Help with a unit name needed

[John Winn]

OK, so I have an obituary for a guy that says he served in "3rd Selby Grays, member of Stonewall Jackson's Brigade." I've researched him and am sure he actually served first in Co. K, 3rd. TN Infantry (Vaugn's) which was later reorganized and incorporated as Co. E, 63rd TN Infantry. Co. K did serve at first Manassas but not under Jackson (but I can see how family lore associated the guy with Jackson). Anyway, I can find no mention of a unit known as the "Selby Grays" but am wondering if maybe the 3rd TN was ever known as that ? Anybody have a clue ?

Thanks in advance.

 

[huskerblitz]

I only found one reference to the 'famous Selby Grays' in a search. Guess not that famous....

 

[MOBDEnut]

Selby Grays were probably a pre war Militia that formed a Company of a numbered unit. You will have to research TN militias, if in fact it was a,TN militia.

 

[AUG]

Think its the Shelby Grays, Company K of Vaughn's 3rd Tennessee.

Found more on them here: https://books.google.com/books?id=o_hFsxHqWBMC&lpg=PA65&dq=shelby grays tennessee&pg=PA65#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

[Legion Para]

Think its the Shelby Grays, Company K of the Vaughn's 3rd Tennessee.

Found more on them here: https://books.google.com/books?id=o_hFsxHqWBMC&lpg=PA65&dq=shelby grays tennessee&pg=PA65#v=onepage&q&f=false

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I agree with @AUG351

 

[John Winn]

Think its the Shelby Grays, Company K of Vaughn's 3rd Tennessee.

Found more on them here: https://books.google.com/books?id=o_hFsxHqWBMC&lpg=PA65&dq=shelby grays tennessee&pg=PA65#v=onepage&q&f=false

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Wow - that was fast. You have solved the mystery and that's definitely the unit as my guy was indeed from Bristol. The obit just got it spelled wrong (i.e. Selby) so my searches didn't turn anything up (and I didn't think to try Shelby).

Thank you very much ! My guy is the second Confederate veteran found in the cemetery where I volunteer and this info will go into his bio file (we keep info on our "residents").

You da man.

 

[Jimklag]

OK, so I have an obituary for a guy that says he served in "3rd Selby Grays, member of Stonewall Jackson's Brigade." I've researched him and am sure he actually served first in Co. K, 3rd. TN Infantry (Vaugn's) which was later reorganized and incorporated as Co. E, 63rd TN Infantry. Co. K did serve at first Manassas but not under Jackson (but I can see how family lore associated the guy with Jackson). Anyway, I can find no mention of a unit known as the "Selby Grays" but am wondering if maybe the 3rd TN was ever known as that ? Anybody have a clue ?

Thanks in advance.

Co. A 4th Tennessee was known as Shelby Grays.

 

[AUG]

Here's Nathan Bachman's account in the Confederate Veteran: https://books.google.com/books?id=Ncg_AQAAMAAJ&dq=shelby grays tennessee&pg=PA69#v=onepage&q&f=false

I see that, as mentioned above, Company A of the 4th Tennessee Infantry was also known as the Shelby Grays. They were from Shelby County according to here.

Company K of Vaughn's 3rd Tennessee Infantry was raised in Bristol, TN, which was in Sullivan County, so I don't think they are related.

 

[drezac]

It appears that it may have been common for units that had been local militia to continued to be called by their original name locally. In some of my research (Ohio National Guard), Brooklyn artillery joined the Ohio National Guard and became the 8th Ohio Independent Battery, ONG. But I have read at least 2 letters where locally the were still referred to as Brooklyn Artillery, and the response from the Ohio Adjutant General refers to them as the 8th Ohio.

 

[bdtex]

Think its the Shelby Grays, Company K of Vaughn's 3rd Tennessee.

My first thought was that "Selby" was a typo.

 

[drezac]

one thing to remember is that literacy was not exactly at a high point during the war. It was not uncommon to find names spelled in various ways on different documents. That's one of the reasons many search engines used for genealogy research have a "sounds like" option.