Tennesseans in Gray

[Sowbelly and Hardtack]

Tennesseans in Gray

Images of Tennessee Confederate Civil War soldiers.

A gallery of images and stories of men from Tennessee who enlisted in the Confederate army during the Civil War.

www.militaryimagesmagazine-digital.com

 

[DixieRifles]

Cool.

Quoting from A Memphis Light Dragoon:

"Garrison left the 7th before February 1864 to help organize a cavalry company in the Oakland area. The recruits elected him first lieutenant. The men became Company B of the 15th Cavalry, which served in Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest's command in western Tennessee."

The 15th Tennessee Cav was one of those regiments that reformed. It was Russell's 20th Tenn Cav and then 15th Tenn Cav. They were at the Battle of Fort Pillow.

Also the next one, Pay Day, is identified as a soldier in:

"Company K, 19th Tennessee Cavalry, Col. Tyree Harris Bell's Brigade, Brig. Gen. Abraham Buford's Division, Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest's Cavalry."

The 19th Tenn Cav was also at Fort Pillow.

 

[DixieRifles]

Ah!! Great find.

From "1964":

"The year 1864 proved challenging for William W. Hawkins, a corporal in the 2nd Tennessee Cavalry, part of Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest's command."
"His second wound, a severe injury to his hip, occurred on April 12, 1864, during the Battle of Fort Pillow, . . . . Hawkins "never recovered from the effects of the wound," noted one writer, who added that he was "brave to a fault, true to every honorable instinct of humanity."

I had him among my list of casualties. Now I have a face to the name.