OldReliable1862
First Sergeant
- Joined
- Jul 2, 2017
- Location
- Georgia
One of the more intriguing companies I've come across in the Confederate Tennessee regiments is Company F of the 1st Tennessee (Maney's), nicknamed "The Railroad Boys." I can find little information on them, other than it apparently being composed of (largely Irish?) railroad workers from the Nashville area. I did find this brief remembrance from a veteran of the 1st Tennessee's Rutherford Rifles about the Railroad Boys' officers:
The Butlers of our regiment were fine soldiers. Jack, captain of the Railroad company and Joe, his brother, lieutenant, refined and handsome as a woman, but brave as Caesar, literally shot to pieces at Perryville