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oops a mistake.... GRIFFIN is a city in SPALDING COUNTY, GEORGIA
If anybody has any Childress links to Spalding County, Georgia circa the
Civil War I'd appreciate being informed
Thanks
Gary
Thanks Lee,
When Union troops came through Murfreesboro, TN the Chil dress family except
for Sarah Polk (the former first lady remain neutral) had already evacuated
to Georgia. Apparently Major General John Calvin Brown of the Confederate
States retreated through Murfreesboro. As you now enlighten me,
Bettie,(Granddaughter of Joel of Murfreesboro) married this Major General
John Calvin Brown in GRIFFIN Georgia. The question I have is why GRIFFIN
GEORGIA. It makes me wonder if there are any other relatives living in
GRIFFIN GEORGIA during the Civil War that provided lodging for their
Murfreesboro kin of Sarah Polk.
If anybody has any links to GRIFFIN county GEORGIA circa the Civil War I
would welcome being informed.
Below is the biography of Major General John Calvin Brown.
Major-General John Calvin Brown was born in Giles County, TN January 6,
1827. When nineteen years of age he was graduated at Jackson college, Tenn.,
and two years later was admitted to the bar at Pulaski. From that time
(1848) until May, 1861, he practiced law successfully. He then entered the
Third infantry regiment of the provisional army of Tennessee as captain, and
on the 16th of May was commissioned colonel of that regiment, which, with
the other soldiers of Tennessee, became part of the provisional army of the
Confederate States upon the accession of Tennessee to the Southern
Confederacy. At the battle of Fort Donelson (February 14-16, 1862) we find
Colonel Brown commanding the Third brigade of General Buckner's division,
and acting a conspicuous part in the charge which opened the way for the
retreat of the Confederate army to Nashville. The fact that the opportunity
was not improved detracts nothing from the gallant achievement of the men
who made that brilliant charge. When, on the 16th, the fort was surrendered,
Colonel Brown became a prisoner of war and remained in the enemy's hands for
six months. Shortly after his exchange he was commissioned as
brigadier-general (August 30, 1862). He participated in the Kentucky
campaign, and was wounded at the battle of Perryville, October 8, 1862; with
his usual gallantry fought at Chickamauga, where he was again wounded, and
recovered in time to act an heroic part at Missionary Ridge. In all the
movements of the Dalton- Atlanta campaign he was distinguished, and on the
4th of August, 1864, he was commissioned major-general. In Hood's gallant
but disastrous effort to retrieve the waning fortunes of the Confederacy by
his Tennessee campaign, General Brown was again among the foremost,
commanding Cheatham's division. In the fierce charge at Franklin, in which
so many of the choicest spirits of the army of Tennessee laid down their
lives, he was severely wounded. At the close of the war he resumed the
practice of law at Pulaski, Tenn. He was a member of the constitutional
convention which met at Nashville in 1870. The next year he was elected
governor of the State, being the first Democrat chosen to that position
after the war. He was the second member of his family to be thus honored,
his brother, Neil S. Brown, having been governor from 1847 to 1849. One of
the leading issues of Governor Brown's administration was the State debt,
which at the beginning of his term amounted to $43,000,000 bonded, besides a
large floating debt. At the close of his administration in 1875 (he having
served two terms), the bonded debt had been reduced to $20,000,000, the
large floating debt had been paid, and the credit of the State had been
fully re- established. After retiring from the executive office he engaged
in every position which he held. In 1864 he married Miss Bettie Childre ss,
one of the most beautiful and cultured women of the South. Their elegant
home was in Nashville. The death of General Brown occurred at Red Boiling
Springs, Tenn., August 17, 1889.
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THE SEVENTH TENNESSEE VOLUNTEER CAVALRY
WEST TENNESSEE UNIONISTS IN ANDERSONVILLE PRISON
BY PEGGY SCOTT HOLLEY
The Confederacy established Andersonville, that most infamous of Civil
War prisons, in late February, 1864. It built a stockade in west central
Georgia to accommodate approximately 10,000 prisoners of war. As the
fighting moved ever deeper into the South in the last year of the war,
the expanded stockade at one point held nearly 33,000 Union soldiers.
The termination by the North of the prisoner of war exchanges which had
existed previously and the continually depleting resources of the
Confederacy left these prisoners stranded in miserable conditions.
By the end of the war, 13,000 of the total 45,000 prisoners had died.
They were buried in shallow trench graves with numbers to identify the
dead. The northern states erected large memorial monuments of the site
of the prison after the war to honor their citizens who died
there.Tennessee also built a monument to commemorate the more than 750
men from Tennessee who died there. The suffering of these men was
recognized even though they did not support the decision of the state to
join the Confederacy.
About half of the Tennesseans in Andersonville were from East Tennessee.
The mountain area of eastern Tennessee had been unsympathetic to the
southern case. Mountain people were often unwilling to fight to
preserve a plantation economy in which they did not
participate.Furthermore, many were also stauchly Unionist.Several
Union regiments had been raised in the east including the 2nd
Tennessee Infantry, which had 475 of its men captured at Rogersville,
Tennessee and sent to Andersonville Prison.
The West Tennessee Unionists in Andersonville, however, were not
mountaineers but were farmers from a cotton growing area of small farms
and plantations. The largest number of West Tennesseans, about 450,
were from the 7th Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry. The entire regiment,
except for one group on scout was captured at Union City, Tennessee on
March 24, 1864 by a detachment of Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest's regiment
under the command of Col. William L. Duckworth. The captured men were
mainly from Carroll, Henderson and McNairy Counties with some recruits
from Henry, Weakley, Benton, Madison, Gibson, Hardin, and Decatur
counties. These men suffered horribly during the time they were
prisoners. Two-thirds of them died within a year of the capture. Their
high mortality rate can be attibuted both to the prison to which they
were sent and to the actions of their captors.
One group within the captors of the 7th Tennessee Cavalry USA was the
7th Tennessee Cavalry CSA. Both groups were primarily West Tennesseans
and there was intense ill feeling between them.Some men were neighbors
and personally knew each other. For the 7th Tennessee USA, the
humiliation was almost total. Colonel Duckworth tricked them into
surrender when help was nearby. And, it was the second time that
Forrest's men had forced them to surrender. The first time at Trenton
in December, 1862, they had been paroled and had spent their time at
Camp Chase, Ohio. Some members of the regiment, who were captured at
Ripley and Mt. Pinson, Tennesse, had even spent a short time in
Richmond, Virginia in 1863 before being parolled once again. By March
1864, however, the Lincoln government had stopped the exchanges. This
time there would be no paroles. The men were prisoners of the
Confederacy and were destined for Andersonville Prison.
The captors "had a lot of fun" at the expense of their prisoners because
of the circumstances of the surrender. They taunted the "Tennessee
Yanks" for giving up without a fight. John Milton Hubbard, who was one
of the privates among Forrest's men that day, later wrote that the men
of the Seventh Tennessee USA "bore up manfully and turned out to be
jolly good fellows, molded much after the pattern of the men of our own
Seventh Tennessee Confederate." He even called Lt. Colonel Isaac R.
Hawkins, a Huntingdon lawyer in command of the regiment,"that most
gentlemanly Federal officer."
After sacking and burning the fort and destroying all the regiment's
books and papers, the Confederates hurriedly left Union City with their
prisoners. The Union enlisted men walked four abreast with the
Confederate guard in a single file on each side. Under a light rain,
the men marched about sixteen miles to Gardners's Station, where they
camped for the night. Two officers, including Colonel Hawkins' son,
escaped during the night. Later during the trip south, five more Union
Officers escaped. At least some of the officers violated their parole of
honor by doing so. This made General Forrest so furious that he made
Colonel Hawkins and the other officers walk for a time in ankle deep
mud.
Leaving Gardner's Station at daybreak, the men marched to Trenton,
arriving there on the 26th of March. Their captors gave them almost
nothing to eat during the trip but they were able to buy biscuits for
five dollars per dozen and baked chickens for five dollars each from the
people of Trenton. It was fortunate they could spend some of their
money. On the next day the Confederate soldiers took them into the
courthouse and robbed them. Since the men had recently been paid their
back pay, the captors were able to take a sizeable amount of money from
them as well as other personal articles. Even Colonel Hawkins lost his
saddle bags, extra clothes, and blanket around this time.
Colonel Hawkins protested the robberies to Colonel Duckwork.Duckworth
said that Forrest's men were responsible and that he would put his own
men on guard to stop them. When the thefts continued, Hawkins again
protested to Duckworth and was told that an account was being taken of
the money involved and that it would be returned. Both sides sometimes
confiscated money from prisoners in order to prevent bribery. The money
would then be given back to its owner in small amounts at the prison or
in a lump sum when the prisoner was exchanged. In this case, however,
the money was taken unofficiallly by the enlisted men and was never
returned. In the terms of the capitulation signed by both Hawkins and
Duckworth at Union City, it had been agreed that all private property
belonging to the men would be respected. Only their horses, horse
equipment, and arms were to be taken from them. This breach of the
surrender terms by Forrest's men later caused much misery and even death
for many of Hawkins's men.
On the 28th of March the group arrived at Humboldt. A citizen there,
seeing Colonel Hawkins' predicament, took pity on him and gave him two
pairs of socks and a handkerchief. Their next stop was Jackson, where
they joined Forrest's main force. Here James McCree, a citizen
Unionist, sent a dispatch to the Federal command on the Tennessee River
suggesting that Forrest, and his prisoners might be intercepted on their
way south after leaving Jackson. Forrest suspected McCree, arrested
him, and would have hanged him except for the intervention of certain
Jackson citizens, who felt McCree might be innocent. After a few days
at Jackson, the prisoners were moved on to near Purdy. The captives
hoped that there might be a rescue attempt by Union troops before the
group crossed the Tennessee line. General Forrest, anticipationg
trouble, gave orders that if an attempt was made, the prisoners were to
be shot. No help materialized, however. After crossing the Tennessee
line south of Pocahontas, the men entered into northern Mississippi at
Ripley, and later were sent on to Ellistown and Tupelo.
About a month after the prisoners had gone through Tupelo, another group
of Union sympathizers from the same area of West Tennessee as the
prisoners were marched through the town. They were private citizens who
had been rounded up in Huntingdon and were being escorted to prison.
John A. Crutchfield, a lieutenant in the 20th Tennessee Cavalry CSA,
wrote about them in a letter to his wife in Macedonia, Carroll Co:
"I saw some of our Huntingdon Union Friends footeling it the other Day
towards Dici. One certain old man John Britt and several other I new,
Citizens they all were. I was sorry for them, it looked evil to march
men off from their Homes in that way even if they was Union.Old Johnny
Britt looked pitiful."
John Britt was a Huntingdon merchant who had three sons in the 7th
Tennessee Cavalry USA. At least one of these sons was with the Union
City prisoners. Crutchfield's letter also mentioned that he had heard
that Isaac Hawkins' men were safe at Mobile, Alabama. This was indeed
where they had been taken.
Presumably the men walked until they intersected the Mobile and Ohio
Railroad somewhere near Tupelo, Mississippi. On the way to Mobile, two
men died of Pneumonia and a rebel guard accidentally shot one prisoner
in the abdomen at Okalona, Mississippi. When they reach Mobile they
were placed in a warehouse. Private Isaac Davenport, from Scotts' Hill
in Henderson County, later described the place as "a cotton shed where
the fleas and body lice sucked some of the very life blood out" of them
and where they were much too "numbered" for the space. Ten men died in
Mobile. Davenport had to leave his dying brother-in-law, Sam McCollum,
when orders came to ship out.
The prisoners left Mobile by steamer about April 17 for Tensaw, Alabama.
Leaving Tensaw on the 18th, they left by rail on the Mobile and Great
Northern Railroad for Pollard. Camping there for the night, they would
then have needed to change to the Alabama and Florida Railroad(Alabama)
to ride to Montgomery, where they arrived on the 19th. Leaving Mongomery
the next morning, they crossed into Georgia at Columbus, where they once
again changed trains. Traveling all night on the South Western
Railroad, the men arrived at Andersonville Prison at 8 a.m. on the 21st
of April, 1864. The trip from Union City had required just under a
month.
Colonel Hawkins and about ten commissioned officers were separated from
the privates and non-commissioned officers at this time and put on a
train for Macon, Georgia. Their arrival at the prison in Macon brought
the number of officers there to a total of fifty. All of the
commissioned officers of the 7th Tennessee Cavalry survived their
imprisonment except for Captain M. Wesley Derryberry of Co. H. Two
lieutenants, William W. Murray of Co. I and John J Wallace of Co. K,
even managed to escape and both safely reached Union lines.Colonel
Hawkins remained in southern prisons for only five months before being
exchanged. The enlisted men who survived Andersonville averaged eight
to thirteen months before their releases.
Camp Sumter, the official name for Andersonville, had opened a little
over two months before the 7th Tennessee arrived. At the time of their
arrival the sbefore the 7th Tennessee arrived. At the time of their
arrival the stockade held about 15,000 prisoners or about 50 percent
more than it had been designed to hold. Private Isaac Davenport
described his first impression. He thought it a "despert looking place"
and "very gloomy."Robert Kellogg, a Connecticut soldier speaking for
some 2000 soldiers who arrived about twelve days later, said that the
sight froze their blood with horror, and made their hearts fail within
them. Sergeant Henry M. Davidson of the 1st Ohio Light Artillery, who
was an inmate at the prison, remembered the
"Some five hundred Tennesseans, who had been captured by
Forrest---arrived among us; the most of who were hatless, bootless, and
shoeless, without coats, pants and blankets...They were wholly destitute
of cups, plates, spoons, and dishes of every kind as well as of all
means of purchasing them; they having been stripped of these things by
their captors. In their destitute condition they were turned into the
stockage and left to shift for themselves in the best manner they could.
To borrow cups of the fellow-prisoners was in impossibility, for no one
could be expected to lend what, if it were not returned, would insure
his own destruction, particularly when the borrower was an utter
stranger; there was nothing left for them but to bake their raw meal and
bacon upon stones and chips, eat it without moisture, and afterward to
go to the brook like beasts to quench their thirst."
The men also lived with little protection from the elements since no
tents were issued. Sergeant Davidson said that the 7th Tennessee
"scooped out shallow places in the earth with their hands, and lying
down side by side in these, with their bare heads and naked feet resting
upon the surface of the ground, and their unprotected bodies wet with
dews and storms, the wretched men trembled and shivered till morning.
Members of the regiment later confirmed this in their answers to a
Civil War questionnaire. Private William Douglas wrote that they "slept
on the ground, nothing under us or over...we didn't have any cloth."
Private William T. Woods said "we suffered greatly from exposure."
Private Isaac Davenport said in his memoir that their "beds was only
the sandy hills...we slept exposed"
Even allowing for a certain amount of exaggeration, the men of the 7th
Tennessee arrived at a distinct disadvantage since they had no money to
bargain with their fellow prisoners or with the Confederate guards or to
buy from the prison sutler. Also, as noted above, their blankets,
cooking utensils, and clothing either had been taken from them by their
captors or had been thrown away because of the burden of the long forced
marches. They did not even have enough cloth to make crude tents to
protect themselves from the elements. However, some Confederate
soldiers respected the private property of their captives. For example,
the Union regiments captured at Plymouth, North Carolina retained their
money and their private property. Robert Kellogg, a member of the
Plymouth captives, said that they were allowed to retain their blankets,
overcoats, and all they had with them except their arms and equipment.
He reported only one robbery, and that by an intoxicated officer. He
praised the 35th North Carolina as a gentlemanly set of guards. When
these captives reached Andersonville, about twelve days after the 7th
Tennessee had arrived, Sergeant Davidson could not help noticing the
contrast between the appearances of the two sets of prisoners. Nearly
every one of the Plymouth captives had an overcoat, extra pants, shirts,
drawers, blankets, and money with which to negotiate.
Money to buy food from the sutler would have been expecially helpful
since the food supplied in the prison camp was never adequate. James
Taylor of Buena Vista in Carroll County said that the food supply for
twenty-four hours was about half what a man ordinarily had for one meal.
William Douglas, son of a Henderson County planter, must have referred
only to the vegetable ration when he said he ate "1 spoonful Bow peas a
day." William Wood from Darden in Henderson County said he suffered
"starvation." Joseph McCracken, son of the major of Huntingdon, weighed
150 pounds when he arrived at Andersonville and only 75 pounds at his
release. Isaac Davenport wrote "our flesh bein reducd we were nothin but
skelingtons." Southern apologists have made much of the fact that the
rations were the same as were being supplied to the Confederate army and
to the guards at the prison. They overlook, however, the opportunities
that free men have to supplement their rations.
The prisoners themselves found one opportunity to supplement their diet.
They reportedly ate a dog that had wandered into the stockade. Several
versions of the story exist and continue to be told by West Tennessee
descendants at present. It is even said that a bone of that dog was
brought back to Carroll County by Daniel J. Meals of Co.A. The bone is
thought to still be retained by a family member.
Only eight days after their arrival, inadequate food, overcrowding, and
exposure, both on the trip South and after their arrival at the camp,
had begun to take their toll on the West Tennesseans. The first deaths
at Andersonville occurred on April 29 when twenty-eight year old Private
Jacson J. Hays of Henderson County died of chronic diarrhea and twenty
year old Sergeant George Pickens of McNairy County died of Dysentery.
The regiment's first full month in prison resulted in six more deaths,
three of which were from pneumonia. By the end of the second month,
sixteen more had died. Fourteen of these died from diarrhea. Both rebel
administrators and northern inmates thought that one cause of diarrhea
in the camp was that the northern digestive system was unaccustomed to
corn meal. The West Tennesseans, however, were accustomed to eating corn
meal and were hit very had. Diarrhea was the number one killer among the
7th Tennessee during their captivity. It was listed as the cause of
death for ninety men.
The first two months were also difficult because of the "Raiders," a
lawless group among the prisoners who prayed on the other inmates, and
because of the increased population in the prison. By the end of June
the number of men being retained was approximately 23,000. This was over
twice the number which the stockade had been built to accomodate.
July, however, began on a hopeful note. An addition to the stockade
helped alleviate the overcrowded conditions and a combined force of
prison authorities and inmates captured the Raiders and hanged their
leaders. An internal police force was then formed among the prisoners to
keep order. Also there were rumors that an exchange had been arranged
for the 7th of July. There was no exchange, however, and more prisoners
arrived to overcrowd the prison once again. The temperature and the
death rate began to soar. By the end of the month the 7th Tennessee had
lost twenty-six more men. This brought the total number of deaths since
capture to about sixty-three or approximately one out of seven.
Near the end of July, the increasing number of deaths, and overall
prison conditions led to the circulation of a petition to the United
States Government. The petitioner begged President Lincoln to take some
action to effect either parole or exchange for the men at Andersonville.
The petition was signed by more than one-hundred sergeants who were in
charge of detachments and who had presumably polled their men. From the
7th Tennessee, Sergeants John M. Rhodes of Co. A and Rufus G. Barker of
Co. H signed. The Confederate authorities released a delegation of
prisoners to take the petition to Washington. Though it gained much
sympathy for the prisoners among the Northern press and citizenry, the
government never acted on it.
August began with terrible rainstorms which drenched the unprotected
prisoners. Two pleasant side effects, however, were that the downpours
washed some of the filth from the camp and one especially hard rain
revealed a spring of fresh water which had been covered up in the
building of the stockade. This spring was especially welcome since the
one sluggish stream flowing through the camp was by this time extremely
polluted. The spring would afterward be called "Providence Spring" and
would be remembered fondly by the men from West Tennessee. This
"miracle" was considered by many men to be the answer to prayer and is
thought to be the beginning of a fifty year preaching career for twenty
year old John B. Hayes of Decatur County.
By the end of August 1864, the camp held about 32,000 men. New prisoners
arrived almost continuously from General Sherman's army after Sherman
had entered Georgia. They brought the good news that the Union was
winning battles in Tennessee and northern Georgia. The camp, however,
was experiencing its most disasterous month. Nearly 3000 men died, or an
average of almost 100 per day. By the end of the month the 7th Tennessee
had lost forty-four more men. This brought their losses since capture to
nearly 24 percent, or almost one out of every four.
In order to cope with seeing so many of his regiment sick and dying,
Private Davenport met together with some of his Henderson County
neighbors who were also prisoners. They helped each other as much as
they could with what little they had. They brought water to the sick,
attempted to keep the flies off of them, and tried to encourage them.
They talked about home and friends and how they would like to be back
home. They sang, told jokes, and walked around the camp to exercise and
to see what was happening.
On the 6th of September several detachments were told to be ready for
departure on the 7th. The explanation given was that they were to be
exchanged. The real reason for removal, however, was that Sherman had
captured Atlanta and it was feared that the Union Army would attempt to
liberate Andersonville. Departures from the camp continued through
October. The men soon realized that the trains only moved them to
smaller prisons in Charleston, Florence, and Columbia, South Carolina
and Savannah, Blacksheare, Millen, and Thomasville, Georgia. Conditions
were somewhat better in these prisons or at least they were not as
crowded. Also there were more chances for escape enroute to these
prisons and several of the West Tennesseans took advantage of their
opportunities.
Members of the 7th Tennessee were both among those moved to the smaller
prisons and among those who remained at Andersonville. The number of
inmates at Andersonville was reduced from about 33,000 in August to
about 2,000 in November. Those left behind were usually too sick to
move. This accounts for the continuing high number of deaths at
Andersonville. In September the 7th Tennessee lost fifty-two men at
Andersonville and seven more in the smaller prisons. This total of
fifty-nine deaths in one month made September the most disasterous
single month for the regiment. August, and October were next with
forty-four deaths each. In October, thirty-six of the deaths were at
Andersonville and eight in the smaller prisons. By the end of October,
the death rate since capture had reached 48 percent, or nearly one out
of every two men.
During the period from November through January 1865, sixteen more died
in the smaller camps and sixteen more died in Andersonville. Twelve of
the latter sixteen were listed as having died of scorbutus, a disease
presently called scurvy and caused by poor diet. Seventy-four men had it
listed as the cause of death making it the second highest killer among
the 7th Tennessee. Diarrhea and scorbutus together were blamed for about
56 percent of the total deaths. Cause of death was not given for 19
percent of the men. The other 25 percent was divided among dysentery,
typhus, stroke, pneumonia, and edena, etc. Two men at Andersonville died
of gunshot wounds-perhaps they had ventured too close to the stockade
wall and were shot by the Confederate guards.
The year 1865 began for the 7th Tennessee with four more deaths in
January and eleven more in February. One of the eleven people who died
in February was Riley Powers of Henderson County, the fourth member of
the Middleburg Powers family to die at Andersonville. His brother, Joe,
and his cousin Henry M. had died in October and his cousin, Willis,
brother to Henry, had died in June. A fifth member, John, died on his
way home. Since Civil War companies were ofter composed of relatives and
neighbors, many families and communities were eventually devastated
after a company had been captured. The 16th district of Henderson
County, which had only eighty-three households in 1850, lost at least
twenty-two men at Andersonville and the smaller prisons.
The beginning of 1865 also brought an increase in the number of
prisoners at Andersonville. Cavalry raids in the vicinity of the
Thomasville, Georgia prison caused the Confederate authorities to move
about 3500 men back to Andersonville. Private Davenport, who was a
member of this group, later said that the men were told that they were
about to be released. The marched happily on foot about forty miles from
Thomasville to Albany, GeAndersonville. Cavalry raids in the vicinity of
the Thomasville, Georgia prison caused the Confederate authorities to mo
Perhaps it was the discouragement among the Thomasville returnees that
caused seventeen members of the 7th Tennessee to take the oath of
allegiance to the Confederacy. They left the prison with the rebel
recruiter, a Colonel O'Neill, on February 28 to join the Confederate
Army. There were also 121 others recruited among the prison inmates at
this time. The recruits were attached to rebel troops who were
attempting to defend southwest Georgia from Union troops threatening
from Florida and Alabama. Recruiting was a regular feature in the
stockade but only three men from the 7th Tennessee are known to have
gone over to the enemy in the previous ten months of imprisonment.
Southern Union soldiers must have been a prime target for the rebel
recruiters since it would have seemed easier for them to change their
allegiance to the Confederacy than for northerners. None of the
"Galvanized Yanks," as the new recruits were called, could really be
trusted, however. Many joined only for a chance to escape. At least
three of the seventeen February recruits "deserted" the rebels and
eventuallly reached Union lines where they "rejoined" the Union Army.
It would also be expected that southern Unionist prisoners who held to
their convictions would be especially resented by their guards. Warren
Goss, a Massachusetts soldier at Andersonville and later Florence,
mentioned in his memoir that Colonel Iverson, who was in charge of the
Florence prison, was very vindictive and harsh to southern Union men. He
often called them"d--d traitors" and asked them why they were fighting
against "their country." Iverson, however, was considered by northern
prisoners to be one of the kindest of the prison commanders.
Though it was unknown to the prisoners who were not involved, paroles
and prisoners exchanges had commenced again about two months after the
removal of the majority of the men from Andersonville to the smaller
prisons. The first group exchanged left by steamer from Savannah,
Georgia in mid-November, 1864. Another group left from Charleston, South
Carolina about the middle of December, another from Wilmington, North
Carolina at the beginning of March. One group went west to Vicksburg,
Mississippi during late March and April. The last group was released to
Jacksonville, Florida on April 28, 1865, nineteen days after Lee
surrendered at Appomattox. The sharp decline in the number of deaths
during this period reflects not only that fewer men were being held but
also that complete records do not exist for the smaller prisons.
Since the men had been told that they were being exchanged each time
they were moved to another prison, most were skeptical when their
paroles were announced. Almost all the prison memoirs says that the men
cried when they finally saw "Old Glory" and knew that the exchange was
real.
The first thing the former prisoners asked for was food. They had had so
little to eat in the last year, however, that eating was dangerous.
Elias Goff of Co.K, a citizen of Scotts Hill in Henderson County, died
suddenly after his release from Millen Prison when sympathetic citizens
gave him a big meal. The U.S. military authorities tried to prevent
overeating by issuing small amounts of food to the men several times a
day.
A bath and an issue of clean clothes was their next request. The
condition of the men's clothes, as well as the presence of vermin,
necessitated that the clothes be burned or thrown out to sea. The
assertion of Lieutenant Asa B. Isham of the 7th Michigan Cavalry that
the ocean turned grey with lice is rather unbelievable. However, picking
the lice from clothing seems to have been a regular morning ritual in
all the prison camps.
After their release, the former prisoners who were freed on the east
coast were generally sent by steamer to an army hospital in Annapolis,
Maryland. Some were too ill to survive the voyage and died on the boat.
Nineteen year-old Isaac Reed of Co. A died on the transportNorthern
Lights and was buried at sea the same day.
Some of the men who were released from Andersonville went by train to
Jackson, Mississippi and then over to Vicksburg. There they boarded
steamers which took them up the Mississippi River to Jefferson Barracks,
Missouri or to Camp Chase, Ohio. Ten members of the 7th Tennessee were
unfortunate to be aboard the ill-fate steamer Sultana. When the ship
exploded just above Memphis, eight were killed and the other two rescued
only after a terrifying night clinging to debris in the water.
Many of the men remained in hospitals for months. Eight died in the
hospital at Annapolis. Those well enough to be discharged from the
hospital were given thirty days leave. Three died on leave, one on a
train on his way home. Most were given individual discharges. Those few
who eventually returned to the regiment were mustered out at Nashville,
Tennessee on August 9, 1865.
About 66 percent of the enlisted men, or two out of every three who had
been captured at Union City that day in March of 1864, never made it
home. Two hundred and seven died at Andersonville, sixteen at Millen,
twelve at Savannah, ten at Mobile, seven at Florence, eight on the
Sultana, four at Charleston, seventeen in northern hospitals, seven
enroute to and from various prisons or hospitals, two on furlough, and
one at an unknown place. This total of 291 includes only those for whom
we have records. It does not include those who died from prison related
illnesses after their discharges. Also, many more men were partially
disabled for the rest of their lives.
According to Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-65, the
7th Tennessee Cavalry USA was one of the four regiments in the Union
army with the largest number of prison deaths. Only two New York
regiments and the 2nd Tennessee Infantry, the other large group of
Tennesseans in Andersonville, had a higher prison mortality rate.
The end of the war did not erase the bitterness caused by the 7th
Tennessee's experiences. Thiry years after the war when one of Forrest's
men was called to be minister of the Bethel Baptist Church in Carroll
County, one of the former prisoners at Andersonville protested. He was
admonished to forgive as Jesus did. Alfred D. Bennet of Huntingdon
replied "the Lord was just crucified, he never had to go to
Andersonoville Prison". Fifty years after the war, Don Hampton of
Carroll County told his grandchildren that he had grown up
grandfatherless because the "Democrats" came and took his grandfather to
prison. Well over one hundred years after the Civil War, the area from
which the 7th Tennessee was recruited remains a Republican stronghold
where nearly every family can tell at least one Andersonville story.
The above article was printed in the West Tennessee Historical Society
Papers and was written by Peggy Scott Holley, a history instructor at
Austin Community College. The complete article with source references
and deaths listed among the 7th Tennessee Cavalry after their capture
can be found in the 1988 issue of the West Tenn Historical Society
Papers, Vol XLII. Thanks Peggy, for allowing me to share this wonderful
article with my Altom ancestors. We had three of our family members
serve in this Unit and perhaps now we can see and imagine more vividly
how they must have suffered for the freedoms that we sometimes take for
granted today.
SHOT FOR DESERTION
Being
TUPELO BY REV. JOHN H. AUGHEY, A.M.,
CHICAGO:RHODES & McCLURE PUBLISHING CO.1905
About 3 o'clock in the afternoon, I approached two prisoners who were heavily
ironed. They were handcuffed, had bands and chains upon their ankles, similar
to mine, and were also chained together and to a bolt in the floor. I
inquired for what offence they were incarcerated. The prisoner whom I
addressed was a tall gentleman with a very intellectual expression of
countenance and of prepossessing manners. He was pale and sad.
"We are charged with desertion."
"Did you desert?"
"I enlisted in the Confederate service for twelve months. At the expiration
of my term of service I asked permission to return home, stating that I had
learned from a trustworthy source that my family were suffering from a lack
of the necessaries of life; that they lived in Tennessee, which is occupied
by Federal troops. Confederate money there has no purchasing power, not being
worth the paper on which it is printed; that I desired to relieve my family
from their distress, and as my term of service had expired, I demanded my
discharge. This they refused, stating that the Confederate congress had
passed a law requiring all soldiers who had enlisted for any term, however
short, to be held to service during the war, and that all who left before its
close would be considered guilty of desertion, and if arrested would be shot.
Regarding the law as a tyrannical enactment, and of no binding force, I
attempted to return to my family, but was arrested and committed to this
prison."
"What will be your fate?"
"I don't know, but fear the worst. At our trial Gen. Bragg said some salutary
examples must be made to deter soldiers from deserting, or the army would
waste away as snow before the bright beams of the vernal sun. His bile and
bitterness overflowed in acrimonious invectives."
The other prisoner's statement was a perfect counterpart of his comrade's.
The first was named Melville Baillie, of Raleigh, Tennessee, and the other
Polk Childress, of Hickory Wythe, Tenn. Their friend, Parley Van Horn, of
Colliersville, Tenn., they left sick at the home of his cousin, Felix Grundy
Ayres, in Byhalia, Miss., who thus escaped. I left them and walked to the
opposite side of the prison, when I observed a file of soldiers drawn up in
front of the prison. Two officers entered, and walking up to the prisoners
with whom I had just been conversing, unfastened their chains, and ordered
them to follow. As the officers passed Capt. Bruce, he asked, "What are you
going to do with these men?" "Going to shoot them," was the reply. They then
showed him the warrant for their execution, having written across it in red
letters, "condemned to death." When the prisoners reached the door, the file
of soldiers separated, received the prisoners into the space in their midst,
marched them across the railroad, and shot them.
Thus was perpetrated an act of cruel tyranny that cries loudly to heaven for
vengeance. Two families, helpless and destitute, were thus each deprived of
its head, upon whom they were dependent for support, and abandoned to the
cold charity of a selfish world. The wages earned by a year's service in
behalf of the wicked, cruel, and vindictive Confederate states, was an
ignominious death and a dishonored grave. The widow and the fatherless cry to
heaven for vengeance, and their cries have entered into the ears of the Lord
Of Sabaoth.........
I would not go so far as said ALL Childress, left TN. There were many
Childress families in TN. during the Civil War. The Childress families served
on both sides of this war. So it would be best to go by a case by case.
INDIANA JACK
Gary
According to "Childers/Childress TN Records, 1780-1900"
(Childers/Childress Clearinghouse)
Elizabeth CHILDRESS married Gov/General John C. Brown, c1864, GRIFFIN, GA
Lee Rau
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Subject: [Childress Research] Bettie Childress married John Calvin Brown in
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> I'm looking for a marriage record in the 1860's in Georgia between Bettie
> Childress and Major General John Calvin Brown "between battles" of the
> Civil War.
>
> I don't know in what county in Georgia they were married. That is what I
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Karen , what names are you looking for. my line is the Childress a and
Allred line. my grandfather was Walter Childress and his father was
Alfred Childress wife was Alice Allred . looking for when they were
married at. and buried at Alice Allred is buried in Texas Waxahachie
Ellis County. let me know and i will try and help and i am new to this
too.
Susan
I'm looking for a marriage record in the 1860's in Georgia between Bettie
Childress and Major General John Calvin Brown "between battles" of the
Civil War.
I don't know in what county in Georgia they were married. That is what I am
trying to find out. Does anybody have any marriage records for Georgia
Counties that show this marriage?
Thanks
Gary
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I am seeking information on Lewis Edward Childress b. ca 1884 in Webster
County, West Virginia. He was the son of J. W. & E. J. Childress. He married
Minnie McGuire on 27 Sep 1912 in Washington County, Virginia. Any information
will be greatly appreciated.
Regards to All,
Bill Childress
The James K. Polk memorial is located on Highway 521, just south of
Pineville, NC, which is a few miles south of Charlotte, NC. It is only 4
miles east of Interstate 77 and well worth the small detour, if you happen to
pass this way.
Reading this account again reminded me that I visited the James K. Polk
birthplace in Charleston NC. They have built a cabin that replicates Polks'
childhood home. There is a gift shop and they have the reprint of the
Memorials of Sarah Childress Polk for sale there. There are also some nice
prints of the presidential portraits of James and Sarah for sale.
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> Hi Warren,
> Last year we sent a researcher to photograph the gravestone of Joel
> Childress. The photographs didn't help. You can't read the inscription f=
> rom
> the photograph. (If you want a black and white Xerox, send me a SASE (se=
> lf
> addressed stamped envelop) but be prepared for a disappointing unreadable
> image of a decimated tombstone)
>
> The stone is a fragment in several pieces with about 75% of the stone
> missing. One fragment is completely flat with no inscription remaining.
> The readable portions (an area of about 2 feet by 3 feet) have the birth =
> and
> death dates and an incomplete prayer. That's all that remains.
>
> The stone is laid in cement outside a chapel at "Cannonsburg", a historic=
> al
> preservation tourist site in Murfreesboro, TN.
>
> 2 brothers, descendants of Joel, played on the stone when they were
> children and both brothers wrote similar accounts of the stone as adults.
> The Rutherford County Historical Society published the following account =
> in
> 1981.
>
> Below are the complete memoirs of John Williams Childress, the great grea=
> t
> grandson of Joel Childress. These have been posted before to the list bu=
> t
> since there are new members I decided to re-post.
>
> The four generations referred to below are as follows:
> (1) Joel Childress had 2 sons Anderson and John Whitsitt Senior.
> (2) John Whitsitt Childress SENIOR. had 4 sons John Whitsitt Jr, Joseph,
> Eugene, and Horace
> (3) John Whitsitt Childress JUNIOR had 3 sons John Williams Childress, Av=
> ent
> Childress, and Adair Lyon Childress[called Lyon]
> (4) John Williams Childress wrote the text below in 1960.
>
> Text that is in SQUARE brackets [ ] are my additions....
> Gary Childress
>
> The Childress Family of Tennessee by John Williams Childress
> Rutherford County Historical Society (Tenn.) Publication, issue 16, Winte=
> r
> 1981
>
> "Our great grandfather, Joel Childress, was born on March 22, 1777. He
> married Elizabeth Whitsitt, [b.] 1781- [d.] 1863, came to Tennessee from
> Virginia, and settled Janurary 17, 1799, in Sumner County, where his
> children were born. About 1812 he moved to Rutheford, a newly formed
> county, and bought a farm about three miles south of Murfreesboro, situat=
> ed
> where Stones River is crossed by the Shelbyville pike. There was a large
> frame house in which he lived until his death, August 19, 1819. He was
> buried in a fence-enclosed family plot near the house. Among his activit=
> ies
> he was a Postmaster of Murfreesboro.
>
> I well remember his grave in the apple orchard, which was marked by a
> ten-foot stone resting upon six columns to a base. The top stone contain=
> ed
> the inscription: "Joel Childress, son of John, son of Joel, who emigrated
> from Wales, in his own ship with cargo, in the year 1745." The last two
> digits of the date were very dim but my brother and I agreed upon "45". =
> His
> migration in his own ship was frequent occurrence where the migrant had
> sufficient means to outfit such transportation, since it was well known t=
> hat
> a ship and its contents could readily be sold at a profit, thus giving th=
> e
> emigrant ready capital. He landed probably in Virginia, or possibly Nort=
> h
> Carolina, since the name is found in both sates, but Joel and his wife we=
> re
> both born in Virginia. Her mother was Polly Sevier.
>
> Upon a visit with my family to Tennessee in 1923, I was distressed to fin=
> d
> no trace of the grave, but found that the two large stones had been used =
> by
> the then owner of the nearby cottage, just built as fireplace bases. At
> least the inscription above had been left underneath and did no show at t=
> he
> floor level.
>
> After Joel's death, his widow moved into town and lived there until her
> death in 1863. Elizbeth Whitsitts's oil portrait is in the home of my ni=
> ece
> and her great, great niece, Harriet Childress Tune, Nashville, Tenn.
>
> There were six children of Joel and Elizabeth, but two died in infancy. =
> The
> others were Anderson, 1799-1837; Susan, 1801-1878; Sarah, 1803-1891: and
> John Whitsitt [Sr.], 1807-1884. All were given the best educational
> advantages available. Anderson went to Chapel Hill College (now the
> University of North Carolina) [the University has no record to corroborat=
> e
> Anderson's attendance and the admissions department doubts that Anderson
> enrolled in Chapel Hill College]; Susan and Sarah were sent to the famous
> (and first) girls' school in the country, the Moravian Church Academy,
> Salem, N.C. John entered the 1822 class at Chapel Hill. Anderson gradua=
> ted
> in 1818, but John spent only one year, his schooling cut to one year,
> presumably, by his father's death in 1819. The girls and their brother
> Anderson rode horseback from middle Tennessee to Salem (some 500 miles), =
> he
> going on further about 100 miles to Chapel hill, and picking them up in t=
> he
> spring for [the] return home. They were accompanied only by a faithful
> slave to look after the horses and baggage.
>
> In Anderson's class were several close friends, among them James Knox Pol=
> k,
> later President of the United States, also James Otey and ____ Green, who
> were to become the first Episcopal Bishops of Tennessee and Alabama,
> respectively. By coincidence, my son-in-law, James Otey (Bill) Urquart, =
> is
> the great-grandson of Bishop Otey, for whom his is named. It was also qu=
> ite
> natural that Sarah Childress should meet and marry Jimmy Polk when he cam=
> e
> to Murfreesboro-then the State Capital-in his first political job as
> Secretary of the State Legislature.
>
> For the story of Sarah and James Polk, see any history book, but
> particularly two, "Young Hickory" and "Memorials to Sarah Childress Polk".
> The only other known copy of the latter book is in the Congressional Libr=
> ary
> in Washington.
>
> As is well known, Sarah Childress lived for 42 years after her husband's
> death in 1849, continuing to the end to occupy the fine estate the Presid=
> ent
> had bought shortly before his term expired. She lived simply but, making=
> no
> visits except to Murfreesboro and Columbia, kept practically open house t=
> o
> old friends. She died in 1891. As a boy I was taken to see her at regul=
> ar
> intervals. I remember her with affection. My father was the favorite of
> all her relatives. At death, Aunt Sarah was buried beside her husband,
> until both were transferred to a joint tomb on the Capitol grounds.
>
> Susan Childress married Dr. Rucker and had two daughters. These girls
> visited their Aunt in the White House.
>
> The farm and house on Stones River were inherited by my grandfather, John
> Whitsitt [Sr], and were successfully operated by him until his death [d.
> 1884] although late in life he moved to town to a house at College and
> Academy Streets, which was owned by his second wife. This house still
> stands and a picture of it can be found in the book called "History of
> Rutherford County". The caption of this picture reads: John W. Childres=
> s
> [Sr.] frequently entertained in this house his brother-in-law, President
> Polk." This is, of course, an error as Polk died in 1849.
>
> In 1853 John W. Childress [Sr.] built, on the site of his father's [Joel'=
> s]
> house, a very modern and imposing two-story brick, which I visited often =
> as
> a boy of 12 or 15, when it was owned by my cousin, Frank Avent. At Frank=
> 's
> marriage this house and farm where given to him by his father as a weddin=
> g
> present. I often stayed with them just to be in the country and to live =
> in
> the old place. At 10 I had learned to swim in the nearby Stones River, a=
> nd
> Frank, a great dog fancier and huntsman, would let me hunt with him. I
> remember my grandfather [John Whitsitt Childress Senior] only at his
> funeral in 1884, but the country place forever stands out in my memory.
>
> That 1853 house was built of brick made on the place, and of stone from t=
> he
> River. The portico was stone, with 3-root in diameter stone columns
> extending above the second floor. Inside was a large entrance hall, with
> curving, "flying", no visible support, stairway, with strong banisters. =
> All
> rooms were 18 to 20 feet in height, each with about two foot frieze, the
> whole being of such hard plaster (no paper) that I have often wondered ab=
> out
> the lost skill of such construction.
>
> I don't remember the size of the farm, but it extended East about one-hal=
> f
> mile to the railroad track and the same distance to the river in the othe=
> r
> direction [the Childress farm was about =BD mile by =BD mile square]. Th=
> e house
> was set about one-fifth of a mile from the gate at Pike where it crossed
> Stones River and was reached by a curved driveway, marked by red cedar
> trees. When I last saw the property (1923) the last one of these trees h=
> ad
> just been cut down for firewood, but my girls gathered some of the sweet
> smelling cedar chips as souvenirs. The house had two rooms, both sides o=
> f
> hall, both stories, and an Ell, with full porch in the front.
>
> The most outstanding memory of the house was that the portico, the column=
> s
> and the room walls were completely covered with pencil and charcoal names
> and regiments of Federal soldiers stationed at or near the house, who had
> spent their time "beautifying it with their 'art'". Actually, many names =
> had
> been chiseled with nail and hammer almost to the roof, and many of them w=
> ere
> well done from the operators point of view. The plaster of the day was s=
> o
> hard that little harm had been done to the room walls.
>
> When the Federal troops took over Murfreesboro in the summer of 1862, my
> grandfather [John Whitsitt Childress Senior, brother of Sarah Childress
> Polk] was forced to refugee with his daughters and small children to Nor=
> th
> Georgia, where he remained until the end of the war. His house and farm
> were immediately taken over the occupied by three "campfollower" families=
> ,
> who worked the farm and slaves during the period, taking, of course, all
> benefits from them as their profit as "conquerors". While the land was
> overworked and the servants mistreated, it is quite possible that this
> occupancy by Northerners may have preserved the place from complete
> destruction, as happened to many other Southern owners who were less
> fortunate.
>
> In this connection occurred an unusual and interesting incident. During =
> the
> war my father happened to be in the vicinity of the place and so made bol=
> d
> to ride up to the house to look things over. This he could do because he
> wore a long, blue Union overcoat which he had taken from a captured Negro
> soldier. His inquiries of one of the squatters as to who owned this plac=
> e,
> etc. were being insolently answered as became the squatter's right when
> dealing with a private, even a Unionist. Just then there appeared, howev=
> er,
> a small Negro boy who had come out to gather chips from the woodpile. He
> glanced up and in astonishment said: "For God, if it ain't little Marse
> John!" Whereupon father [John Whitsitt Childress Junior] showed his
> Confederate uniform, forced the man to go with him across the river...by
> wading... and turned him over to the military authorities. When the fami=
> ly
> returned from Georgia, no one was found of the three former "owners", but
> they left their marks on the property.
>
> I don't know how and when this place got out of the Childress family, for=
> I
> remember it only after its purchase by father's [John Whitsitt Childress
> Junior] brother-in-law, James M. Avent, for Frank. In 1896, while at sch=
> ool
> at Bell Buckle, Tenn., the principal, Sawney Webb, called me aside to tel=
> l
> me that, as he was passing on train the night before, he happened to look
> out of the window and saw the house being destroyed by fire. I never kne=
> w
> how it happened but I never forgot my grief at the loss of the old house =
> I
> loved.
>
> Grandfather [John Whitsitt Childress Senior] also owned and operated anot=
> her
> and larger farm about ten miles East of Murfreesboro. Most of his 150
> slaves were stationed here, but only the overseer staff lived there.
>
> While continuing to operate his two farms, Grandfather [John Whitsett
> Childress Senior] had other interests in town, being organizer and presid=
> ent
> of two banks, and was, from its beginning in 1853, a Director of the
> Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad. His rather distinguished career is t=
> old
> in considerable detail in a clipping from a Nashville paper which will be
> found in my mother's scrapbook, in the suitcase. While this obituary is
> signed only "A.S.C.," it was written by Col. Arthur S. Colyax, owner of t=
> he
> "Nashville America," to my father's [John Whitsett Childress Junior] law
> partner in the firm of Colyax, Marks and Childress. The other partner,
> Marks, was a former Governor of Tennessee, and Colyax was a famous orator
> and former member of the Confederate Senate. I have always believed that=
> ,
> while the firm had probably the largest law practice in the State, the
> partners let father [John Whitsett Childress Junior] do all the work,
> resulting in his breakdown of health and his retirement---1884 to 1888-to
> Florida. However, he recovered and led an active and useful life for man=
> y
> years.
>
> By his first wife, Mary Williams of Nashville (for whom I am named)[John
> Williams Childress], my grandfather [John Whitsett Childress Senior] had
> four sons who lived to full maturity and two daughters. Two of these son=
> s
> were my father, John Whitsett, Jr., and Joseph. The latter[Joseph] had t=
> wo
> daughters, Mary Kee and Sarah Polk, but Joe died when they were children.
> John's [John Whitsett Childress Senior] older daughters were Mary, who
> married James Monroe Avent, and Bettie, who married Major General John
> Calvin Brown, of Pulaski [TN]. Avent took my father [John Whitsett
> Childress Junior] in as a law partner until he moved to Nashville in 1882.
> We were always very close to the Avent family, my younger brother bearing
> that name [Avent Childress]. The only remaining member (1960) is Sara [?=
> ?],
> who still lives in the old house and has one son, Jesse C. Beesley, New
> York. The other daughter, Bettie [??], married James B. Murfree. Jr. Hi=
> s
> widow survived him until 1959. She was 92 at the time of her death. The
> third brother was James. M. Jr.[?? the author is not clear who he is talk=
> ing
> about].
>
> Bettie Childress [is the daughter of Joseph Childress who is the son of J=
> ohn
> Whitsett Childress Senior] married Brown [Major General John Calvin Brown=
> ]
> while refugeeing in Georgia, and "between battles" of the war. They
> returned to Pulaski, from which he was elected Tennessee's Governor in 18=
> 70.
> Later they moved to Nashville, where he died in 1889. At which time he w=
> as
> President of the Texas & Pacific Railroad. There were two daughters, Mar=
> ie
> and Daisy, and a son, John. No males of the name survive.
>
> It was while living with the Browns in Pulaski [TN] that my father [John
> Whitsett Childress Junior] studied law, and in 1870 was made a Manager (a=
> t
> 25) of Brown's campaign for Governor. That was his first experience in
> politics, and probably led to his 25 years as head (Chairman) of the
> Democratic Party in the State. While he retired as Chairman when he beca=
> me
> a judge in 1895, he was until his death (1908) always consulted and follo=
> wed
> in political matters.
>
> It was also in Pulaski that my father became one of the organizers of the
> original Ku Klux Klan. (For the complete and true story of the Klan, see
> its history in the Ridley book. This gives the only true history of its
> beginning, it operations, and its end, and could have been written only b=
> y
> one who knew the story personally.) [Ridley, Bromfield L.: BATTLES AND
> SKETCHES OF THE ARMY OF TENNESSEE ; Morningside Press 672pp - index -
> 'Ridley's Journal' is a collectors item - Index - Maps - Numerous Photos =
> -
> Illustrations - Includes battle details and section on Ku Klux Klan This
> compilation of eyewitness accounts, official letters and documents, and t=
> he
> author's insights provides a wealth of information on the Army of Tenness=
> ee.
> Ridley served on A.P. Stewart's staff, a position which allowed him acces=
> s
> to privileged information. The work is arranged chronologically, with
> accounts of various engagements and chapters on peripheral events relatin=
> g
> to the army. This book is considered a primary source for information on =
> the
> Civil War in the Western theater]. I could never get father [John Whitse=
> tt
> Childress Junior] to admit his membership, for the Federal laws against i=
> t
> were never repealed: but there can be no doubt that he was one of the boy=
> s
> who started the KKK in 1867, when he was living in Pulaski. All Klansmen
> were young Confederate officers and the original group got together as a
> club or fraternity for fun only. The later KKK activities were brought
> about for protection against outrages of the scalawags and carpetbaggers =
> who
> were exciting the Negroes to crimes.
>
> Incidentally, this Ridley book is now considered a "collector's item"
> because the writer's story of his return home after the surrender of the
> Confederate Army is the only known account of that phase of a soldier's
> life. Several histories of that period quote Ridley's diary for the only
> picture of a Confederate's thoughts and acts after his parole. My father
> also surrendered at the same time in North Carolina, but all I could get =
> out
> of him was that he burst into tears many times a day during the long trip=
> to
> Tennessee. Incidentally, Ridley was also from Rutherford County be [sic.
> but] he and father never met during the war. He married my mother's
> youngest sister, Ideyette, while she was visiting mother in Murfreesboro.
> "Uncle Brom" [Bromfield Ridley] was one of the finest and most lovable
> persons I ever knew, and his book-of which he was very proud-is most
> interesting. He was, during his whole service, on the Staff of Gen. A.P.
> Stewart-CSA.
>
> After the death of his wife, my grandfather [John Whitsett Childress
> Senior] married Mary Phillips, a cousin of his former wife, and by her ha=
> d
> the following sons and daughters: William Sumner [Childress] who married
> Inez Wade;
>
> The second son of William [William Sumner Childress] was Levi Wade
> [Childress], who lived nearly all his life in St. Louis, Mo. He died abo=
> ut
> three years ago, leaving one daughter and two sons: Wade, Jr.[Childress] =
> and
> Fielding [Childress], and his widow all of whom I believe to be alive.
>
> Another son of John Whitsett Childress [Senior?], Eugene, was never marri=
> ed
> and died while relatively a young man. The last one, Horace, had no sons=
> ,
> nor did Annie, nor Ella and the baby of the family-Selene-had no children=
> ,
> though married twice-first to Jonathan W. Jackson, then to Frederick
> Wighthall.
>
> With the death of his father in 1884, my father John Whitsett Jr. (April =
> 20,
> 1845 - March 28, 1908) became the beloved head of the family and was so
> recognized by all. He had little education since he ran away from Milita=
> ry
> school to join the Confederate Armey and never returned. He did, however=
> ,
> acquire an excellent knowledge of law while studying in Gen. Brown's offi=
> ce
> in Pulaski, and proved his capacity when he served in Nashville as Circui=
> t
> Court Judge for the last 13 years of his life, as well as in his only act=
> ive
> practice after moving to Nashville. But he served capably and successful=
> ly
> in many other capacities, including General Manager of the "American"
> Newspaper, Assistant U.S. Attorney, President of the South Pittsburg City
> Co. operating the utilities and building up of that town and organizing a=
> nd
> presiding as President of a National Bank which is still-after 75 years-t=
> he
> strongest institution in that section of the State. In every capacity an=
> d
> situation he was sought after for advice and assistance. His best-know
> service was as advisor of the Democratic party in politics. This began a=
> s
> Campaign Manager for his brother-in-law, John C. Brown, in his successful
> race as first Democratic Governor after the war, in 1870, at the age of 2=
> 5.
>>From then until his judgeship in 1895, he was Chairman of the Democratic
> Committee, at which time he gave up the title for ethical reasons, but
> continued in his advisory capacity until the end. Amazing to say, with a=
> ll
> his political activities, and the usual unpleasant feelings thus engender=
> ed,
> I don't believe he ever had a personal or political enemy. Partly, no
> doubt, his popularity was due to his wanting no office for himself, his o=
> nly
> interest being to find the right man for the place in his party. Thus,
> every Governor and U.S. Senator depended upon him. In fact he declined
> appointment to the U.S. Senate by Governor Taylor, and later declined an
> election to that body by the State Legislature, which was trying to break=
> a
> long deadlock between two candidates-Taylor and McMillin. He did not wan=
> t
> the job anyway, but spurned the appointment because both men were his clo=
> se
> friends and he would be put in a position of profiting by their defeat. =
> The
> Legislature acted, apparently, to get itself out of a long deadlock which
> seemed endless. It did end, however, when a third man, Luke Lea, became =
> a
> candidate through the proper pressure (money?) to break the tie. Taylor,
> after three terms as Governor, later became a United States Senator.
> McMillin, after being Governor, and after 20 years in the House of
> Representatives, died just aster his appointment-as Ambassador to Mexico.
> His second wife, Lucile, was made a member of the Civil Service Commissio=
> n
> in Washington. McMillin first married my cousin, Marie Brown (General Br=
> own
> 's daughter). Both Taylor and McMillin were devoted friends of father's =
> and
> I also kept up my friendship with them until their deaths.
>
> In the late days of father's life he was often unable to hold Court and t=
> he
> docket was so full that someone had to carry on. Volunteers were welcome
> and the man most helpful in these emergencies was Cordell Hull, a young
> Judge with 13 counties in his Circuit, who cold still come to Nashville t=
> o
> help out. I realized later that he did so at his own expense. Hull was,
> however, one of father's political prot=E9g=E9s, as well as friend, and h=
> e
> probably profited by the experience and association. Another such prot=E9=
> g=E9
> was Joseph W. Byrns, later Speaker of the House. When Hull was Secretary=
> of
> State he took occasion at several public gatherings in Washington to
> introduce me as the "son of the man who taught me all the politics I know=
> ,
> if any." I recall two occasions at the Jackson Day Dinners, and at other
> times when he was a guest in my home. I knew most of the Tennessee
> Delegation and Byrns and Hull were most helpful in my one entry into
> politics-the appointment by President Coolidge as Chairman of the D.C.
> Public Utilities Commission in 1926.
>
> "My father [John Whitsitt Childress Junior] was in 1861 at military schoo=
> l
> in Nashville, but his parents were endeavoring to keep him out of the war
> because of his health and weighing only 90 pounds, and believed by them t=
> o
> have "consumption" [tuberculosis]. They thought military life would be
> fatal. However, he ran away from school and joined the army at Bowling
> Green, Ky., in October, 1861. He was sent to Fort Donelson just in time =
> to
> surrender. From there he was sent by flat-boat to Columbus, Ohio, and th=
> en
> on to prison camp at Johnson's Island, near Sandusky, Ohio.
>
> At the end of nine months he was exchanged at Vicksburg, Miss., and
> immediately returned to the army. At the beginning he became drillmaster
> and Adjutant of the 50th Tennessee Regiment, and remained with that
> organization. He was four times wounded, once shot entirely through the
> thigh, and in the head at Franklin. In the futile charge over Federal
> breastworks he crossed the Harpeth River, climbed up and was on the point=
> of
> jumping down into the trench when a bullet tore away his right eyebrow an=
> d
> he was left for dead. About midnight he came to life to find himself in =
> the
> burial ditch, but, most fortunately, near the top and so able to climb ou=
> t
> and crawl back to the lines. While his life was saved in this miraculous
> manner, he escaped the army's collapse at Nashville two weeks later.
> Despite the annihilation of the Western Army, three divisions were gotten
> together (in part, of course) and reached Johnson's Army in North Carolin=
> a,
> only to be surrendered. This formality occurred for him on his 20th
> birthday, April 20.
>
> Father [John Whitsitt Childress Junior] was always known and spoken of as
> "Captain Childress" unitl he became a judge, but never used either title
> when speaking of himself over phones or otherwise. From the time he ente=
> red
> the army, he was an officer, Adjutant, but drill-master also because he w=
> as
> probably the only man in his regiment who had any knowledge at all of
> military matters. The framed Commission on my wall shows him still a
> Lieutenant and Adjutant in September, 1864, and it is presumed he was
> promoted to Captain after Franklin on November 30th. I know that he was
> breveted Major before the surrender, but he never used the higher rank.
>
> After serving 3 =BD years in army and prison he returned to Murfreesboro=
> , but
> soon joined his brother-in-law, General Brown, for the study of law. Upo=
> n
> completion of these studies he joined another brother-in-law, James M.
> Avent, in practice in his home town. In March 1867 he and a friend, Jim
> Moore, decided to travel and see the world, which ended four months later
> after they had seen most of it. His diary was an extremely well written =
> and
> unusual document for a boy of 21, whose education had been interrupted by
> the War, and since he and run away from school three months before he was
> 17, and never again attended school. The interesting way he tells the st=
> ory
> of this indicates the early use of a mind which enabled him to become the
> useful and successful man for which he was destined. To me the story tel=
> ls
> of places, people, methods of travel, etc. of which I had no knowledge.
> While Father told us all these stories of the trip when we were small boy=
> s,
> this diary's existence was unknown to any of us, and was not found until =
> the
> death of my mother, who survived him by 20 years. When found then by Lyo=
> n
> [son of John Whitsitt Childress Junior and brother of the author of this
> memoir], he fortunately, made copies of it, but I have never been able to
> come upon the original. It was written in a small notebook of the time.
> Also, I have wondered all my adult life where Father [John Whitsitt
> Childress Junior] got the money to make the trip and learned only recentl=
> y
> that on his majority he received an inheritance from his grandmother [one
> possibly is the grandmother on the paternal side who was the wife of Joel
> Childress]. I certainly never heard him express regret at the way this w=
> as
> used. I know only that at the time of his marriage in 1870, and immediat=
> e
> years thereafter, he and his wife were forced to live very simply. Upon =
> his
> law partnership in Nashville, things promptly took a turn for the better.
> Even with the three years of idleness while he was recovering his health =
> in
> Florida, he was never again so strapped financially and was able to give =
> the
> three sons proper education. Not until I had finished my sophomore year =
> at
> Princeton did I realize the strain that cost and his illnesses were causi=
> ng
> him. Whereupon I got a job and quit college. Lyon [son of John Whitsitt
> Childress Junior and brother of the author of this memoir] was doing well=
> in
> business and so Avent [son of John Whitsitt Childress Junior and brother =
> of
> the author of this memoir]could freely continue and graduate.
>
> While always a loyal Confederate, he never became a "professional", as so
> many others were inclined to do. However, he served the Cause outstandin=
> gly
> in one instance. Probably in his capacity as manager of the largest
> newspaper in the State, he attended the funeral of Jefferson Davis in 188=
> 9.
> It was there determined that something should be done to perpetuate the
> ideals of the South and collect and disseminate the facts. Father was
> Chairman of a Committee to effect these purposes and they decided to act
> through a magazine, "The Confederate Veteran." Father chose as editor an
> editorial writer on the American, Sumner A. Cunningham. Through the effo=
> rts
> and intelligence of this man, the magazine became the "Bible" of the vete=
> ran
> everywhere, and at the same time became a most interesting and financiall=
> y
> successful literary venture. Its publication continued until its editor'=
> s
> death, and until the vast majority of the old boys were gone. I was very
> fond of Mr. Cunninghame and he almost worshipped my father.
>
> My mother was Mary Adair Lyon (August 6, 1849 - September 29, 1928), olde=
> st
> daughter of James Adair and Adelaide Dearderick Lyon of Columbus, Miss. =
> It
> was while she was visiting some Deaderick kin in Murfreesboro-the
> Wendells-that she met my father and they were married in Columbus on
> December 13.
>
> David Deaderick (originally Dietrick) had come as a "Pennsylvania Dutchme=
> nt"
> from Germany, 1720, settled first in that state, moved to Winchester, VA.=
> ,
> anglicized his name to Deaderick. Again migrated to Tennessee, found its
> oldest town -Jonesboro-and his son, David Anderson, was father of my
> grandmother, Adelaide, 1817 - 1907.
>
> Lyon's family [The author seems to be referring to the surname of his mot=
> her
> 's family] was almost equally distinguished in East Tennessee, but he put
> himself through four years at Princeton Theological Seminary (New Jersey)=
> ,
> 1832 - 1836, after which he had churches in Tennessee and Columbus, Miss,
> St. Louis and again in Columbus, with the last ten years of his life as
> Professor of Religion and Philosophy at the University of Mississippi. H=
> is
> Journals and pertinent data are in the State Archives at Jackson, and at =
> the
> Mississippi State College at State College, Miss.
>
> Lyon [probably Mr. Lyon, father of the author's mother] was almost a fana=
> tic
> on education. He personally educated his two older sons to enter the jun=
> ior
> class at Princeton (then the College of New Jersey), to graduate in the
> Class of 1859, the younger one being first in his class. The third son
> graduated in 1872, but he got through mostly on earned scholarships. He
> sent my mother to a fashionable and expensive finishing school in
> Philadelphia. Just how all this was done on his salary as a Presbyterian
> Minister will always remain a mystery, although he didn't seem to think i=
> t
> so. He also, almost alone, founded in Clarksville, Tenn., a Presbyterian
> College, built on the lines at the Princeton seminary, although he was
> assisted somewhat by a Dr. William Stewart and by Dr. Joseph R. Wilson
> (Woodrow's father). Lyon was elected (in 1870) the first president. He
> promptly accepted but later reneged because his church just refused to le=
> t
> him go. His son, Adair, later became a professor there and I spent one
> year -1898-99 - as a student before transferring to Princeton. The whole
> story of the College and Lyon's part in it is told in Cooper's history -
> "Southwestern at Memphis" --. This book give sole credit to Lyon as the
> real founder. In 1925 the City of Memphis took over the records, etc. an=
> d
> brought them to that city, which a change in the name of "Southwestern at
> Memphis" from its old and dwell-known "Southwestern Presbyterian
> University." While still under Presbyterian auspices, it is a thriving
> co-educational institution, which has put new life in the old Clarksville
> school of which I and hundreds of alumni are still found, but of which th=
> ere
> are so few left. To illustrate, there was published in the Southwestern
> News, in 1958, a picture of the 1898 football team,-- of which I was
> captain. There was found no one left of the 17 members except myself. I
> have the original photograph.
>
> My mother was [a] remarkable woman in many ways. First, she was a great
> beauty and always admire, but never seemed to be conscious of that. At
> about 40 her hair was snow white and set off her ruddy complexion and bla=
> ck
> eyes. She was vivacious, a great talker but never a gossip, and made
> friends readily and permanently, She was not, however, a "society woman,=
> "
> but preferred church work, and to the end remained a "fundamental Christi=
> an"
> . She was at home in any gathering, society or church, and was greatly
> beloved, being a foil for my quiet father. She was one of the last of th=
> e
> old-timers who hated liquor and worldly things, even begging me, for
> example, not to dance or play cards even after I went away to college.
> While we all wandered away from our strict upbringing, we always respecte=
> d
> her wishes and principles.
>
> The sons of John Whitsitt [Junior]and Mary Lyon Childress were Adair Lyon
> (always called Lyon), John Williams, and Avent. They were born,
> respectively, August 31, 1873, February 16, 1879, and November 30, 1880.
> Lyon died in October 1948. A daughter was born dead in 1872. All seven
> children of these three sons are girls and, therefore, the Childress name=
> of
> the earlier branch of the family is now ended.
>
> END
>
> Gary Childress
> 8403 Seranata Drive
> Whittier, CA 90603
>
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> Would it be possible to get a picture of thsi gravestone that tells the
> story about the Childress trip.
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> Do you have any info on William Childress who was in the 1790 census in
> Spartanburg South Carolina.
> Thanks for the other info you have sent.
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> Sorry, I don't have any information on William Childress of Spartanburg, SC
> ca. 1790.
> Perhaps others on the list will recognize him.
> Gary.
>
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> Spartanburg South Carolina.
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Subject: Re: [NCWILKES] I will do these cemetery lookups
.........The cemetery records I copied from The Wilkes Geneological
Society,Inc. Compiled and Indexed by Mr.and Mrs.Samuel E. Sabastian.
Thanks,
Bonnie
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From: "Bonnie Greathouse Tharpe" <jasmine3536(a)yahoo.com>
To: "Mark or Gary" <london2000(a)fea.net>
Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2000 10:50 AM
Subject: Re: Wilkes County North Carolina Childress Family cemetery
This is exactly what it states for this cemetery:
On North east side of Roaring River about a mile above the old cotton
mill. An undetermined number of graves here are unmarked. Traditions say
members of the Gregory and Childress family are buried here.
Only one marked:
Childress, Millie (wife of James)
Oct. 28, 1821-Dec. 13, 1886
Bonnie
--- Mark or Gary <london2000(a)fea.net> wrote:
> Hello Bonnie,
> Can you tell me if there are any Childresses in the Wilkes County
> Childress
> Family Cemetery that have birth dates from the 1700's.
> All my best to you
> Gary Childress
> ----- Original Message -----
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> Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2000 5:27 AM
> Subject: PML Search Result matching childress ANDNOT x-loop/List-L
>
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> Subject: [NCWILKES] I will do these cemetery lookups
>
>
> I can do cemetery lookups in the following cemeteries from the old
> records
> that I copied at the library while in Wilkes:I have no photos of these.
> Rock Creek Baptist Church Cemetery
> Taylor Cemetery
> Hall's Mill Cemetery
> Robert's Cemetery
> Long Cemetery
> Absher Cemetery
> Owens Family Cemetery
> New Light Church Cemetery
> Childress Family Cemetery
> Round Mountain Cemetery
> Blevins Cemetery
> Staley Cemetery
> Buttrey Cemetery
> Billings Cemetery
> Alexander Family Cemetery
> The old Cemetery name index does show two Roaring River Cemeteries!:
> Roaring River Methodist Ch.Cem.(Bet this is the one I done)
> Roaring River Bapt.Ch.Cem.
> Thanks,
> Bonnie
>
http://wilkescountyncarolina.homestead.com/WilkesCountyNorthCarolina.html
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bonnie Greathouse Tharpe" <jasmine3536(a)yahoo.com>
To: "Mark or Gary" <london2000(a)fea.net>
Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2000 10:50 AM
Subject: Re: Wilkes County North Carolina Childress Family cemetery
This is exactly what it states for this cemetery:
On North east side of Roaring River about a mile above the old cotton
mill. An undetermined number of graves here are unmarked. Traditions say
members of the Gregory and Childress family are buried here.
Only one marked:
Childress, Millie (wife of James)
Oct. 28, 1821-Dec. 13, 1886
Bonnie
--- Mark or Gary <london2000(a)fea.net> wrote:
> Hello Bonnie,
> Can you tell me if there are any Childresses in the Wilkes County
> Childress
> Family Cemetery that have birth dates from the 1700's.
> All my best to you
> Gary Childress
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bonnie Greathouse Tharpe" <jasmine3536(a)yahoo.com>
> To: <london2000(a)fea.net>
> Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2000 5:27 AM
> Subject: PML Search Result matching childress ANDNOT x-loop/List-L
>
>
> Source: NCWILKES-L(a)rootsweb.com
> Subject: [NCWILKES] I will do these cemetery lookups
>
>
> I can do cemetery lookups in the following cemeteries from the old
> records
> that I copied at the library while in Wilkes:I have no photos of these.
> Rock Creek Baptist Church Cemetery
> Taylor Cemetery
> Hall's Mill Cemetery
> Robert's Cemetery
> Long Cemetery
> Absher Cemetery
> Owens Family Cemetery
> New Light Church Cemetery
> Childress Family Cemetery
> Round Mountain Cemetery
> Blevins Cemetery
> Staley Cemetery
> Buttrey Cemetery
> Billings Cemetery
> Alexander Family Cemetery
> The old Cemetery name index does show two Roaring River Cemeteries!:
> Roaring River Methodist Ch.Cem.(Bet this is the one I done)
> Roaring River Bapt.Ch.Cem.
> Thanks,
> Bonnie
>
http://wilkescountyncarolina.homestead.com/WilkesCountyNorthCarolina.html
>
LAND TRANSFER BOTH FROM PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY VA.
Nov. 22, 1784. --- To Justices of Prince Edward.
Wm Mitchell, Ropert Flippen & Wm Childress deed 4 Oct. 1784 to Dr. Robt.
Honeyman 173 a. St. Martin's, Sarah, wife of said Mitchell, Mary, wife of
said
Flippen & Frances, the wife of said Childress, as she could not come to
court,
order to be & were examined by the justice of Prince Edward Co.
Oct. 4, 1784. --- Wm Mitchel, & Sarah, his wife, & Wm Childress & Frances,
his
wife, of Prince Edward, & Robt Flipping & Mary his wife, of Amelia, to Dr.
Robert Haugman 173 acres adj. Timothy Terrell, Geo. Brackenridge, Genl Thos.
Nelson.
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Mecklenburg County VA Deed Book 14, page 399
John Elam to Daniel Elam Power of Attorney
"Know all men by these presents that I, John Elam of Mecklenburg County,
State of Virginia, do appoint my brother Daniel Elam of Rutherford
County, State of Tennessee,
my lawful attorney to sue for, recover and receive a small parcel of land
(not exceeding 20 acres) for which I entered into a written agreement
with Joel Childress of Rutherford County, State of Tennessee, which
parcel joins a tract of land which I purchased of the said Childress
containing 200 acres. My brother has authority under this power of
attorney to make a sale of the 200 acres plus what he can get from the
said Childress." Dated 13 April 1811, Recorded 20 May 1811.
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CHILDERS, A. J.
Mar 6, 1843 Grant County, KY (six sons & one dau) May 13, 1906 Hunter
Cemetery Hunter, Garfield, OK Newspaper obit in files. unknown
CHILDERS, HIRAM
Pvt Co E Apr 19, 1841 Edgar County, IL Chisolm, Annetta Jane (1914) Jun 4,
1846 Dec 30, 1866 Leavenworth, KS Childers, Edward W. Oct 25, 1867
Leavenworth, KS Childers, Chester A. Oct 14, 1884 Childers, John R. Mar 23,
1886 Stanley, Dora Jun 26, 1874 Apr 9, 1922 Union Soldiers Home Okla City,
Oklahoma, OK 80 Okla Veterans Cemetery Okla City, Oklahoma, OK 12th IL Inf.
CHILDERS, JESSE V.
Co H 1890 census. 68th IN Inf.
CHILDERS, JOEL
Co A Sep 1830 Giles County, TN Gillean, Margaret Eveline 1835 Aug 22, 1858
Clarksville, Johnson, AR Childers, Robert Major Childers, John Israel
Childers, Eliz & Minnie Childers, Wm,Ann,Al,Emma Mar 17, 1916 Bristow, Creek,
OK Bristow Cemetery Bristow, Creek, OK 1890 census, Cleveland Co. Newspaper
obit in files. 2nd AR Inf.
CHILDERS, NAPOLEON BONAPT
Co I Aug 22, 1844 Cherokee Nation, I.T. Milford, Sophia Childers, Ellis
Buffingtn Childers, Anderson John Childers, John Hawlin Childers,
Cooweescoowee Northeast Oklahoma Complete family history in files. He was the
son of William and Maria (Boots) Childers. Once lived in Southwest City, MO
and then moved to Verdigris River, Creek Nation. He was a District Judge in
Creek Nation for 16 years. 1st Indian H.G.
CHILDERS, POLK
1890 census, Canadian Co. unknown
CHILDRESS, J. W.
Rush Springs Cemetery Rush Springs, Grady, OK
CHILDRESS, JOHN A.
Co B Mar 17, 1919 Keefeton, Muskogee, OK Keefeton, Muskogee, OK 3rd AR Cav.
CHILDS, JOHN H.
Pvt Co E Mar 28, 1923 New Home Cemetery Nash, Grant, OK He was a member of
the Irvin McDowell GAR Post #19 in Enid when he died. In 1910 Okla Census for
Grant County, he was listed with Susanna C. as wife. He was 63 and she was
57. Both born: PA. 50th IL Inf.
CHILDS, JOHN S.
1890 census, Okla Co. U.S. Navy
CHILDS, JOSEPH STORY, DR.
Oct 16, 1846 Jan 20, 1915 Hillside Cemetery Purcell, McClain, OK He was at
the Batle of New Orleans. USS Farragut
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