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TID BITS OF INFORMATION

1st Sgt. JOHN HENRY WARD Enlisted 1 Sept. 1862 at Hartsville Captured 30 Dec. 1862

Springfield KY, POW Camp Douglas Died there 17 Feb. 1863 (measles)

Pvt. Samuel Beasley Enlisted 27 Aug. 1862 at Hartsville

Pvt. Thomas J. Black Enlisted 1 Sep. 1862 at Dixon Springs Captured 6 Dec. 1862 Lebanon,

TN Exchanged. Captured 6 Oct. 1863 Shepherdsville, KY POW, Camp Douglas. Died there 13

Sep. 1864 (Chronic Diarrhea)

Pvt. Samuel Black Sumner Co. Enlisted 27 Aug. 1862 at HARTSVILLE

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NOTES:
FROM GREEN BERRY GREER
MILITARY RECORDS
Letter written to Mr Noah Srickland
Camden, Benton Co,TN

"Mr. Strickland, it now becomes my painful duty to inform you of the

sudden and untimely death of your boys. The sad circumstances is brief

thus, on the cars between this place and Meridian, Miss. While returning

from a short campaign in Miss, we had underwent much fatigue and had

lost much sleep.

"And while all were asleep a collision took place on the cars and the

fatal results was that your sons J.E. and C.H. Strickland and S. M.

Atchison were instantly killed. Your sons was considerably mangled. They

were brought on to Mobile.

"And Crow and Charley were buried in neat soldiers style. Joe were

buried in nice style by the brothering of the fraternity to which he

belonged. Your boys had $250.00 in money which I have in my possession.

I also have some things that belonged to them that I intend to keep

until I get to come home or get some sure dhance to send them. I intend

trying to get a tombstone to mark their grave in case you should wish to

move their remains. We offer our condolence with you in your

bereavement.

Your friend, G.B. Greer"

NOTE G.B. Greer is GREEN BERRY GREER, a son of Hezekiah Greer and Mary Wyatt Greer.

Green B. Greer, was reared and educated in Benton Co, spending his early days on the farm. During the Civil War he enlisted in Oct. 1861, in Co. G. Fifty-fifth Confederate Tenn Infamry, serving first as a non-commissioned officer, and after the reorganization was elected first lieutenant of his company He served in this capacity until wounded in the left leg at Atlanta, and was not again able to enter the service. During service he was captured and sent to Island 10 and held a prisoner of war five months in norther prisons. By: Goodspeed

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Tennessee Guerillas and Bushwhackers

ASeveral citizens told me they believed most of the robbing had been done by men who were with Lieutenant

Thrasher, or men from about Clifton. They all say Thrasher is an honorable man, but blame him for having such

men with him. Tom and Bishop Clark,Tom Dennis, Paul Ketty [sic], Bill Bridges, and Pete Grimes are the

names of some of his party.

AOn Sunday, the 9th instant, three soldiers Brewer, Stutts, and Kiddy by name with two Confederates, who

would not show themselves and cannot therefore be identified, belonging to a company of the Second

Tennessee Mounted Infantry which is stationed at Clifton, came to the house of Mr. William Johnson, living on

Sugar Creek, some eighteen or twenty miles of this place, and demanded of his wife, he not being at home,

$12,000. She told them she had no money, when they hung her and her daughter several times, completing

their diabolical work by each of them outraging the person of Mrs. Johnson. . . . [T]hey went to Dr. James

McDougal=s, at Wayland Springs; the doctor being absent, they demanded money of Mrs. McDougal, who

gave them all she had and they then left, and are supposed to have gone back to Clifton. The full names of

these outlaws as given me are Thomas Brewer, Wall Stutts, and Thomas Kiddy.

If Lieutenant Colonel Crews took any men with him into Forrest's command, there is no record of it in the Official

Records In December, 1863, Lieutenant Colonel Crews took command of the 3rd (Forrest's) Tennessee

Cavalry Regiment. (Source: Tennesseans in the Civil War).

FIELD OFFICERS

Lieutenant Colonel-James M. Crews

Major-J. A. Evans

COMPANY OFFICERS-Captain J. M. Flatt; 1st Lieutenant William W. McFall, "Co. A".

2nd Lieutenants William J. Thomas, Peter Pack, "Co.B".

Captain W. H. Bradley; 1st Lieutenant E. Whitfield; 2nd Lieutenants G. W. Hudson, A. T. McDaniel, Co.

"Co C".

1st Lieutenant B. Parnell; 2nd Leutenants W. J. McGee, Giles Holt, " Co. D".

Captain M. B. Brazelton; 1st Lieutenant William Bridges; 2nd Lieutenant William Parker, "Co.E".

Captain D. L. Ware; 1st Lieutenant G. W. Baines; 2nd Lieutenant J. F. Barnett and S. M. Houston, Co.

"Co F".

1st Lieutenant W. J. Walker; 2nd Lenten-ants T. D. Mathews, M. L. Haley, Co. "G".

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JAMES O GREER

Code No.:13719
Grave No. 3719
Last Name:GREER
First Name:JAMES O.
Rank:CORPORAL
Company:B
Regiment:7
State:TN
Branch of Service:CAVALRY
Date of Death:JULY 21, 1864
Cause of Death:DIARRHEA C.
Remarks:J. O. GRIER [3]
Reference:p 62 [3]; p 516 [13]
Place Captured:UNION CITY, TN
Date Captured:MARCH 24,1864
Alternate Names:GRIER
More Information Available:NO
A Code No. has been assigned to each prisoner in the database
the first digit of the code number provides some information.
Code numbers beginning with 1 or 2 indicate that the prisoner
died at Andersonville.
These should also have a Grave No. assigned as well.

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