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min, Secretary of State, with shoulder to the wheel; on the other side was John T. Reagan, Postmaster-general; and looking on were Charles G. Memminger, Secretary of the Treasury, and Samuel Cooper, Adjutant-general of all the armies; while a little farther off, mounted and looking on, were President Davis and Gen. John C. Breckinridge, Secretary of War.
The regiment was paroled May 9, near Washington, Ga., and allowed to retain their horses; but at Chattanooga their horses were taken from them, and they sent to Nashville and lodged in the penitentiary during the night. In the morning the men were marched into the city, made to take the oath, and allowed to go to . their homes-sadder and wiser, if not better, men ..
Such is but a cursory sketch of a regiment composed of the flower of the youth of Kentucky and Tennessee, and which did its duty in a great historic conflict. Its record here is incomplete, and it is not possible now, and never will be, to write an accurate history of its career. No history of Tennessee could be complete, or just, or honest unless meritorious mention was made, even nameless though they be, of those gallant sons who, merging their identity in this Kentucky regiment, gave their service and fought and died for the land and cause which they, in com- mon with their mother Tennessee, loved so well. Some of them go through life dragging their poor wounded bodies, and no government administers to them with fostering care, while the graves of many more who died in battle dot the hills and plains of the South, and the eye of affection cannot find their last resting-place No monument rises above them, no cenotaph perhaps will ever have carved on its voiceful marble their glorious acts; but how useless are all of these! for mar- ble and monumental brass corrode and fall into dust, yet the memories of these soldier-dead live and flourish in the hearts of their comrades, green as the grass that grows above them, and in the traditions of their grateful country their heroic deeds shall live forever.
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WOODWARD'S COMPANY.
CAPTAIN, T. G. WOODWARD.
ON the muster-roll, the only one on file, appear the following memoranda:
"This company was formed from a battalion composed almost entirely of Kentuckians who were enlisted by Lieut .- col. T. G. Woodward for twelve months. When ordered to be mustered into the service for three years, all declined except those whose names are here enrolled. The battalion from which this company was formed has been serving as partisan rangers in Southern Kentucky ever since the Ist of August, 1862, and no muster-rolls from the companies forming the battalion have been returned to the Inspector-general's office. This battalion was commanded by Lieut .- col. T. G. Woodward since its organization the Ist of August, 1862. CHARLES M. CARROLL,
" (Signed) 'Inspector and Mustering Officer for Brig .- gen. NV. B. Forrest."
FIRST TENNESSEE PARTISAN RANGERS.
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Colonel, Robert V. Richardson. COMPANY A. Captain, E. Daly. Hammer, W. B., k. in action at Lauderdale, Tenn., Jan. 8, 1863.
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COMPANY B. Captain, J. H. Murray. Ray, Lieut. Thos. J., k. in action March 9, 1863. ! Bane, M. H., d. April 12, 1863.
COMPANY C. Captain, John L. Payn
Nelson, Lieut. J. C., k. in action at Reaves's | Ralph, James, k. in action, March 29, 1863. place, March 20, 1863.
COMPANY D. Captain, J. H. Hazelwood.
Thompson, J F., k. in action at Reaves's | Craddock, H. place, March 29, 1863.
COMPANY E. Captain, Reuben Burrows. COMPANY F. Captain, W. A. Bell. COMPANY G. Captain, R. A. Fields. COMPANY H. Captain, J. S. Caruthers. Mellvane, W. J. C., k. March 20, 1863. COMPANY I. Captain, John Hicks. COMPANY K. Captain, R. J. Morris. 1 Hilliard, J. A., d. March 6, 1863.
Kelley, J., k. March 29, 1863.
MISCELLANEOUS COMMANDS.
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Alexander's Cavalry Company, Capt. D. F. Al- | Darwin's Cavalry of Partisan Rangers, Capt. exander. Win. P. Darwin.
Baker's Independent Company, Capt. W'm. N. Baker.
Barbiere's Company, Capt. Joseph Barbiere. Barkley's Company, Capt. Samuel Y. Barkley. Bass's Company, Capt. Robert C. Bass. Baxter's Battalion Cavalry, Co. C, Capt. A. J. Powell.
Deal, William, k. in battle at Cherokee, Ala .. May 12, 1863.
Beach Creek Jerkers, Capt. Jacob Miller. Blair's Company, Lieut. W. W. Blair.
Bounds's Company, Capt. George W. Bounds. Camp's Company, Capt. Wm. A. Camp. Carter's Company of Scouts for Maj .. gen. Wheeler's cavalry corps, Capt. N. W. Carter. Cattle's Company, Capt. R. F. Cattle.
Childress's Company, Capt. Wm. T. Childress. Clark's Independent Cavalry, Capt. J. W. Clark.
Davis's Company, Capt. John R. Davis.
Dillahay's Company, Capt. Alexander R. Dil- lahay.
Duggan's Company, Capt. Benj. F. Duggan.
Dunn's Company, Capt. John N. Dunn. Second Battalion Troops and Defenses, Co. C, Capt. W. G. Etter.
Felts's Company, Capt. James W. Felts. Jennings, W. R., d. Sept. 22, 1861.
Forney's Company, Capt. Geo. H. Forney. Foutch's Company, Capt. Martin B. Foutch.
Bolen's Unattached Cavalry, Capt. James N. |Gordon's Cavalry, Capt. W. W. Gordon. Bolen.
Gammon's Company, Capt. Edward Gammon. Hardeman's Avengers, Capt. James J. Neely. Hailman's Company, Capt. S. F. Hailman. Hallis's Company, Capt. Jasper N. Hallis.
Hamilton's Independent Company, Capt. Oli- ver P. Hamilton.
Hancock's Company, Capt. Wm. H. P. Han- cock.
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Harrell's Company, Lieut. Rodman Harrell. Hill's Company, Capt. C. H. Hill.
Hudson's Company, Capt. Clement L. Hudson. Ives's Company, Capt. John D. Ives. James's Company, Capt. B. A. James. Jones's Company, Capt. L. M. Jones. Johnson's Company, Capt. James Johnson. Kizer's Independent Scouts, Capt. Thomas N. Kizer.
Lea's Company, Capt. Allen Lea. Smith, Alfred, d. Dec. 13, 1861.
Little's Company, Capt. Montgomery Little. Logwood's Cavalry, Capt. T. H. Logwood.
Maley's Company, Captain H. J. Maley. McLin's Company, Capt. John B. McLin. Mister's Company, Capt. James F. Mister. Cater's Battalion of Mounted Scouts, Co. B. Capt. Lemuel Oliver.
Jarroll, Charles, k. in battle, Sept. 19, 1863. Oliver's Company, Capt. John A. Oliver.
Battalion Sharp-shooters (Jackson's Brigade), Co. E, Capt. Samuel D. Oliver. Bowdon, John A. W., d. in hospital.
Perry's Company, Capt. Adcock Perry.
Partisan Rangers, Capt. E. E. Porter.
Rankin's Company, Capt. Peter T. Rankin. Reed's Company, Capt. Wyly M. Reed.
Robinson's Company, Capt. George W. Robin- son.
Roundtree's Company, Capt. William Round- tree.
Sanders's Company, Capt. G. C. Sanders. Williams, G. T., d. Sept. 17, 1861.
Scobey's Company, Capt. James E. Scobey. Sherwin's Company, Capt. C. Sherwin. Smith's Company, Capt. Wm. D. Smith. Spencer's Company, Capt. Benj. E. Spencer. Tackett's Company, Capt. Joseph W. Tackett. Thomason's Company, Capt. John F. Thom- ason.
Thomas's Company, Capt. Samuel P. Thomas. Trevitt's Company, Capt. J. F. Trevitt.
Watson's Company, Capt. Geo. W. Watson. Wheeler's Company, Capt. James T. Wheeler. Wheeler's Company, Capt. John D. Wheeler. Whitson's Company, Capt. R. M. Whitson. Jackson Home Guards, Capt. Owen M. White. Williams's Unattached Cavalry, Capt. J. R. Williams,
Gilbert, Samuel, d. at home in Benton county, T'enn., Sept. 1, 1862.
Askew, T .. I)., d. at home in Benton county, Tenn., Aug. 1, 1862. . Brown, John W., d. in hospital at Danville, Jan. 11, 1862.
Ballard, J. N., d. at Henderson Station, April 12, 1862.
Odom, W. A., d. at home in Benton county Tenn., Feb. 1, 1SC2.
Wyatt, John, d. at home in Benton county, Tenn., Feb. 9, 1862.
Witcher's Company, Capt. James Witcher. Miller, Daniel, d. about July 1, 1863.
Woodruff's Company, Capt. Samuel Woodruff.
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ARTILLERY.
BANKHEAD'S AND SCOTT'S BATTERY. BY W. L. SCOTT, ST. LOUIS, MO. :
THIS battery of light artillery was organized as "Bankhead's Battery" at Mem- phis, Tenn., early in April, 1861. It was organized by Smith P. Bankhead and W. Y. C. Humes, of that city. The men composing the company were mainly recruited in Memphis, and as far as known were Tennesseans. The company was about one hundred strong. The officers were Smith P. Bankhead, Captain; W. Y. C. Humes, First Lieutenant; James Clare MeDavitt, W. L. Scott, and W. B. Greenlaw, jr., Second Lieutenants. Capt. Bankhead and Lieut. Humes were natives of Virginia. The remaining officers were natives of Tennessee. Capt. Bankhead was the son of Gen. Bankhead, of the regular army of the United States, and had received a military education. Lieut. Humes had also to some extent received a military training at the military school in Lexington, Va., where he graduated. All of the officers of this battery at the time of its organization, with the exception of Lieut. Greenlaw, were lawyers, actively en- gaged in the practice of their profession at Memphis, Tenn.
When first organized the company had no artillery. A short time after its or- ganization it was stationed at Fort Pillow, on the Mississippi River, and placed in command of the heavy artillery at that point. During the summer of 1861 it was relieved of this duty, and returned to Memphis, where it went into camp, and was there regularly equipped as a light artillery company, prepared for active service in the field, being furnished with four field-pieces and necessary outfit.
In the fall of that year the company was ordered to New Madrid, Mo., then held by the Confederates under Gen. Gideon J. Pillow. The company, with the forces at that point, was ordered on an expedition some distance into the inte- rior of the State, but failing to encounter the enemy, returned to New Madrid; and soon thereafter, upon the evacuation of that point, the Confederate troops were ordered to Columbus, Ky., which was about to be occupied by the army un- . der the command of Gen. Polk.
The Federal forces were at this time stationed at Cairo, Ill., and had a strong fleet of gun-boats on the river.
On the march from New Madrid to Columbus the battery passed through Hick- man, Ky., and at that point was for the first time under the fire of the enemy, the place being shelled by the Federal gun-boats. No casualties resulted. The com- pany went into winter-quarters at Columbus. While there, Lewis Bond, of Brownsville, Tenn., and Joseph Philips, of Nashville, Tenn .-- both native Ten- nesseans-were ordered on duty in this company, and held the rank of Second Lieutenants in the battery. Soon after the occupation of Columbus, Humes was
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relieved from duty in the battery and promoted to the rank of Captain, and was placed in charge of a battery of heavy artillery commanding the river. At this early period in the history of the company it was deprived of the services of this gallant and efficient officer, and a brief mention of his future career in the army may be made in passing.
Upon the evacuation of Columbus, in the spring of 1862, Capt. Humes was placed in command of heavy artillery at Island No. 10, and gallantly assisted in the defense of the island against overwhelming odds, and upon its capture was taken prisoner and confined for many months at Johnson's Island. He was not exchanged until some time during the summer of 1862, and soon afterward was placed in command of heavy artillery at Mobile, Ala .; but his superior qualities as an officer and soldier had already attracted the attention of those high in au- thority, and in a short time he was called into active service in the field, where he was rapidly promoted until he attained the rank of Brigadier-general, and was in command of a brigade of cavalry under Maj .- gen. Wheeler at the close of the war. After the surrender he resumed the practice of law at Memphis, and now stands at the head of his profession in the State, with a large and lucrative practice.
Upon the promotion of Lient. Humes, Lieuts. McDavitt and Scott were pro- moted to the rank of First Lieutenant.
During the fall and winter of 1361-2 the Federal gun-boats on several occa- sions approached near enough to the works at Columbus to throw shells into our camp; and in one instance a shell burst in Bankhead's battery, shattering the arm of one of the men of the company-private Leary-and which had to be ampu- tated.
During the period the battery was in camp at Columbus, Lieuts. Bond and Greenlaw were relieved from duty with it.
In February, 1862, William Mecklenburg Polk, son of Gen. Polk, was assigned to duty with the battery.
Upon the evacuation of Columbus, in the spring of 1862, Bankhead's battery moved with the troops under command of Gen. Polk, and was ordered to Corinth preparatory to the battle of Shiloh.
This battery was actively engaged in the battle of Shiloh. In the first day's action Lieut. Scott was wounded, being shot in the neck by a musket-ball from shrapnel, thrown with admirable precision and skill by the Federal artillery, which had got the exact range of the pieces under his command, being at the same time well protected by the cover of a hill from the return fire. Lieut. Scott's horse had been killed under him, and he was in the act of mounting a sec- ond horse when he was wounded. He was carried from the field, and was not in a condition for active service for some time thereafter. Lient. MeDavitt was also wounded slightly in the same engagement, being grazed in the head by a bullet, but was able to remain on the field throughout the battle. There were twenty men of the battery wounded at Shiloh, but it suffered no losses in killed.
On the 14th of May, 1862, the battery was reorganized with the following offi- cers: Captain, Smith P. Bankhead; Senior First Lieutenant, J. C. MeDavitt; Ju- nior First Lieutenant, W. L. Scott; Senior Second Lieutenant, Joseph Philips; Junior Second Lieutenant, Wm. Mecklenburg Polk.
On the 17th of May, 1862, Lient. MeDavitt was relieved from duty with the
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battery and placed on ordnance duty with the First Corps, and remained on spe- cial ordnance duty until November 28, 1862, when he was assigned to duty as in- structor of artillery at the bay batteries at Mobile, Ala. In May, June, and July, 1863, he was in command of an iron-elad floating battery (two ten-inch guns) off Mobile, and after that was instructor and inspector of artillery; from June 14 to September 1, 1864, he was adjutant and inspector of artillery of Polk's corps (Col. Sterling, Chief of Artillery); and from September 5, 1864, until the close of the war he was inspector of artillery and ordnance attached to Gen. Maury's com- mand. Since the war he has been engaged in the practice of law in Memphis, Tenn.
Soon after the reorganization of the battery in May, 1862, Capt. Bankhead was made chief of artillery, with the rank of Major, and during a considerable period of the war was on staff duty in the artillery arm of the service, and afterward was promoted to the rank of Brigadier-general, which rank he held at the close of the war.
Upon the promotion of Capt. Bankhead, Lieut. Scott was promoted to the rank of Captain, and was placed in command of the battery, and its name was changed to that of "Scott's Battery," which name it ever afterward bore. Lieut. Joseph Philips was promoted to the rank of Senior First Lieutenant, and Lieut. Polk to that of Junior First Lieutenant, and Mr. Watson, who had previously been a non- commissioned officer, was promoted to a Second Lieutenancy, and Thomas Peters was appointed to serve with the battery, with the rank of Second Lieutenant. The battery was then assigned to duty with Smith's brigade (Cheatham's division), Polk's corps.
Smith's brigade having been ordered on special duty in the Kentucky campaign in the summer and fall of 1862, Scott's battery was for the time detached from its own brigade and placed on duty with Stewart's brigade, of Cheatham's division, and went with this command into Kentucky on the Kentucky campaign, and re- mained with it until after the battle of Perryville, when it was reattached to Smith's brigade, and returned under this command with the army into Tennessee in the fall of 1862.
On the Kentucky campaign Lient. John Marsh, of Bolivar, Tenn., a native Tennessean, was assigned to duty with the battery, and remained continuously with it until a short time previous to the battle of Chickamauga.
The battery actively participated in the battle of Murfreesboro, and lost two men killed and several wounded in that engagement. Among its losses was the gallant Corporal Townsend, of Memphis, Tenn., who was killed while standing on the breastworks, having refused to take shelter behind them, although at the time of his death the battery was not actually engaging the enemy, but was under its fire. No braver soldier fell on that battle-field-none more faithful or more devoted to the cause for which he had enlisted. After the battle of Murfreesboro the battery remained with the army in winter-quarters at Shelbyville, Tenn.
In the summer of 1863 the battery was ordered to Chattanooga, to which place the Army of Tennessee had been ordered preparatory to the campaign which re- sulted in the battle of Chickamauga.
During the winter of 1862 Lieut. Philips, at his own request, was relieved from duty with the battery, and assigned to duty as Assistant Adjutant-general with Col. Bankhead, who was transferred to the Trans-Mississippi Department, and
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soon after placed in command of a brigade of cavalry in Northern Texas and the Indian Territory. Lieut. Philips was afterward ordered to report to Lient .- gen. Polk, and was by him assigned to duty on his staff as inspector of artillery, in which capacity he served on the North Georgia campaign until the death of Gen. Polk, at Pine Mountain. Later in the summer of 1863 Lient. Marsh was also re- lieved from duty with the battery, and assigned to staff duty in Strahl's brigade, of Cheatham's division.
Scott's battery was actively engaged in the battle of Chickamauga, and lost a number of men in killed and wounded. Subsequently, at Missionary Ridge, over- whelmed by numbers, and completely surrounded by the enemy, the battery was captured. Its men stood to their guns until the last, and were literally hewn down at their pieces, dying at their post while attempting to discharge their guns. The battery was thus captured, and the greater portion of the men killed or so badly wounded that they afterward died of their wounds. Many were taken pris- oners, and but few escaped-a mere remnant, too few at this late period of the war to form the nucleus for another company, and they were consequently assigned to different commands. Thus ended the career of Bankhead-Scott's Battery, after constant and active service in the field as a light artillery company since early in the spring of 1862. It is impossible at this distance of time, and when all records of the company's history have long since been destroyed, to furnish a statement of the many smaller engagements with the enemy in which this battery partici- pated; but it was so engaged in many a skirmish and artillery duel, in which the same cheerful courage an i devotion were displayed which were so conspicuous on the larger battle-fields. At the time the battle of Missionary Ridge was raging Lieut. John Marsh was lying severely wounded in the hospital at Marietta, Ga. He had been wounded at the battle of Chickamauga, while serving on Gen. Strahl's staff, having his left arm badly shattered. He refused to have it ampu- tated, although this was urged by the Surgeon in charge. So severely was he wounded that he remained confined in the hospital at Marietta for six months, having been for six weeks in the field-hospital before his removal to Marietta. At the end of that time, although his wounds were unhealed, he returned to his command. Gen. Johnston, seeing he was so badly disabled, offered him his dis- charge from the service, but he refused to receive it, and again entered upon act- ive duty in the field as Chief of Artillery on Gen. Strahl's staff. He was killed at Franklin, Tenn., on the 30th of November, 1864. His horse was shot from nn- der him and killed just before he was killed. Chaplain Quintard, now Bishop of Tennessee, had his remains buried at Ashwood. No braver soldier than John Henry Marsh ever went upon a battle-field; Tennessee soil was never wet by the blood of a nobler son than when John Marsh poured ont his life-blood in defense of the Lost Cause at that carnival of death, the bloody field of Franklin. His gallantry on the battle-field was of the noblest type. He embodied the very spirit of chivalry. It was with a feeling of exaltation that he rushed into the very thick- est of the battle. His face then beamed with joy, and his carriage was as proud and peerless as that of Henry of Navarre. Upon seeing him as he rode amidst the smoke, in the din and the roar of battle, one was instinctively reminded of Ney, "the bravest of the brave." In him was exhibited not merely courage, but a lofty disdain of danger. He went into the thickest of the fight not only with that high resolve which is born of an exalted sense of duty, but with an enthusi-
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asm which invested the battle-field with the charm of a festive occasion. To him it was the field of glory.
The battle at Franklin had now become a slaughter-pen. The dead men were lying around Marsh in heaps. Strahl, his gallant General, had gone down; so had Cleburne, so had Jackson, and other immortal heroes of that dread hour. They were all slain amid the heaps of dead at the breastworks. Marsh rode a white horse on that last ride to death. While his comrades were falling thick and fast around him on that terrible night when horse and rider were "in one red burial blent," the peerless Marsh, sans peur et sans reproche, pressed on into that holo- caust of death, shouting as he rode, "Rush on, my brave jellou's; the day is ours!" . and laughing at death as he rode. And then on foot-his horse being shot from under him-dealing death with his revolver "to right of him, to left of him, in front of him," he still pressed forward until he fell as the ball went crashing through his brain. He fell there, swelling the already swollen heap of the dead; fell amidst and as one of those immortal heroes who in the darkness of that hour died in the light of the blazing gun and the gleaming sword. No nobler spirit ever went up to the God of battles than that of this brave soldier, born on Tennessee soil, and offering up his life-blood for his native land in what he believed to be the defense of her most sacred rights.
Gen. Bankhead after the war resumed the practice of his profession in Mem- phis, Tenn., where in the year 1866 he was murdered by an unknown assassin. No clew to the murderer was ever obtained. Capt. Scott resumed the practice of his profession at Memphis, Tenn., where subsequently he was appointed one of the Chancellors of Tennessee, holding the Second Chancery Court of Shelby coun- ty, at Memphis. At the end of his term of office he resumed his practice, and in 1875 removed to St. Louis, Mo., where he is at present engaged in the practice of his profession. Lieut. Peters died in Memphis early in 1866. Lieut. Philips engaged in planting in Mississippi for several years after the war, and then re- moved to his native State and home near Nashville, Tenn., where he now resides, occupied in agricultural pursuits. Lieut. Polk became a physician, and is now engaged in a lucrative practice in the city of New York, where he has already at- tained to prominence and established an enviable reputation in his profession.
FREEMAN-HUGGINS BATTERY. BY A. L. HUGGINS, NASHVILLE, TENN.
THIS company was formed in 1861, under the name of the "Harding Artil- lery," and went into camp at Camp Weakley, near Nashville. Capt. Montser- rat was understood to be at its head, but he was never with it. After being in- structed in both infantry and artillery drill, the company was ordered to Knox- ville, where a partial organization was effected, with Ed. Baxter, - Baker, and Sam Freeman as Lieutenants; and A. L. Huggins, Ed. Douglass, Trim. Brown, Nat. Baxter, jr., James Poster, and as Sergeants.
After a few days' stay at Knoxville, the company was ordered to Mill Springs, at which place there was a division of the command into two, one part of which fully organized itself, with Ed. Baxter as Captain, Sam Freeman as First Lieuten-
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ant, A. L. Huggins as Second Lieutenant, Trim. Brown as Third Lieutenant, and Ed. Douglass as Fourth Lieutenant.
After the Fishing Creek disaster the battery proceeded to Murfreesboro, Tenn., with the rest of the command. Then it moved to Corinth, Miss., and was on the extreme right in the battle of Shiloh. It acted with the army in its movements about Corinth, but did little fighting.
The company was reorganized at Corinth, electing the same officers, with the exception of Lient. Brown, who took position on the staff of Gen. J. C. Brown; * and Nat. Baxter was elected Lieutenant. From Corinth the command proceeded by Tupelo to Chattanooga, Tenn., with Gen. Bragg's army. On the way Capt. Baxter was transferred to post duty, and Lieut. Freeman became Captain, the oth- er commissioned officers being promoted accordingly.
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