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Tillman D. Fox
- Private
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Contact Name: Carl Cuffman
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Date Added: 2/2/2011

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Benjamin R Williams
Rank Unknown
Carter's First Tennessee Cavalry -
my maternal great great grandfather
Contact Name: Cathy Farmer
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Date Added: 1/2/2011

Company A
Richard Daniel Jones
- Private
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Contact Name: William Swanson
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Date Added: 2/5/2007

Company B
William Robert Winsett
- Private
enlisted August 7, 1861 (Confederate) 1st Cavalry 2nd Battalion Capt. William Snow's Company subsequently became Company B, 1st (Carters) Regiment Tennessee Cavalry .
Discharged from service on April 1, 1865 with the Rank of Private, Disability
incurred: wounded in shoulder.
Contact Name: Tina (Winsett) Seitz
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Date Added: 2/11/2017

Company C
Eli Burger
- Private
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Contact Name: Andy Witt
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Date Added: 7/5/2009

Company C
William Thomas Cunningham
- Private
William Thomas 'Tom' Cunningham was born 20 March 1838 in Trigg County, Kentucky, to William and Janot (Jennie) (Mitchell) Cunningham; died 20 May 1915 Trigg County, Kentucky. Enlisted in the fall of 1861; remained in service three years; was taken prisoner at Gallatin, Tennessee and was confined on Johnson's Island for seven months until exchanged.

Records: Perrin's
Contact Name: Linda
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Date Added: 6/11/2005

Company D
Silas Cannon Winsett
- Private
enlisted Capt. Lytles Company Douglass Batt. Parisian Rangers which later became Holemans Co. D 11th Tn Reg which later merged into FIRTS TENNESSEE CAVALRY under James Carter.
I believe he died dec 1862 Murfreesboro ( found record for this but has listed his brothers name) Cannot find any records of him after this so as of now he is still POW/MIA.
Contact Name: Tina (Winsett) Seitz
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Date Added: 2/11/2017

Company E
Alonzo Hugh Dunavant
- Private
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Contact Name: Gay Mathis
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Date Added: 5/9/2007

Company E
Henry Clay Dunavant
- 3rd Lieutenant
Entered the Confederate army, enlisting in Company E, First Confederate Cavalry. He participated in the battles of Paris (Tenn.), Guotown (Miss.), Perryville (Ky.), Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, and was with the army on the retreat through Georgia. He was with Gen. Wheeler in his celebrated campaigns, and also with Gen. Forrest at Gainesville, Ala., at the time of the surrender.
Contact Name: Gay Mathis
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Date Added: 5/9/2007

Company E
John Wesley Dunavant
- Private
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Date Added: 5/9/2007

Company E
Leonard Washington Dunavant
- 3rd Lieutenant
1st Regiment Confederate Cavalry
(Also known as the 6th, 12th, and 16th Regiment and as Claiborne's and Lay's Regiment Confederate Cavalry) was formed about April 1, 1862, by the addition of four companies to the six companies of which the 1st (King's) Battalion Kentucky Cavalry, or Mounted Riflemen (a field organization) was composed. It surrendered at Gainesville, Alabama on May 12, 1865.
Contact Name: Gay Mathis
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Date Added: 5/9/2007

Company E
Oscar Reid Dunavant
- Private
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Contact Name: Gay Mathis
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Date Added: 5/9/2007

Company E
John Hixson
- Private
He was captured and then given the oath of allegiance on 12/23/1863 by Union Capt R.M. Goodwin of the Dept. of the Cumberland in Louisville, Ky. Said to be headed in the direction of the Ohio River upon release. Not a direct descendant, not much else is known.
Contact Name: Daniel W. Hixson
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Date Added: 2/22/2012

Company E
John James Jarnagin
- Captain
Captain John James Jarnagin was the Commanding Officer of Co.E, 1st Tennessee Cavalry, CSA. He was wounded @ Piedmont, Virginia on June 5, 1864 and died shortly there after. The location of his burial is unknown by the family. He was 26 years old.
Contact Name: Fred D. Wyrick
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Date Added: 2/7/2008

Company E
Solomon C. Wyrick
- Private
Pvt. Solomon C. Wyrick enlisted with Co. E, 1st Tennessee Cavalry, CSA. He survived the war and returned to his family. He is buried in the Rowley Family Cemetery in Washburn, Missouri. His headstone reads... Solomon C. Wyrick
Pvt. Co. E, 1st Tn Cal
CSA
Contact Name: Fred D. Wyrick
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Date Added: 2/7/2008

Company G
Moses Bailey
- Corporal
He is buried in Fielding Cemetery in Limestone, Co. Alabama.
Contact Name: Donnie Stanford
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Date Added: 12/30/2007

Company G
William T Rowlett
- Private
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Contact Name: robert caudle
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Date Added: 7/30/2004

Company H
David Tennessee Neff
- Captain
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Contact Name: David Forbis
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Date Added: 1/15/2008

Company K
Luke Arnett
- Private
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Contact Name: Titus Jackson
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Date Added: 9/9/2012

Company K
William Arnett
- Private
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Contact Name: Titus Jackson
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Date Added: 9/9/2012

Company K
Samuel Henry Neff
- Private
Samuel Neff moved to West Tennessee because of the anti Confederate feelings in the east--he had a brother killed after the War by three Lincolnites (April 1865). He was a prisoner of war when the fighting ended, and was paroled in May of 1865, at Asheville, NC.
Contact Name: David Forbis
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Date Added: 1/15/2008

Company K
J S Witt
- Private
Enlisted at Mossy Creek, Tenn July 20, 186?. Detailed as a hospital steward in June 1862. Roll for Sept & Oct 1862 absent on sick furlough at Tate Springs.
Contact Name: Andy Witt
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Date Added: 10/26/2009

Company M
Anson Hodges Jr.
- Private
Son of Anson Hodges & Harriet Gray
Regiment Name 1st (Carter's) Tennessee Cavalry : Organized November, 1862 by the addition of other companies to what was originally 3rd (Brazelton's), later 14th (Carter's) Tennessee Cavalry Battalion. Brazelton's Battalion was also called the 2nd Battalion and the 5th Tennessee Cavalry Battalion.


Company M: Co. 'M' Organized September 3, 1863 at Jonesboro, Washington Co. from a number of conscripts enlisted within the enemy lines. Attached to this regiment by Brigadier General John C. Vaughn, March 11, 1864. Men from Washington, Sullivan, and Carter Counties. Not accounted for on regi mental roster dated February 1865. Captain Edward Gammon.
Soldier's Rank_In Private
Soldier's Rank_Out Private
Contact Name: Glenn Land
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Date Added: 1/22/2007

Company M
John Kincheloe
- Private
Brother of George Kincheloe, Co.H 5th Cav. John Kincheloe :
1st (Carter's) Tennessee Cavalry,
Confederate
Company M : Co. 'M' Organized September 3, 1863 at Jonesboro, ( Washington County ) from a number of conscripts enlisted within Union lines. Attached to this regiment by Brigadier General John C. Vaughn, March 11, 1864. Men from Washington, Sullivan, and Carter Counties.
Contact Name: Glenn Land
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Date Added: 11/26/2006

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