Joined: Aug 29, 2008 Posts: 32 Location: LaFollette, TN
Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 11:12 pm Post subject: Violet's Ancestors who Served
My mother, God rest her saintly heart and soul, was a diehard member of the UDC. She was a meticulous researcher, and wore the names of her Confederate ancestors on her badges with pride. She had five ribbons of ancestors.
So, here are the majority of my ancestors that served in the Civil War. My mother traced our lineage beyond our families’ first settlements in Jamestown, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina. She loved the genealogy research. I am thankful today for her tireless efforts.
Samuel Petree
8th Great-Grand Uncle
Co. D , 2nd Tennessee (Ashby’s) Cav. CSA
Captured at Richmond, KY in late 1862.
Taken to Fort Delaware, where he died and was buried in a mass grave.
Benjamin Franklin Petree
8th Great-Grand Uncle
Co. C, 4th Battalion (Branner's) Tennessee Cavalry, then to Co. D. 2nd Tennessee (Ashby’s) Cav., CSA
Escaped from the Yankees after being captured at the battle of Richmond (Ky.). Was wounded badly in the shoulder, and lost his left arm. Returned to his regiment a month later in Irvine, KY, but was discharged. He refused to go home, and served as a cook for the regiment until June 1865. He never took the oath of allegiance to the US.
John Petree
8th Great-Grandfather
Co. C, 1st Regiment, Tennessee Infantry USA
Captured his brothers, B.F. and Samuel, during the battle of Kentucky. He left a fascinating diary that tells of his wartime actions. He was the only son of seven to fight for the Union. His father disowned him after the War, and he moved to Kentucky.
George Washington Petree
8th Great-Grand Uncle
Co. D and Regimental Chaplain, 2nd Tennessee (Ashby’s) Cav. CSA
George was a fine minister who served the Fincastle Community in Campbell County, Tennessee, before and after the war. He is buried in the cemetery next to the church he organized.
Lawson Henry Petree
8th Great-Grand Uncle
Co. C, Phillips Legion CSA
Lawson was attending college in Atlanta when the war broke out. He joined with several of his friends and his brother. Was killed in the Battle of the Wilderness. Body was never found.
Charles Edward Petree
8th Great-Grand Uncle
Co. C, Phillips Legion CSA
Charles was attending college in Atlanta when the war broke out. He joined with several of his friends and his brother. Was captured at Sayler’s Creek and took the oath of allegiance.
William E. Petree
8th Great-Grand Uncle
Co. F, 5th Tennessee Infantry CSA
Killed at the Battle of Shiloh. He had just settled a new farm in West Tennessee with his wife (They had moved in 1859.)
John Ausmus
7th Great Grandfather
Co. C, 1st Tennessee Infantry USA
John was wounded 11 times – flesh wounds every time.
Henry Ausmus
7th Great Grand Uncle
Wagoner, Co. E, 6th Tennessee Infantry USA
Was killed at the Battle of Franklin, TN.
William J. Taylor
8th Great-Grandfather
Co.K, 24th Tennessee Infantry CSA
Wounded at Perryville, and died while moving with the Army toward Middle Tennessee. Buried near the TN border in an unmarked grave.
Joseph Houston
8th Great-Grand Uncle
Co. D , 2nd Tennessee (Ashby’s) Cav. CSA
Lost a leg at Chickamauga. Committed suicide in 1866. He left a note that his inscribed on his tombstone: War is a nightmare I can’t forget unless I die with my friends. Heavenly father, embrace me.
T.J. Holloway
8th Great-Grand Uncle
Co. F, 5th Tennessee Infantry CSA
Killed at the Battle of Shiloh. He had just settled on a new farm in West Tennessee with his brother-in-law and sister.
William Wesley Lynch
6th Great Grandfather
Co. L, 9th Tennessee Cavalry USA
Thomas Ollis
7th Great Grandfather
Co. E. 1st Tennessee Infantry USA
Wounded at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, GA
C. Columbus Ollis
7th Great Grand Uncle
Co. E. 1st Tennessee Infantry USA
Killed at the Battle of Richmond KY
Sgt. Ambrose T. Foster
7th Great-Granduncle
Co. E. 1st Tennessee Infantry USA
Pvt. C.G. Alexander
6th Great Granduncle
Co. E 7th TN Infantry CSA
Mustered in October 1861. Paroled at Appomattox Court House.
Served with Army of Northern Virginia. Under the commander of Gen. Stonewall Jackson during the Cheat Mountain campaign during the Cheat Mountain Campaign. Later assigned to S.R. Anderson's, Hatton's, Archer's, and McComb's Brigades.
Battle Action:
Seven Days
Cedar Mountain
Second Manassas
Fredericksburg
Chancellorsville
Gettysburg
(Was wounded, but transported by the ANV during the retreat. Suffered 10 flesh wounds, but was not seriously injured. Returned to duty August 3, 1863. Unit suffered 46% casualties at Gettysburg)
Seven Pines
Cold Harbor
Petersburg
Appomattox Court House
James McCulley
1st Cousin
Teamster, Co. C, 4th Tennessee Cavalry USA
Corpl. John L. T. Gregory
1st Cousin
Co. A , 8th Tennessee Cavalry USA
David Lowe
1st Cousin
Co. E, 21st Kentucky Infantry USA
Willis Chavis
1st Cousin
Co. B, 3rd Tennessee Infantry USA
John W. Knight
1st Cousin
Co. G, 7th TN Mounted Infantry USA
John’s Headstone has the following quote inscribed:
Remember friends as you pass by
As you are now so once was I
As I am now soon you will be
Prepare for death and follow me.
Capt. T.A. Jones
5th Great-Grandfather
Co. B., 2nd Regiment Tennessee Cavalry USA
Andrew J. Lawson
6th Great-Grand Uncle
Co. C, 28th Tennessee Infantry CSA
Lost the use of an arm and the amputation of a leg at Shiloh.
Daniel Petree
6th Great-Grand Uncle
Co. C, 49 Kentucky Infantry USA
John C. Ford
6th Great-Grand Uncle
Co. G, 1st Tennessee Infantry USA
James D. Ford
8th Great-Grand Uncle
Co. C , 2nd Tennessee (Ashby’s) Cav. CSA
Captured at Irvine, KY in late 1862.
Sent to Point Lookout. Remained until August 1865. He refused to take the oath, and he said he never did.
Thomas W. Ford
8th Great-Grand Uncle
Co K, 4th Arkansas Infantry CSA
Wounded 9 times at Chickamauga and survived.
Isaac Ford
8th Great Grand Uncle
Co. E, 3rd Regiment, Tennessee Mounted Infantry (Lillard's)
Killed at the Battle of Raymond Mississippi
William R. Cheek
1st Cousin
Co. G, 32rd Tennessee Infantry CSA
Captured at Fort Donelson, TN
Took the oath of allegiance, deserted his unit, and returned home. He was murdered by in December 1865. His killer was never found. Some say it was one of the men in his unit.
Nelson Cheek
6th Great Grand Uncle
Co. D, 32nd Missouri Infantry, USA
Killed in the battle of Raymond, April 13, 1863. Buried at Vicksburg National Cemetery.
James A. Cheek
6th Great Grand Uncle
Co. B, 53rd Tennessee Infantry, CSA
Killed at Perryville _________________ Fellow Citizens, we cannot escape history. ~Abraham Lincoln
Two of my G-G-GrandUncles served in the Union Army: George Army in the 34th Massachusetts, wounded at the 3rd Battle of Winchester, and Lewis Army in the 3rd New Hampshire.
There were also 4 Slatterys in the 9th Massachusetts. Two of the four are almost certainly either my G-G-GrandUncles or first cousins three times removed, but I haven't been able to pin it down. There aren't a lot of good records, and that's the generation that emigrated from Ireland so you can't go back to a previous census to look for family relationships. But most all of the Slatterys in Milford, MA were related and that's where my G-Grandfather was born, in 1856.
My direct ancestors who were in the US were either a little too old or a little too young to serve.
Jen _________________ Stories of young men written in stone
Laying there together far away from home...
Hollywood ~~Hugo Duarte
Joined: Feb 10, 2004 Posts: 2402 Location: I am here aint I?
Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 5:46 am Post subject:
Hollywood...
Bigelows battery? Woooooo...... Jim _________________ "The Flag, THE FLAG, Oh THE FLAG! G.K. Warrens last words on his death bed, August 8,1882
There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. W.T. Sherman
RickAllen Official Chronicler of Gettysburg Tours!
Joined: Feb 13, 2004 Posts: 3862 Location: Baltimore, Maryland
Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 12:07 pm Post subject:
Good show Jen, Col. Patrick Guinea's fighting "IRISH NINTH" is nothing to sneeze at.
Luckily, they were excellent skirmishers, so they were spared the slaughter of the rest of Sweitzers Brigade in the Wheatfield as they were out on the Hanover Pike playing with the Horsey guys.
Regards,
Rick _________________ " Do you like French fries, Wyatt Earp?"
Good show Jen, Col. Patrick Guinea's fighting "IRISH NINTH" is nothing to sneeze at.
Luckily, they were excellent skirmishers, so they were spared the slaughter of the rest of Sweitzers Brigade in the Wheatfield as they were out on the Hanover Pike playing with the Horsey guys.
Regards,
Rick
Thanks Rick. Yep, good thing they were detached. After the war Colonel Guiney wrote, "when we arrived at Colonel Sweitzer's Head Quarters, we could scarcely be said to join the Brigade; it seemed to me that it would be more appropriate to say that we constituted the Brigade." _________________ Stories of young men written in stone
Laying there together far away from home...
Hollywood ~~Hugo Duarte
LANKFORD, PETER H. b.Nov. 26,1831-d.Oct. 11,1900 ss/w Mary A. Lankford (Pvt. Co. E 12 Ala. Inf.
Confederate States of America)
This is my wife's GREAT-GREAT Grandfather. Just found out today by my son's research. Looking at The Complete Gettysburg Guide he fought on Day 1-2 and 3.
Day One he was at Oak Ridge O'Neal's Command in Rodes' Assaults against 1st Corps. (page #42-43-50)
Day 2 fought at East Cemetery Hill against Howards 13 Corps. (pg 128)
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