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BALLENTINE, JOIIN G., Colonel of Ballentine's Regi- ment and Mississippi Cavalry ; entered the service in May, 1861, and remained four years. Proposed by J. E. Beasley for membership in the Confederate Historical Association and elected April 28, 1870.
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BAILEY, L., private Company I, Tenth Mississippi; en- listed June 15, 1861. The regiment was disbanded at Cor- inth, Miss., March 26, 1862. Returning home, Mr. Bailey re-enlisted with Battery A Army North Virginia, and served continuously with the Army of Virginia until the fall of Petersburg, where the battery was captured and he was wounded : was in the hospital when captured and paroled.
BAILEY, THOMAS F . private Company B, One Hun- dred and Fifty - fourth Tennessee Regiment; enlisted June, 1861 ; served through the war, and paroled May 11, 1865. Admitted to this Association October 9, 1894.
BAIN, JOHN, enlisted May, 1861, in Fifteenth Tennessee ; was appointed Adjutant of the regiment and afterward elected Captain of Company H; was on detached service at the close of the war, and captured at Macon, Ga.
BARKER, J. O., enlisted in the Ninth Mississippi early in the war, and was discharged on account of ill-health ; after- ward re-enlisted in Company G, Adams' Regiment, and served until the end of the war. Paroled May 12, 1865.
BEASLEY, JAMES EDWARD, was born in the town of Plymouth, N. C., August 31, 1839; graduated at the Uni- versity of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) June 2, 1859, and came to Memphis immediately afterward. Became a mem- ber of the Shelby Grays, a company organized in this city in February, 1861. This company became Company A of the Fourth Tennessee Infantry, was mustered into service by General W. H. Carroll of Germantown, on the 15th day of May, 1861. Served the last two years of the war in different positions at the Brigade Headquarters of Brigadier-General O. F. Strahl ; was with General Strahl when he was killed, November 30, 1864, in the trenches at Franklin, Tenn .; was surrendered with General Johnston's army and paroled at Greensboro, N. C., April 26, 1865, and returned to Memphis to live, reaching here June 21, 1865. He was one of the original and most active members of the Association.
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COL. JOSEPH BARBIERE.
BARBIERE, JOSEPH, Colonel of Third Alabama Re- serves; was taken prisoner, and had some hard experience, which he afterward wrote up in a book entitled " Scraps From the Prison Table "; was a lawyer and a journalist, and genial, brilliant man; was at one time President of the Tennessee Press Association ; lived a good many years in Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia, and died there in 1895. Joined this Asso- ciation February 3, 1870.
BARBOUR, JAMES G., Captain in MeDonald's Battal- ion ; entered the service in April, 1861, and remained four years ; was a merchant after the war. Admitted to this As- sociation upon his own application July 15, 1870. Removed to Mississippi, and died at Yazoo City a few years ago.
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BEASLEY, T. J., Lieutenant of Company E, Third Regi- ment of Arkansas Cavalry, Humes' Division, Wheeler's Com- mand. Proposed for membership by J. E. Beasley and R. W. Mitchell, and elected May 12, 1870.
BENNETT, J. C., private in Company B., Jeff. Forrest's Regiment of Cavalry, and served through the war. Pro- posed for membership by J. G. Barbour and Henry Moode, and elected May 20, 1870.
BICKNELL, B. J., private Company A, First Mississippi Cavalry; enlisted May, 1861 ; was detailed as clerk of act- ing Quartermaster Department January, 1863; under Major J. A. Grant, March, 1863; later came under Brigadier-Gen- eral F. C. Armstrong, and did staff duty in connection with other duties.
BLACK, A. J., private in the Twenty-eighth Mississippi Regiment. Elected a member of this Association July 1, 1869.
BLACK, R. J., Second Lieutenant Company B, Seventh Tennessee Cavalry ; enlisted May 31, 1861; served actively throughout the war, and was paroled at Gainesville, Ala., May 12, 1865. The Seventh Tennessee was engaged in West Ten- nessee, West Kentucky, Middle Tennessee and North Ala- bama. He was in Rucker's Brigade, afterward Campbell's, W. H. Jackson's Division and Forrest's Corps; was with Forrest throughout the war, except about twelve months, when Company B, Captain J. P. Russell, was detailed as escort to General Loring and moved about Canton, Jackson, Yazoo City, Vicksburg and Meridian, after which the com- pany rejoined the main command. Lieutenant Black was wounded three times-first at Lockridge's Mill, Ky .; second at Hernando, Miss., and third at Union City, Tenn. After the war he located in Memphis, married, served as Clerk and Master of the Chancery Court for several years, was success- ful in real estate, building and loan and other business; was Secretary of the Confederate Historical Association for many years, and finally removed to St. Louis in 1896, but will prob- ably return to Memphis.
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MAJ. HUGH L. BEDFORD. At Richmond in 1863.
BEDFORD, HUGH L., is the son of Benjamin W. Bed- ford, and the grandson of Capt. Thomas Bedford, a soldier of the American Revolution, for whom Bedford county, Tenn., was named, and of Robert Whyte, for many years a judge of the Supreme Court of Tennessee. He was born June 11, 1836, in Fayette county, Tenn., and reared in Panola county, Miss. After finishing the classical course at the University of Mississippi, he went to Kentucky to study civil engineer- ing under Col. E. W. Morgan, and graduated in 1855 at the Kentucky Military Institute. After reading law under Judge J. P. Caruthers, he took the full course at the Lebanon Law School. Before he reached the anniversary of his 22d birth- day he had attained the collegiate degree of A.M., C.E. and L.B. In the spring of 1858 he opened a law office in Memphis,
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Tenn., in partnership with his elder brother, Harry Hill, who had taken the same curriculum ; but his brother, an excep- tionally bright and promising young man, soon died.
When the " Shelby Grays," a company composed largely of his friends and associates, was ordered to rendezvous at Germantown, Tenn., he was suffering with an acute attack of measles, and was unable to go into service, He received in midsummer an invitation to organize a battalion of Mis- souri Light Artillery, with the promise of command, but after he had equipped one section of a battery he found that he was physically unable for active service, and resigned and returned home. In the autumn of that year he was sum- moned, through Colonel E. W. Munford, aid to General A. S. Johnson, to report to that commander at Bowling Green, Ky., by whom he was ordered to Fort Donelson as Instructor of Artillery, with the rank of Lieutenant. Finding none of the heavy guns in permanent batteries he was put on duty to mount them. Owing to the often-enforced absence of the engineer in charge, Captain Dixon. engineering skill was in much demand, and Lieutenant Bedford was kept constantly on duty in forwarding the defenses of the fort until after the investment of the enemy.
In the assignment of the guns of the water batteries to resist the attack of the gunboats, the 10-inch Columbiad, manned by detachment of twenty men of Captain Ross' light battery, under Lieutenant Sparkman, was assigned to the command of Lieutenant Bedford. For the performance of that piece, in the battle with the gunboats, reference is made to the reports of various officers, as contained in the seventh volume of " Records of the War of the Rebellion," but more especially to that of Captain Culberson, commander of the water batteries, wherein the defeat of the enemy's fleet is mainly attributed to the skillful direction of the Columbiad by Lieutenant Bedford, but by one of those mishaps, pecu- liarly annoying to the vietim, the copyist or the compositor, by the substitution of an S for an L, gives the credit to Lieutenant II. S. Bedford, an officer " non in esse" at the batteries.
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After seven months as a prisoner of war, first at Camp Chase, with ten days of parole in Columbus, O., and then at Johnson's Island, he was exchanged at Vicksburg, Miss., placed in command of a battalion of infantry that had become detached from the Fifty-first (Bowdre's) Regiment, which temporarily conferred the field rank of Major. When this detachment rejoined its regiment Lieutenant Bedford reported to the Ordnance Department, in which service he continued until the close of the war, with the single break when the exigency of the service placed him for that occasion in com- mand of a light battery. At the time of the surrender he was Ordnance Officer of the Department of Mississippi.
After the war he resumed his profession, but experiencing the necessity of active, outdoor life, he abandoned his law office in Memphis and commenced farming, which vocation he is now following at Bailey, Shelby county, Tenn.
Major Bedford was one of the early members of the Con- federate Historical Association. Was married to Miss Marie Louisa MeLean at Grenada, Miss., May 23, 1867, and his wife is now serving her second term as President of the Ladies' Confederate Memorial Association of Memphis, which was organized as an auxiliary society to the Confederate Historical Association in 1889. They have two sons - Benjamin Wat- kins Lee and Hugh Lawson Bedford.
BLOCK, W. F., was a private in Company B, Seventh Ten- nessee Cavalry, Rucker's Brigade; enlisted while General W. H. Jackson's command was encamped at Coldwater, Miss., in 1862; was paroled at the end of the war. Joined the Confederate Historical Association October 25, 1889.
BOGGS, REV. WM. E., D. D., was Chaplain of the Sixth South Carolina Volunteers, Bratton's Brigade, Army of North- ern Virginia, and often took his musket and went into the trenches or into battle in the open field with his command. He served throughout the war; was afterward pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church of Memphis, and is now at the head of a leading theological college in Georgia. Was an early member of the Association.
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BRENAN, FRED R., private Confederate States Army; in 1861 came to Memphis from Hamilton. Ohio, and joined the Bluff City Grays, Company B, One Hundred and Fifty- fourth Senior Tennessee Regiment, at outbreak of the war; was with the company at Randolph, New Madrid, Hickman and Columbus, Ky. ; was transferred to the Hudson Battery of Panola county, Miss., and served with it at Camp Beaure- gard, Ky., under General Bowen, and was with the battery at Bowling Green, Corinth, in battle of Shiloh, siege of Vicks- burg, battle of Baton Rouge, and in many engagements in Mississippi and Tennessee under General Forrest. After siege of Vicksburg, was transferred back to Bluff City Grays, who in the meantime had been mounted and transferred from the infantry to Forrest's Cavalry, and formed Company B of the Old Forrest Regiment ; was with Forrest in many of his fights and raids in Mississippi and Tennessee-the storming of Fort Pillow, the advance to the Tennessee river, capture of gun- boats and transports below Johnsonville ; went with a detach- ment of Bluff City Grays, under Lieutenant James Suther- land, across the Tennessee river to keep telegraph wires cut between Nashville and Johnsonville while Forrest's Artillery attacked and destroyed gunboats and stores at Johnsonville ; recrossed the Tennessee river at night in "dugouts," swim- ming the horses, rejoined the command, and marched to Flor- ence, Ala., and from there went with the cavalry in the Nash- ville campaign under General Hood; was in the skirmishes and engagements along the pikes up to Spring Hill and Frank- lin ; engaged in the battle of Franklin, the fighting around Nashville, and the subsequent retreat across the Tennessee river; served with the command in Mississippi, and went to the relief of Selma and to intercept the Wilson raid; the com- mand then retired to Gainesville, Ala., and surrendered at the close of the war. Returned with parole to Memphis, and be- came a deputy chancery clerk under Clerk and Master Doc- tor Alston ; practiced law a couple of years, then became a reporter on the old Avalanche, and subsequently was a reporter on the Public Ledger, the new Avalanche, the Memphis Appeal, the Appeal-Avalanche, and the Commercial Appeal. Is married and has an interesting family.
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EDWARD BOURNE, Taken in Montgomery, Ala., in 1863.
BOURNE, EDWARD, was born June 23, 1846, in Men- phis, reared and educated here, and passed his examination for college in June and witnessed the taking of Memphis June 6, 1862. Instead of going off to college was kept at home and drilled with the Young Guards under Captain John F. Cameron. Owing to his youth and delicate physique he was not accepted as a soldier for some time; was finally sworn into the same company when his brother Wm. F. Bourne became its captain in the latter part of 1863, when the army was in winter quarters at Dalton. This company ( B) was then a part of the Third Confederate Regiment, and after- ward, near the end, was consolidated with the First Arkansas Regiment. Private Bourne was in most of the fighting from Dalton to Atlanta, where his brother, Captain Bourne, was
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killed on the 22d of July, 1864, and Comrade Bourne buried him with the assistance of Sergeant Pixley on the battlefield. He continued with the regiment to the surrender; was with Hood on his raid into Tennessee, and endured all the hard- ships of that and subsequent campaigns.
On the Georgia campaign the regiment was left on an out- post near Calhoun station with one piece of artillery, with the expectation that it would cover the retreat and be captured. Instead of that the men escaped at the last moment, bringing with them one prisoner as a living trophy of their alertness in a critical place. Near Limestone, Ga., Comrade Bourne was wounded at short range by a ball that had passed through a fence rail, but he was not disabled. He was captured with his regiment at Jonesboro, after a sanguinary and hand to hand fight, September 1, 1864. A month later the captured Confederates were swapped by special arrangement between Generals Hood and Sherman for an equal number of Federals. Under a regular exchange the Confederates would have been entitled to a furlough, but instead of that were furnished En- field rifles and forty rounds of ammunition before rations were issued to them. They followed the army and overtook it near Decatur. Coming out of Tennessee Comrade Bourne was literally barefooted and his feet were very much swollen. At Pulaski he and others waded through Sweetwater Creek with ice in it up to their neeks, and that night slept on snow several inches deep. They were thinly clad, and the wonder is that they lived through such terrible sufferings. A few days later several men froze to death in a train, while Com- rade Bourne was riding and sleeping on top of a car. But he got through it all; was in the battle of Bentonville, and was paroled with General Johnston's army at Greensboro, N. C., where the men were given $1.35 each out of what was left of the Confederate treasury as a medal or souvenir, rather than as pay, for their heroic services.
Comrade Bourne came home in the fall of '65, went into business at once, and has been a very busy man ever since. HIe served two years as President of Memphis Board of Uu- derwriters, and was also President of the Memphis Salvage
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Corps. In church matters he took an active part ; was some- time President of the Shelby County Baptist Sunday-school Convention, and for three years President of the West Ten- nessee Baptist Sunday-school Convention, and was for a long time a member of the State Sunday-school and Colportage Board.
He was married March 11, 1869, to Miss Jennie Garth Mc- Garvey of Hopkinsville, Ky., whose father, J. W. A. MeGar- vey, was also a Confederate soldier under John H. Morgan, and they have three children living out of five born to them. Comrade Bourne became a member of this Association sev- eral years ago, has been a member of Company A, Con- federate Volunteers, from the first, has been First Lieu- tenant ever since the company went into the State National Guard of Tennessee, and has been with the company on its trips to Chattanooga, Richmond, Little Rock and other places. In his time he has belonged to several local military com- panies and held offices. In the Inter-State drill given in Memphis in May, 1895, he was a member of the Military Committee. He has always had strong inherited military tastes, and had the advantage of two years at a military school. His family on both sides came of noted Revolution- ary stock. His father, James Treadwell Bourne, was born in Kennebunk, Me. His mother, Miss Martha Tucker Free- land, was born in Salem, Mass. They were married at Ports- mouth, N. H. The father for a short time was engaged in the shoe business in Boston, but in 1837 came South, moving his family to Memphis, where he lived until his death in 1883. His grandfather, Bourne, married three times. His first wife was Miss Mary Treadwell, the second Clarissa Warren, a niece of General Warren, who fell at Bunker Hill. and his third wife was Nareissa Sewall of Bangor, Me. His mother was the daughter of John Freeland, and through her mother was a descendant of President John Adams' father.
BOND, LEE, private Company B, Twelfth Tennessee Cay- alry ; enlisted June, 1862; went through the war under For- rest ; was at home on furlough at the time of the surrender ; came to Memphis and was paroled in May, 1865.
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BOBBITT, P. A., Orderly Sergeant Company F, Twelfth North Carolina Confederate Regiment, Army North Virginia; enlisted April, 1862; was wounded at Gettysburg and Fish- er's Hill; captured at Gettysburg July 4, 1863, and released August 29, 1863; paroled April 14, 1865. Admitted to the Confederate Ilistorical Association January 8, 1895.
BRENNEN, JOHN, enlisted as a private in Company C, Fourth Louisiana, May 25, 1861. No other entry except " dead."
BRIGHTWELL, THOS. H., enlisted in Company D, First Virginia Infantry, April 9, 1861, and became Adjutant of the Regiment; served through the war, and paroled June 25, 1865. Admitted to the Confederate Historical Association April 9, 1895.
BROWN, C. W., private Company L, One Hundred and Fifty - fourth Tennessee Regiment; enlisted in 1861; was wounded at the battle of Shiloh ; captured, and escaped at Selma, Ala., April 2, 1862; paroled May 11, 1865. Admitted to Confederate Historical Association August 13, 1895.
BOWLES, ROBERT S., private Company B, One Hun- dred and Fifty - fourth Tennessee Regiment, enlisted April 26, 1861; was wounded twice at the battle of Shiloh, but served afterward, and was paroled April 26, 1865, just four years from date of enlistment. Admitted to this Association October 9, 1894.
BURFORD S., served in the Adjutant-General's depart- ment on General Wheeler's staff, with the rank of Major. After the war he became an Episcopal minister, and for sev- eral years was rector of Calvary Church, Memphis; was transferred back to a church in New York city and died there in 1895. Became a member of this Association some years ago.
BURROW, F. J., Second Sergeant Company D, Fourth Tennessee ; enlisted May 15, 1861; was in Stewart's Brigade, Cheatham's Division ; wounded at Murfreesboro December 31, 1862; taken prisoner and carried to Rock Island ; paroled March 16, 1865. Admitted to the Confederate Historical As- sociation May 4, 1895.
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JUDGE T. W. BROWN, In 1896.
BROWN, THOS. W., was born, reared and educated in Kentucky, and is a most loyal Kentuckian to this day, believ- ing that it has in the past produced more great men than any State in the Union. The only State he is willing to admit to a parallelism in this regard is old Virginia. Just after he graduated at Center College he went to the Mexican war before there was a sprig of beard on his face. Is now a Mex- can veteran, and as such receives a pension from the Govern- ment.
He came to Memphis to practice law just fourteen days before the fall of Fort Sumpter. He was in politics a Henry Clay Whig, and did not believe in the doctrine or policy of secession ; and when Tennessee reversed her sentiment of Feb- ruary, 1861, he steadily refused to have anything to do with
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the war. For this be was denounced by secession extremists. To them he calmly replied : "If you think you can easily whip the North you will find yourseives mistaken. But I give each and every one of you this assurance, that when the time comes that requires every man to save the South from the humiliation of defeat, I will go and fight for her to the last. Many of you now so clamorous for war and so full of fight will then skalk." When Grant occupied Memphis T. W. Brown thought it was time for every man in the South to go into the fight. He went out of the lines for this pur- pose, while others who had denounced him remained, as he had predicted. At the time he went out of Grant's lines Bragg was moving into Kentucky. At Chattanooga he re- ceived authority from Richmond to follow the march of Bragg, and raise either a regiment of infantry or a battery. General Bragg did not occupy Kentucky long enough for this to be done. Returning into East Tennessee Bragg moved his lines to Murfreesboro, confronting Rosecrans. The Confederate Congress created for the administration of military law in the Confederate armies, corps courts, to be in the field, and with the respective corps. T. W. Brown was appointed Judge Advocate to the military court assigned to the corps, then commanded by Lieutenant - General Polk, subsequently by Lieutenant - General Hardee. The judge advocates of these corps courts were commissioned captains in cavalry. The court assigned to above named corps especially distinguished itself.in the discharge of its duties. It was ever with its corps on the march and in battle. So marked was its excel- lence that it attracted the attention of the commanding gen- eral of the army, who obtained the passage by the Confeder- ate Congress of an act allowing him to use either of these corps courts he might select for the general business of the army, or for the work of any corps as he might assign. The discipline of the corps now commonly known and called Har- dee's Corps had become under the administration of its corps court so perfect that the business of this court, which at first was very arduous, had greatly eased off, to the great relief of its Judge Advocate, upon whom the burden of the work fell.
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But the procurement of the act mentioned, by General Joseph E. Johnston, again threw upon Judge Advocate Brown a flood of work. He, however, met his greatly increased labors with uncomplaining energy, and received from General Johnston complimentary recognition.
Two incidents somewhat humorous may with propriety be mentioned here. When the Army of Tennessee reached At- lanta, closing the bloody campaign from Dalton to the Chat- tahoochee, the military court of the corps was ordered to Liberty, a little hamnlet in the rear of the army, around which were quartermaster and commissary encampments and some convalescing soldiers. In a few days MeCook's Federal cav- alry raided on the left wing of the Army of Tennessee and swooped down on quartermasters and commissaries. Judge Advocate Brown and Colonel Worthington, the only members of the court present (the others having been granted leave of absence for a few days), were captured after a gallant effort by Judge Advocate Brown to escape, in which he very nearly succeeded. By this time General Wheeler's command was in pursuit of the raiding column in a "stern chase." At Newnan Wheeler's advance caught up with McCook's forces and a severe battle ensued. During the battle the prisoners and their guards found themselves between the fires of the contending lines. The Federal officer made no effort to re- lieve this situation ; this however was not intentional-he had simply lost his head. Captain Brown suggested to him that he should change his position, to which he replied that he could not. The captain then told him he would order his fellow prisoners to dismount and lie on the ground, to which the officer assented. The order was given, the prisoners dis- mounted and hugged the ground ; not one was struck, but a few horses were killed. Directly MeCook's lines broke and started in full retreat. The prisoners dispersed toward the Confederate lines, leaving Colonel Worthington, the Judge Advocate and four convalescent soldiers by themselves. There were many loose horses roving about. If there was anything at that time a Confederate soldier wanted, it was a horse. The Judge Advocate and the four soldiers proceeded to cap- 4
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