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able to bring them to an engagement. This body retreated to the cove in the forks of the Withlacoochee, whither Gen. Armstrong, reinforced by some regulars and two pieces of artillery, took up the line of march on October 10th. On the 12th an encampment of about fifty Indians was attacked, and seven were killed, and eleven squaws and children captured. It was here ascertained that a large body of the enemy with women and children occupied the forks of the Withlacoochee, while another large force was below to dispute the passage of the river. Gen. Arm- strong marched with the main body to the latter point, while Lieut .- Col. J. C. Guild was ordered to take a detach- ment of four hundred volunteers and move upon the enemy in the cove.
The route lay through dense hummocks along the river, and one of the captured squaws was taken along for a guide. As Col. Guild's detachment approached the fork and reached a deep muddy creek, a heavy fire was opened from the op- posite bank at the head of the column, by which the friendly chief, Capt. Billy, was killed at the side of the commander. The command was ordered to dismount and open fire along the stream; an action of a half-hour ensued. Maj. Goff, of the First Tennessee, was ordered to take two hundred men and go up the stream and endeavor to effect a passage, which, if successful, would be followed by the entire command. He returned in a short time with the information that the stream was too deep for fording. In the mean time a vigor- ous fire had been kept up to cover the crossing, which was continued until the enemy retired. Col. Guild lost four men killed and about twenty wounded. The main body, under Gen. Armstrong, found the river too deep to ford under the hot fire of the enemy, and returned to camp. On the 22d, Col. Trousdale crossed the river, which had fallen at this point, with his regiment, and entered the cove. Two large towns were found and destroyed, the warriors having made their escape. From an old negro who was captured it was ascertained that the Indians had gone to Wahoo Swamp, which was in the vicinity of the Dade massacre. He also stated that in Guild's battle twenty- eight Indians and five negroes were killed, and in Maj. Gordon's affair under Gen. Armstrong, on the 13th, nine- teen were killed.
The provisions having given out, and nearly all of the horses having succumbed to hunger and fatigue, it was determined in council to march to the mouth of the With- lacoochee, where a depot was to be established. On the 25th wagons were met with supplies, when the march was turned to Fort Drane. Getting reinforcements, the First and Second Tennessee regiments moved up the north side of the Withlacoochee, and the regulars and friendly Indians on the south side. On the 17th a short skirmish took place, in which eighteen Indians were killed, and the whites bad one man killed and ten wounded. On the 18th the large number of fresh trails indicated that there was a large force of the enemy in the vicinity, and on approaching the town of Nickanopa, which was discovered to be on fire, a heavy volley was poured into the Second Tennessee as it advanced with the rest of the army through an open field. The Indians were in a dense hummock about seventy-five yards distant. The men poured in one volley, and when
they had reloaded they charged the hummock, driving the enemy slowly before them. So dense was the growth that the combatants often fired at each other at the distance of a few feet. The action lasted about two hours and a half, when the command drew off at dark, and camped in the vicinity of the scene of Dade's massacre.
On the 21st, Gen. Armstrong ordered a combined move- ment against the enemy, who occupied the battle-ground of the 18th. The Tennesseeans were on the right, the regulars in the centre, and the friendly Indians on the left. The advance was made through open ground, and when the line reached a point within fifty yards of a dense hummock, a si- multaneous fire broke forth from both sides. The exposed situation of the troops rendered it imperative that they should go forward, and this they did with great impetuosity. The Indians stood the charge stubbornly, firing into the men's faces; but they were gradually forced back through the hummock and the open space beyond into another hum- mock, whence they were again driven to take refuge on the margin of a shallow lake into which the men plunged in pursuit, wading up to their waists. The enemy, being again dislodged, sought refuge behind a deep channel connecting two lakes, whence it was impossible to drive them farther. About sunset the troops were withdrawn to camp three miles distant, bringing off the dead and wounded. The provisions being exhausted the brigade marched after this engagement to Velusia. Supplies being obtained here, the sick and disabled, one hundred and twenty in number, were sent around the cape on their homeward journey, and Armstrong's brigade returned by the late battle-ground to Fort Dade. The Indians had all returned south into the Everglades. From this point the Tennesseeans marched on foot (having to use the remaining horses for pack-animals) to Tampa Bay, where they embarked on the 25th of De- cember for New Orleans, at which place they were dis- charged, ending a six-months' term of service, the most arduous that can well be imagined.
Judge Guild mentions among the members of this regi- ment who afterwards became distinguished, Ex-Governor Neill S. Brown, Ex-Governor William Trousdale, Ex-Gov- ernor William B. Campbell, Gen. Robert Armstrong, Gen. Felix K. Zollickoffer, Hon. Russell Houston, Judge Terry H. Cahal, Judge Nathaniel Baxter, Gen. J. B. Bradford, Oscar F. Bledsoe, Capt. Frierson, Col. Henry, Maj. Goff, Col. John H. Savage, Col. J. H. McMahon, Gen. Lee Read, and Hon. Jesse Finley, of Florida.
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Inferior Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions-First Session in Da- vidson-Full List of Justices and Judges of the County-Clerks -Sheriffs-Circuit Court Record-Supreme Court of Law and Equity-Superior Court of Errors and Appeals-Court of Chancery -Law Court-Criminal Court.
INFERIOR COURT OF PLEAS AND QUARTER SESSIONS.
UNDER an act of North Carolina, of Oct. 6, 1783, the Governor issued commissions to four of the citizens on the
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Cumberland-to wit: Isaac Bledsoe, Samuel Barton, Francis Prince, and Isaac Lindsay-to organize " An Inferior Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions" at Nashborough. This In- ferior Court was by the act invested with extraordinary powers, and embraced a very wide range of subjects. It was, in fact, invested with jurisdiction over all the legal, judicial, legislative, executive, military, and prudential affairs of the county. It was like a country store in a new and frontier state of society, which is supplied with all sorts of miscellaneous commodities adapted to the wants of the early settlers, but as order and population advance and society becomes more systematized, these things are sepa- rated and distributed into different branches and depart- ments, according to the wants and demands of a more civilized community; so the general and miscellaneous functions discharged by the first court became after a time separated and assigned to different branches of a systematic judiciary, demanded by a more perfect state of society.
At first as many of the justices of the Inferior Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions as could attend sat in court to- gether. This continued to be the practice until the January term of 1791, when, " the several commissions of the peace being all of the same date, it was agreed by the court that each person named in the commission of the peace, with others who had been in former commissions, should all place their names upon separate tickets, which should be drawn in three classes, and a reserve. Samuel Barton was elected to succeed Robert Hay as chairman. Several subsequent attempts were made to form four separate benches for the different sessions, but without success, as each had to draw on the other for members to form a quorum."
The first emancipation of negro slaves within the county was ordered by this court April 18, 1801, on the petition of Thomas Molloy, Esq., " praying leave of the court to emancipate three slaves,-Sam, Sophi, and Harry,-or either of them, free by deed at any time hereafter, and the same may be entered on record."
At the first session of the Davidson County Court, An- thony Bledsoe and James Mulherin were both candidates for the office of surveyor. The vote resulting in a tie, that office was left vacant until the ensuing court. Samuel Mason was appointed constable at Maulding's, James Mc- Cain at Mansker's, Stephen Ray at Heatonsburg, John Mc- Adams at Nashborough, and Edward Swanson at Free- land's Station. James Freeland was appointed overseer of the road from Nashborough to as far as opposite Mr. Bu- chanan's spring, and Josiah Shaw from Mansker's to said spring, with authority to call together as many of the inhabi- tants of their respective stations as should be necessary.
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The following persons were named by the court as the first grand jurymen : James Shaw, Ebenezer Titus, James Mulherin, Isaac Johnson, Daniel Williams, Sr., Robert Espey, John Buchanan, William Gowen, James Freeland, George Freeland, Francis Hodge, John Thomas, Heydan Wells, David Rounsevall, James Hollis, Sr., John Hamil- ton, Capt. Gasper Mansker, Benjamin Kuykendall, Elmore Douglass, Joseph Masdin, Capt. - McFadden, Solomon White, Charles Thompson, Benjamin Drake. Daniel Smith was elected surveyor, and James McCain coroner, at the next session of the court.
FIRST MILL.
" The Court give leave to Headon Wells to build a water grist-mill on Thomas' Creek, about a quarter and a half a quarter up said creek from the mouth."
FIRST ROAD LAID OUT.
" Ordered, that the road leading from Nashville to Mansker's Station, as laid off heretofore by order of the Committee, be cleared out.
" 1784, January 5. - Court met. Members present, the Worshipful Isaac Bledsoe, Samuel Barton, and Isaac Lindsay, Esqs.
" January 6 .- On motion made to the Court concerning allegations against George Montgomery, as an aider and abettor in the treasonable piratical proceedings carried in the Mississippi against the Spaniards, it is the opinion of the Court that the said M. be in security in the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds for his appearance at our next Court, on which Elijah Robertson and Stephen Ray became securities for his appearance.
" William Cocke and John Sevier were offered as securi- ties on the bond of Matthew Talbot, elected as Clerk. It is the opinion of the Court that he is not entitled thereto.
" The following military officers were sworn : Anthony Bledsoe, 1st Colonel; Isaac Bledsoe, 1st Major; Samuel Barton, 2d Major; Gasper Mansker, 1st Captain ; George Freeland, 2d; John Buchanan, 3d; James Ford, 4th ; William Ramsey, Jonathan Drake, Ambrose Maulding, and Peter Sides, Lieutenants ; William Collins and Elmore Douglass, Ensigns.
" Daniel Smith appointed Surveyor.
" 1784, April 5 .- Court met at the house where Jona- than Drake lately lived. Adjourned to meet immediately in the house in Nashborough where Israel Harmon lately lived."
We give below a complete list of the justices, clerks, and sheriffs from the date of organization of the court to the present year, 1880, with the years in which they were com- missioned :
JUSTICES.
1783 .- Anthony Bledsoe, Daniel Smith, James Robert- son, Isaac Bledsoe, Samuel Barton, Thomas Molloy, Francis Prince, Isaac Lindsay.
1784 .- James Ford, Elijah Robertson, James Mulherin. 1785 .- Samuel Marston, Ephraim McLean.
1787 .- Benjamin Hardin, James Mears.
1788 .- John Sappington, Adam Lynn, John Kirkpat- rick, David Hay ..
1789 .- John Donelson, Robert Hay, Robert Weakley, Robert Ewin.
1790 .- Robert Edmundson, Joel Rice.
1791 .- Lardner Clark, Edwin Hickman, James Ross, James Hoggatt.
1792 .- John Nichols.
1794 .- Seth Lewis, Thomas Smith, Sampson Williams. 1795 .- James Byrns.
1796 .- John Gordon, Joseph Phillips.
1797 .- Thomas Hutchings, George McWhirter, Thomas Talbott, William Donelson.
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1798 .- John Davis, Thomas Dilahunty,* Andrew Cas- tleman, Joel Lewis, Henry Redford.
1799 .- John Thompson, Thomas Hickman, Robert Searcy, Robert Hewitt, Samuel Bell, Nicholas Tait Perkins, Benjamin D. Wells, John Weathers, Abraham Boyd, David McEwen, John Hope, John Witherspoon, David Shannon, Robert Thompson, Willie Barrow, Daniel Young, Thomas Thompson.
1800 .- Edmond Gamble, James Dickson, James M. Lewis, Josiah Horton, Sampson Harris, Elisha Rice.
1802 .- William Nash, John Anderson, Joseph Coleman, Sampson Harris, James Byrns.
1803 .- Joseph Horton.
1804 .- John Stump, William Hall, Lewis Demoss, Joshua Balance, Robert Heaton, John Lewis, Isam Allen Parker, Thomas Deaderick, Charles Robertson, Isaac Rob- erts, Thomas Williams, Thomas A. Claiborne, Eli Ham- mond.
1805 .- James Demoss, Michael C. Dunn, Carey Felts, William Donelson, Christopher Stump.
1806 .- Francis Sanders, Candour McFadden, Robert Horton, Samuel Shannon, Peter Perkins, M. Donelson, Thomas Williams, Robert C. Foster, George S. Allen.
1807 .- John Wilkes, Henry Hamilton. .
1808 .- Edmond Cooper, George Wade, Hugh Allison, George Wharton, Joseph Love.
1809 .- Christopher Robertson, Joseph Green, Benjamin
J. Bradford, Benajah Gray, Philip Pipkin, Robert Johnson, P. S. Allen.
1810 .- John Goodrich, Elihu S. Hall, William Chil- dress, Jr., William Anderson, Alexander Walker, John Read, James Sbannon, Braxton Lee.
1812 .- Richard D. Harmon, Eldridge Newsom, Robert Edmondson, John Childress.t
1813 .- Levi MeCollum, Jonathan Drake.
1815 .- George M. Martin, Eldridge Newscom, Zachariah Allen.t
1816 .- Stephen Cantrell, Jr., Wilkins Tannehill, Eli Talbot, t William Russell, Jeremiah Ezell, William Sanders, Joseph Caldwell, Isaac Redding, Robert B. Cherry, E. H. Call, William B. Lewis.
1817 .- Edmond Goodrich, Iredale Redding, Joseph T. Elliston, William Williams, Jesse Wharton, William Wal- Lace, William H. Shelton, William H. Nance, Richard Tate.
1818 .- Thomas Claiborne.
1820 .- George Wilson, John P. Erwin, Daniel A. Dun- ham, David Dunn, V. Buchanan Lanier, Alpha Kingsley, Sampson Prowell, Thomas Edmonston.
1821 .- Daniel A. Dunham, Silas Dilahunty, William Faulkner, Willis L. Shumate, Thomas G. Bradford, Ab- solom Graves, William Lytle.
1822 .- James Carter, John Bell, Robert C. Thompson, William Ramsey, Leonard Keeling, Michael Gleaves, t Gil- bert G. Washington, Eii Talbott, John Pirtle, Philip Campbell.
1824 .- Joseph Narville, Jeremiah Baxter, John Davis, Stephen Cantrell, John R. Grundy, Andrew Hynes, Enoch
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P. Crowell, David Ralston, James Marshall, Herbert Towns, John M. Lovell, Henry Whyte.
1826 .- Samuel McManners, Anthony W. Johnson, John Jones, George W. Charlton, Thomas Welch, Nicholas B. Pryor, Thomas Scott, Isaac Hunter.
1827 .- Jesse Shelton, Willoughby Williams, William E. Watkins, Jordan Hyde, Wilson L. Gower, Daniel Brice.
1828 .- Robert Farquharson, Hays Blackman, Thomas Fenbee, William Donelson, John Hall, Abraham Demoss, Reuben Payne.
1830 .- Enoch Ensley, William L. Willis, Jonathan Garrett, Thomas Bell, Herbert Owen, Nathaniel Gillian, John Berry, John P. Erwin, William Armstrong.t
1831 .- James Sims, Jonathan Browning, John Wright, William James, Francis MeGavock, Howell Harris.
1832 .- William H. Hogans.
1833 .- Allen Knight, Edward H. East, David Aber- nathy.
1834 .- Joseph W. Clay, James H. Foster, Brent Spence, Joseph B. Knowles, L. P. Cheatham.
1835 .- Quorum, William Williams, Elihu S. Hall, Gil- bert G. Washington.
Agreeable to the " Act to Reorganize the County Courts of this State," passed by the Legislature of Tennessee, Dec. 3, 1835, the County Court was opened May 2, 1836, by Gilbert G. Washington, Esq., a justice of the former court, and commissions from the Governor of the State were presented, authorizing the following-named gentlemen to serve as justices of the peace in and for the county of Davidson for a term of six years :
In the District of Nashville (No. 1) .- Elihu S. Hall, John P. Erwin, Joseph B. Knowles, Joseph Norvell, Thomas J. Read, Thomas Calendar.
District No. 2 .- John H. Clopton, William G. M. Campbell.
District No. 3 .- Edward H. East, John Vandeville.
District No. 4 .- John A. Shute, John McNeill.
District No. 5 .- Herbert Towns, Thomas S. King.
District No. 6 .- William Hagans, James R. Chillcutt.
District No. 7 .- Enoch Ensley, John B. Hodges.
District No. 8 .- William Owen, John Hogan.
District No. 9 .- John Cortwell, John Hathaway.
District No. 10 .- John McRobertson, Joshua McIn- tosh.
District No. 11 .- Robert Bradford, Philip Shute.
District No. 12 .- William E. Watkins, Samuel B. Da- vidson.
District No. 13 .- William Shelton, Elijah Nicholson.
District No. 14 .- John Davis, Martin Forehand.
District No. 15 .- Thomas Alliston, William Herrin.
District No. 16 .- William Greer, Lewis Dunn.
District No. 17 .- Francis Carter, Moses Crisp.
District No. 18 .- John McGavock, John Hobson.
District No. 19 .- Reuben Payne, Edmund Goodrich.
District No. 20 .- Enoch P. Connell, John C. Bowers.
District No. 21 .- Charles W. Moorman, Claiborne Y. Hooper.
District No. 22 .- David Ralston, John Cloyd.
District No. 23 .- William I. Drake, David Abernathy.
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District No. 24 .- Jonathan R. Garrett, Daniel Brice. District No. 25 .- Thomas W. Sherron, Wilson Crockett.
Elihu S. Hall, of Nashville, was elected chairman. Those whose names appear in italics constituted with him the quorum for the ensuing year.
1836 .- William Williams, John Wright, Robert Weak- ley, Blackstone F. Brinkley.
1837 .- James M. Cook, Bartlett M. Barnes, William Stringfellow, Thomas Scott, William Hassell.
1838 .- E. M. Patterson, John Beasley, Marshall B. Mumford, Peter B. Morris.
1839 .- William HI. ITambelin, William M. Bartle, William Faulkner, Benjamin D. Pack, Joseph Kellam. Quorum, Robert Bradford, Charles W. Moorman, John McIntosh.
1840 .- George S. Smith, Thomas Gale .* Quorum, Elihu S. Hall. .
1841 .- Samuel W. Hope, Elihu S. Hall, William Tan- nehill,* Joseph II. McEwen, Josiah Ferris, W. H. ITamlin, John McIntosh, William Williams, Jonas Shivers, W. R. Elliston, James Yarborough, George W. Charlton, James H. Cook, W. H. Clemons, David Ralston, Samuel W. Hope, C. W. Nance, Enoch P. Connell, Lewis Joslin, Samuel B. Davidson, G. F. Hamilton, Robert Goodlett, A. G. Briley, Thomas Bell, C. G. Lovell, Benjamin D. Pack, W. H. Lovell, Thomas J. Hale, Leonard Burnett, Martin Forehand, Mastin Ussery, William J. Drake, David Abernathy, William Greer, Benjamin Sharpe. Quorum, Elihu S. Hall, Charles W. Moorman, John Hogan.
1842 .- George D. Falmer, William E. Cartwright, Her- bert Towns, T. N. Cotton, John Hogan, John Corbitt, Allen Knight, John P. Still, John A. Shute, Felix G. Earthman, B. M. Barnes, Zachariah Jones, William Herrin, E. M. Pallemon. Quorum, Elihu S. Hall, John Hogan, David Abernathy.
1843 .- William Cummings, John J. Henton, H. I. An- derson. Quorum, Josiah Ferris, William Williams, C. W. Nance.
1844 .- William H. Coleman, John B. Mccutchen, Sterling W. Goodrich, James HI. Hagar, James R. Allen. Quorum, Josiah Ferris, William Williams, William R. Elliston.
1845 .- Theodore Fagundus,* S. W. Edmondson, Roger Pegran. Quorum, Josiah Ferris, William Williams, William R. Elliston.
1846 .- Robert L. Neely, George Gill, David Williams, Hugh I. Patterson. Quorum, Joseph M. McEwen, William Williams, William R. Elliston.
1847 .- Moses Newell, Hollis Hagar, William Nelson, John M. Thompson, William G. Lanier, James H. Wilson. Quorum, Joseph H. McEwen, William R. Elliston.
1848 .- Hiram Gray, John F. Felts, Walter T. Greer, William Greer, William McIntosh, Mastin Ussery, Zach- ariah Jones, Robert Green, E. A. Raworth, George Gill, D. F. MeGhee, Robert Goodlett, P. B. Morris, Josiah Ferris, Isaac Paul, Lawson Barry, I. R. Garrett, Benjamin Sharpe, Rolla Harrison, John H. Cartwin, Benjamin A. Phillips, Hollis Hagar, Henry Rumer, John M. Thompson, William
Williams, Samuel S. Hall, Thomas N. Cotton, Hugh J. Patterson, Henry Holt, Jesse Jordan, Chilson Crockett, William Johnson, C. G. Lovell, Joseph L. Jenill, Noah Underwood, Samuel B. Davidson, James R. Allen, Herbert Towns, Richard A. Turner, James H. Austin, Andrew Gregory, H. I. Anderson, Samuel W. Edmonson, Henry M. Hutton, John B. Mccutchen, George B. Goodwin, James HI. Wilson, John Corbitt, Benjamin L. Pack, Hawes Graves. Quorum, Josiah W. Ferris, Joseph H. McEwen, Isaac Paul.
1849 .- Quorum, Josiah W. Ferris, Joseph H. McEwen, Isaac Paul.
1850 .- William Dobson, Sterling Goodrich. Quorum, Joseph H. McEwen, Hawes Graves, Henry M. Hutton.
1851 .- John House. Quorum, Joseph H. McEwen, Hawes Graves, Isaac Paul.
1852 .- Washington G. Smith, Joseph L. Garrett, Ed- mond B. Bigley. Quorum, Joseph H. McEwen, Hawes Graves, Isaac Paul.
1853 .- John W. Baker. Quorum, Joseph H. McEwen, Hawes Graves, Isaac Paul.
1854 .- John Chickering, Michael H. Gleaves, Hiram Gray, A. J. Ramsey, W. C. Briley, William K. Wair, George Gill, Napoleon B. Willis, W. G. Lanier, Hawes Graves, John Taylor, Andrew Gregory, W. B. Phillips, J. W. F. Manning,* Benjamin F. Drake, Thomas Fuqua, William D. Baker, John W. Cartwright, Samuel B. David- son, Jesse Jordan, W. G. Smith, H. L. Parch, William Herrin, William Scott, Hollis Hagar, Isaac Paul,* H. C. Marcell, N. H. Belcher, I. G. Briley, W. Freeman, W. E. Cartwright, John Collart, P. B. Morris, S. S. Hall, I. N. Brinkley, Josiah Ferris, J. L. Willis. Quorum, Hawes Graves, W. Crockett, Hollis Hagar.
1855 .- Quorum, Hawes Graves, Wilson Crockett, Thomas B. Page.
1856 .- Herbert Towns, Joel F. Mays, R. G. Reeves, Isham Dyer, John Greer, J. B. G. Carney. Quorum, Hawes Graves, Arthur C. White, Napoleon B. Willis.t
1858 .- I. N. Alexander, Robert Holt, Felix Compton. Quorum, F. W. Maxey, Arthur C. White, T. W. Balance. 1859 .- M. I. Couch, William D. Robertson.
1860 .- William D. Robertson, G. M. Southgate, W. C. Briley, William W. Goodwin, Nathan Harsh, Joseph A. Brent, George W. Spain, James Williams, Horace G. Scales, G. B. Gunter, Samuel B. Davidson, Church Hooper, Ben- jamin Williams, E. H. Childress, John Taylor, W. B. Hud- son, Robert Holt, George Harsh, George Gill, Napoleon B. Willis, T. F. McNeill, William Curtis, Willis Wade, T. M. Patterson, Gilpin Hallum, John H. Cartwright, J. Creigh- ton, N. H. Belcher, Theodore B. Page, W. J. Chandler, S. D. Corley, George Greer, I. G. Powell, B. Gray, John G. Briley, George Lunisden, James Thomas, Zachariah Payne, James Fleming, Alexander McDaniels, Benjamin Williams, Charles Burrows, James Haynie, William F. Meacham, Benjamin N. Dodd.
t These were succeeded by Hon. James Whitworth, who was elected first judge of the County Court of Davidson County on Saturday, May 3d, and took his oath of office May 9, 1856, when he immedi- ately took his seat as judge of the County Court.
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1861 .- I. N. Hobbs, William W. Garrett, P. B. Cole- man.
1862 .- Herbert Towns, John W. Rucker.
1864 .*- C. M. Stewart, I. R. W. Peavey, Enoch Cun- ningham, Wesley Drake, Joseph I. Robb, D. Bruce Blair, Thomas McCarty, A. B. Shankland.
1865 .- I. B. Canfield, John R. Cowan, Jeremiah Bowen, William A. Knight, Z. T. Hays, Drury A. Phelan, James Norvell, Isaac Whitworth.
1866 .- W. D. Baker, William J. Chandler, Henry Mc- Neil, Henry Holt, Jr., James S. Williams, W. B. Hudson, William Curtis, Paschal W. Brien, A. S. Edwards, John W. Bush.
1867 .- Ernst Pohl.
1868 .- B. N. Dodd, Samuel B. Davidson, A. S. Thur- neck, T. A. Harris, J. Albert Smith, D. L. Lapsley, Her- bert Towns.
1869 .- John H. Baskette, Isaac Paul, Patrick McTigue, James M. Hinton, Thomas T. Saunders, William B. Ewing, Fletcher W. Horn.t
1870 .- A. C. Phelan, Daniel N. Neylan, W. F. Meacham, W. H. Wilkinson, W. A. Wherry, J. H. Galbreath, J. M. Shives, H. G. Scales, W. M. Butler,t D. S. Graves, John W. Rucker, C. B. Chickering, L. B. Bigley, Oswell Newby, W. A. Knight, Thomas T. Saunders, G. W. McCarley, H. L. Abernathy, James S. Williams, R. D. Campbell, t Joseph W. Bigley, B. F. Gleaves, A. Peebles, W. J. Wade, James Wyatt, D. A. Phelan, W. J. Chandler, William Curtis, Patrick Walsh, Thomas K. Griggs, Isaac Paul, M. I. Couch, James T. Patterson, James A. Steele, F. P. Sulli- van, Patrick McTigue, E. H. Childress, P. R. Albert, John H. Baskette, H. L. Claiborne, John I. C. Davidson, James Everett, George J. Hooper, Martin Kerrigan, B. W. Maxey, D. W. Neylan, Isaac Paul, George W. Spain, Jerry Bowen, E. H. Childress, William B. Ewing, Thomas J. Hardy, John G. Marshall, James S. Read, John Taylor, John Bush, Hat. F. Dortch, Benajah Gray, John Hows, James T. Patterson, F. P. Sullivan, Isaac Whitworth, W. A. Size- more, T. D. Cassetty, F. A. Treppard, James Wyatt, J. S. Dillahunty.
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