Help with abbreviation

[CMWinkler]

There aren't many "Yankees" in the Galatin City Cemetery but there are a few. This is one of them:

He's buried not far from Confederate Circle and while not technically a Yankee being from Cannon County, Tennessee, he has quite a few pages on Fold3. Here's one of them:

I know he ended the war as a blacksmith but I'm trying to figure out the abbreviation for his occupation on the above record. What is it?

 

[DanSBHawk]

'mechanick?'

 

[donna]

The grave could use some decorations, a flag or flowers. Thanks for posting.

 

[kepi]

I'm thinking Engineers/ Mechanic

 

[kepi]

I found the term "Mechanic" used during the Civil War for a regiment.

 

[AndyHall]

There's a John Davis, age 13, who appears in the 1860 Census in Cannon County, son of a blacksmith named A. S. Davis. @DanSBHawk may be correct that it's an abbreviation for "mechanic," which at the time was a catch-all term for anyone who worked with machines or complex tools.

 

[MajGenl.Meade]

Or he was a professional Irishman?

 

[M E Wolf]

Could have been a gunsmith...

Ref:
Confederate Military History, Vol. 4
ADDITIONAL SKETCHES ILLUSTRATING THE SERVICES OF OFFICERS AND PRIVATES AND PATRIOTIC CITIZENS OF NORTH CAROLINA.
D. W. Corl, of Greensboro, was born in Rowan county January 6, 1837, and made his home at Greensboro prior to the war. He was in the service of the Confederacy from the first, but was not in the field during the early part of the war, being engaged in the very necessary duty of providing arms for the soldiers. Having become an experienced and skillful mechanic, he was on detailed duty until the latter part of 1863 as a gunsmith in the Confederate armory, after which, desirous of meeting the enemy in battle, he became a member of the Rowan Rifles, Company K of the Fourth regiment, North Carolina troops. He was with his command in the fierce battles of the Wilderness and Sportsylvania, and acquitted himself as a true soldier in that fiery trial. He was wounded at Sportsylvania in the foot, and was sent to hospital and upon his recovery was detailed by order of the secretary of war for duty in the arsenal at Salisbury, where he remained until the struggle came to an end. In the spring of 1866 he came to Greensboro, of which he has ever since been a resident, engaged in the peaceful work of his craft, and in the manufacture of carriages.
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O.R.-- SERIES I--VOLUME 14 [S# 14]
CORRESPONDENCE, ORDERS, AND RETURNS RELATING TO THE PENINSULAR CAMPAIGN, VIRGINIA, FROM MARCH 17 TO SEPTEMBER 2, 1862.
UNION CORRESPONDENCE, ETC -- #14
GENERAL ORDERS No. 152.
HDQRS. ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
Camp near Harrison's Landing, Va., Aug. 9, 1862.
On and after the 14th instant all requisitions for ordnance and ordnance stores, after being signed by the colonel of the regiment for cavalry and infantry, and by the captain of the battery and chief of artillery of this army for artillery, will be presented to the acting ordnance officer of the division, and in the Artillery Reserve to the acting ordnance officer of that command. The division ordnance officers will make consolidated requisitions for all stores required for their divisions. After being signed by the general commanding the division their requisitions will be presented by the division ordnance officer at the ordnance depot, and, after being approved by the chief of ordnance, will be immediately issued upon.
[extensive excerpt not germane to mechanic(s)]

Division ordnance officers will select from the non-commissioned officers and privates of the division a competent clerk, and from those of each brigade a mechanic capable of repairing small-arms, who will be provided with a complete set of armorer's tools. If skilled in their employment, each will be paid 40 cents per day by the ordnance department. A sergeant will also be detailed from each division as an acting ordnance sergeant.

Division ordnance officers will be relieved from all duty with their regiments and will report for duty at division headquarters.

In condemning ordnance and ordnance stores officers will be governed by paragraphs 1021, 1022, and 1023, Army Regulations.

Unserviceable stores will not pass through division ordnance officers, but be turned into the depot ordnance officer, accompanied by duplicate invoices and receipts, stating the exact condition of the stores.

Upon the receipt of this order acting ordnance officers will report for further instructions to First Lieut. Horace Porter, chief of ordnance, at the end of the ordnance wharf.

By command of Major-General McClellan:
S. WILLIAMS,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
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It would be logical to me, to have a "gunsmith" within the Cavalry, given that they were armed with pistols and rifles.

M. E. Wolf

 

[Patrick H]

It would certainly be nice to put that monument stone on a proper foundation and level it up, too!

 

[M E Wolf]

May or may not be related:


O.R.--SERIES I--VOLUME XLV/1 [S# 93]
UNION CORRESPONDENCE, ORDERS, AND RETURNS RELATING TO OPERATIONS IN KENTUCKY, SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA, TENNESSEE, MISSISSIPPI, ALABAMA, AND NORTH GEORGIA, FROM NOVEMBER 14 TO NOVEMBER 30, 1864.(*)--#12

HDQRS. DETACHMENT TENTH TENNESSEE CAVALRY,
Seven Miles from Nolensville, November 30, 1864.
General WILSON:
I learn from reliable authority that several squads of rebels were in this neighborhood last night--in all, about twenty-five men; also that a regiment of cavalry crossed this road yesterday going toward Murfreesborough. The latter report I am not prepared to believe.
Respectfully,
JOHN A. DAVIS,
Captain, Commanding Detachment Tenth Tennessee Cavalry.
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O.R.-- SERIES I--VOLUME XXIII/2 [S# 35]
Correspondence, Orders, And Returns Relating To Operations In Kentucky, Middle And East Tennessee, North Alabama, And Southwest Virginia, From January 21 To August 10, 1863.
UNION CORRESPONDENCE. ETC.--#8
NASHVILLE, March 26, 1863.
Brigadier-General GARFIELD,
Chief of Staff:
I have just returned from near Harpeth, on Charlotte pike, and am satisfied the enemy are heading for the Shoals in considerable force. I think they are flanking us on both sides, intending another raid in Kentucky. I have had no reply with regard to arms for the Fourth Tennessee Cavalry. Can I have them? They are useless as they are.
ROBT. B. MITCHELL,
Brigadier-General, Commanding Post.
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NOTE: There was a 4th Tenn. Cavalry in the Confederacy as well.
M. E. Wolf

 

[M E Wolf]

Dyer's Compendium, Pt. 3 (Regimental Histories)
TENNESSEE VOLUNTEERS.
4th REGIMENT CAVALRY.
Organized at Nashville, Tenn., February 9, 1863. Attached to post of Nashville, Tenn., Dept. of the Cumberland, to January, 1864. 3rd Brigade, Cavalry Division, 16th Army Corps, Dept. of the Tennessee, to April, 1864. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to June, 1864. Districts of Nashville and North Alabama, Dept. of the Cumberland, to October, 1864. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, Cavalry Corps, Military Division Mississippi, to December, 1864. 1st Brigade, 7th Division, Cavalry Corps, Military Division Mississippi, to February, 1865. 2nd Brigade, 7th Division, Cavalry Corps, Military Division Mississippi, February, 1865. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Cavalry Corps, Military Division West Mississippi, to May, 1865. 1st Brigade, 2nd Cavalry Division, West Mississippi, to July, 1865.

SERVICE.--Duty at Camp Spear, Nashville, Tenn., till August, 1863. Green Hill June 14. Ordered to Carthage, Tenn., August 30. Duty there, at Murfreesboro and Nashville, Tenn., till December. Action at Friendship Church September 29. Expedition to Memphis, Tenn., December 28-January 4, 1864. Moved to Colliersville January 14. Smith's Expedition to Okolona, Miss., February 11-26. Coldwater February 11. Holly Springs February 12. Near Okolona February 18. West Point February 20-21. Prairie Station February 21. Okolona and Tallahatchie River February 22. Ordered to Nashville, Tenn., February 27, and duty there till June. Duty on line of the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad and in District of North Alabama till July. Decatur, Ala., June 1. (A detachment at Decatur, Ala., till October, 1864.) Sand Mountain July --. Rousseau's Raid from Decatur to West Point & Montgomery Railroad July 10-22. Near Coosa River July 13. Greenpoint and Ten Island Ford, Coosa River July 14. Opetika, Chehaw Station, and near Auburn July 18. Siege of Atlanta, Ga., till August 5. Scouts to England Cove, Tenn., July 7-9 and July 12-18 (Detachments). McCook's Raid on Atlanta & West Point Railroad July 27-31. Near Campbellton July 28. Lovejoy Station July 29. Clear Creek and near Newnan July 31. Chattahoochie River July 31. Ordered to Decatur, Ala., August 5. Near Pond Springs, Ala., August 9 (Detachment). Expedition from Decatur to Moulton August 17-20. Near Pond Springs August 18-19 (Detachment). Rousseau's pursuit of Wheeler September 1-8. Operations against Forest in East Tennessee September 16-October 10. Action at Pulaski September 26-27. At Nashville, Tenn., till December. Action at Owen's Cross Roads December 1. Demonstration on Murfreesboro December 5-7. Wilkinson's Cross Roads near Murfreesboro December 7. Battle of Nashville December 15-16. Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River December 17-28. Hollow Tree Gap, Franklin and West Harpeth River December 17. Franklin December 18. Rutherford Creek December 19. Lynnville December 23. Anthony's Hill December 25. Sugar Creek December 25-26. Hillsboro December 29. Near Leighton December 30. Narrows January 2, 1865. Thorn Hill January 3. At Gravelly Springs till February. Moved to Vicksburg, Miss., thence to New Orleans, La., and Mobile Bay, Ala., February 11-March 23. Campaign against Mobile and its defences March 26-April 9. Occupation of Mobile April 12. March to Montgomery April 13-25. Ordered to Mobile April 27. Expedition from Spring Hill, Ala., to Baton Rouge May 8-22. Ordered to Nashville, Tenn., May 27. Garrison duty at Johnsonville till July. Mustered out July 12, 1865.

Regiment lost during service 1 Officer and 24 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 4 Officers and 205 Enlisted men by disease. Total 234.