6th Great Grandfather

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Wesley Welch was the younger brother of John Shadrach Welch of Co K 11th Tennessee Regiment . He Entered service in 1862 at the age of 15 as a member of Baxter's Battery.

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(Married - Margaret Frances Ridings)

(Born - 22 Apr 1837 in Tennessee)
(Died - 23 Feb 1913 in Tennessee)
(Father - James Lewis)
(Mother - Edna Tolar)
(Married - Sarah Rebecca Ridings on 20 Dec 1865)

On April 27, 1861, he enlisted in the Confederate Army. Served as a volunteer in Company A, Eleventh Tennessee Regiment, W.L. White, Captain; G.W. Gordon's Brigade, Cheatham's Division, Polk's Corps, Joseph W. Johnston's Army, where he was promoted to Sergeant. He also served as a musician in Company K, 2nd (Consolidated) Tennessee Infantry of which the 11TH Tennessee Infantry became a part about April 9, 1865 by consolidation.

He was paroled at Greensboro, near Jonesboro, NC, either May 1, or May 26, 1865, after serving four years. One year as a drummer in the military band, but he bore arms the other three years of the war. Besides participating in other hard-fought battles and skirmishes, he was at Chickamauga, Murfreesboro, Missionary Ridge, Franklin, and the siege of Chattanooga. He was neither wounded nor captured during the war.

(Born - 23 Feb 1839)
(Died - 16 Jul 1900 in Tennessee)
(Father - George Ridings)
(Mother - Elizabeth Turner)

(Born - 04 Sep 1832)
(Died - 05 Sep 1884)
(Father - George Ridings)
(Mother - Elizabeth Turner)
(Married - Sarah Balphrop)

Born 11 Nov 1844 in Humphreys Co., Tennessee. Enlisted 8 Aug 1861 in Humphreys Co., Tennessee. Discharged from service by way of substitution 19 June 1862 in Thorn Hill, Grainger Co., Tennessee. Killed in skirmish while fighting as a Bushwacker 31 March 1865 in Montgomery Co., Tennessee.

Jason J Figg was killed at the Battle of Atlanta on 22, July 1864. I am trying to locate his grave with no luck.

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Joined June 25th 1861 at Camp Cheatham.

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Darius was the 10th of the 11 chilsren of Daniel and Mary Hughes Rawley, born 1838 in Smith County, TN, and as a young adult moved to Nashville where he joined older brother James in business (Rawley and Brother Dry Goods on Market St.). He enlisted as a Corporal 10 May 1861. The 11th participated in the campaigns of the army from Murfreesboro to Atlanta, endured Hood's winter operations, and fought in North Carolina. He was promoted to Sgt. in the summer of '63. He was taken prisoner at Jonesboro in the Atlanta campaign and sent to Camp Douglas in Chicago 4 Sept 1864. He took the oath 31 Jan 1865 and was released from prison. He was 5' 8 1/2', with brown hair, hazel eyes, and fair complexion. He returned to Nashville where he died 17 Sept 1866, cholera taking the life the enemy could not. He is buried in Mt. Olivet Cemetery.

Looking For R. C. Eubanks (Full Name ) any help would be appreciated.

I would like to get as much info about Thomas Willis. He died in the veterans home in Little Rock. He was my great- grandfather. I don''t know too much about him . Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

(Born - 29 Apr 1832 in Tennessee)
(Died - 28 Mar 1912 in Texas)
(Married - Irena Elizabeth Reynolds on 05 Sep 1852 in Tennessee)

Killed in Battle of Franklin, TN on 30 Nov 1864

My Great Grand Uncle

Daniel enlisted in 1861 in Hickman, Tennessee where many of the men of the 11th. Co. H (Hickman Guards) were from. He also had three other brothers that served, Capt. Field Montgomery 14th. Louisiana Infantry, Lt. Robert Montgomery 8th. Louisiana Infantry and Pvt. John Montgomery 12th Missouri Cavalry. The Eleventh participated at Chickamauga, Murfreesboro, Missionary Ridge. In the Atlanta Campaign the Eleventh was present at the battles of Resaca, Calhoun, New Hope Church, Dead Angle, Kenesaw, Peach Tree Creek, Suger Creek, Franklin, Nashville and Bentonville. In the battle of Jonesboro, Daniel was killed and buried in the field later reinterred to the Pat Cleburne Cemetery in Jonesboro, Georgia. Anyone who has any info on the 11th. Co. H Please contact me... Thanks Steve www.findagrave.com

Richard was born in Dickson County, TN in 1837 and is my maternal great-great grandfather. He married my great-great grandmother in 1857, was widowed four times and married his fifth and last wife in 1898 at the age of 61. Richard died at the age of 80 in 1918.

Humphreys County, TN native. Enlisted 20 May 1861, died of ''disease of the lungs'' 25 Nov 1861 at Cumberland Gap. He is my great-great-great grandfather.

Died 1898.

Died 9 Jul 1863.

Transferred to 8th Texas Cavalry

Alexander H. Bell was the grandson of Ironmaster Montgomery Bell. He was captured in Georgia and was sent to a Federal Prison in Fort Morton, Indiana. His slave, Charley Bell served with him in the 11th Tennessee and remained with the unit until it was disbanded. He survived the war and is buried in the Bell family cemetery which is near The Narrows of the Harpeth River.

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John S. Welch served in Co K 11th Tennessee Infantry Regiment CSA from the time it was formed in Dickson County , Tennessee until it surrendered on April 26th , 1865 .