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Reluctant Rebs & "Homegrown Yanks": East Tennesseans in the Civil War | Regimental Histories
EAST TENNESSEE'S BRIDGE BURNERS : Engraving from Harper's Weekly showing members of the East Tennessee bridge-burning conspiracy swearing allegiance to the U.S. flag. Originally entitled: "A Thrilling scene in east Tennessee—Colonel Fry and the Union men swearing by the flag." Union...
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Thank you Glenn. I remember this thread now. It is hard to find info on National Guard units
My Morrow family and the Volyes go back. They were involved in some very violent gunfights with ex Confederates after the war. In fact I would say the men on both sides killed more men after the war than during it. My gg grandfather was killed in a shootout in Murphy a year after the war and his brother James K.Morrow (well know guerilla fighter) was killed five years later but by another Unionist who feared him. Shot while he was cradling oats I believe. Oldest brother killed in a shootout. Youngest brother Marion became an evangelist. Smart guy.
My Morrow family and the Volyes go back. They were involved in some very violent gunfights with ex Confederates after the war. In fact I would say the men on both sides killed more men after the war than during it. My gg grandfather was killed in a shootout in Murphy a year after the war and his brother James K.Morrow (well know guerilla fighter) was killed five years later but by another Unionist who feared him. Shot while he was cradling oats I believe. Oldest brother killed in a shootout. Youngest brother Marion became an evangelist. Smart guy.
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Monroe County and its vicinity was a rough place to be during and after the war. I had a cousin who came to Washington County, East Tennessee in the mid-1850s from Wilkes NC She married into a Morrow family that came here from South Carolina. John M Morrow was a Confederate Captain of Co.K 19th Tennessee. His brothers Benjamin and James were with him. My Land cousin from NC was the 2nd wife of James.Thank you Glenn. I remember this thread now. It is hard to find info on National Guard units
My Morrow family and the Volyes go back. They were involved in some very violent gunfights with ex Confederates after the war. In fact I would say the men on both sides killed more men after the war than during it. My gg grandfather was killed in a shootout in Murphy a year after the war and his brother James K.Morrow (well know guerilla fighter) was killed five years later but by another Unionist who feared him. Shot while he was cradling oats I believe. Oldest brother killed in a shootout. Youngest brother Marion became an evangelist. Smart guy.
Monroe was rough. I copied the following story from online Strangely this man is not related to me...far as I know
John Denton fought for the Confederate Army, but deserted it. Then he joined the Union Army, but deserted it even faster. And that was just the beginning of his troubles.
Denton volunteered for Company B (Monroe County, TN), 3rd Tennessee Regiment of Confederate Volunteers in Knoxville, TN on May 23, 1861 and fought at Manassas. We know he was still present for duty as of February 1862, but on May 7, 1863 he switched sides and enlisted for three years at Lebanon, KY in Company D, 11th Tennessee Cavalry, Union Army Volunteers.
That didn't last long. By July Denton was listed as a deserter from Camp Nelson, KY. The following month's muster rolls reported Private John Denton absent from recruiting duty.
"While on leave (from Union Army) in Monroe County he was captured by a band of Confederate guerillas or bushwackers from the area," begins a letter found in Cocke County, Tennessee's Stokely Memorial Library.
"They stripped Uncle John, tied a rope around his neck, threw it over a tree limb and pulled him off the ground until he about choked. They'd let him down and then repeat the process. While this amusement was going on word came that a Union patrol was in the area.
"Two men were assigned to take Uncle John deeper into the woods and shoot him. When they arrived at a rail fence Uncle John managed to push one of his guards over the fence and knock the other one down and run away.
"Instead of hiding in the deep woods he managed to get to a lightly wooded section and cover himself with leaves while the search for him went on in the more heavily forested area. Subsequently he managed to get to the cabin of a couple of Union women whose husbands were gone away to serve in the Union Army. They dressed him in women's clothes, put a bonnet on his head and managed to smuggle him through the lines.
"Some time after the war, knowing some of his captors, they being from the same area, he killed a couple of them and was sent to prison for a few years until pardoned."
On April 10, 1864, Denton, his brother Charles, their cousin William Click, and another associated family member, Pink Gentry, murdered Patrick T. Trotter. The men hung Trotter by the thumbs and severely beat him, before shooting him in the presence of his elderly mother.
Several months later, on the 4th of July, brothers William Riley and David Burton Curtis had headed home on leave from the Confederate Army. They arrived just in time to discover one of the women in their family being raped by bushwackers. The attackers had the element of surprise in their favor, and they shot and killed the two brothers before they even got past the front porch.
Family members "dressed in women's clothing" waited across the river for the escaping offenders. Jackson Denton, Grief Ragsdale, and William Hartsell were later charged with this murder, but historians think John Denton also may have been involved.
John & Charles Denton were arrested by Union troops on October 3 in Roane County, but by February 1865 they'd been released at Knoxville. In May 1866 the two brothers, William Click and Pink Gentry were indicted for their role in Trotter's murder; that September the sheriff was directed to arrest them and bring them to court. The ensuing trial was moved to Blount County, where the two were convicted of 2nd degree murder and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
However, they filed an appeal with the Supreme Court over the change of venue, the conviction was overturned on a technicality, and the case was sent back to Monroe County for further disposition in 1869.
After numerous delays and postponements, Charles and John Denton were brought to trial in 1872 in Monroe County and found guilty of 1st degree murder. They again filed an appeal, but it never transpired. John Denton went to prison from 1873 till 1880. His brother fled to Missouri and apparently was never apprehended.
John Denton filed for a government pension in late summer of 1890, but was rejected in 1891 because he'd served less than the required 90 days of service, and because he did not have an honorable discharge.
He died on Aug 12, 1912.
Sources: Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Tennessee,
John Denton fought for the Confederate Army, but deserted it. Then he joined the Union Army, but deserted it even faster. And that was just the beginning of his troubles.
Denton volunteered for Company B (Monroe County, TN), 3rd Tennessee Regiment of Confederate Volunteers in Knoxville, TN on May 23, 1861 and fought at Manassas. We know he was still present for duty as of February 1862, but on May 7, 1863 he switched sides and enlisted for three years at Lebanon, KY in Company D, 11th Tennessee Cavalry, Union Army Volunteers.
That didn't last long. By July Denton was listed as a deserter from Camp Nelson, KY. The following month's muster rolls reported Private John Denton absent from recruiting duty.
"While on leave (from Union Army) in Monroe County he was captured by a band of Confederate guerillas or bushwackers from the area," begins a letter found in Cocke County, Tennessee's Stokely Memorial Library.
"They stripped Uncle John, tied a rope around his neck, threw it over a tree limb and pulled him off the ground until he about choked. They'd let him down and then repeat the process. While this amusement was going on word came that a Union patrol was in the area.
"Two men were assigned to take Uncle John deeper into the woods and shoot him. When they arrived at a rail fence Uncle John managed to push one of his guards over the fence and knock the other one down and run away.
"Instead of hiding in the deep woods he managed to get to a lightly wooded section and cover himself with leaves while the search for him went on in the more heavily forested area. Subsequently he managed to get to the cabin of a couple of Union women whose husbands were gone away to serve in the Union Army. They dressed him in women's clothes, put a bonnet on his head and managed to smuggle him through the lines.
"Some time after the war, knowing some of his captors, they being from the same area, he killed a couple of them and was sent to prison for a few years until pardoned."
On April 10, 1864, Denton, his brother Charles, their cousin William Click, and another associated family member, Pink Gentry, murdered Patrick T. Trotter. The men hung Trotter by the thumbs and severely beat him, before shooting him in the presence of his elderly mother.
Several months later, on the 4th of July, brothers William Riley and David Burton Curtis had headed home on leave from the Confederate Army. They arrived just in time to discover one of the women in their family being raped by bushwackers. The attackers had the element of surprise in their favor, and they shot and killed the two brothers before they even got past the front porch.
Family members "dressed in women's clothing" waited across the river for the escaping offenders. Jackson Denton, Grief Ragsdale, and William Hartsell were later charged with this murder, but historians think John Denton also may have been involved.
John & Charles Denton were arrested by Union troops on October 3 in Roane County, but by February 1865 they'd been released at Knoxville. In May 1866 the two brothers, William Click and Pink Gentry were indicted for their role in Trotter's murder; that September the sheriff was directed to arrest them and bring them to court. The ensuing trial was moved to Blount County, where the two were convicted of 2nd degree murder and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
However, they filed an appeal with the Supreme Court over the change of venue, the conviction was overturned on a technicality, and the case was sent back to Monroe County for further disposition in 1869.
After numerous delays and postponements, Charles and John Denton were brought to trial in 1872 in Monroe County and found guilty of 1st degree murder. They again filed an appeal, but it never transpired. John Denton went to prison from 1873 till 1880. His brother fled to Missouri and apparently was never apprehended.
John Denton filed for a government pension in late summer of 1890, but was rejected in 1891 because he'd served less than the required 90 days of service, and because he did not have an honorable discharge.
He died on Aug 12, 1912.
Sources: Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Tennessee,
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