USA > Tennessee > The military annals of Tennessee. Confederate. First series: embracing a review of military operations, with regimental histories and memorial rolls, V.2 > Part 42
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 | Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47 | Part 48 | Part 49 | Part 50 | Part 51 | Part 52 | Part 53 | Part 54 | Part 55 | Part 56 | Part 57 | Part 58 | Part 59 | Part 60 | Part 61
Through Gen. Forrest the cavalry made a proposal to go in advance until we had cleared the way for the army beyond the Federal lines, and then cover their retreat, which both then and now we do not hesitate to believe could have been done with the completest success. Forrest alone, of all the officers brought into the council, showed a military genius equal to the hour. His chagrin at the pur- pose to surrender was intense. His view of the position of the Federal army on the night after the battle proved accurate; his belief in the ability of the infantry to make the march was founded in a knowledge of human endurance in men who had shown the pluck and nerve of the day before. Incapacity growing out of in- experience and want of high military instinct, threw away our army at Fort Don- elson. Forrest was a man of military genius to perceive the thing to be done, and possessed a heroic will to stand by what he believed to be the duty of the hour.
Gen. Buckner's soldierly conduct in remaining with the army, after surrender had been determined upon, has in the eye of history redeemed him from the just censure which belongs to him for inaction during the day and unwarrantable de- spondeney at night. His mistakes by day and by night alike doomed the Confed- eracy to the loss of the army which had so bravely won the victory of the 15th.
765
REGIMENTAL HISTORIES AND MEMORIAL ROLLS.
Again in the saddle at three A.M. on the 16th, prepared to cut their way through at all hazards, the regiment followed their dauntless leader out of the intrench- ments before the formal surrender. For the next ten days they weredrawn on for the most unremitting duty in securing and forwarding the army stores left in Nash- ville, Tenn., by the retreat of Gen. Johnston. In this time, by almost Herculean effort, there were saved of supplies left in Nashville "six hundred boxes of cloth- ing, a quarter of a million pounds of bacon, and forty wagon-loads of ammuni- tion."
The next battle in which the regiment took part was at Shiloh. A few days before this battle Forrest was elected Colonel of the regiment; D. C. Kelley, Lieutenant-colonel; and R. M. Balch, Major. J. P. Strange became Adjutant. During the Saturday before the fight at Shiloh the regiment was all day in the saddle, with ever-running skirmishes with light bodies of Federal cavalry. Early in the action on the day of the battle of Shiloh nothing signal occurred upon the part of the regiment until, by a movement on the left of Prentiss's position, he was led to surrender, and was, with his whole command, taken to the rear under escort of Forrest's regiment. Col. Forrest left to Lieut .- col. Kelley the duty of taking the prisoners to the rear; and, detaching only a squadron from the regiment, went to hunt further opportunity for hot work. As Lient .- col. Kelley reached the front on his return from the duty assigned him, a staff officer dashed up to him and asked, "What cavalry do you command?" Receiving the reply, "Forrest's Regiment," the officer said, "Gen. Bragg desires you to charge the battery which is annoying his front as soon as he gets ready to move." At this time a consider- able body of troops were being formed under cover of the last ridge before reach- ing the Tennessee River. Col. Kelley, ordering the regiment to take shelter be- hind a precipitate point of the ridge, attended by one of the regimental staff, rode up the ridge to make a reconnoissance of the position of the battery. Here, as he reported, he was in full view of the enemy crowding back toward the river in the utmost confusion-no longer an army, but a mob. While watching this scene of confusion several of the guns of the only land battery then being served by the Federal army were limbered up and galloped rapidly toward the river. The re- mainder of the battery was deserted, leaving him nothing in that direction to charge. Riding back, he said to one of Gen. Bragg's staff: "As soon as your line of advance shows itself on top of the ridge the Federal forces will surrender. They are in utter confusion." He replied, "The General will be ready to move in five minutes." Col. Kelley turned aside and dismounted to examine his horse, which had been wounded in the leg on his reconnaissance. A little later, seeing no movement upon the part of the troops, he approached and asked an officer what it meant. He said that Gen. Beauregard had sent orders to bring the men out from under the fire of the gun-boats and bivouac for the night, and added, "Gen. Bragg is foaming at the mouth like a mad tiger." Twenty minutes delay of that order, and all would have been ours. The next day that part of the regi- ment under Lieut .- col. Kelley held position on our extreme right, and having no orders continued the fight with his men dismounted for more than an hour after the orders for retreat had been received on the left and center. Ours were the last troops to leave the field. In withdrawing we passed between two columns of Federal infantry, in full view of each, but the spoils of the night before had clothed so many of the men in blue that we were not recognized as Confederates
766
MILITARY ANNALS OF TENNESSEE.
until we had successfully passed the heads of both columns. It is due the char- acter of the Confederate army, which has been so often represented as in great disorganization at the time that Gen. Beauregard ordered Gen. Bragg to withdraw his men from under the fire of the gun-boats, to say that the line of men formed by Gen. Bragg was admirably organized, and presented the picture of high sol- dierly daring and confidence. Later in the evening Col. Forrest, with the squad- ron he had with him and some Kentucky and Texas companies, made a most brill- iant charge, driving a regiment of Federal cavalry over a whole brigade of their own infantry. In this charge Col. Forrest was wounded. For thirteen days suc- ceeding the regiment was on duty between Pittsburg Landing and Corinth; was engaged in eight severe and obstinate skirmishes with overwhelming odds, besides daily picket skirmishes. In the retreat from Corinth to Tupelo the regiment was left for two days in the enemy's front to obstruct pursuit without rations or orders.
Space will only allow the names of the principal battles and expeditions in which it took part up to the close of the war. From Tupelo one battalion of the regiment, under command of Maj. Balch and afterward Maj. MeDonald, accom- panied Gen. Forrest in his expedition to and capture of Murfreesboro, and the dash at the pickets around Nashville; afterward with Gen. Bragg through the whole campaign and battles of Kentucky. The other battalion, under command of Lieut .- col. Kelley, accompanied Gen. Armstrong through North Alabama, and charged, captured, and almost annihilated the Fourth Michigan Cavalry near Okolona Church. Later the regiment was with Gen. Forrest in his celebrated West Tennessee raid, and in the battle of Murfreesboro. It took a part in the most wonderful pursuit and capture of Col. Streight. Returning to Middle Ten- nessee, it was in four other cavalry engagements before the evacuation of the State. Between this and the battle of Chickamauga the regiment participated in the East Tennessee raid and took a well-known part in the battle of Chickamauga. After this battle the regiment followed the fortunes of Gen. Forrest in his new field in the West; was engaged in the expedition into West Tennessee as the nucleus around which Gen. Forrest gathered an army of thirty-five hundred between the 4th and 27th of December. It took part later in the battles of Okolona, Miss., Somer- ville, Tenn., and Bolivar, Tenn. Later was engaged in that most brilliant and suc- cessful battle of the war-Brice's Cross-roads, or Tishomingo Creek. Then in the disastrous battle of Harrisburg. It was after this battle and the ambuscade at Town Creek, when the Federal forces had driven all the attacking force in disas- ter from the field, that the regiment, moving by the right tank, was deployed on the field. So soon as Gen. Forrest saw it forming he dashed to its front and or- dered a charge. He had just been painfully wounded in the foot, and was in a towering passion. The Colonel commanding the regiment, saluting him, said, " We will have the old regiment in position to charge in two minutes." Just at this moment a shell from the enemy's battery struck the ground about twenty paces to the front of the line, and ricochetted over the heads of the mounted men. Not a veteran moved in the line. Suffering as he was, this undaunted front upon the part of his old followers in the midst of disaster and rout so moved the General that he exclaimed, " The old regiment shows them that she is not afraid!" His temper was calmed by his admiration of their heroism, and he turned and rode from the field, saying, " I can trust you to do the best that can be done."
A few weeks later the regiment formed a part of the force with which Gen.
1
767
REGIMENTAL HISTORIES AND MEMORIAL ROLLS.
Forrest entered Memphis; was a part of the expedition into Middle Tennessee in August and September, taking active part in the capture of Athens, Ala., and of Sulphur Trestle. Recrossing Tennessee River in advance of Gen. Forrest, it formed a part of the forces under Col. Kelley in the decisive affair of Eastport, Ala., in which the Federal loss was six guns, near a thousand men killed, drowned, captured, and missing, with a loss to the Confederates of only one man seriously wounded.
From October 17 to November 17 the regiment took part in the expedition into West Tennessee which resulted in the capture of the Federal gun-boats and trans- ports near Paris, on the Tennessee River. Fifty picked men under Col. Kelley, boarding the "Venus," steamed across the river and captured the gun-boat " Un. dine," brought it across the river, and delivered the prize to Gen. Forrest. Were at the burning of Johnsonville, where the Federals lost more than two million dollars worth of stores.
A question for the future historian is raised here: What set fire to the boats and stores at Johnsonville? We had been firing both shot and shell for hours without effect. Forrest had ridden from his lower battery np the river to where the writer was stationed with a body of sharp-shooters. We were immediately opposite the boats. A consultation had been held on the possibility of constructing a raft to cross the river and capture the boats. Forrest had left the selection of the posi- tion at which to construct and from which to launch the raft to the writer, and had himself gone to send men and tools to aid in the construction. It was already dark. The Federal forces had all retreated out of range of our batteries, when a torch was seen to descend the opposite bank, to pass rapidly from hiding behind first one and then another huge pile of quartermaster stores. Finally a steam- boat was entered. The light flashed past window after window two minutes or less, and that boat was wrapped in flames, which soon extended to all the boats and the large mass of stores on land.
Joining Gen. Hood at Florence, Ala., in the latter part of November, the regi- ment was engaged in thirteen battles and heavy skirmishes between this date and the retreat of Hood's army across the Tennessee River. The last guns fired in position on the gloomy day that closed the battle of Nashville were fired by this regiment on the Granny White pike, after night had set in, in obedience to an order from Gen. Hood to "protect the rear of the retreating army at all hazards." For two days the men had not loosed the bridle-reins from their hands; for eight successive hours they had assisted to repel a force of cavalry more than four times their number; yet after night-fall, when flanked out of the position they had hekl with dogged persistence during this disastrous day, they threw themselves between Hood's retreating army and the Federal advance, and the livelong night kept at bay the overwhelming tide of the Federal cavalry pressing furiously upon them; and were among the last to cross the pontoon bridge over the Tennessee River, which closed that terrible retreat.
The regiment, as it was reorganized after the Hood retreat, surrendered at Gainesville, Ala., being at the time a part of the brigade commanded by Gen. Alexander W. Campbell (the division being commanded by Maj .- gen. W. H. Jack- son), and composed of ten companies, with regimental field and staff as follows:
Colonel, D. C. Kelley, Lebanon, Tenn.
Lieutenant-colonel, E. E. Porter, Memphis, Tenn.
768
MILITARY ANNALS OF TENNESSEE.
Adjutant, W. J. P. Doyle, Memphis, Tenn.
Assistant Quartermaster, Capt. S. A. Cochran, Memphis, Tenn.
Commissary, Capt. B. M. Black, Memphis, Tenn.
Co. A: Captain, J. F. Pattison, Memphis, Tenn.
Co. B: Captain, J. G. Barbour, Memphis, Tenn.
Co. C: Captain, J. C. Blanton, Coffeeville, Texas.
Co. D: Captain, T. H. Magee, Raleigh, Tenn.
Co. E: Captain, N. E. Wood, Whiteville, Hardeman county, Tenn.
Co. F: Captain, Geo. R. Merritt, Eddyville, Lyon county, Ky.
Co. G: Captain, P. H. Strickland, Shelby county, Tenn.
Co. H: Captain, C. M. Stewart, Shelby county, Tenn.
Co. I: Captain, W. T. Carmack, Shelby county, Tenn.
Co. K: Captain, W. A. Bell, Somerville, Tenn.
From Forrest's Campaigns. FORREST'S (OLD) REGIMENT. As organized March, 1863.
FIELD AND STAFF OFFICERS.
D. C. Kelley, Lieutenant-colonel; P. T. Allin, Major; E. A. Spotswood, Lieutenant and Ad- jutant; G. A. Cochran, Assistant Quartermaster.
COMPANY OFFICERS.
Co. A : T. F. Pattison, Captain; W. J. P. Doyle, First Lieutenant; J. A. Powell and James Southerland, Second Lieutenants.
Co. B: James G. Barbour, Captain ; C. D. Steinkuhl, First Lieutenant; R. L. Ivey and J. W Alexander, Second Lieutenants.
Co. C: J. C. Blanton, Captain ; Charles Balch, First Lieutenant; Samuel Powell and G. Glenn, Second Lieutenants.
Co. D: W. H. Forrest, Captain; T. H. Magee, First Lieutenant; S. B. Soliman and Joseph Luxton, Second Lieutenants.
Co. E: N. E. Wood, Captain; W. J. Redd and B. A. Powell, Second Lientenants.
Co. F : J. F. Rodgers, Captain ; C. A. Douglass and J. S. Nichols, Second Lieutenants.
Co. G: W. J. Shaw, Captain; D. A. Antrey, First Lieutenant.
Co. H: J. L. Morphis, Captain; M. Nelms, First Lieutenant; J. H. Jones and W. J. Morphis, Second Lieutenants.
Co. I: T. R. Bearfoot, Captain; J. M. Duncan, First Lieutenant; E. Wooten, Second Lieuten- ant.
Co. K: Wiley Higgs, Captain; J. P. Johnson, First Lieutenant; J. C. Savage and John Ram- say, Second Lieutenants.
FORREST'S CAVALRY-ATTACHED TO THE THIRD TENNESSEE CAVALRY. Official.]
- Colonel, N. B. Forrest. COMPANY C. Captain, J. E. Forrest.
Barton, D. H., d. at Memphis, Tenn., May 6, | Edwards, C. G., d. near Memphis, April 20, 1862.
Carlton, William, d. near Memphis, May 6, 1862.
Campbell, E. B., d. in hospital at Oxford, Miss., Juue 3, 1862.
1862. Gitt, R. H., d. in hospital at Corinth, April 20, 1862. Hunt, T. W., d. in hospital at Corinth, May 1, 1862.
1.44
CAPT NATHAN BOONE.
----
2+2 LIEUT, GEO. L. COWAN.
35.ยบ LIEUT. JOHN EATON
--
769
REGIMENTAL HISTORIES AND MEMORIAL ROLLS.
Stewart, S. H., d. in hospital at Oxford, Miss., | Givens, George, k. at Fort Donelson, Feb. 15, May 12, 1862. 1862.
Thomson, J. P., d. at Corinth, Miss., April 23, 1862.
Campbell, Argyle, k. at Fort Donelson, Feb. 15, 1862.
Seymore, Daniel, k. by falling from his horse, Feb. 1, 1862. .
Hail, J. O., k. at Shiloh, April 7, 1862.
Starke, H. A., d. at Memphis, May 16, 1802.
Wimph, William, k. at Fort Donelson, Feb. 15, 1862.
COMPANY D. Captain, Benj. H. Atkinson.
Gazzallo, Charles, k. at Shiloh. Overton, E. A., w. near Monterey, April 27, and Henderson, J. M., k. at Shiloh. taken prisoner, and since d.
Harper, J. J., d. at Memphis, April 24, 1862.
1
COMPANY G. Captain, M. D. Logan.
Dawson, D. B., d. in Hopkinsville, Ky., Jan. 25. | Diekinson, W., d. at Camp Butler, April 10, 1862. 1862.
Doty, A, k. at Fort Donelson.
FORREST'S ESCORT. BY GEORGE L. COWAN, NASHVILLE, TENN.
AFTER the great battle of Shiloh, in 1862, Col. N. B. Forrest, having been pro- moted to the rank of Brigadier-general and placed in command of all the cavalry around Chattanooga, Tenn., found it necessary to have an escort of well-mounted and disciplined men to enable him to carry out with dispatch the movements which in after years made Forrest's cavalry so famous. It was a little out of the regular order to allow a Brigadier-general an escort; but Gen. Forrest, being al- ways separated from the main army, was allowed to organize and govern his cont- mand as he thought best. For this purpose he commissioned Capt. Montgomery Little to raise a company, and cautioned him to select none but the best young men he could get. After Capt. Little received this commission he returned to Bedford county, Tenn., his native county, and also the native county of Gen. Forrest, then occupied by the Federal army, and commenced recruiting a company under the very eyes of the United States troops. When Shelbyville, the county-seat, was evacu- ated in September, 1862, Capt. Little called his little band of recruits together, and commenced the organization of a company that was destined to figure exten- sively in the great war. He was elected their first Captain; Nathan Boone, First Lieutenant; Matthew Cotner, Second Lieutenant; and Daniel Dunaway, Third Lieutenant. The men were mostly young, the flower of Bedford and Lincoln counties. Each man was superbly mounted and equipped, their fire-arms being mostly double-barrel shot-guns. The company numbered about ninety men, and on the first inspection by Gen. Forrest he pronounced it the finest in the service.
The company left Shelbyville to join Gen. Forrest at Murfreesboro, on the 5th of October, 1862, and reached there just in time to help him regain La Vergne on the 7th; but the first time they were brought under fire was at Nashville, on November 6th, when they sustained themselves with credit, and laid the founda- tion for the fame they won in after years. Their next engagement was at Lex- ington, Tenn., Dec. 17, 1862, where they assisted at the capture of the now famous Col. Robert G. Ingersoll; their next was at Trenton, Tenn., Dec. 20th, when they 49
770
MILITARY ANNALS OF TENNESSEE.
had their first man killed-Felix G. Motlow. They were next engaged at Ken- ton, Tenn., Dec. 21st; Union City, Tenn., on Dec. 22d; at the battle of Parker's Cross-roads, or "Red Mound," Tenn., Dec. 30th; and near Clifton, Tenn., on Dec. 31st, 1862. They were in quite a number of light engagements around Franklin, Tenn., during January, 1863, and at Dover and Fort Donelson on Feb. 12th io 16th, 1863; again in light engagements during the remainder of February at Franklin, Tenn., at Thompson's Station, Tenn., March 5th, where Capt. Montgom- ery Little was killed; at Brentwood, Tenn., March 25th; at Franklin, Tenn., April 9th. In this engagement they made their celebrated charge on the Fourth United States Regulars. Next at Town Creek, Ala., April 25th, where by their courage and daring they saved Morton's Battery from capture. On what was known as Streight's raid they took a very active part. Next, near Franklin, Tenn., on June 3d and 20th; and in many little engagements and hand-to-hand fights, for which they were noted during Bragg's retreat from Tennessee. They were in several severe engagements in East Tennessee during July, 1863; at Tunnel Hill. Ga., Sept. 10th; and during the battle of Chickamauga, Ga. In this battle Gen. Forrest was making a reconnoissance, accompanied only by his escort, when he was surrounded by a regiment of Federal infantry, who were ambushed in a thicket, and who, recognizing him to be Gen. Forrest, demanded his surrender; but the escort, wheeling into columns of fours, charged right through the center of the regiment, and brought their General safely back to his command, with the loss of only two men killed.
After the battle of Chickamauga Forrest's escort was transferred with him to the Army of North Mississippi, and was with him when he entered West Tennessee to organize a new command, and had an engagement at Estenaula, Tenn., on Dec. 23, 1863, when Lieut. N. Boone, with forty men, routed two Federal regiments, and captured their entire camps, with supper already cooked, in the following man- ner: The night was not very clear, but crisp and cold, and the enemy having a good position on a slight elevation in the woods, Lieut. Boone moved his men through a corn-stalk field, after deploying them into a thin skirmish line, and made each man commander of an imaginary regiment, with orders to repeat all orders given by him. So when they moved up close enough to draw the enemy's fire, Lieut. Boone gave orders for his division to draw swords and charge, which was repeated by the entire command, after which the men, raising their favorite yell, and charging through the frozen stalk-field, sounded like Gen. Forrest with his entire command. The enemy only fired one volley, after which they made a precipitate retreat, leaving Lieut. Boone in possession of their entire camps, with supper already cooked.
Their next engagement was at Somerville, Tenn., on Dec. 26th ; at Collier- ville, Tenn., Dec. 27th; at West Point, Miss., Feb. 20th, 1864; at Padneah, Ky., March 25th. Here the company, with their long-range Spencer ritles, engaged and drove off a gun-boat. At Fort Pillow, on April 12th, the escort captured a battery, one of the strongest redoubts in the fort, and turned the guns on the Fed- eral gun-boats. They were also engaged at Bolivar, Tenn., May 211; at Tisho- mingo Creek, June 10th; at Harrisburg, Miss., July 14th; Town Creek, July 15th; Oxford, Miss., Ang. -; at Memphis, Aug. 21st; and in Forrest's raid into Middle Tennessee, when he captured Athens, Ala., and Sulphur Trestle. They also fought at Pulaski, Tullahoma, and Spring Hill, Tenn .; at Johnsonville,
771
REGIMENTAL HISTORIES AND MEMORIAL ROLLS.
Tenn., in Oct., 1864; on Hood's raid at Foust's Springs, Nov. 22d; Columbia, Shelbyville; at the battle of Franklin, at Murfreesboro and Nashville, and all along that memorable retreat of Hood's; at Centreville, Ala., March 31st, 1865; at Ebenezer Church, April Ist; also in that brilliant defense of Selma, Ala., April 2d, which closed the career of Forrest and his noble band of followers.
The company surrendered one hundred and seven privates and the following officers: Capt., John C. Jackson; First Lieut., Nathan Boone; First Lieut., Mat- thew Cortner; Second Lieut., Geo. L. Cowan; Acting Third Lieut., John Eaton. Non-commissioned officers: First Sergt., M. L. Parks; Second Sergt., W. Ed. Sims; Third Sergt., W. A. E. Rutledge; Fourth Sergt., C. C. McLemore; Fifth - Sergt., Wm. H. Matthews; First Corp., H. J. Crenshaw; Second Corp., W. T. H. (Crittenden) Wharton; Third Corp., P. C. Richardson; Fourth Corp., R. C. Kee- ble; Bugler, W. F. Watson; Ensign, J. O. Crump.
MEMORIAL ROLL OF LIEUT .- GEN. N. B. FORREST'S ESCORT.
Arnold, Pleasant, k. at Harrisburg, Miss., Ju- | Little, Capt. Montgomery, k. at Thompson's ly 14, 1864.
Auman. R. H., k. at Chickamanga, Tenn., Sept. 10, 1863.
Boone, Orderly Sergeant Alfred H., k. at Som- erville, Tenn., Dec. 30, 1863.
Brown, Thomas, k. near Winchester, Tenn., 1864.
Bivins, John R., k. at Shelbyville, Tenn., May, 1865.
Black, Marcus, k. near Pulaski, T'enn., Dec. 24, 1864.
Cruse, Orderly Sergeant Jacob, k. at Chicka- mauga, Tenn., Sept. 19, 1863.
Dean, P. S., k. at Hillsboro, Tenn., July, 1863. Green, W. T. K., k. near Lynchburg, Tenn., 1864.
Green, S. J., k. near Tuscaloosa, Ala., April, 1865.
Holt, Lient. Joshua, k. near Demopolis, Ala., April, 1865.
.
Hick-, Felix, k. at Harrisburg, Miss., July 14, 1864. He was a Lieutenant in the quarter- master's department, and asked permission to fight with the escort for that day, and was killed in less than fifteen minutes after- ward.
Station, Tenn., March 4, 1863, while in cors- mand of his company.
Lipscomb, Wm. E., k. at Foust's Springs. Tenn., Nov. 23, 1864.
Motlow, Felix G., k. at Trenton, Tenn., Dec. 20, 1862. This was the first man killed in the company.
Neal, John, k. near Waterloo, Ala., Nov. 1864. Strickland, William M., k. at Pulaski, Tenn., Dec. 25, 1864.
Wood, William, k. at Foust's Springs, Tenn., Nov. 23, 1864.
Warren, John, k. at Okolona, Miss., Jan. 21, 1861.
List of Those who Died from Diseases Contracted- in the Service.
Cochran, John Cowan, d. at Jackson, Tenn., 1884.
Christopher, Alfred, d. in Bedford county, Tenn., 1884.
Butler, Thomas, d. at Gainesville, Ala., April, 1885.
Terry, Robert M., d. in West Tennessee, 1884.
The list of killed, and also the one of those who died of disease, is very incom- plete, as all of the company's papers were lost; and as it did not make reports through regiments or brigades, but only to Gen Forrest direct, there is no way of getting at the full list of killed and those who died from disease contracted while in service.
772
MILITARY ANNALS OF TENNESSEE.
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.