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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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Rutherford County’s Civil War
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