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The infantry, the infantry, with dirt behind their ears...they can whup their weight in wildcats and drink their weight in beers...the cavalry, artillery, and even engineers...they'll never catch the infantry...not in a hundred thousand years!
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Sam R. Watkins, High Private, Author of "Company Aytch" Photo Courtesy Mr. Tom Horn, see note at bottom of page.
Muster Roster of Company "Aytch" 1st Tennessee Infantry Regiment "The Maury Grays"
First Regiment, Tennessee (Feild's) Volunteer Infantry, C.S.A. Organized April 1861, at Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee. Surrendered at Bentonville, N. C. April 1865. Following is a list of those who, at the organization or afterwards, enlisted in Company H, The Maury Grays.
Officers
Captain A.M. LOONEY, promoted;
Captain W.R. JOHNSTON,
First Lieutenant James A. MOORE,
Second Lieutenant POLK, promoted Colonel;
Third Lieutenant Thomas H. McKINNEY, promoted Adjutant.
Non-Commissioned Officers
First Sergeant Henry J. WEBSTER, promoted Captain;
Second Sergeant J.K.P. McFALL, promoted;
Third Sergeant J.P. LEE, promoted;
Fourth Sergeant W. Kenan HILL,
Second Corporal George S. MARTIN, promoted;
Third Corporal A.O.P. NICHOLSON, promoted;
Fourth Corporal William GRAHAM, killed July 4, 1864;
Fifth Corporal William J. WHITTHORNE, promoted;
Privates
ADKISSON, J. Cal
ADKISSON, W. Josh
ALEXANDER, J. K.
ALEXANDER, J. W.
ALEXANDER, S. Reese
ALLEN, Augustus
ALLEN, J. Wash, killed at Perryville, October 8, 1862
ALLEN, W. A.
BABBITT, Henry
BANK, Robert H.
BAUGHIN, William
BOOKER, M. W.
BOOKER, Presly
BRADFORD, Elisha
BRANDON, Alexander W.
BRANDON, Edmond
BRANDON, James M.
BROWN, Sam
BYNUM, Joe W.
CAMPBELL, Sam M., killed at Perryville, Kentucky
CANNON, George M.
CARR, William T., killed at Nashville, December 1864
COLQUITT, William T.
CRAIG, W.D.
CRAIG, W. L.
DALE, James A
DALE, William J. Jr., promoted
DEPRIEST, Clint, Virginia - under age and discharged 1864
DERRYBERRY, William A., discharged by Surgeon at Hunterville, VA, later enlisted in 9th TN Cav and Co. "E," 48th TN Inf
DONAHUE, James
DORING, R. C. Y.
DORING, R. E.
ERWIN, Joseph
ERWIN, J. Rowan
ERWIN, William
ESTES, A. Hunter
ESTES, Henry H.
FARNEY, William B.
FERGUSON, Sam A.
FORGEY, James, promoted
FOSTER, Joseph
GILMORE, Ben F.
HADLEY, Pat
HAND, James
HARDISON, W. Humphrey
HARDY, Thomas
HARRIS, Harvey
HARRIS, Thomas
HARRIS, W. Luther
HELM, George W.
HELM, Thomas G.
HOOD, Walter, killed at Dead Angle, IN 1864
HOLMES, Robert G.
HOOPER, Dr., promoted, killed in 1864
HORSLEY, Alfred S.
HUBBARD, Jubilee
HUGHES, A.
HUGHES, William A., mortally wounded, Dead Angle
IRVINE, Crawford, W.
JOHNSON, John H.
KELLY, Don D.
KELLY, Hicks
KING, E., killed at Chickamauga
KING, W.
LANDSDOWNE, Edward L., promoted
LEE, John G.
LUNN, Felix
LUSK, James
McEWEN, James F.
McKNIGHT, W. E.
MARTIN, William J.
MENDELSSOHN, A.
MOORE, John B.
MURPHY, William
NICHOLS, Francis M.
NOTGRASS, ______
OAKLEY, William
PADGETT, Hugh B., discharged in 1861
PHILLIPS, William J.
PICKARD, John A., promoted
POWELL, J. K. P.
RAINS, Andrew J.
REAVES, George W.
REED, J. L.
REIVES, E. N. B.
REIVES, N. Green
RICHARDSON, Byron, killed at Perryville, October 8, 1862
RICHARDSON, J. A. T.
SEALEY, Sam SELLERS, James L
SCOTT, W. D.
SMITH, L. O.
SOWELL, J. Monroe
SPEED, Theodore S.
STEPHENS, Scott
STRAYHORN, Jesse
STRONG, George D. (Pete
THOMAS, Abednego S., promoted
THOMPSON, Joe C., killed at Perryville, October 8, 1862
THOMPSON, Lou
TUCKER, James M.
TUCKER, John T., promoted to First Sergeant
TUCKER, June
VAUGHT, Charles N.
VOSS, Edward W.
WATKINS, Sam R.
WEBSTER, A. Blair
WEBSTER, James J.
WEBSTER, William H., killed at Chickmauga, September 1863
WHITE, J. Beverly
WHITTAKER, John A., promoted, killed at Jonesboro, GA 1864
WILSON, Andrew J.
WILSON, R. A.
WRIGHT, J. E.
YORK, J. Oliver
ZELLNER, Arnold
Corporal Alfred Osborne Pope Nicholson, Jr. (1840-1915) (right), and unidentified companion,
Co. H, Maury Grays, 1st Regiment Tennessee Volunteers, 1861.
Regimental History (synopsis)
1st (Feild's) Tennessee Infantry Regiment was organized May 9, 1861 at Nashville, Tennessee; mustered into Confederate service August 1, 1861. The men came from Davidson, Williamson, Hardin, Maury, Giles, and Rutherford counties of Tennessee.
The regiment was originally under the command of Colonel George Maney. After Maney was promoted to brigadier general at Shiloh, Captain Hume R. Feild was elected Colonel and remained in command of the regiment for the duration of the war.
After receiving training at camp Harris in Franklin county, the regiment was ordered to Virginia in July 1861 and became a part of General Samuel R. Anderson's brigade of General Loring's divison, Army of the Northwest. It took part in the Cheat Mountain Campaign in West Virginia in September of 1861, the first campaign of General Robert E. Lee. In December of the same year, the regiment came under the command of General "Stonewall" Jackson for a campaign along the Potomac River in Virginia. Afterward the regiment was ordered West and spent the rest of the war as a part of the Army of Tennessee.
Companies "F" through "I" as well as "K" company, took part in the Battle of Shiloh April 6 and 7, 1862. Colonel Maney was ordered to select the forces needed and to make an assault upon the Union line. Taking the 1st Tennesse as well as the 9 and 19th regiments, Maney attacked the Federal position and caused them to retreat to the banks of the Tennessee River. His action was described as "brillant" and was one of the reasons he was promoted to general.
On the second day of the battle the 1st led a counterattack on the Union force's left flank and stopped their advance. During the time Maney commanded the three regiment brigade, Captain Feild was in command of the 1st Tennessee.
The regiment's next engagement was at the Battle of Perryville near the town of that name in Kentucky on October 8, 1862 where it suffered more than 50% casualties. As a part of Bragg's army the 1st retreated to Tennessee and was heavily engaged at the Battle of Murfreesboro (Stone's River) on December 31, 1862. After this battle the 1st and 27th Tennessee regiments were consolidated due to the number of casualties they both had suffered, and placed under command of Colonel Feild.
On September 18 to 20, 1863, the regiment took part in the Battle of Chickamauga near Chatanooga, Tennesee where they behaved valiantly. After participating in a demonstration of strength in East Tennessee, the regiment returned in time to take part in the Battle of Missionary Ridge (Chattanooga), covering the army's withdrawal to Georgia. The regiment's next engagement was as the defenders of the "Dead Angle" (a fortified position) in the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain June 27th of 1864. At this battle the regiment inflicted heavy casualties upon the Union forces attacking them.
After command of the Army of Tennessee was given General John Bell Hood, the regiment returned to Tennessee to take part in the Battle of Franklin and the Battle of Nashville in November and December of 1864. After this defeat the regiment went on a long and grueling march to Bentonville, North Carolina where it was again engaged. The regiment was surrendered by General Joseph E. Johnston at Durham, North Carolina on May 1, 1865. Only 125 men and officers were left at the final surrender. Among the survivors was Private James L. Sellers, ancestor of the author's wife, and Corporal Sam R. Watkins author of "Company Aytch", the definitive description of the Civil War from a soldier's point of view.
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