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LEE. STACKER, private in Company A, Forrest's old regiment ; entered the service February 18, 1863; paroled May, 1865. Proposed for membership by Colonel John W. Dawson of this Association and elected January 20, 1870.
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LOUDON, J. A., enlisted in Captain J. S. White's Cavalry Company in Memphis, May, 1861, when only 15 years old; was in an engagement with Federal cavalry at Charleston, Mo .; he wounded a soldier and released a number of citizen prisoners. N. B. Forrest (afterward general) was a private in this company. At Belmont young Loudon captured a Federal sergeant and a large gray mule; was tranferred to Captain Jack Stock's company ; next fight was with infantry on the Big Sandy; there he captured another prisoner ; next engaged the Federal infantry west of Paris; Confederates were outnumbered twenty to one; after sharp conflict fell back ; Loudon lingered and had his hat shot off. Soon after the command under Colonel II. Clay King was surprised near Paris, but repulsed the enemy. The company reconnoitered Hickman, Ky., and had a return call next morning and a shower of bullets ; a cannon ball killed a horse next to private
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Loudon and scattered the blood all over him. The company became a part of the Seventh Tennessee Cavalry ; made a dash on a Federal scouting party west of Paris and captured camp equipage. The next fight was at Diggs Mill, where Lieutenant Diggs was killed; then at Bolivar, Tenn., where the Federal Colonel Hogg in command was killed and a Dutch major was captured. Soon after had a fight at Brit- ton's Lane; here private Loudon wounded a man and took him prisoner. He was in the attack on Corinth under Gen- erals Price and Van Dorn; was under General Van Dorn on the raid to Holly Springs; the command afterward marched to Grenada with the prisoners taken and banners flying. During the next raid into Tennessee young London was taken desperately ill and was sent by Surgeon Marable to a private house to take his chances of recovery. He finally met Gen- eral Alcorn, who was under parole. The general advised him to reach his father's boat, the " Granite State," in the service of the Confederacy on the Arkansas river. Through the kindness of Colonel " Jim " Rogers he passed through the lines, reached his father and was nursed back to health. He was refused a pass to return to his command, and was assigned to duty as assistant pilot, with the rank of captain, on his father's boat. The army soon evacuated Little Rock and Pine Bluff, and he received orders to burn his father's boat, which he and his brother did at Swan Lake, in the fall of 1864. Soon after that he was elected first lieutenant of Captain Bart. Gillespie's company of cavalry, Colonel Charles Carleton's regiment. The first raid this regiment made was on a negro regiment commanded by white officers, entrenched on the Heiskell plantation near Pine Bluff. The attacking force had special orders and carried them out successfully to the letter. The command moved with General Price into Missouri and fought the battle of Pilot Knob, a battle near St. Louis, and one near Jefferson City, captured Boonville and Independence, and fought the battles of Mine Creek, Kansas, and Newtonia, Mo. The army reached its old camp terribly shattered. Lieutenant Loudon had participated in all its battles and marches. While recruiting for his company
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he was captured by Major Davis, in command of Federal cavalry, and imprisoned at Pine Bluff; was then removed to the military prison at Little Rock, where he endured untold and indescribable hardships for five months, and was paroled from prison May 6, 1865. It was said of him that he killed and captured more than his five of the enemy, and yet it was all for a lost cause. After the war he returned to Memphis, engaged in business, and except a few years spent on his Ark- ansas plantation has been a citizen of this city since. Was married here to Miss Virginia Shanks in 1870; his wife died in 1873, leaving a son, now grown. He became a member of this Association among the first and has continued ever since. Is a member of Company A, Confederate Veterans ; attended the reunion of U. C. V. at Richmond, June-July, 1896, and the State reunion of the same, October 14 and 15 following, at Nashville, as a delegate from Camp No. 28, and was elected second vice-president of the State organization by acelama- tion.
LEWIS, GEORGE W., Sergeant Company D, Fourth Ten- nessee Infantry ; enlisted May, 1861 ; wounded three times- at Shiloh, Perryville and Franklin; paroled April 17, 1865, at Greensboro, N. C. Admitted to this Association in Octo- ber, 1894.
LINDSTEDT, W. H., enlisted as a private in Company G, One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Tennessee; was wounded at Shiloh, and when he recovered rejoined his command after the battle of Murfreesboro; was discharged February 4, 1863.
LINKHAUER, JOIIN A., born in Prussia, July 8, 1825; came to New Orleans in 1840, and to Memphis, where he has since lived, in 1845. He enlisted in the First Alabama Regi- ment at Meridian, Miss., served six months in the field, was detailed by Major Tom Peters and placed in charge of a large government shoe factory at Cahaba, Ala .; was afterward transferred to Montgomery and thence to Macon, Ga., where he was captured by Wilson's raiders; was paroled on April 24, 1865, came home in the following September, and has ever since been engaged in business. He joined this Association at an early day.
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LOCKE, CHAS. G., born in Memphis ; is a son of the late Gardner B. Locke, who was mayor of Memphis in 1848; his mother's family came from New England. The Lockes came from England and settled in Virginia in 1710. Two of C. G. Locke's great-grandfathers were in the Revolutionary war, and one of them served on General Washington's staff. In April, 1861, C. G. Locke was temporarily in Arkansas, and enlisted in the Rector Guards of DesAre, a company which became part of the Fifteenth Arkansas Regiment, with P. R. Cleburne as colonel. In July, 1863, he was transferred to the Sixth and Ninth consolidated Tennessee Regiment, and was on its rolls to the end of the war. He served as a private, and once declined to be elected captain. At Perryville the drum of his left ear was broken by the cannonading, and he is deaf yet in that ear. At the battle of Chickamauga he was wounded in the left leg immediately above the knee. Gan- grene supervened and the flesh sloughed off, leaving several large, ugly scars. This wound never healed until a year and a half after the war was over. Although in the hospital at West Point, Ga., he volunteered, in company with a handful of wounded soldiers and recruits, to go into the fort to fight Wilson's forces. Here he lost his right arm at the shoulder joint only a few minutes before the enemy poured over the breastworks. It was probably the last bloody fight of the war, having taken place April 16, 1865, a week after Lee's surrender and ten days previous to Joe Johnston's surrender. It was here that the heroic General R. C. Tyler of Memphis was killed on his crutches.
Private Locke was also in the battles of Richmond, Ky., and Murfreesboro, Tenn., as well as several lesser engage- ments. Ile treasures with commendable pride a certificate from T. II. Osborne, captain of his company at the time of his transfer to the Tennessee regiment, who wrote the follow- ing on his descriptive list : "The said C. G. Locke was not only present at the above mentioned battles, but acted with marked bravery in each, and especially at the battle of Mur- freesboro. I recommend him for promotion as having been a dutiful, patriotic and gallant soldier."
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He is the last of his immediate family, his nearest relative being a young nephew in Florida. He became a member of this Association March 20, 1870. Has been connected with the business departments of daily papers in Memphis nearly ever since the war, and is a leading member of the Masonic fraternity. He is the survivor of four brothers, who were all in the Confederate army for four years. The oldest brother, James Bowdoin Locke, was Captain of Company C, Sixth and Ninth Tennessee Regiments, and was in every skirmish and battle in which that regiment was engaged from Belmont to Franklin. William Locke was absent through sickness for several months in 1862, but was present and on duty at all other times during the entire war. Joseph Locke served first in the Thirteenth Tennessee Infantry, and being discharged on account of his youth at Tupelo, Miss., joined the cavalry with Richardson and afterward with Forrest. These three brothers were all wounded slightly several times each, the only severe wound being received by Captain Locke through the right lung at Franklin.
LOGWOOD, THOS. H., entered the Confederate service in May, 1861, as Captain of Memphis Light Dragoons, Sixth Battalion of Tennessee Cavalry. On organization at Colum- bus, Ky., Captain Logwood was elected lieutenant-colonel ; at the battle of Belmont he crossed the river with two compa- nies of cavalry and took a decisive part in that engagement. He was commissioned to raise a regiment of mounted Lancers but the idea was abandoned. . In 1863, by authority from the Secretary of War, he organized a fresh regiment in West Tennessee, and was commissioned as Colonel of the Sixteenth Tennessee Cavalry. This was inside the Federal lines, and when General Forrest ordered the regiment to report at Ox- ford, Miss., it was scattered, and only about three hundred men responded. It was consolidated with the Fifteenth Ten- nessee Cavalry and a battalion of Mississippi cavalry, with T. H. Logwood as lieutenant-colonel. The regiment made a fine record. Colonel Logwood was in command of the troops that entered Memphis August 21, 1864, and was promoted to the full coloneley of his regiment for gallant services rendered 10
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on that day. The Fifteenth was at Johnsonville, with Hood in Tennessee, and in numerous heavy fights, and was paroled at Gainesville, Ala. Col. Logwood practiced law in Memphis before and after the war, and died several years ago, leaving a wife and son. He became a member of this Association April 28, 1870.
LOWRY, WILL J., private Company C, Seventh Missis- sippi Cavalry, under Forrest; enlisted July, 1862; paroled May 11, 1865. Admitted to C. H. A. March 15, 1895.
MAHONEY, E., was born October 17, 1844, in the city of Cork, Ireland ; enlisted as private in Company A, Forty-third Alabama, in February, 1862 ; was detailed for duty in the ord- nance department under Major Wagner and so remained until the end of the war, the Forty-third Alabama having been ordered to Virginia. Joined the Confederate Historical As- sociation April 11, 1893.
MALONE, G. B., private Company E, Ninth Tennessee Infantry ; enlisted June 7, 1861; discharged for being under age in 1862; served with the Twelfth Tennessee Cavalry, Reno's and Morton's batteries, and in Company II, Forrest's old regiment ; rejoined the army ; served in artillery as ord- erly sergeant for one year, then restored to cavalry as private ; captured near Somerville, Tenn., March 9, 1863, and escaped April 27, 1863 ; paroled May 11, 1865. Joined this Associa- tion June 13, 1894.
MALONE, W. B., born 16th September, 1842; entered service as a private in Company A, Twelfth Kentucky, April, 1862; served through the war and was paroled May 16, 1865.
MANSON, J. A., Lieutenant Company A, Cobb's Georgia Legion ; enlisted August, 1861; was wounded at Knoxville, Tenn., November 19, 1863, and at Sailor's Creek, Va., April 6, 1865 ; captured at the last place, and paroled June 19, 1865. He became a citizen of Hardeman county, Tenn., soon after the war; taught school and became a farmer, as he is yet ; served several terms in the Legislature and was Speaker of the House of Representatives; was appointed United States
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Marshal for the District of West Tennessee, by President Cleveland, in 1893, and still fills that position, with headquar- ters in Memphis. Joined the Confederate Historical Associa- tion August 13, 1895.
MARCUM, WM. J., Sergeant Company D, Ninth Missis- sippi Regiment; enlisted March, 1861; was wounded at Mun- fordville, Ky., September, 1862, and was discharged shortly after the battle of Missionary Ridge in 1863. Admitted to this Association March 15, 1895.
MARION, NATHAN, private in Company A, First Ala- bama Cavalry ; enlisted April 19, 1861; was afterward trans- ferred to Russell's Battalion, which was merged into the Fourth Alabama Cavalry, under Colonel A. A. Russell, serv- ing under Forrest to the end of the war; was wounded at Shiloh and Shelbyville ; paroled May 14. 1865. Admitted to this Association December 11, 1894.
MARTIN, J. H., was born in Winston county, Miss., Octo- ber 28, 1840, and came to Memphis with his father's family in 1848, then moved to Arkansas in 1850; after completing his education he returned to Memphis in 1857 and remained until the beginning of the civil war; became a member of " Log- wood's Light Dragoons " before hostilities began, and on May 16, 1861, almost the entire company was mustered into service of the Confederate States Army and left Memphis at once for active service around Randolph, Teun., where General Gideon J. Pillow was in command. Their first actual engagement was at the battle of Belmont, and it is the testimony of sur- vivors that not a man of the company, when drawn up in line on the bank of the Mississippi river, showed the least degree of fear, though they were within three hundred yards of General Grant's line of infantry, who were exchanging a heavy musketry fire with Colonel Charles Carroll's regiment, Fifteenth Tennessee Infantry. This entire absence of emotion was doubtless owing in part to a lack of appreciation of the danger, as some of them confessed to great trepidation in many much less dangerous positions in succeeding years of the war. At the reorganization of the army after the ninety-
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day enlistments expired, the company was reorganized as Com- pany A, Seventh Tennessee Cavalry, noder that brilliant com- mander Colonel W. H. Jackson, and when he became general the company was detached from the regiment to act as his escort. About February, 1863, Mr. Martin was promoted, upon the recommendation of General Jackson, for merito- rious performance of duty, to the rank of first lieutenant, and assigned to duty on his staff. In December, 1863, Captain James Crump, aid-de-camp to General Jackson, was killed in battle near Sharon, Miss., and again, at the request of General Jackson, Lieutenant Martin was appointed to succeed him, and still holds his commission as such, and served in that capacity until the close of the war.
After the surrender Captain Martin came to Memphis, and has ever since been activeiy and successfully engaged in large business affairs ; he married Miss Nina D. Wood, and they have reared an interesting family. He is a quiet, energetic man, and has built up large interests, without losing sight of old friends or forgetting the strong ties of comradeship existing between old soldiers. He was on the general's staff at the inter-State drill held in Memphis May, 1895, and contributed much to the success of that brilliant event. He joined the Confederate Historical Association in 1884.
MARTIN, JOHN C., was born in Shelby county, Tenn., December 2, 1843; enlisted December 1, 1862, in Company E, Twelfth Tennessee Regiment. At West Point, Miss., this regiment and Forrest's regiment. or MeDonald's battalion, were consolidated, and then Colonel Kelly became the com- mander; fought through the war under Forrest, and was paroled May 6, 1865.
MASON. FRANK, private in Company D, Eleventh Ten- nessee, Preston Smith's Brigade ; was born May 22, 1844, in Davidson county, Tenn .; enlisted May 1, 1861; was in the battle of Wild Cat, Ky., siege of Cumberland Gap and vari- ous other engagements; was in the Dalton, Ga., campaign, and was wounded on the 22d of July, 1864, in front of At- lanta ; paroled May 3, 1865, at Augusta, Ga.
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J. HARVEY MATHES, Adjutant Thirty-Seventh Tennessee Regiment in 1863.
MATHIES, JAMES HARVEY, was born near Dandridge, Jefferson county, East Tennessee, on the old place where his grandfather lived and where his father. Rev. William Alfred Mathes, still lives ; he comes of revolutionary stock on all sides ; received an academic education at Westminster Eng- lish and Classical School and was prepared to pass through college in a year or two when the war began ; was in Alabama when Fort Sumpter fell ; returned home, raised a company for Confederate service, was elected captain and drilled the company for two months, but it was distributed in different commands and he enlisted as private in a company intended for service in Virginia; this became Company C, Thirty-seventh Tennessee Regiment, organized at Knoxville by Colonel W. HI. Carroll of Memphis. Private Mathes was elected orderly sergeant, and was soon after appointed sergeant-major by Colonel Carroll. The regiment was brought to Germantown,
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near Memphis, then ordered back to Chattanooga and Knox- ville, and became inured to marching and about-facing before ever smelling a battle. While at Knoxville Sergeant-Major Mathes was detailed to serve in the Adjutant-General's de- partment on the staff of Major-General Geo. B. Crittenden, and saw some very pleasant service in hotel headquarters. When the midwinter march to Mill Springs, Ky., began he shouldered a gun, joined his regiment and shared the fatigues and dangers of that ill-starred campaign. Crossed the river at Mill Springs on January 19, 1862, and was under fire at the end of the battle of Fishing Creek and aided in bringing up the rear of the retreat. After the battle of Shiloh he was elected first lieutenant of his company and commanded it for a time, being then in Marmaduke's Brigade, and participated in the minor engagements about Farmington. Accepted a commission direct from the War Department, and was assigned to duty as adjutant of the regiment, with which he served in B. R. Johnson's Brigade, Buckner's Division, in the Kentucky campaign, and was in the battle of Perryville (see Lindsley's Annals, page -), and on the return to Knoxville served tem- porarily as adjutant of brigade ; was in the battle of Mur- freesboro, December 31, 1862, all day long, under Cleburne ; the field officers of the regiment were all three shot down, and he was left practically in command of the regiment, though outranked by a captain of the line. In the spring of 1863 was stationed at Chattanooga ; was adjutant of camp direction and inspector of posts on the line to Dalton ; was sent to Vicksburg on a special mission, remained a few days and came out on the last train before the surrender of the place ; after that was ordered to report to General Bragg at Shelbyville, and received special orders to look after posts and recruiting stations, which took him to various parts of the Confederacy, and involved some arduous and perilous work. Tiring of this he asked to be reassigned to his old regiment, where he was offered command of a company ; was returned, but at Dalton was assigned to duty as inspector of Tyler's Brigade ; served actively at Dalton and on the cam- paign to Atlanta ; was almost constantly at the front, and was under fire seventy days out of seventy-five, and was act-
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J. HARVEY MATHES, Honorary Member Company A, Confederate Veterans of Memphis, December, 1896.
ing adjutant-general on the staff of General Tom Benton Smith when desperately wounded on July 22, 1864, in front of Atlanta. The shell that wounded him killed his horse. That night the leg of the young staff officer was amputated by Surgeon J. C. Hall, now of Anguilla, Miss., in the presence of several surgeons and friends. Colonel L. J. Dupre, who was present as a war correspondent, wrote a very pathetic account of the event. He saw no more active service ; was in the hospital at Columbus, Ga., several months, and had the gangrene and another operation upon his leg. Came to Mem- phis after the surrender, and was paroled here May 13, 1865, and has his parole as well as commission yet.
Captain Mathes became connected with the press, was on the Argus, the Avalanche and the Louisville Courier, and for
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many years was editor of the Memphis Public Ledger. Has been elected to public office several times ; served two terms in the Legislature ; was a commissioner to the Paris Exposi- tion from Tennessee in 1878; was for twelve years a member of the board of visitors to the University of Tennessee at Knoxville ; was elector on the National Democratic ticket in 1884, and has held other positions of honor and trust; is a Mason; belongs to the Knights of Honor, A. O. U. W., and other organizations. A few years after the war he was mar- ried to Miss Mildred Spotswood Cash of Forest Hill, Shelby county, Tenn. By this marriage were born five children- Mildred Overton, Lee Dandridge, Benjamin Cash. J. Harvey, Jr., and Talbot Spotswood, all living and at home except the oldest son recently married in Chicago and now living in Norfolk, Va. Captain Mathes was one of the early mem- bers of the C. H. A., and is an honorary member of Com- pany A, Confederate Veterans.
MARTIN, E. J., served in the A. C. S. Department of For- rest's corps, and was captured at Durhamville, Tenn., March 1, 1865 ; released from prison and paroled following month.
MAULDIN, W. D., First Sergeant Company H, Twenty- second Tennessee Infantry, Gordon's Brigade ; enlisted July 18, 1861; wounded at Belmont, Mo .: captured at Nashville on Hood's raid December 18, 1864, and exchanged at Camp Chase, Ohio, February 28, 1865 ; paroled on April 25, 1865. Admitted to C. H. A. August 13, 1895.
MAY, LAMBERT, entered service early in 1861; served on the staff of General Withers with the rank of major; paroled on the 26th of April, 1865. His name was proposed for membership in this Association by General Patton An- derson, and he was elected September 9, 1869.
MAYO, ALBERT. First Sergeant Company I. Fourth Ten- nessee; enlisted May 15, 1861 ; paroled May 26, 1865. Ad- mitted to the C. H. A. May 4, 1895.
McCALLA, J. G., born June, 30, 1834, in Lincoln county, Tenn .; enlisted in the C. S. A. May, 1861 ; became Captain of Company D, Twelfth Tennessee Cavalry ; served through
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the war and discharged in March, 1865. Recommended for membership by General A. J. Vaughan and Dr. W. S. Rogers.
McCALLUM, JOHN F., was one of the boy soldiers of the war. He was born in Shelby county, Tenn., November 25, 1848. He became a private in Company A, Seventh Tennes- see Cavalry, in 1863, having run away from home to join the army, which he found near Holly Springs. He weighed then less than 100 pounds, and owing to his extreme youth was hardly considered a soldier by his comrades and officers. Still he performed full duty and was with the command nearly a year. His company was detailed as escort for General W. H. Jackson, and he served as courier for a time. He was seriously wounded in the fight at Coffeeville, Miss., Decem- ber 5, 1863, and was left on the field and narrowly escaped capture. His friends and his negro boy thought it impossible to remove him ; gave him some money and other comforts and left him to his fate. But he slipped out that night and soon turned up at Grenada. After that he was untit for service, and is to this day a sufferer from his wound. After the war he became a successful business man ; was a charter member of this Association under the application made in 1884.
McCARVER, ARCH., enlisted October 1, 1861, in Com- pany E, Twelfth Tennessee Cavalry; was a gallant soldier throughout the war, and was paroled April 25, 1865. He has since been in business in Memphis, and served one term as sheriff of Shelby county.
McCLURG, P. M., private Company K, Thirty-first Ala- bama Regiment; enlisted April 12, 1862, and served in the Army of Tennessee. (No other record appears.)
McCROSKEY, HI. A., born on the 9th of July, 1842, in Shelby county, Tenn. ; enlisted in Company B, Ninth Missis- sippi Regiment and afterward served in Company C, same regiment ; was on the staff of General Marcus J. Wright, commanding post and department ; was wounded three times in battles of Murfreesboro and Chickamauga and as General Bragg retreated out from Corinth, Miss. ; paroled on the 17th of May, 1865. Joined the C. HI. A. September 15, 1891.
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McFARLAND, L. B., enlisted as private in Company A, Ninth Tennessee, May 24, 186! ; became sergeant-major of the regiment ; appointed second lieutenant in Ninth Tennes- see in April, 1863; served as volunteer aid-de-camp to General George Maney ; was wounded in the left arm at the battle of Shiloh; was in every battle of Cheatham's Division except Franklin; was captured at West Point, Ga., April 16, 1865, and finally released in the following month. He returned to Memphis, and has been for many years a leading member of the bar. Joined the C. H. A. August 13, 1869.
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