Contents The War Comes to Rutherford County.................................................................................1 Forrest’s Raid on Murfreesboro . ...............................................................................2 A Time of Freedom and Celebration..........................................................................3 The Wedding...............................................................................................................4 The Battle of Murfreesboro .......................................................................................4 1863—Federal Forces Reoccupy Murfreesboro.........................................................6 The Battle of Milton...................................................................................................6 The Battle of Hoover’s Gap........................................................................................7 Domestic affairs, July 1863–December 1864.............................................................8 Local Heroes and Martyrs..........................................................................................9 The Battle of the Cedars........................................................................................... 11 1865—Final Year of the War....................................................................................12 Biographical sketches of Rutherford County Solders.........................................................13 Confederate Veteran’s Reunions....................................................................................... 117 Rutherford County Confederate Companies....................................................................127 First (Maney’s) Tennessee Infantry Regiment, CSA..............................................127 Second (Bate’s) Tennessee Infantry Regiment, CSA.............................................128 Eighteenth Tennessee Infantry Regiment, CSA......................................................131 Twentieth Tennessee Infantry Regiment, CSA.......................................................133 Twenty-third Tennessee Infantry Regiment, CSA..................................................134 Twenty-fourth Tennessee Infantry Regiment, CSA................................................135 Forty-fifth Tennessee Infantry Regiment, CSA......................................................137 Eleventh Tennessee Cavalry Regiment, CSA.........................................................142 Twenty-first (Carter’s) Tennessee Cavalry Regiment, CSA...................................143 Photo Credits.....................................................................................................................145 Index.................................................................................................................................149 -v-
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF RUTHERFORD COUNTY SOLDERS Abernathy, Dr. Charles Clayton, Jr. a native of Giles County, Tennessee, was born near Pulaski, Tennessee, on October 9, 1827. He was a son of Charles Clayton Abernathy Sr. and Susannah Waddy Harris Abernathy, of Giles County. He moved to Murfreesboro, Tennessee, around 1850 and while there lived with his cousin, Dr. Jesse Jones Abernathy. He received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1851. Soon after he moved back to his native home of Pulaski, he married Martha J. Stockard of Maury County, and set up his medical practice until disrupted by the Civil War. In 1862 he received a surgeon’s commission in the Confederate Army and was first stationed at a hospital in Chattanooga, Tennessee. On December 3, 1862, he was appointed surgeon of Colonel Joseph B. Palmer’s Eighteenth Tennessee Infantry Regiment, CSA, and was very active in his duties following the Battles of Murfreesboro and Chickamauga. He was transferred to the Third Tennessee Infantry Regiment, CSA, in 1863 and was surgeon of that regiment when captured on September 1, 1864, during the Battle of Jonesboro. He was exchanged that month at Rough and Ready, Georgia. He was again captured near Pulaski on December 25, 1864, during Hood’s retreat south following the Battle of Nashville. He was imprisoned first at Camp Chase, Ohio, then transferred to Point Lookout, Maryland, for a
period of time before being sent to Fort Delaware, Delaware. He took the oath of allegiance at the latter place on July 15, 1865, and was released and sent home. Dr. Abernathy came back to Pulaski following the war and resumed his medical practice. His wife died in 1878, and he married Mrs. Josephine Wilkinson McNairy, a widow, in 1880. Abernathy died at Pulaski in 1903 and is buried there. Alexander, Henry Clay was born near the Crescent community of the Barfield (Eleventh) District on May 14, 1843, to Madison Howe Alexander and Catherine Suttle Alexander. His paternal grandparents were Daniel and Sally Alexander Alexander, cousins, who in 1827 came to Rutherford County from Smith County, Tennessee. His maternal grandparents were William and Elizabeth A. Suttle, early settlers of Rutherford County. Alexander enlisted in Company D, Forty-fifth Tennessee Infantry Regiment, CSA, in November 1861 at Murfreesboro as a private. Records show that he was discharged from that company on March 25, 1862, and did not take part in any major battle with that command. On November 19 of that year, he enlisted in Company C, Eighty-fourth Tennessee Infantry Regiment, CSA, at McMinnville, Tennessee,
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but company records state that he had been absent without leave from the company since December 18, 1862. No further evidence of service could be found for him. Following the war, Alexander married Katherine Leontine Ellis on November 4, 1868. She was a daughter of Noble D. and Elizabeth Lockhart Ellis of Williamson County, and a sister of Christopher Columbus Ellis, who appears later. He farmed in both the Fourteenth and Eleventh Districts of the county until his death on December 5, 1884. He is buried in the Alexander Cemetery near the Crescent community of the Eleventh District. Alexander, James Madison, elder brother of Henry Clay Alexander, was born on April 21, 1837, near the Crescent community. As a young man he assisted his father in running the family plantation. At the commencement of the Civil War, he left his home to join Company D, Forty-fifth Tennessee Infantry Regiment, CSA, on October 21, 1861, at Murfreesboro. He fought in the ranks as a private at the Battles of Shiloh, Baton Rouge, and Murfreesboro. In April 1863 he was detached to service in the quartermaster department. At the end of the war, he was serving in the commissary department of the army under General Richard Taylor and was with the surrender of those troops at Citronelle, Alabama, on May 4, 1865. Following the war, Alexander pursued farming in the Eleventh District and also operated a grocery store in the Crescent community. On December 2, 1873, he married Cassandra A. Burrus, daughter of Lafayette and Eliza Ready Burrus, of Rutherford County. He was a brother-in-law of Fletcher Ready Burrus, who appears later in this volume. Alexander moved to Murfreesboro during the 1880s and died at his residence on North Academy Street on June 7, 1893. He is buried in the Alexander Cemetery near Crescent. Allen, William Albert, a native of the Cainsville community of Wilson County, was born on February 14, 1847, to John M. and Felicia Ann Lasater Allen. He enlisted for service in the Confederate Army in April 1862, at the age of fifteen, and was placed in J. M. Phillips’s cavalry company. The company joined Major John R. Davis’s Tennessee Cavalry Battalion, CSA, in September of that year and in early 1863, it was organized into Company D, Eighth (Smith’s) Tennessee Cavalry Regiment, CSA. Allen was captured near Bardstown, Kentucky, on October 6, 1862, but was paroled by Union authorities and released. He rejoined his command and was wounded in the hip during the Battle of New Hope Church, Georgia, on May 25, 1864. In the fall of that year, while
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participating in General Wheeler’s raid into Middle Tennessee, he received two severe saber cuts to the forehead in a skirmish near Readyville and was captured by members of the Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, USA. He was sent to the Federal prison at Camp Chase, Ohio, and held there until February 12, 1865, when he was paroled and released. He was able to rejoin his command before its surrender in North Carolina and was paroled at Greensboro in May 1865. Allen moved to Navarro County, Texas, after the war. He married Martha Jane French on September 23, 1869, in Navarro County. She was a native of Marshall County, Alabama, and a daughter of Moses and Lucinda French of that county. The couple moved to his native Cainsville community in 1874 and remained there until the 1910s, when they moved to Murfreesboro to live with a son. Allen worked as a farmer for much of his life. He died in Murfreesboro on January 5, 1930, and is buried in the Milton Cemetery. Anderson, Charles W., a native of Franklin, Kentucky, was born on November 28, 1825, to Harry and Adaline Hickman Anderson. His parents moved to Nashville in 1835 where Anderson received a good education under Dr. Moore, a noted schoolmaster of the day. He went into the grocery business at an early age and later became freight agent for the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad. On September 10, 1852, he married Martha Ann Love, daughter of Charles and Rhoda Ham Love, of Rutherford County. He moved to Rutherford County following his marriage and settled in the Florence community. At the commencement of the Civil War, he was appointed transportation quartermaster at Chattanooga. After the Battle of Shiloh in April 1862, Anderson returned home. General Nathan Bedford Forrest and his troops passed through the neighborhood in pursuit of General Buell, and Anderson met with him and expressed his interest in joining his command. He became General Forrest’s
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aide-de-camp, serving on his staff with the rank of lieutenant, and remained with him until the surrender in 1865. After the war Anderson returned to Florence and began to repair his home and farm that had been destroyed by Union troops under General McCook. He was able to return his farm to a profitable state after many years of hard labor. In later life he and his wife moved to Murfreesboro where he died on February 2, 1908. He is buried in Evergreen Cemetery. Arnett, Henry Clay was born near Readyville in the McCrackin (Nineteenth) District in January 1830 to William Major Arnett and his wife, Mary Trott Arnett. His paternal grandparents were Samuel A. and Ann Reed Arnett, who arrived in the Readyville area before 1810. His maternal grandparents were Benjamin and Sarah Jenkins Trott, who also came to that area of the county, during the 1810s. Arnett began a career in farming as a young man and was married on July 29, 1856, to Martha Ann Burnett, daughter of Thomas and Lucinda Elizabeth Daniel Burnett of the McCrackin District. Arnett was drafted into the Confederate Army and enlisted in Company D, Forty-fifth Tennessee Infantry Regiment, CSA, on November 3, 1862, at Murfreesboro as a private. His baptism of fire came at the Battle of Murfreesboro, where he was wounded in the hip during Breckenridge’s charge on the afternoon of January 2, 1863. He went home to recuperate and never returned to the army. He spent the remainder of his life in the Nineteenth District and continued to farm. He died on October 15, 1919, and is buried in the Arnett Cemetery near Readyville. Arnold, Edwin A., a native of Mecklenburg County, Virginia, was born on April 13, 1818, to Joseph A. and Frances Drumright Arnold. He and his parents migrated to the Tenth District of Bedford County during the early 1830s. His paternal grandparents were John and Susanna Johnson Arnold of Mecklenburg County, Virginia. His maternal grandparents were Captain William Drumright Sr., a Revolutionary War officer, and his wife, Stacy Andrews Drumright, also of Mecklenburg County, Virginia. He was an uncle of James O. Oslin and a first cousin once removed of William B. Drumright, both of whom appear later in this volume. Arnold came to Murfreesboro around 1840 and married Harriet McClanahan on June 10, 1841. She was a daughter of Rutherford County’s second sheriff, Matthew McClanahan and his wife, Sarah Bradley McClanahan. Arnold was well known during antebellum days as a brick mason and builder of fine buildings and residences throughout Murfreesboro and Rutherford County. His own home, Daffodil Hill, located on East Main Street, is a testa-
15 ment of his excellent craftsmanship. At the advent of the Civil War, he helped raise a company which later became Company I, Forty-fifth Tennessee Infantry Regiment, CSA, and was elected second lieutenant at the company’s organization. He was with the company at the Battle of Shiloh but was soon after discharged due to his advanced age. He raised a company of cavalry soon after his discharge and joined the command of General Nathan Bedford Forrest. While Forrest’s troops were in Columbia, Tennessee, in 1863, Arnold was captured by the Federals and sent to Camp Morton prison in Indianapolis, Indiana. He remained in prison for eighteen months and was released near the end of the war. During his postwar career, Arnold continued to be engaged in the brick mason trade and served two terms as sheriff of Rutherford County from 1870 to 1873 and 1876 to 1880. He died in Murfreesboro on November 11, 1884, and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery. Arnold, Francis Marion was born in the Cainsville community of Wilson County on July 21, 1830. He was a son of Davis G. and Martha Puckett Arnold of Cainsville. On August 5, 1852, he married Elizabeth A. Puckett daughter of Francis and Dosey Thorp Puckett of Wilson County, and like many rural men of the south, he made his living as a farmer. Arnold enlisted in Company I, Eighteenth Tennessee Infantry Regiment, CSA, on November 7, 1862, at McMinnville, Tennessee, as a private. He fought in the Battles of Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, and New Hope Church. He was captured by the Federals at Ruff’s Mill, near Marietta, Georgia, on July 5, 1864, and was sent to the Union prison at Camp Douglas, Chicago, Illinois. He remained there until March 16, 1865, when he took the oath of allegiance to the United States. He was then sent to Point Lookout, Maryland, for exchange and made his way back home. He resumed his livelihood as a farmer and by 1870 had moved his family to the Milton (Sixteenth) District of Rutherford County
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RUTHERFORD COUNTY CONFEDERATE COMPANIES First (Maney’s) Tennessee Infantry Regiment, CSA
The regiment was organized on May 9, 1861, at Nashville, Tennessee, and mustered into Confederate service on August 1 of that year. George E. Maney was elected colonel of the regiment on May 8. After receiving instruction in drill and tactics at Camp Harris in Franklin County, and Camp Cheatham in Robertson County, the regiment was ordered to Virginia where it participated in the Cheat Mountain Campaign under the command of General Robert E. Lee. In early 1862 the regiment was transferred to Stonewall Jackson’s command and was with him during his expedition to Bath and Romney, Virginia. The regiment was transferred to the Western Theatre on February 17, 1862, and from that time forward, fought with that body of troops which later became known as the Army of Tennessee. Its first battle in the Western Theatre was that of Shiloh, April 6–7, 1862. Only five of the ten companies of the regiment arrived in time to participate in the battle, one of which was Company I, a company formed in the Rutherford County courthouse on April 23, 1861. After the battle, Colonel Maney was promoted to brigadier general and Hume R. Field, captain of Company K of the regiment, was elected colonel of the regiment and served in that capacity until the end of the war. The First Tennessee Regiment was engaged in the Battles of Perryville, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, and Missionary Ridge. During the Atlanta campaign, it took part in the Battles of Resaca, Adairsville, New Hope Church, Kennesaw Mountain, Atlanta, and Jonesboro. It also fought in the Battles of Franklin and Nashville during Hood’s Tennessee campaign and finally at the Battle of Bentonville, just prior to the surrender of the army in 1865. At the final reorganization of General Joseph Johnston’s army on April 9, 1865, the regiment was consolidated with other Tennessee regiments to form the First Consolidated Tennessee Infantry Regiment, CSA, as a part of General Joseph Palmer’s Tennessee brigade. Rutherford County’s lone representative in the regiment was Company I, also known as the Rutherford Rifles. It consisted of men from Murfreesboro and other areas of the county. Company I Officers Capt. William Ledbetter Jr Lt. Richard Fred James Lt. Charles Hayes King Lt. Hardy Murfree Lt. Henry A. Ransom Lt. Thomas Americus Snell Lt. George Henry Wilkinson Sgt. Benjamin Blanks Batey Sgt. Joseph W. Becton Sgt. John T. Beesley Sgt. James Fountain Henry Sgt. Moulton Clark Jamison Sgt. John Thompson Jarratt Sgt. Robert G. Jones Sgt. Thomas Moore King Sgt. Charles Miller
Sgt. Fountain E. Neal Sgt. James Thomas Snell Ordnance Sgt. Adolphus Loeb Corp. Benjamin Franklin Anderson Corp. Edwin Wendel Anderson Corp. Benjamin Ward Avent Jr. Corp. John E. W. Haynes Corp. James Franklin Jenkins Corp. George W. Johnson Corp. J. Marlin Kerr Corp. John Robert Poindexter Privates Anderson, James L. Baird, John L. Bass, Andrew Jackson Batey, John Bass Batey, William Overton -127-
Beachboard, William M. Beesley, James Madison Beesley, Needham W. Beesley, Thomas Jefferson Beesley, William Blair, A. Henderson Blair, James Lawson White Bock, Adam Boring, Tennessee M. Brooks, Christopher Columbus Brothers, Andrew White Burrows, Thomas W. Butler, Isaac Watson Carney, Legrand Vanhook Cates, Joseph D. Clark, George E. Clay, David Dickerson
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Collier, Felix W. Cooper, Thomas P. Crass, Frederick Henry Crichlow, Samuel Pleasant Crockett, Thompson Overton Davis, Samuel Davis, William N. Dickson, Lewis N. Drumright, William Buckner Dudley, Richard Houston Edwards, Arthur Morton Ewing, Josiah Williams Featherston, William G. Ferris, William E. Fletcher. James H. Fletcher, John Swepson Gregg, Joseph H. Hall, Josephus Hallyburton, Benjamin Franklin Haynes, Christopher Columbus Hicks, William H. Higdon, John A. Hirshberg, Simon Hodge, Samuel Henry Holloway, Daniel Hollowell, Solomon S. Howse, Lycurgus H. Jackson, James W. James, Allen Jr. Jetton, John White Jetton, Robert Brevard Jones, John Keeble, James Maney King, James Moore Jr.
King, John D. Kinney, Thomas Lashley, Patrick Henry Lawrence, Jonathan Crockett Ledbetter, Newton Cannon Leiper, Samuel C. Leiper, William Faulkner Levy, Henry Lillard, Mordecai Loeb, Marice Love, John R. Maney, David Dickinson Mayberry, Wilson Yandell McFarlin, Marion P. McLean, Alfred Vance McLean, Charles L. McMann, Patrick Mitchell, William Moore, William A. Morton, James M. Mosby, James Crockett Murfree, Henry Clay Murfree, James Brickell Nance, Isaac Newton Neal, John J. North, Jonathan Mansfield North, William L. Oden, Thomas M. Phillips, John L. Pierce, Edward Livingston Pritchett, Edwin W. Ransom, Alfred C. Ransom, Samuel Houston Ransom, William S.
Rucker, Robert E. Rutledge, Pleasant R. Searcy, William W. Seward, Zachariah Posey Shelton, William Dennis Sims, Edmund Bartlett Sims, Nicholas Howell Smith, Bartholomew J. Smith, John D. Smith, John R. Smith, Leonard Hunter Smith, Linneas Jackson Smith, William Brown Snell, Francis Marion Sublett, David Dickinson Sublett, Horace A. Sudberry, John Henry Traylor, Thomas W. Tucker, Erasmus R. Tucker, Thomas J. Turner, Ephraim L. Turner, Robert Jetton Vaughan, Elisha Randolph Vaughan, John Franklin Wade, Thomas Jarratt Walter, George Watts, William Julius Wheeling, Christian Edward Charles White, J. W. H. Wilkinson, William A. Wilson, George Brewer Wilson, Thomas Henry Wright, John Smith
Second (Bate’s) Tennessee Infantry Regiment, CSA
The regiment was organized in Nashville, Tennessee, on May 6, 1861, and mustered into Confederate service on May 12, 1861 at Lynchburg, Virginia. William B. Bate was elected as its first colonel and after his promotion to brigadier general in 1862, Rutherford County native, William D. Robison, became its colonel. The regiment received its baptism of fire at Aquia Creek, Virginia on June 1, 1861. The regiment was present at the Battle of Bull Run on July 21, 1861, but was not engaged in the battle, although it did come under fire later in the engagement. On February 9, 1862, the regiment was transferred to the Western Theatre and served with the Army of Tennessee until the surrender of the army on April 26, 1865, at Durham, North Carolina. It took part in the Battles of Shiloh, Richmond (Ky.), Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Ringgold Gap, Resaca, New Hope Church, Kennesaw Mountain, Peachtree Creek, Jonesboro, Franklin, Nashville, and Bentonville. The regiment served in General Patrick R. Cleburne’s brigade and later his division, after he was promoted to major general. During the Atlanta campaign the regiment was transferred to General Robert C. Tyler’s brigade of General Bate’s division, once again serving under its former colonel. At the final reorganization of Johnston’s army on April 9, 1865, the regiment was consolidated with the Eighteenth, Twentieth, Forty-fifth, and other Tennessee regiments to form the Fourth Consolidated Tennessee Infantry Regiment, CSA. Two companies of the Second Tennessee Regiment were formed in Rutherford County. Company A was formed in Murfreesboro in April 1861 of men from that town and other areas of the county. Company F was formed at Millersburg from men who primarily lived in the southern section of the county and a few from the northern part of Bedford County. Company A Officers Capt. John A. Butler Capt. Thomas O. Butler Capt. James T. C. McKnight
Capt. Stephen N. White Lt. Walter O. Butler Lt. John W. Mosely Lt. Robert P. Williford
Sgt. Felix Arnold Sgt. George Washington Bass Sgt. Henry T. Brown Sgt. Samuel H. Byers
Rutherford County’s Civil War Sgt. Thomas B. Fowler Sgt. John Howard Sgt. Samuel H. Murphy Sgt. James L. Price Corp. Gideon McDowell Jr. Privates Adams, James M. Anderson, John W. Arnold, John Arnold, William F. Bailey, George W. Baird, Wiley M. Baird, William M. Baldridge, John W. Baxter, Richard T. Beasley, Andrew J. Booth, Joel Washington Brown, Dandridge Swept Brown, J. F. Brown, Thompson J. Buchanan, George R. Burnett, John G. Burnett, William H. Carnes, Richard F. Cawthon, Alfred M. Cawthon, John T. Clark, Thomas Coleman, P. L. Cosbey, Benjamin R. Curray, James H. Dunn, Silas G. Edmondson, Thomas P. Edwards, Gideon B. Edwards, James F. Elgin, Walter J. F. Felts, Charles R.
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Ferguson, Miles C. Fleming, Thomas Flowers, Alfred W. Forbes, Albert A. Fox, George George, Michael H. Gillespie, Daniel J. Glass, Leonidas Griffis, James P. Hall, Levander Hancock, William H. Hatchett, George Watts Henderson, Reese K. Hindman, George W. Jackson, John H. Jones, John Jr. Kenney, Barney Keough, Matthew Kiley, John Koger, James Lawler, James Lawler, Michael Leahy, Jerry Leary, Thomas Linn, William McDaniel, George W. McDowell, Gideon Sr. McDowell, Matthew T. McDowell, Samuel H. Merrick, John Miller, Samuel H. Molloy, Evander B. Moss, Charles H. Murphy, George M. D. Neill, Thomas M. Nelson, William D. Company F
Officers Capt. William H. Newman Capt. William D. Robison Capt. Thomas D. White Lt. John D. Guest Lt. Robert L. Howland Lt. Isaac M. Miller Lt. Washington Green Ridley Lt. Robert M. White Sgt. Benjamin Marable Baugh Sgt. John Aldridge Baugh Sgt. John W. Chapman Sgt. Leroy B. Howland Sgt. Lewis H. Howland Sgt. Matthew Kennedy Sgt. David Leahy Sgt. Fountain H. Miller
Sgt. William H. Stephenson Corp. William T. Bell Corp. Edward Harrell Corp. Thomas J. Miller Corp. James B. Pinkard Corp. Thomas J. Potts
Nesbitt, Joseph W. Norvell, James O’Neal, Patrick Oslin, James O. Patterson, William C. Price, Caleb B. Primm, Jarvis Shirley Primm, John W. Purcell, William H. Ragan, J. R. Richardson, James M. Ridley, James B. Ridley, Lucas Roberts, James Rucker, Joel C. Rucker, Robert Martin Rucker, Western Tennessee Rucker, William R. Sage, Elisha W. Sharber, Malachi Sherlock, Samuel Sherron, James O. Smith, James Knox Polk Smythe, John N. Steele, William Sullivan, Thomas M. Thomas, James A. Walls, James W. Walton, Wesley P. Warren, John B. White, Daniel N. Yearwood, Isaac R. Zumbro, Jacob
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INDEX A Abernathy, Charles Clayton, Sr. 13 Abernathy, Dr. Charles Clayton, Jr. 13 Abernathy, Dr. Jesse Jones 13 Acree, Burton and Elizabeth Johnson 101 Acree, Terissa 101 Adams, Mozella 28 Adams, William J. and America Crouse 28 Alexander, Catherine Suttle 67 Alexander, Daniel and Sally Alexander 13 Alexander, Henry Clay 13, 14, 40, 67, 107 Alexander, James Madison 14, 28, 67 Alexander, Katherine Leontine Ellis 107 Alexander, Madison Howe 67 Alexander, Madison Howe Alexander and Catherine Suttle 13 Alexander, Nancy Ray 34 Alexander, Reverend Jesse 34 Alexander, Sallie 67 Allen, Eli J. and Elizabeth Lasater 77 Allen, John M. and Felicia Ann Lasater 14 Allen, Richard and Tabitha 41 Allen, William Albert 14 Allison, James and Nancy Ogilvie 94 Alston, John and Jane Hardaway Davis 55, 67 Anderson, Charles W. 14 Anderson, Eudora 79 Anderson, Harry and Adaline Hickman 14 Anderson, Mary Ann McGregor 79 Anderson, Pauldin and Martha Terrel Hord 79 Arnett, Henry Clay 15 Arnett, Mary Trott 15 Arnett, Samuel A. and Ann Reed 15 Arnett, William Major 15 Arnold, Davis G. and Martha Puckett 15 Arnold, Edwin A. 15, 87 Arnold, Francis Marion 15 Arnold, John and Susanna Johnson 15 Arnold, Joseph A. and Frances Drumright 15 Arnold, Joseph A. Arnold and Frances Drumright 87 Arnold, Lieutenant Edwin A. 38 Avaritt, Littleton 41 Avaritt, Littleton and Sarah Head 102 Avaritt, Robert H. 41 Avaritt, Sallie P. 102 Avaritt, Sarah Head 41
Avent, Dr. Benjamin Ward 16 Avent, James and Mary 16 Avent, James Monroe, Jr. 88 Avent, James Monroe, Sr. 33
B Bailey, Henry and Nancy Ogilvie 44 Bandy, Richard and Keziah Pierce 38 Barber, Harriet E. 22 Barber, John A. and Thomas J. 22 Barber, John and Mary Gibson 16 Barber, John Leath 16 Barber, Thomas and Mary Leath 16, 22 Barber, Thomas Jefferson 16 Barksdale, General William 17 Barksdale, Nathaniel and Nancy Ann Garden 17 Barksdale, William and Nancy Lester 17 Barnes, Daniel T. and Susan Sims 47 Barnes, Leonard and Mary Gaines 65 Barnes, Lucy Jane 47 Barr, Delomar W. and Jane Jetton 39 Barrett, Elizabeth Hancock 17 Barrett, Jeremiah 17 Barrett, John Alston, Sr. 17 Barrett, Martha E. 69 Barrett, Randall and Julia 69 Barr, Frances Isabel 39 Baskette, Abraham and Frances Turner 17 Baskette, Dr. William Turner 17 Baskette, Gideon Hicks 17 Baskette, Melissa Ann Ellis 17 Bass, Andrew Jackson 18, 100, 113 Bass, Eliza Howse 18 Bass, George Washington 18, 100, 113 Bass, James, Jr. 18 Bass, James, Sr. 18 Bass, Temperance Jordan 18 Batey, Amanda E. 99 Batey, Ann Bass 18, 66 Batey, Benjamin 18, 66 Batey, Benjamin and Evaline Morton 19 Batey, Benjamin and Tabitha Searcy Jetton 18 Batey, Captain William and Ann Bass 18 Batey, Captain William and Mary Betty 19 Batey, Captain William Overton 66 Batey, Christopher Thrower and Mahala Paralee Puckett 19
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Batey, David Christopher 19 Batey, Evaline Morton 19 Batey, Frances Matilda 25 Batey, George Roland, and Frances Burchett Traylor 25 Batey, Granville Crockett 52 Batey, John Bass 19, 66, 99, 117 Batey, Mary Betty 19 Batey, Sheriff Ben 106 Batey, Sherwood W. and Mary 20 Batey, Tabitha Searcy Jetton 18 Batey, Thomas J. 19, 66, 99 Batey, William Wallace 20 Batte, Samantha A. 109 Battle, Adaline Sanders Mosely 20 Battle, Francis Marion 20 Battle, Isaac and Lucinda Mayo 20 Battle, Joel Allen 20 Battle, Sarah Jane Smith 47 Battle, William Mayo 47 Baugh, John Aldridge 20 Baugh, John Mason 20, 21 Baugh, Joseph Lawrence 21 Baugh, Mary Ann Marable 20 Baugh, Richard and Elizabeth Harwell 20 Beard, Cynthia Castleman 21 Beard, Reverend Richard and Cynthia Castleman 21 Beard, Richard 21 Beasley, James and Judy Heath 107 Beasley, Laura Dill 107 Beasley, Mollie 38 Becton, Benjamin May 21 Becton, Dr. Frederick E. 16 Becton, Frederick Edward and Frances May 21 Becton, James Becton and Mary Young Robb 21 Beesley, Christopher and Susan Ridout 22, 38 Beesley, George 22, 35, 38 Beesley, John T. 22, 35, 38 Beesley, Mary E. 38 Beesley, Rachel Louisa 35 Beesley, Solomon and Cassandra Acklin 22 Bell, Ella 26 Bell, Erasmus Porter 22 Bell, John 64 Bell, Robert and Polly Hooker 22 Bell, Sally Dickinson 64 Benjamin and Sarah Jenkins Trott 15
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Bennett, John E. and Elizabeth Cook 23 Bennett, John Parsley 23 Bennett, Thomas 23 Berry, Benjamin H. and Ann Dean 23 Berry, Laura Ann 23 Berry, Mary Pierson 49 Berry, Thomas 49 Bibb, Captain Algenon S. 23, 75 Bibb, Mary Catherine 75 Bibb, Mary E. Carroway 75 Bibb, William M. 23 Binkley, Almeda Adeline 32 Binkley, Martha Steele 32 Bivens, James and Leodocia Brashear 103 Bivens, Josephine 103 Blackburn, Lewis and Sarah Hancock 36 Blackburn, Mary 36 Black, Catherine Morton 23 Black, Dr. Samuel Pitts 24 Black, Dr. Thomas Crutcher, Sr. 23, 24 Black, James Morton 23, 24, 42 Black, Lunsford and Elizabeth Crutcher 42 Black, Professor Samuel P. and Frances Pitts 23 Black, Samuel P. 24, 42 Black, Thomas Crutcher, Jr. 24, 42 Blair, Sarah Harriett Newall 26 Blair, William Little John, and Margaret Williams 26 Blanton, Captain William Crisp 76 Blanton, Elizabeth Tilford 76 Blanton, Lucy J. 76 Blanton, Meredith and Nancy Crisp 24 Blanton, William Crisp 24 Boatwright, Thomas and Clarissa Wade 51 Bock, Adam 25, 110, 120 Bock, John and Margaretta Flath 25 Booker, Harriett 37 Booker, William Parham and Anne Smith 37 Boone, Letitia 42 Bostick, James A. and Nancy King 91 Bostick, Martha Elizabeth 91 Bowles, Dr. Samuel 108 Bowman, Elizabeth 91 Bowman, John and Caroline Smith 25 Bowman, John W. 25, 106 Bowman, Reverend John 91 Bowman, Samuel, Sr. 25 Bowman, Viola Elizabeth 106 Brandon, John and Nancy McCray 58 Brandon, Mary Jane Tennison 58 Brannon, Isabella Leah 111 Bridges, Dr. J. M. 76 Brittain, Columbus Lafayette 25, 26 Brittain, John 25 Brittain, John Smith, and Martha Morton Smith 25 Brittain, William Washington 26 Brooks, James M. and Elizabeth 57 Brooks, Josie and Nancy F. 87 Brooks, Margaret 87 Brooks, Sophia A. 57 Brothers, Francis and Sarah Penn 26 Brothers, Jackson Carroll, and Margaret Edmondson McCutchin 26 Brothers, Jesse 26 Brothers, John and Mary Loftin 26 Brothers, Mary L. 25 Brothers, William E. 25, 26, 39 Brown, Dandridge Swept 26, 107 Brown, John, Jr. 27 Brown, John, Sr. 27 Brown, Margaret Ann 105 Brown, Margaret Gilliam 27
Rutherford County’s Civil War Brown, Nancy Elizabeth 41 Brown, Pleasant Watkins and Martha Jane Warren 41 Brown, Reverend Lent, and Nancy Windrow 26 Brown, Robert Fulton 27 Brown, Rufus Ledbetter 27 Brown, William and Catherine Day 105 Brown, William and Jane Goodrum 27 Broyles, Mathias and Nancy Smith 43 Bruce, Robert 27 Bryant, John Frank 28 Buchanan, Henry Sarah 82 Buchanan, John 92 Buchanan, John Price 28 Buchanan, Major John 28 Buchanan, Margaret 92 Buchanan, Moses Ridley 82 Buchanan, Sarah Ridley 82 Buchanan, Thomas and Rebecca Shannon 28 Buie, Elizabeth 72 Burnett, Martha Ann 15 Burnett, Thomas and Lucinda Elizabeth Daniel 15 Burrus, Cassandra A. 14 Burrus, Fletcher Ready 14, 28, 89, 92, 103 Burrus, Joseph and Sophia Rucker 28 Burrus, Lafayette and Eliza Ready 14, 28, 75 Burrus, Ophelia 89 Burrus, Sophia 75 Burton, David and Martha 29 Burton, David Winston 29 Burton, Frank Nash Williams 35 Burton, Frank Nash Williams and Lavinia Murfree 29 Burton, Hardy Murfree 89 Burton, John Williams 29 Burton, Lavinia Murfree 35 Burton, Nathaniel O. and Arabella 29 Burton, Robert and Agatha Williams 29 Butler, Isaac Hinson 38, 82 Butler, Mariah L. 31 Butler, Parmelia Ware 31 Butler, Thomas Overton 31 Butterworth, Anna 21 Butterworth, Ashton and Eliza 21 Byrn, Charles H. 103
C Cahal, Ann Saunders 29 Cahal, Terry H., Jr. 29 Cahal, Terry H., Sr. 29 Caldwell, William C. and Emily Hutchinson 49 Campbel, Isaac and Nancy 85 Campbell, Harriett 85 Cannon, Governor Newton 44 Cannon, Jemima Sharp 52 Cannon, Theophilus A. 52 Carlton, Benajah and Mary 30 Carlton, Blake and Mary Walker 30, 112 Carlton, David Carroll 30 Carlton, Julia Ann 112 Carlton, Major Thomas and Nancy Anna Wade 30 Carlton, Mary Jane 95 Carlton, William Jefferson 30, 112 Carnahan, Andrew 30 Carnahan, Burton and Sarah Roberts 30 Carnahan, James and Virginia Helton 30 Carnahan, James Calvin 30 Carney, Jennie Wells 81 Carney, John Lytle 31, 75, 81, 107 Carney, Lagrand Hargis and Katherine Wells Lytle
31 Carney, William and Mary Hargis 31 Carney, William Joseph 31, 75, 81 Carter, Hance Hamilton Thompson 31 Carter, John and Almedia 70 Carter, John and Sarah Williams 32 Carter, John Wesley and Almedia Allen 32 Carter, Joseph and Ann Mallory 32 Carter, Mary Frances McKnight 31 Carter, Mary Hamilton Thompson 31 Carter, Matilda C. 70 Carter, Nathan Williams 31, 32 Carter, Thomas Barnett 32, 70 Carter, W. P. 31 Cartwright, Adelia Ann 96 Cartwright, Edward W. and Dicey Crutchfield 96 Carver, Alexander J. 32 Carver, Henry and Elizabeth Anna Hamblen 32 Cason, Elmira Miles 71 Cason, John Anderson 71 Cason, Mary Elizabeth 71 Caswell, Richard W. 54 Cayce, Mary 34 Cheney, Charles and Sarah Morgan 96 Chick, Susan Elizabeth 57 Chick, Wiley B. and Martha Little 57 Childress, Joel and Elizabeth Whitsitt 32 Childress, John Whitsitt, Jr. 32, 93 Childress, John Whitsitt, Sr. 32 Childress, Mary Williams 32 Chunn, Martha E. 76 Chunn, Martha Vannoy 76 Chunn, William Jordan 76 Clark, Elizabeth Frances 114 Clark, Mary E. 114 Clark, Samuel and Virginia Martin 97 Clark, William and Emily Kelton 114 Clay, Joshua and Sarah Jennings 41 Clayton, James H., Sr. 88 Clendening, James and Elizabeth 89 Cochran, Susan 64 Coffee, Reverend John 86 Cole, Emeline 69 Coleman, Angeline Elizabeth Caldwell 32, 49 Coleman, Susanna Frances 32 Coleman, William Belfield 32, 49 Cole, Thomas and Ruth White 69 Collier, Ingram Blanks, III 92 Collier, Ingram Blanks, Jr 33 Collier, Ingram Blanks, Sr. 33 Collier, Louisiana Cushman Jones 92 Collier, Martha Covington 33 Collier, Newton Cannon 33, 96 Collier, Susanna Browder 33 Colwell, Addie 24 Comer, Adam, Sr. 76 Compton, Louisa M. 106 Cook, Christine Mullins 33 Cook, Green and Lourany Nixon 23 Cook, John D., Jr. 33 Cook, John D., Sr. 33 Cook, May 33 Cook, Robert A. 23, 33 Copeland, Frances 40 Copeland, Mary E. 94 Copeland, Samuel M. and Mary Martin 40 Cosby, Mary Elizabeth 73 Cothran, Elizabeth 45 Coursey, Charles 33 Coursey, John 33 Coursey, Joseph A. 33, 68