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Wright, W., d. in prison. Welsh, W., d. in camp.
COMPANY G.
Aden, Capt. F. F., w. June 10, 1864, at Brice's ! Cross roads, whilst gallantly leading his
Tribble, F., k. in battle.
Howard, Chas., w. in battle.
company in a charge on the enemy's lines, having his horse also disabled.
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Diggs, Lieut. Ben, mortally wounded at Da- | Boyd, Jos., w. at Fort Heiman, Tenn., 1862. vis's Mills, Miss., 1862.
COMPANY H.
Williams, Lieut. J., w. Sept. 1, 1864, at Britton's | Nowlan, J. A., w. June 10, 1864, at Brice's Cross- Lane, Tenn., and captured Nov. 10, 1862, and roads. d. in prison.
Dent, S., k. Sept. 1, 1862, at Britton's Lane.
Farmer, J. B., w. Sept. 1, 1862, at Britton's Lane. Stewart, J. H., w. at Denmark, Tenn.
Taylor, J. C., d. in prison.
Higgs, Jas., d. in service.
Ross, Alex., d. in hospital.
Adams, Wm., k. June 10, 1864, at Brice's Cross- roads.
Cravens, J., w. June 10, 1864, at Brice's Cross- roads.
Stewart, J. H., m. w. June 10, 1864, at Brice's Cross-roads.
Johnston, M. H., w. June 10, 1864, at Brice's Cross-roads.
Travis, T. W., w. June 10, 1864, at Brice's Cross - roads.
Winston, S. A., w. June 10, 1864, at Brice's Cross- roads.
Escrage, J. R., k. July 14, 1864, at Harrisburg. Bondurant, J. J. C., w. July 14, 1864, at Harris- burg.
¡ Cravens, J. J., w. July 14, 1864, at Harrisburg. Hazelwood, J., w. July 14, 1861, at Harrisburg. Julian, J. N., w. July 4, 1864, at Harrisburg.
Thompson, J. T., w. July 14, 1864, at Harris- burg.
Meek, Wm., k. near Oxford, Miss., 1864. Palmer, John, k. near Oxford, Miss., 1804.
Kingston, E. W., d. in service, Dec. 28, 1854.
COMPANY I.
Malone, Lieut. W. P., w. in 1862, at Hernando, Miss.
Smith, Peyton J., w. in 1862, at Hernando, Miss. Wray, Joe, w. Sept. 1, 1862, at Britton's Lane, Tenn.
Dillahunty, Jas., k. Sept. 1, 1862, at Britton's Lane, Tenn.
Dodson, Tom, w. Sept. 1, 1862, at Britton's Lane, Tenn.
Petty, N., w. April 6, 1862, at Shiloh, Tenn.
Shankle, Jasper, k. in 1862, at La Fayette Sta- tion, Tenn.
Upchurch, Jas., d. in 1862, at Fort Pillow, Tenn. Wilson, J. D., w. in 1803, at Oxford, Miss.
Armour, Cap., k. Oct. 11, 1863, at Colliersville. Walk, A. W., w. Oct. 11/ 1863, at Colliersville. Grant, G. W., d. in service.
Smith, W. D., w. Feb., 1864, at Prairie Mound, MISS.
Mumford, E. H., d. Feb. 22, 1864, at Okolona, Lippman, Alex., w. July 14, 1864, at Harris- Miss.
Max, Daniel, k. Feb. 22, 1864, near Okolona, Miss.
Riley, J. G., w. in 1864, near Sulphur Trestle, Ala.
Owen, H., d. in service.
Smith, W. A., w. June 10, 1861, at Brice's Cross- roads.
Cage, Wm., k. June 10, 1861, at Brice's Cross- roads.
Spencer, S., k. June 10, 1864, at Brice's Cross- roads.
Atkins, Dick, d. in prison.
Jones, H. W. B., d. in service.
Brown, Jos., k. July 14, 1864, at Harrisburg, Miss.
Clark, Josh D., k. July 14, 1864, at Harrisburg Miss.
Douglass, John E., k. July 14, 1864, at Harris- burg, Miss.
Owen, Newton, k. July 11, 1864, at Harrisburg, Miss.
Colton, Sergt. H. P., w. July 14, 1864, at Harris- burg, Miss.
burg, Miss.
Somerville, John, w. July 14, 1864, at Harris- burg, Miss.
Guthrie, Wm., w. in service. Norment, Ellis, d. in camp.
COMPANY L.
Duckworth, Capt. Alex., severely wounded at | Colliersville. Tenn., Oct. 11, 1863, whilst lead- ing the regiment in a charge on breast-works, Capt. Lawler, who was in command, having been shot down.
burg whilst gallantly bearing regimental col - ors.
Nelson, T. E., k. July 14, 1864, at Harrisburg, Miss.
Barnes, Wm., k. July 14, 1864, at Harrisburg. Miss.
Hooper, Jas., w. Aug. 31, 1862, at Medon, Tenn. Robertson, J. H., w. Sept. 1, 1862, at Britton's Lane.
Grove, Orderly Sergt. R. D., w. July 14, 1864, at | Hotchkiss, S. B., w. April 6, 1862, at Shiloh, Harrisburg, Miss. Tenn.
Shepherd, Color Sergt. Egbert, w. at Harris- | Leod, D. M., d. from wounds received in serv. ice.
Sherill, John H., d. in Alton prison.
Mehane, Robert, w. Oet. 11, 1863, at Colliersville, Tenn.
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Solomon, Henry, w. at Hernando, Miss., in | Tadlock, Wm., d. in service.
1863; at Brice's Cross-roads, June 10, 1861; j Thomas, Albert, d. in service.
and at Harrisburg, Miss., July 14, 1804.
Sutton, Ben, d. in service.
Willis, Henry, k. Feb. 22, 1864, at Prairie Mound, Miss.
Freeman, W. A., k. Feb. 22, 1864, at Prairie Mound, Miss.
Smith, J. H., w. June 10, 1864, at Brice's Cross- roads, Miss.
Fox, Henry, w. July 14, 1864, at Harrisburg, Miss.
COMPANY M.
Green, Milton, k. Sept. 1, 1862, at Britton's [ Raynor, Wm., k. June 10, 1864, at Brice's Cross- Lane, Tenn.
Hunter, Henry, k. Sept. 1, 1862, at Britton's Lane, Tenn. Hastings, W'm., w. and d. in prison. Neighbors, La Fayette, d. in prison.
Young, G. W., w. Nov. 25, 1864, at Columbia, Tenn.
Shaw, Archer, w. Nov., 1864, at Nashville.
Harris, Jas., w. June 10, 1864, at Brice's Cross- roads. Rice, Thos. S., k. June 10, 1864, at Brice's Cross- . roads.
roads.
Greaves, J. D., w. July 14, 1864, at Harris- burg, Miss.
Carrigan, Jimmie, w. July 14, 1864, at Harris- burg, Miss.
Gause, J. P., w. July 14, 1864, at Harrisburg, Miss.
Oldham, Sydney, w. July 14, 1864, at Harris- burg, Miss. Braden, Reuben, k. July 14, 1864, at Harris- burg, Miss.
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COMPANY C. Coulton, W., d. Jan. 7, 1864, near Irby Mills. COMPANY D. Shirley, B., d. Dec. 27, 1861. COMPANY E. Pepkin, Samuel, d. near Aberdeen, April 5, 1864. COMPANY F. Weldon, Geo. G., d. near Brownsville, Tenn., April 25, 1864.
COMPANY G. Coleman, T. T., k. at Okolona, Miss., Feb. 22, | Daniel, William, d. at Irby Mills, Miss., Jan. 7, 1864. 1864.
EIGHTH TENNESSEE CAVALRY. BY G. G. DIBRELL, SPARTA, TENN.
THIS regiment was organized at Yankeetown, in White county, Tenn., by au- thority of the Secretary of War, C. S. A., as partisan rangers, on the 4th day of September, 1862, by the election of George G. Dibrell as Colonel and Ferdinand H. Dougherty as Lieutenant-colonel. The Major was not then elected.
Soon after the organization as above, the regiment, composed of twelve compa- nies-nine hundred and twenty men-was mustered into the Confederate service as independent partisan rangers by Col. E. W. Rucker, C. S. A., who was sent from Knoxville for that purpose by Maj .- gen. Samuel Jones, commanding the department of East Tennessee. The muster was near Sparta. On the 8th of Oc- tober, 1862, the regiment marched from Sparta to Murfreesboro, and reported to Gen. N. B. Forrest, who had assumed command at that place; and by an arrange-
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ment made with Gen. Forrest the twelve companies were consolidated into ten, and the regiment re-mustered into the C. S. A. as regular cavalry and assigned to the brigade of Gen. Forrest, and Jeffrey E. Forrest appointed Major of the regi- ment, and the regiment took its position in front of the enemy, then in Nashville. The last muster was by Col. Charles Carroll, then of Gen. Forrest's staff.
The first military service of the regiment was picketing and scouting around Nashville. They crossed the Cumberland River above Nashville, and camped in Neely's Bend, where they had the first engagement with a large force of in- fantry and cavalry that was sent out on a foraging expedition from Nashville. When it reached Murfreesboro the regiment was only partly armed with shot- guns, rifles, and such arms as the soldiers could gather in the country, and at Mur- freesboro drew four hundred flint-lock muskets and six hundred sabers, with a small quantity of ammunition-buckshot and ball -- and this was the only issue of arms ever made to this regiment by the Confederate Government.
In the engagement in Neely's Bend the loss was one man killed-Goolshy, of Co. F-and six or eight captured. The regiment, never having been drilled a day, and poorly armed and equipped, stood the fire well, fell back to the river at an almost impassable cow-ford, and crossed, placing Co. H, Capt. J. M. Barnes, at the river to protect the crossing, whilst Capts. McGinnis and Leftwich's compa- nies, also Capt. Windle's company, skirmished with the enemy back to the river. We retired to the Lebanon pike, gathered our scattered forces together, and the next day recrossed the river, drove in the pickets at Edgefield, camped in Bell's Bend, below Nashville, and moved around to the Murfreesboro pike without any serious trouble. Was ordered by Gen. Forrest from La Vergne across to Nolens- ville pike. Moved at night, and went into camp on the 22d of October without a tent or any cooking-vessels, and woke up the next morning to find a four-inch snow on our blankets. Scouted and picketed from our camp in Rains's woodland up to and around Nashville; had several skirmishes with foraging parties. Were with Gen. Forrest in the engagement with Gen. Negley's forces on the Franklin pike on the 4th of November, 1862; and there the regiment made its first car- alry charge upon the rear of Negley's forces, capturing fifteen prisoners and kill- ing several. Our loss was eleven wounded and several horses killed or disabled. This charge, made by cavalry armed in part with flint-lock muskets, and that had never been drilled a day, was a very hazardous undertaking and awkwardly done, but it showed that the soldiers comprising the regiment were made of the true grit, and that all they needed to make them first-class cavalry were discipline and experience, which they afterward had.
In December, 1862, this regiment, with Gen. Forrest's command, moved across the Tennessee River in some old wood-boats at Clifton, Tenn., and formed a part of his command in his West Tennessee expedition. The Colonel of the regiment was temporarily in command of a brigade. Lieut .- col. Dougherty and Capt. J. M. Barnes, of Co. H, with the dismounted men, were left in charge of the boats and to protect them so that we could recross. The regiment was in command of Maj. Forrest most of the time during this expedition.
Near Lexington, Tenn., the Fourth Alabama, being in advance, met and routed Col. Hawkins's U. S. cavalry, when the Eighth Tennessee was ordered to the front, with instructions to pursue the fleeing enemy into Jackson. We crossed Beach River, and moved in a double-quick all day in pursuit of the enemy to
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the city of Jackson, where they took shelter behind their infantry. Gen. Forrest, coming up about 10 o'clock at night, ordered the Eighth Tennessee to move around Jackson to Carroll Station, about seven miles out on the Mobile and Ohio railroad, and destroy the railroad and prevent any reinforcements coming into Jackson from Trenton and other places. It was a very cold December night, very dark. Being in a strange country, it was difficult to get guides. The trains containing reinforcements passed up before we reached the road-just before daylight -- but we heard an empty train leaving Jackson, and hurriedly dismounted the regiment opposite Carroll Station, where there was a strong stockade with a garrison of U. S. soldiers. We did not reach the road in time to tear it up or to place obstruc- tions upon it so as to destroy the train; but supposing the train contained soldiers, we fired a volley into it as it went flying by us, and immediately reloaded, de- ployed skirmishers, and charged the stockade, when, without firing a gun, they hoisted the white flag and surrendered. The regiment was divided-five compa- nies under Col. Dibrell and five under Major Forrest-and they charged from dif- ferent points, and made such a noise with the volley fired at the flying train and the yells in the charge that the enemy thought they were surrounded by the whole Confederate army. The writer of this directed the Captain in charge to order his men to stack their arms and march out of the stockade, which was promptly obeyed, when our men went in and got all of the Eufields, stacked their flint- locks, and burned the stockade and a large quantity of army supplies that we could not carry away. Then we tore up the railroad track, and moved back to Gen. Forrest with one hundred and one prisoners and a large quantity of stores and arms captured, without the loss of a man. From this time forward this regiment's gallantry was never questioned by that great cavalry leader, Gen. Forrest.
The Eighth Tennessee was ordered to destroy the bridge and stockade across Forked Deer River. They moved to the place, supported by Capt. John W. Mor- ton with one section of artillery, but owing to the swampy condition of the coun- try covering the approaches to the stockade and bridge, the artillery could not be used successfully. The cavalry, however, had made their way up to and around the stockade in such a manner as to have secured its destruction but for a large infantry reinforcement sent out on the cars from Jackson, when we retired, los- ing several killed and wounded, moving on through Humboldt, where we were again fired upon by the infantry sent out from Jackson without loss. The next skirmish was at Rutherford Station-several prisoners captured.
After having captured Trenton, and there drawn a large quantity of clothing, arms, and army supplies, we moved via Dresden, Mckenzie, etc., to Parker's Cross-roads, where we met a large infantry force under command of Gen. Sulli- van and Col. Dunham-two brigades. This was the 31st of December, 1862. The advance reported a large force in our front. We were moved up rapidly, and formed line of battle about a mile south of Parker's Cross-roads, when at a few shots from Capt. Freeman's battery the enemy retired to a point east of the cross- roads. The Eighth Tennessee was ordered to pursue rapidly, and, coming to the cross-roads, was ordered to occupy a hill in a large cotton-field to the east or north-east of the cross-roads. We advanced through mud in a double-quick, and reaching the summit of the hill found the enemy moving their artillery by hand up the other side of the hill, when we opened fire upon them and drove
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them back out of the open field, leaving their guns behind them; and then the battle opened in earnest. The ground was very soft after a hard freeze the night before. Capt. Freeman sent a twelve-pound howitzer, commanded by Lieut. El. Douglass and manned by Sergt. Nat. Baxter, jr., to our support. We had no pro- tection except the crest of the hill. The enemy was in very large force in the timber east of the field, and had the timber and fence for protection, and they had six pieces of artillery. They made three or four efforts to charge and drive us from the hill; but our boys, seeing the importance of holding the ground, rallied like true veteran soldiers, and repulsed their efforts to do so. Whilst the Eighth was thus gallantly contending against such large odds, Nat. Baxter, jr., was pour- ing hot shot, grape, and canister into the enemy's ranks at short range, doing theni immense damage. Finally, when we were getting short of ammunition, Capt. Morton came to our aid on our left, and opened with telling effect with one of his captured steel guns; Cols. Napier and Cox came with their battalions to our aid on the right; and Gen. Forrest, with the remainder of his command, moved to the rear of the enemy and opened fire upon them, when they fled precipitately from our front. We advanced upon them, had charge of the battle-ground, were in possession of all their dead, wounded, two hundred prisoners, and six pieces of artillery, and were parleying about a surrender, when Gen. Sullivan, who had been on the Huntingdon road, was allowed to come npon our rear, and was firing upon us before we were aware of his presence. This caused a stampede with the horse-holders, and the enemy we had whipped and driven from the battle-field, and who were parleying about a surrender and begging for time to care for their dead and wounded, hearing the firing in our rear, knew it was their reenforce- ments. They then rallied and engaged us again, and we had to retire through an open field between the fire of two infantry brigades. The Eighth Tennessee, le- ing thus engaged, lost more heavily than any other. Our loss in killed, wounded, and captured was one hundred and forty-six men and about one hundred horses. This was a heavy blow to the regiment. It had been so successful prior to that time that this loss was severely felt, and they were never satisfied about the ene- my being allowed to come up in their rear unmolested until they were completely surrounded. The wonder is that the whole regiment was not captured. The Eighth was then re-formed, although out of ammunition, and marched across Beach River that night, bringing up the rear and protecting the artillery.
The enemy were so badly punished that they did not follow us for several days. We camped the night after the battle east of Beach River, and the next day moved on to the Tennessee River. Near Bath Springs our advance met Col. Breckinridge's regiment of United States cavalry, and were skirmishing with them when the Eighth came up and immediately charged and put them to flight, thus opening our way back to the Tennessee River, where we found Col. Dougherty and Capt. Barnes. Their dismounted men had safely kept our old wood-boats, in which we recrossed, and rested for two or three days before the enemy appeared on the south side of the river. They made no effort to reach the river, and after a few shots from our artillery, they retired.
This was a very laborious and hazardous expedition, composed almost exclu- sively of raw cavalry. Freeman's battery had experience, and a better artillery company did not belong to the Confederate service. The total capture of prison ers during the expedition was about three thousand, with a large amount of army
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supplies, arms, ammunition, clothing, and medical stores. The Eighth Tennessee started on the expedition badly armed and equipped; and although they lost more men than any other regiment, they came out with excellent arms and equipments and great confidence in themselves, and were proud of their success. After rest- ing, a day or two at Clifton, we moved back leisurely via Mount Pleasant and Co- lumbia to Franklin and Spring Hill.
In January, 1863, the Eighth accompanied Gens. Forrest and Wheeler down the Cumberland River when the gun-boats were captured and destroyed at Harpeth Shoals. They went on down near Clarksville with Gen. Forrest, and suffered severely from the extreme cold, but lost no men. Coming back, they served a week or ten days under Gen. Pillow, who was on conscript duty at Columbia.
About the first of March, 1863, Col. Bardin's United States cavalry moved from Corinth, Miss., up the Memphis and Charleston railroad, burning and destroying every thing in his way. Gen. Van Dorn having recently crossed at Florence, Ala,, and joined Gen. Forrest at Spring Hill, leaving no troops in the vicinity of Florence to protect the factories in that locality, the Eighth Tennessee was sent. to that point to meet any force of United States troops that might make a raid there; and to picket down the Tennessee River, and report directly to Gen. Bragg at Tullahoma. We moved through rain and mud, and reached Florence after Bardin had fallen back on Corinth; but we moved up the Tennessee to Lamb's Ferry, secured a steamer from Decatur, crossed the river, which was much swollen and out of its banks; marched, via Courtland and Tuscumbia, to Bear Creek; and then recrossed and took position at Florence, where we remained about six weeks, among as kind and hospitable a people as ever lived.
During our stay at Florence two of the enemy's wooden gun-boats came up the river, when we moved down to meet them, dividing the regiment-part at the bridge, and part went into the river opposite Tuscumbia, landing with one piece of Capt. Morton's artillery at each place. When we ran the artillery in below the boats and opened fire on them they beat a hasty retreat down the river, and did not return again.
While we were at Florence the noble people of that hospitable town provided a hospital for our sick, of whom we had quite a number, and cared for them in the best of style. There were, I believe, some nine or ten deaths while there. When the regiment was ordered away to rejoin the army, a public meeting was called at Florence, at which ex-Governor Patton presided, and resolutions were adopted complimenting the officers and soldiers of the Eighth Cavalry for their gentlemanly deportment, good discipline, and gallantry, while in their midst, and expressing regrets at their departure. Speeches were made by Dr. R. A. Young and others present.
From Florence we moved back to Spring Hill, were engaged in a cavalry fight at Franklin, and made several captures in the town. While picketing on Carter's Creek, below Franklin, we learned that the enemy had made nightly raids on the command which we relieved. Capts. I. W. MeReynolds and Swearingen and their companies were sent out on picket, and in the day placed their men across Carter's Creek and in view of the enemy's line. At night, however, they quietly recrossed the creek to a hill in a cedar rough, and took up the floor of the bridge. Very late at night the enemy stealthily crossed the creek above and came into the road between our pickets and the bridge, when our men opened fire upon
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them. They stampeded through the bridge, leaving much skin, hair, and blood from the wounded. They did not attempt another surprise at that place.
Soon after this Col. Streight, with a picked brigade of mounted infantry, start- ed via the Tennessee River and Corinth to reach and burn Rome, Ga. Gen. Dodge, commanding the United States forces at Corinth, went with him up the Memphis and Charleston railroad to a point above Courtland, Ala., to keep the Confederate forces engaged, so that none could be spared to pursue Streight. Gen. Forrest was ordered from Spring Hill, Tenn., to pursue and capture Streight and his command. Moving rapidly to the Tennessee River at Brown's Ferry, he crossed the river at about 12 o'clock at night. Gen. Forrest ordered Col. Dibrell, with the Eightli Tennessee, and Maj. Forrest with the Tenth Tennessee, cavalry, and one section of Capt. Huggins's battery, to move immediately and rapidly down the Tennessee on the north side to Florence, and to make such demon- stration to cross and move on Corinth, the base of Gen. Dodge's supplies, as would induce him, with his large infantry force, to return to Corinth, and give Gen. Forrest, with the rest of his force, a chance to enter the chase after Streight and his command. The two regiments moved rapidly to Florence, arriving there about three o'clock P.M. Upon entering the town the writer was met by a former merchant of Tuscumbia (Mr. Warren), who had just crossed over from that town in a skiff without the knowledge of the small garrison left at Tuscumbia, who inquired as to our strength and intention. He was informed that this was the ad- vance of Gen. Van Dorn's cavalry, and that our destination was Corinth, in order to destroy Gen. Dodge'ssupplies in his absence. Mr. Warren was urged to recross the river immediately and bear this intelligence to the officers in command at Tus- cumbia. Details from the two regiments were put to work at Bainbridge, Florence, and Garner's Ferry, as if to raise the sunken boats at each of these crossings. Huggins's artillery was brought upon the hill, and kept up a cannonade across the river into South Florence, occasionally throwing a shell where there was no dan- ger, and then firing blank charges. The citizens of the place were greatly alarmed. They hung out table-cloths, white sheets, etc., and yelled across to us that there were no Federals there; but we continued the firing until night, and kept the details at the ferries at work making as much noise as possible all night. Early next morning we were notified that our demonstration was a perfect suc- cess-that the advance of Gen. Dodge's army was rapidly passing Tuscumbia, and pressing on hard to beat us to Corinth, while we were resting and watching the destruction by fire of many buildings by Dodge's army. We saw the flames plain- ly that were destroying La Grange College and many other buildings in the line of their march. Gen. Dodge, with his large infantry force, having been thus drawn back from the direction of Decatur, Gen. Forrest was enabled to pursue and capture Streight and his marauders. Telegraphing Gen. Bragg the result of our demonstration at Florence, he telegraphed back and ordered the Eighth Ten- nessee to leave a small force north of the Tennessee to guard and picket the river, and for the remainder to move rapidly in the direction of Louisville, Miss., to try to intercept Streight and his fleeing command. Maj. Forrest had been ordered to follow Gen. Forrest with the Tenth. According to Gen. Bragg's telegram, Lient .- col. Dougherty, with about two hundred men, was left near Garner's Ferry; and the writer, with three hundred of the reginient, crossed the Tennessee at that point, swimming the horses and ferrying the men and arms over in one small fer-
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