one-third of the company were killed and about the same number died of disease. This was considered a hard fighting company. The regiment was known as "The Bloody Thirty Sixth." Dr. William Lewis, now living at Union, went out, first as company doctor, and surrendered at Blakely as assistant surgeon.
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RAYBORN'S CAVALRY COMPANY :
"Capt. John Rayborn, a brave and dashing man, was a member of Company D., 36th Mississippi Regi- ment. It will be recollected in the mention made of Rayborn as a member of Capt. Tatum's company, that he was wounded early in the Corinth fight. He was at home recovering from his wounds, and to meet an emergency for defense of the State, he raised a company of cavalry, composed of the men whose term of enlistment for twelve months had expired and of the young men who were as yet too young to enter military service. Of this material he made up his company, and the first engagement that they were in was at Jackson, Miss.
"When Gen. Sherman's army came through Newton county, Capt. Rayborn's little band of thirty or forty men and boys, with inferior arms, did excellent ser- vice as scouts, preventing straggling and foraging parties from covering too large a space from the main army.
From Decatur to Union was nearly all a battle
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ground, and near Union, late in the afternoon, Capt. Rayborn, by too reckless exposure of himself, was killed. None braver went down. Lieutenant Martin succeeded him in command of the company, which was subsequently increased to 100 men, and at Colum bus, Miss., an organization was made and the company passed into regular service, again meeting and surren- dering to their old combatant, Gen. Sherman, at Greens- boro, North Carolina. Officers : John Rayborn, Cap -. tain; B. B. Martin, 1st Lieutenant ; Thos. Gardner, 2d Lieutenant.
COMPANY I., 36TH REGIMENT.
Was formed near Hickory, in Newton county, and information is furnished by Mr. J. A. Waul, who was a lieutenant in the company. He says the number of men was 113. R. D. Ogletree was the Captain ; Dr. G. E. Longmire, 1st Lieutenant; A. W. Whitman, 2d Lieutenant; J. A. Wade, 3d Lieutenant. This com- pany was in the memorable "Bloody Thirty-Sixth" and saw the same severe service and hard fighting that was participated in by the other companies of the regiment.
The engagements of this company were : The battles of Iuka, Corinth, Abbeville and Coffeeville, under Gen- eral Price of Missouri ; Snyder's Bluff, under General Hebert; Vicksburg seige, under General Pemberton; all the Georgia campaign, from Adairsville to Atlanta, under General Johnston ; all around Atlanta and at Franklin and Nashville, under General Hood; at Blakely, in April of 1865, one of the severest battles of the war to them, under General Maury. The number of men killed, 14 ; died from sickness, 20. Nearly the whole company received wounds of more or less se- verity.
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THE NEWTON HORNETS.
Mr. Eugene Carleton, of Decatur, who has fine mem- ory, and was well in position to know, sends the fol- lowing information of his company, which is very thankfully received. He writes :
"The Newton Hornets, Company D, 39th Mississippi Regiment, Colonel W. B. Shelby, was raised at Deca- tur, Miss., but was composed of citizens from all parts of the county; was mustered into service about the - first of May, 1862. They went out 113 strong; about thirty joined afterwards. The company went out with Dr. J. C. McElroy as captain ; James A. Ware, D. M. Bradham, M. J. L. Hoye, lieutenants. McElroy and Ware resigned. Bradham was then captain. Robert Wells and Charley Chaney were elected to fill their places. Bradham died and Wells resigned. James W. Hardy and Wm. J. Johnson were then elected lieuten- ants. James T. Thorne was elected in Hardy's place, but was never commissioned. Eugene Carleton was then made brevet-lieutenant, and commanded the company until it reached Atlanta ; then he was appointed as- sistant adjutant. of regiment, and Lieut. Jenney, a Missourian, appointed to command. George Wise was elected a lieutenant, and served until after the battle of Nashville. Before the 36th Regiment was ordered to Georgia under General Johnston, it had gone through the seige at Port Hudson of seven weeks. All the officers of Company D. were sent to Johnson's Island, and the men paroled and sent to camps at En- terprise, and on being exchanged were sent to Georgia."
The engagements of this company were : Skirmish at Abbeville; Corinth, October, 1862; the seige at Port Hudson of seven weeks ; were in all the skir- mishes and battles from Adairsville to Lovejoy Sta-
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tion (except the two heavy charges made by Hood be- fore Atlanta) ; Good Hope Church ; Kennesaw Moun- tain; the battles of Atlanta ; those before Tilton and Decatur ; battles of Franklin ; second battle of Mur- freesboro, Tenn ; battle at Nashville, when Lieutenant Wise was in some way lost, never to be heard from again. The regiment was then captured at Blakely, Ala., April 16, 1865. There were 13 killed and died of wounds ; 32 died of disease during the war, and 27 since. The latest information shows 57 now living.
COMPANY A., FIFTH REGIMENT STATE TROOPS.
Judge Bolton kindly furnishes the information of Company A, 5th Regiment of State troops, which was was brought into service in August, 1862. This com- pany belonged to what was called the State troops, and no man under the age of thirty-five years was admit- ted. Montgomery Carleton was again chosen captain ; John Graham, 1st Lieutenant ; Andrew Gordon, 2d Lieutenant ; Joel Loper, 3d Lieutenant. Gordon was soon discharged and J. L. Bolton was elected 2d Lieutenant. The company was assigned to the 5th Regiment, State troops, of which H. C. Robinson, of Kemper county, was Colonel ; Metts, of Winston, Lieutenant Colonel ; Randall, of Lauderdale, Major. Our General was Harris, of Columbus, Miss. The company was originally composed 70 men, but by process of discharge and recruit, 120 men were con- nected with it. In May, 1863, we were ordered to Vicksburg, and entered that town on the last train that went in before its investment. Captain Carleton and Lieutenant Graham, on account of sickness, did not go to Vicksburg, and the command devolved upon Lieutenant Bolton while there. We were in no reg- ular engagement. I remember only four men dying
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while in service-Halford, Fountain, Simmons and Yager. We were in service eleven months, all told."
COMPANY D., FIRST MISSISSIPPI CAVALRY.
Wm. M. Lewis again furnishes the information of Company D., 1st Mississippi Cavalry :
The company was organized at Union, one hundred strong. The officers were A. B. Hunter, captain ; - Williams, first lieutenant ; James Moore, second lieu- tenant; James Cooksey, third lieutenant ; Henry Chaney, orderly sergeant. First Brigadier-General, Brandon. General engagements were at Harrisburg and Oxford ; about twenty-five per cent. loss from all sources ; general services, scouting; surrendered at Columbus to Gen. Canby.
COMPANY B., SECOND MISSISSIPPI CAVALRY.
Mr. C. H. Doolittle, who was a member of this com- pany, and for a time the color-bearer, of the regiment, and Mr. I. W. Walker, now a citizen of Newton, and also a member of the company, furnish some valuable information.
Mr. Doolitle writes :
" The company was known as Perry's company ; was company B. of the fourth, but afterwards, the sec- ond Mississippi cavalry. J. J. Perry was captain from the organization, April, 1862, until December, 1863, when he was promoted to major. M. E. Blelack, who was first lieutenant, became captain of the company. The roster now stood : M. E. Blelack, captain ; Dan'] Johnson, H. W. Todd, A. J. Smith, lieutenants. John- son resigned and Joseph Jackson was elected as one of the lieutenants. This company, when it went out, had one hundred and eight men, and was recruited from
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time to time ; also, some discharged. The second Mis- sissippi cavalry served under Van Dorn, Forrest, and S. D. Lee. It was a part of Gen. Frank Armstrong's brigade, and was in eight or ten regular engagements, besides numerous skirmishes. Company B. . did the greater part of the skirmishing for the regiment, as it had what was considered the best officers. Mr. Wal- ker says : "The first engagement of this company was at Duck Hill ; then at Rome, Georgia; then all through the Georgia campaign ; then to Franklin and Nashville, and Columbia, Tenn .; and thence back to Alabama; surrendered at Selma. The company lost six killed, twelve or fifteen wounded."
This company stands very prominent among those who went to the army from Newton county. Capt. M. E. Blelack, who was a very large and fleshy man, looked to be unable for active service, but be it said to his honor that he was one of the bravest and most efficient officers that ever went from the county. He could have staid at home, but he preferred to go and risk his life for the good of the Southern cause.
FIRST MISSISSIPPI CHOCTAW BATTALION.
This battalion of Choctaw Indians, was made up from the surrounding counties of Neshoba, Jasper, Scott, and probably some others having Indians in them, Newton furnishing her quota, about one-third, or one company. This battalion had three companies of about sixty men each ; contained one hundred and eighty men. They were camped at Newton and drilled . for service. J. W. Price was major of the battalion ; B. F. Duckworth was captain of the Newton company ; C. H. Doolittle was first lieutenant ; Wm. Robinson, second lieutenant. This battalion was sent to Camp Moore, near Tangipaho, La., where they were being
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instructed. They were in close proximity with the enemy, and they were suddenly surrounded and taken . prisoners before they had ever seen any service. Most · of the officers, who were white men, escaped. They were taken to New Orleans and Mr. Wm. Robinson, who was in command of the Newton company, cap- tured with the Indians, says the men were separated from the officers, and nothing is known of what be- came of the Indians. Some suppose they were sent to the Choctaw Nation and have never returned.
Mr. C. H. Doolittle, who was the 1st Lieutenant of this company, was first a member of the Newton Rifles, the first company to leave Newton county, was detailed from the 13th Mississippi Regiment, then in Virginia, to come and join the Choctaw Battalion. He states that the day of the [capture he and some others had gone to search for some of the Indians who had left " the battalion with the intention of permanently leaving it and consequently escaped capture. There was not enough of the Choctaws left to be of any service, and Mr. Doolittle reported to Gen. Johnston at Morton, Miss., who advised him to join some other company, and then he joined the 2d Mississippi Cavalry, becom- a member of Capt. Blelack's company. Thus he was a member of three companies during the war.
COMPANY I, 46TH MISSISSIPPI REGIMENT OF INFANTRY.
Dr. Jubal Watts, of Harpersville, Miss., kindly fur- nishes the information in connection with the above company. Says it was organized about the last of April, 1862, at Union, Newton county, though there were a few from Neshoba and Scott counties in the company. Some few joined at Meridian, belonging to Lauderdale county. The commanding officers were : Dr. W. J. Hoye, Captain ; B. F. Tingle, 1st Lieutenant ; 7
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J. M. R. Adams, 2d Lieutenant ; T. R. Gardner, Jr., 3d Lieutenant. The company joined the 6th Mississippi Battalion, making the 9th company in the battalion- Lieut .- Col. J. W. Balfour commanding. July 4, 1862, was ordered to Vicksburg to garrison the town. After the fall of Fort Donelson the 6th Mississippi Battalion was organized into a regiment by the addition of Capt. Durham's company, of Kemper county. This regiment was the 46th Mississippi, commanded by captain- afterwards General-C. W. Sears. This regiment was in the seige of Vicksburg. Sergeant Smith was killed at Port Gibson ; several others wounded. During the seige of Vicksburg three were killed by cannon balls, and several by smaller shot. The greater part of company I died of camp fever and pneumonia in camp and hospital.
This company had originally 80 men, the greater part from Newton county. Capt Hoye resigned in June, 1862; Lieutenant Tingle was promoted to his place; Lieutenant Adams died at his home of fever contracted in camp: Lieutenant Gardner resigned and joined a cavalry company : Captain Tingle resigned in spring of 1863, and J. Watts was promoted to cap- tain; T. Burgess, 1st Lieutenant ; S. R. Martin, 2d Lieutenant; T. H. Creel, 3d Lieutenant. J. Watts resigned after the fall of Vicksburg.
SIXTY-DAY TROOPS.
T. B. McCune, Esq., furnishes very good information of Capt. Samuel Hollingsworth's sixty-day troops. He writes, that directly after the Belmont fight, in 1861, there was a call by the Governor of this State for sixty-days troops to go to defend Columbus, Ky.
The company was organized at Decatur, and Samuel Hollingsworth elected Captain; Archey Chaney, 1st
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Lieutenant; Thos. B. McCune, 2d Lieutenant ; D. W. Johnson, 3d Lieutenant. The company went to Gren- ada, Miss., and was organized into 2d regiment. Roselle was elected colonel. There were three regiments under General J. L. Alcorn, and repaired at once to Columbus, Ky. The weather was intensely cold, and persons not accustomed to camp life, from a mild climate like Mis- sissippi, were very much distressed with the great change. The troops took measles, and many died. Our captain was more thoughtful of his company, and shipped them to Jackson, Tenn., as there was no fight- ing to be done, and we stayed there until our time was out; so ended the sixty-days troops from Newton county, as we came home.
This company was composed of many men who went into other companies from Newton county, and all who did of course are numbered in other companies. This company makes fourteen that went into service from Newton county. The Indian company did no ser- vice and was a loss to the county, as they were cap. tured before doing any service and did not return to the county.
There are twelve companies that were organized and served from the time of their organization until they surrendered to the enemy, or until the close of the war. The twelve companies would easily make 1.500 men that were taken from the county, and considering the population of the county in 1860-of less than 10.000. and one third of them negroes-makes an excellent showing for the county. There were quite a num- ber of men in Newton county companies from other counties, but it may also be said that there was quite a number of men from Newton county in companies from other counties, making it very nearly equal. New. ton county, in this like all other things for the good of the State and nation, did her best.
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