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Hatcher, John S.
McCulloch, Alex.
Sherman, Victor Sheeler, David
Hill, J. L.
MeHugh, J. A.
Simmons, W. F.
Holender, Ben.
McKinney, W. B.
Smith, C. F.
Hoy, K. E.
Miller, J. H.
Humes, A. R.
Mingea, O. T.
Hutchinson, R. B.
Moode, Henry
Hyman, Jas. H.
Moores, J. W.
Stanley, T. L.
Johnston. A. H.
Murtaugh, Jno. D. Styles, M.
Johnson, T. N.
Nuttall, Dr. J. Il.
Somerville, John
Jones, W. E.
Pain, G. N.
Tharpe, Capt. P. H.
Jordan, R. D.
Parker, S. B.
Thomas, C. M. B.
Kealhofer, C. W.
Randle, J. D.
Titus, John F.
Kean, Robert P.
Pettigrew, J. M.
Turnbull, Frank
Keefe, J. M.
Pickett, W. D.
Vance, John
Lawrence. J. B.
Pointer, Wm. B.
Vance, T. W.
Lawler, John T. Lamb, Lawrence Lake, L. S.
Powell, J. R.
Wenn, W. II.
Lewis, Jere
Powers, P. S. Rand, E. G.
Wheeler, W.
Logan, Marcellus
Rhett, T. M. S.
White, B. F.
Lockey, W. B.
Richmond, B.
Wicks, Col. M. J.
Matthews, S. W.
Rives, L. O.
Wilton, H. C.
Martin, W. P.
Robins, Thos. D.
Winchester, B.
Mason, R. M.
Robertson, F. W.
Wilson, T. T.
Maury, A. J.
Rogers, W. S.
Williamson, W. B.
Malone, P. C.
Severson, Maj. C. S.
McClung, W. P.
Sengstack, C. P.
NOTE .- The foregoing lists and sketches embrace nearly all the names of those who have at any time belonged to the Confederate Historical Association from 1869 down to the end of 1896. A few, overlooked or prepared too late for classification, appear in the following pages, together with names and sketches of some well-known Confederates who never joined the Association. It is proper to say here, that while the conditions of membership were not laid down rigidly under the first charter, very strict regulations were prescribed under the new charter of 1884, which have been enforced ever since. All application papers have to be made out in regular form and referred to a committee for investigation and report a month later. Hence the present membership easily comes within the requirements of the United Confederate Veterans, with which this Association became identified several years ago. In going over records covering a period of nearly thirty years, and adding facts derived from other sources, it is to be expected that some omissions and minor errors would appear. These, if found, it is hoped will not mar the harmony or detract from the value of a book intended as a compilation of personal and historic data, to be pre- served by ex-Confederates and their descendants and friends.
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Marye, Lawrence S. Safford, W. B.
Wright, W. H.
Heath, J. W.
McGhee, J. P.
Smith, W. E. Smith, W. Spot.
Smith, Gen. J. A.
Poindexter, W. B.
Ward, S. L.
Wheaton, Wm. H.
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BALCH, ROBERT LANGDON, born in Virginia ; he was a son of Rev. Thomas . Bloomer Balch, who married a first cousin of General Robert E. Lee, and was a grandson of Rev. Stephen Bloomer Balch of Georgetown, D. C., who was a captain in the Revolutionary war in Georgia, though a native of Maryland. R. L. Balch lived in Memphis before the war, and was a man of means; enlisted as a private in Forrest's old regiment; was elected major just before the battle of" Shiloh, and served until September, 1862, when Lieutenant- Colonel D. C. Kelley resigned and was succeeded by Major Balch. Major Rambaut, of General Forrest's staff, just before he died, spoke of Colone! Balch in the highest terms as a soldier and gentleman. In 1863 he was wounded in Middle Tennessee, lost health and spirits, was granted a leave of absence indefinitely, and dropped out of the service, as far as activity was concerned. After the war he was assassinated on his plantation, a few miles west of Memphis, in Critten- den county, Ark., when he was perhaps little over 40 years old. He never married.
BARNES, ROBERT WEAKLEY, oldest son of Bartley Marshall Barnes (major State militia) ; was born near Nash- ville, Teun., August 4, 1832; enlisted with his father and two brothers in Munroe's Arkansas Cavalry in June, 1861. In July, 1863, was made captain of Company A, Munroe's Regi- ment ; was in all the battles in which his regiment engaged- Helena, Poison Springs, Saline, through Price's last raid in Missouri, and was captured before Kansas City. He walked, with other prisoners, to St. Louis; was confined in Gratiot street prison ; then sent to Johnson's Island ; was released on June 16, 1865. On September 3. 1865, he was married to Miss Mary Jane Brownfield, at Van Buren, Ark. ; removed to Memphis, Tenn., and engaged in the cotton business. He was the father of ten children, two of whom were twins. In the epidemic of 1878 he lost one son, Frank Bartley Barnes. He died January 20, 1855. leaving a wife and nine children.
BEARD, Hox. W. D., born in Wilson county, Tenn .; in May, 1862. he joined the Confederate army and was assigned to duty on the staff of General A. P. Stewart as brigade
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quartermaster ; was in the Kentucky campaign under Bragg. At the battle of Murfreesboro, although not required to be with the troops, he performed field duty for General Stewart during the entire day. Colonel W. B. Ross of General Stew- art's staff received his death wound at Major Beard's side, and was assisted to the ambulance by him. In the latter part of the summer of 1863 he was transferred to the Trans-Mis- sissippi Department and reported to General Joe Shelby, who directed him to report to Colonel S. B. Jackman, then organ- izing a brigade. He was assigned to duty as assistant adju- tant-general to Colonel Jackman, and did active work in this capacity both in Arkansas and Missouri. He was with the command of General Price in his move into Missouri in 1864. In the battle of Westport he was severely wounded in his thigh, and carries with him to this day the ball. He was brought out of Missouri in a wagon on the retreat of the army. In the spring of 1865, being still unfit for service, he was assigned to duty by General Kirby Smith, first at Hous- ton and then at Huntsville, Texas, in charge of clothing, camp and garrison equipments. In June. 1865, was paroled at Galveston, Texas; from there went to St. Louis, and then returned to Memphis, practiced his profession and attained high rank at the bar. Several years ago he was elected Chan- cellor of the Chancery Court of Shelby county, Tenn., and has been recently elected to the Supreme bench of Tennessee, and is now one of the Justices of that court. Judge Beard had several brothers in the Confederate army. One was Cap- tain James H. Beard, mentioned on page 180, Serial 51, War Records, by Colonel J. A. Smith, Third and Fifth Confed- erate Regiments, as being "the best and bravest soldier I ever saw." Judge Beard married a few years after the war, and has two grown sons, one of whom is Clerk and Master of the First Chancery Court of Shelby county.
BETHEL, W. D., born in St. Mary's parish, La., February 2, 1840 ; in 1860 married a daughter of Jerome B. Pillow of Maury county, Tenn .; he joined the Confederate army and served on the staff of General Gideon J. Pillow : lived in Memphis several years and reared an interesting family ; was
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elected and served as President of the Taxing District; now lives (1896) in Denver, Col.
BRENT, JAMES, a well-known newspaper worker and printer of Memphis for twenty years past; was born in Mary- land, grew up in Mississippi, and entered the service in 1861 from Vicksburg in J. C. Kline's company of cavalry, which became Genera! Hardee's escort. After Shiloh he was one of 100 men detailed from General Wirt Adams' command to make a raid into Middle Tennessee under Captain (afterward General) John H. Morgan. He was in continuous service through the war, except when disabled by wounds, and was in many engagements under Forrest and other cavalry lead- ers. One instance of his bravery will illustrate many others : At the crossing of Estanaula river, near Calhoun, Ga., in 1864, when McPherson's corps flanked southward on Sher- man's right, Jos. E. Johnston resisted the movement to allow his forces to retreat, and the battle of Resaca resulted. A four-gun battery under Lieutenant Beauregard-a son of the renowned general of the same name-fought a heavy column of the attacking force at close quarters, until every horse of the battery, and nearly all of the men, had fallen. Lieuten- ant Beauregard undertook to save his guns by drawing them off by hand, but his surviving force was too small and vol- unteers were called for. Mr. Brent, with others of Hardee's escort, moved to the work, and after hard labor pulled three guns of the battery across the bridge spanning the Estanaula, the other cannon being lost. As the pieces rescued were dragged to the south side of the river cheers went up from those who witnessed the incident. General Beauregard, a looker-on, ran up and gathered his son in close embrace as the lad-barely 20 years of age-crossed over to the south side, tears dropping from his eyes at the loss of one of his guns. General Johnston was an eye-witness of this act of heroism, and in general orders complimented Hardee's men for the gallant deed.
BREWER, A. CLARKE, born in Henry county, Va., in 1843, and came with his father to Chattanooga in 1856 ; was at college on Lookout Mountain ; enlisted in a company raised
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by Frank W. Walker; the company went with the regiment to Cumberland Gap and saw service around there ; was in the battle of Fishing creek January 19, 1862, and was in the battle of Shiloh, where the Nineteenth Tennessee took part in the capture of Prentiss' Division and pushed on toward the river, and Mr. Brewer believes that but for the order to halt, the Federal army would have been driven into the river or captured ; he was wounded in the second day's fight at Shiloh. He was in the battle of Baton Rouge; fought under Van Dorn at Corinth, under Loring at Baker's creek, and in the various engagements around Jackson. Miss .; was captured near Vicksburg while on a scout in the latter part of 1864, and was a prisoner at the time of the surrender; came to Memphis and engaged afterward in planting down the river, but is again a citizen of Memphis.
CAPERS, R. S., was at college at Clinton, Miss., when the war began; came to Memphis and at the age of 14 years joined Forrest's old regiment under Captain Fred Rogers, went all through the war, and was in nearly all of Forrest's fights; was wounded seriously in the shoulder at Shiloh and disabled for four months; was also wounded at West Point and Tishomingo creek and at the battle of Franklin. He was captured thirty miles east of Memphis by Steger's command on a raid, but released on account of his youthful appearance. Another time when he came into Memphis to get a horse he was picked up on the streets and thrown into the Irving Block prison, and was released at the end of twenty-four hours through the influence of Mr. J. E. Merriman, a kind- hearted and very influential Union man; at the close of the war he was paroled at Gainesville, Ala. Returning to Memphis May 27th he went to work the next day in the office of Mr. Alston, chancery court clerk, and remained in public service in the courthouse for thirty years. Eight years of that time he was Clerk of the Criminal Court and at last declined to run for re-election.
CARY, HUNSDON. born in Marshall county, Miss., in 1842; came to Memphis in infancy; reared here ; was teller in the Gayoso Savings Institution in May, 1861 ; enlisted in
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Captain John F. Cameron's company, Young Guards ; attached to Hindman's Legion, Hardee's Brigade ; Cary was made orderly sergeant of the company in the fall of 1861. The Young Guards became part of the First Arkansas Battalion, . commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel John S. Marmaduke ; this was filled out and became a full regiment in October and November, 1861, and was called the Third Confederate Regi- ment. Early in December, 1861, Cary was promoted to be junior second lieutenant, and assigned to duty with Captain Thomas Newton's company; was engaged in the fight at Woodsonville, Ky., December 17, 1861, acting as adjutant of the regiment on that occasion. In this fight the noted Colonel Terry, of Terry's Texas Rangers, was killed. Cary was with the command on its retreat from Bowling Green to Nashville, thence to Corinth, Miss., and was in the battle of Shiloh ; was badly wounded, and was in feeble health for several years after, from effects of wound and chronic rheumatism ; was honorably discharged in fall of 1862, and saw no more active service. After the close of the war was for a good many years a notary public and United States commissioner; read law, and was admitted to the bar in 1885; was chosen cashier of the German Bank in 1895, and is still occupying that position.
CARROLL, W. H., the grandson of Governor Carroll and the son of General W. H. Carroll, was born in Panola county, Miss., in 1842; he went to school in Memphis to that cele- brated educator, W. H. Whitehorne; he also attended the Western Military Institute at Nashville. In 1861 he enlisted with his father, went with him to Knoxville and drilled a regiment which his father raised there, the Thirty-seventh Tennessee ; came with the regiment to Germantown ; was in camp some time; then back to Chattanooga and Knoxville ; crossed the mountains to Mill Springs, Ky., in midwinter and received his baptism of fire and blood at the battle of Fishing creek .January 19, 1862, where the youth quite distinguished himself by riding up and down the lines and trying to encour- age the men to rally on the field. When General Chalmers took command of North Mississippi, in 1863. W. H. Carroll reported to him and was assigned to duty as acting assistant
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adjutant-general, which position he held for some time and until the arrival of Captain W. A. Gardner, the assistant adju- tant-general. After this W. II. Carroll was elected captain of Company C, Eighteenth Mississippi Battalion, under Col- onel Alex. II. Cheatham, and his company was detailed for escort duty with General Chalmers, and he continued in this position until near the close of the war, when his health was so much impaired that his life was despaired of and he was discharged and went to Canada. After the war he became a lawyer in Memphis, Tenn., where he soon took a good position and now stands in the front rank of the distinguished men who compose the bar ot Memphis. As a politician he is widely known throughout the State. although he has never held or sought any political office.
CASH, PATRICK BOGGAN, son of Colonel Benjamin and Mrs. Mildred Spottswood Cash ; born in Hardeman and reared in Shelby county, Teun. ; named after his great-grand- father, Captain Patrick Boggan, of Revolutionary fame in North Carolina, and came of patriotic ancestors on all sides. Attended Rafter's military school near Germantown, and when about 18 years old enlisted as a private in Company C, the Secession Guards, Thirteenth Tennessee Regiment, organized at Jackson, Tenn., and mustered into State service June 3, 1861. The regiment joined the " river brigade," commanded by Brigadier-General John L. T. Sneed. at Randolph, Tenn., July 25; went to New Madrid, Mo., and was mustered into the Confederate service ; John . V. Wright was colonel and A. J. Vaughan lieutenant-colonel. The regiment took a con- spicuous part in the battle of Belmont and lost in killed and wounded 149 men out of 400. During the thick of the fight Boggan Cash, when at close quarters, wounded a Federal officer who refused to surrender to such a stripling and made the mistake of tantalizing his would-be captor on his boyish appearance. Appalled at what he had done the boy tried to stanch the blood of his expiring foeman and wept as he failed. The officer's sword was sent back to young Cash's mother and with it a note from Colonel Wright, saying : " You are the mother of a hero." The incident illustrates the horrors of
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war that come so often unexpectedly and in quick succession. Patrick Boggan Cash was only at home once after that, when he returned for a day to be at the funeral of his younger brother, Benjamin. He was at the battle of Shiloh ; went with his regiment into Kentucky ; was in the battle of Rich- mond and at the battle of Perryville, though the regiment was not engaged, and was seen last late in the afternoon of December 31, 1862, at the battle of Murfreesboro. His fate was not known for many years. He was reported as missing and it was supposed that he might have been taken prisoner. Inquiries were made and a man was sent by the family all over the North to points where Confederates had been impris- oned, but in vain. Only a few years ago General Vaughan learned from one of his old soldiers in Texas that Boggan Cash was killed in the advance of his regiment near dark on December 31, 1862, and thus was solved a long pending and sad mystery. The youth sleeps among the unknown dead on the field or in the Confederate cemetery at Murfreesboro.
COCHRAN, J. W., was born in Abingdon, Va .; came to Memphis before the war; lett Memphis in 1861 in Captain MeDonald's sixty-day company ; served out his time with said company ; returned to Memphis; joined Captain Cole's company, which afterward was attached to the One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Senior Tennessee Regiment, just before the battle of Shiloh ; remained with it for some three years ; was in all the engagements that it was in during that time : was detailed on General Preston Smith's staff at Shelbyville, Tenn .. and was with him when he and two of his staff were killed at Chickamauga ; afterward was ordered to report to General Joseph Wheeler at Dalton, Ga., for staff duty, with rank of captain, and remained with him to the close of the war ; served four years and three months; never had a furlough ; never was sick, badly wounded or in a hospital. Paroled at Gaines- ville, Ala., May, 1865.
COLEMAN, ROBERT II., was elected corporal in the organization of the Cuba Guards, and made a brave soldier throughout the entire war; was twice wounded at the battle of Chickamauga in a charge on a battery; he was knocked
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down by a piece of shell striking him on the left shoulder, but soon rising, continued in the charge, when he was again stricken down by a ball piercing his right shoulder and lodg- ing in his lung. After recovering partly from his wounds he continued with his command until captured at Atlanta in 1864. Just before the regiment was captured Captain Beard, Ashner Stoval and R. H. Coleman, being separated from the regiment by the dense undergrowth through which they were passing, came suddenly into the road where General McPher- son and his staff were making a reconnoissance. Captain Beard called on Corporal Coleman to fire on General Me- Pherson, as he was the only one that had a loaded gun. At the report of the gun the distinguished officer fell from his horse a corpse. He was dead by the time he reached the ground. Coleman and a number of others were shortly after- ward taken prisoners, and on his way to a Northern prison he arrived at Utica, N. Y., on the same day that the remains of General MePherson reached there. Mr. Coleman was not known then and there as the man who fired the fatal shot. He remained in prison several months. He has told the writer that he always regretted this shot, fired on the impulse of the moment. He was as modest and unassuming as he was true and brave. He finally died near Los Angeles, Cal., from the effects of the wound received at Chickamauga, the ball remaining in his right lung until the end.
COLEMAN, W. M., enlisted in the Cuba Guards of Cuba, Shelby county, Tenn. The company was organized, seventy- eight strong. March 1, 1861, by the election of the following officers : Dr. Ed. Irby, Captain ; W. M. Coleman, First Lieu- tenant ; Dr. W. D. Lewis, Second Lieutenant; E. H. Fite, Third Lieutenant ; mustered into State service, ordered to Union City May 15, 1861, and organized with the Twenty- first Tennessee Regiment, with Ed. Pickett as Colonel, Hiram Tillman as Lieutenant-Colonel and J. C. Cole as Major. Sep- - tember 15th the regiment was ordered to Columbus, Ky., and on November 7th went into the fight at Belmont, Mo., 800 strong and came out with a loss of 128 killed, wounded and missing. It was ever afterward called " the bloody Twenty- 16
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first." Company A, Cuba Guards, had its captain, first lieu- tenant (W. M. Coleman) and three privates badly wounded. After the evacuation of Corinth, Miss., the Twenty-first be- came a part of the famous Fifth Confederate, which was nearly all captured at Atlanta, Ga., in 1864. Lieutenant Coleman bears the scars of war, but is still an active and suc- cessful farmer in his old neighborhood.
COLLIER, CHARLES H., born and reared near Fortress Monroe, on the Chesapeake Bay, and educated at a military school in Virginia. At sixteen he commenced his preparation for the engineer corps, U. S. Navy. Before this was com- pleted the war broke out and he was appointed to the Con- federate Navy ; reported to Commodore M. F. Maury, under whom he served. He was promoted to second assistant engineer and assigned to the Stono, Lieutenant Commander Rochele. The Stono was wrecked off Charleston breakwater, attempting to run the blockade. Mr. Collier was assigned to the flagship Charleston under Flag Officer John R. Tucker; he saw much service ; had orders to join the Florida ; went to Bermuda and had the yellow fever ; was afterward ordered to report to the Stonewall, then recently completed in France, but too late ; after the surrender he began teaching ; came to Memphis ; was principal of high schools, and for twelve years was superintendent of city public schools, and is now prin- cipal of a high school at Whitehaven, eight miles south of Memphis.
COOPER, LUNSFORD PITTS, born in Rutherford county, . Tenn., January 8, 1830 ; his father, Micajah Thomas Cooper, was born in Salisbury, N. C., December 31, 1806, and his grandfather, a native of Maryland, served in the Revolutionary war and afterward removed to Rowan county, N. C., where he married the daughter of Captain William Hollis, of the Revolutionary war ; his mother was a Vincent. This indi- cates the strain of blood from which L. P. Cooper came. He was reared in Bedford county ; graduated in 1852; became principal of an academy first in Williamson and then in Bed- ford county ; attended Lebanon law school one term ; was mar-
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JUDGE L. P. COOPER.
ried to Pauline Henderson Scales in Davidson county January 24, 1854 ; removed to Panola county, Miss., 1856 ; engaged in planting there on a large scale, and when the war began was rapidly becoming rich ; he had more than one hundred bales of cotton burned, his stock was destroyed, his fifty negroes set free, and at the close of the war he had to start life over. He enlisted as a private in Captain Meek's company, Forty- second Mississippi Regiment ; went to Virginia and after arriving at Richmond was made quartermaster with the rank of captain ; served with this regiment until late in the war, when he became brigade quartermaster ; he was in the field with his command all the time, except about sixty days, in 1863, when he returned home to attend his wife's funeral; when the end came he was soon after admitted to the bar, and was elected a delegate to the State Constitutional Con- vention, composed of the ablest men of the State, and the
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Constitution was so amended as to recognize the new order of things. After this Captain Cooper entered upon a large and lucrative law practice. In 1875 he removed from Panola to Memphis and formed a partnership with the late Hon. Henry Craft; in 1894 he was appointed Criminal Judge of Shelby county, and in the August following was elected for the full term of eight years, from September, 1894; and thus a prominent lawyer, good and popular judge, was developed from an old-time Southern gentleman and planter. He was married to his second wife, Miss Cornelia Battle, at the resi- dence of her sister, Mrs. Turley, in Memphis, December 10, 1868.
COUSINS, PETER R., born in Nottoway county, Va. ; went in the army from Memphis, in the Southern Guards : at Columbus, Ky., the company was detached from the One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Regiment and assigned to the heavy artillery ; took part in most of the engagements on the Mis- sissippi river from the battle of Belmont to the siege and fall of Vicksburg ; was made first lieutenant of artillery, and after the fall of Vicksburg (the army being paroled) was in parole camp at Marietta, Ga. ; was sent to Richmond, Va., to have the command exchanged, and then ordered to Mobile, Ala., and assigned to duty at Fort Morgan, in Mobile Bay, which, after a long siege by navy and land forces, surrendered ; was prisoner at Fort Lafayette and Fort Warren until General Lee surrendered ; has since lived in Memphis and been in business here.
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