Seeking Help With A Photo

[East Tennessee Roots]

I located this photo here : http://www.tennessee-scv.org/gallery.htm

The caption says, "William John Parker, Johnson County, (TN) Home Guards".

In his narrative, east Tennessee Unionist scout/pilot, Daniel Ellis, tells of atrocities committed by, and his eventual killing of "Old Bill" Parker, of the Rebel Johnson County Home Guards about 1864. Does this photo appear to be Civil War era ? I'd appreciate any help.

 

[UCVRelics]

It is CW and he is indeed Old Bill Parker who under the guise of being a Confederate was a Bush-wacker such as Champ Ferguson. There was a lot of unionist in that part of Tenn. and along with that a lot of killing on both sides under the banner of war.

 

[East Tennessee Roots]

It is CW and he is indeed Old Bill Parker who under the guise of being a Confederate was a Bush-wacker such as Champ Ferguson. There was a lot of unionist in that part of Tenn. and along with that a lot of killing on both sides under the banner of war.

" The Johnson County home guard was led by the notorious William "Old Bill" Parker, who was said to have killed three elderly men in one day. Ellis tells how Parker and his men drug 80-year-old John Hawkins from his own home. Parker put the old man on his knees and shot him three times in the back. According to Ellis, the only charge against Hawkins was "that he was a Union man. He did not even have a son in the Federal army."ll Parker was reported to continue his killing spree, shooting or hanging his victims in front of wife and children. Such were the atrocities Ellis determined to avenge when he and his band lay in ambush five days to shoot down Old Bill as he traveled down a Johnson County road. Shot several times, Parker managed to disappear into the woods and crawl three miles through thick brush, only to die a slow death in the brush near a fellow rebel's house. "That he died a most miserable death no person has ever presumed to doubt, which was a just reward for his monstrous crimes," Ellis fairly crowed"........................................ Major Richard J. Righter in " THE 13th REGIMENT, TENNESSEE U.S. VOLUNTEER CAVALRY: TRANSITION FROM IRREGULAR TO CONVENTIONAL OPERATIONS. .

 

[Redcoat]

There is a special spot in Hell for people like Old Bill Parker.

 

[DixieRifles]

THE 13th REGIMENT, TENNESSEE U.S. VOLUNTEER CAVALRY:

That is Fielding Hurst's regiment, who were creating such havoc that General Forrest tried to hunt the down during his 1864 West Tennessee raid.

 

[East Tennessee Roots]

That is Fielding Hurst's regiment, who were creating such havoc that General Forrest tried to hunt the down during his 1864 West Tennessee raid.

This was the east Tennessee 13th, there were actually two. Hurst's (or was it Bradford's ?) Regiment is sometimes designated the 14th.

 

[DixieRifles]

This was the east Tennessee 13th, there were actually two. Hurst's (or was it Bradford's ?) Regiment is sometimes designated the 14th

I knew I shouldnt have opened this can of worms.
Bradford's regiment was officially the 14th Tenn Cav but was referred to as the 13th in all the OR's.
Hurst had one of the 13th Tenn Cavalry regiments.

 

[JOHN42768]

There is a special spot in Hell for people like Old Bill Parker.

No sure even they would let him in