Company A
Lieutenant
M.L. (FAYTE) McCRARY WAS MY GREAT 1/2 UNCLE, MY PATERNAL GRANDMOTHER'S 1/2 BROTHER. HE WAS WOUNDED AT FT. DONELSON,WHERE HE WAS WITH MANEY'S BATTALION. HIS FATHER PICKED HIM UP IN A WAGON, TOOK HIM HOME TO HUMPHREYS COUNTY, TN. WHEN HE WAS WELL, HE REJOINED HIS UNIT.
AT THE END OF THE WAR, HIS SERVICE RECORDS SAY HE WAS PAROLED AT MEMPHIS, TN JUNE 10, 1865. AT THAT TIME HIS SERVICE RECORDS SAY HE WAS WITH THE 10TH TN CAV , CO. F, AS LT.
HE WAS THE SON OF NEELEY DOBSON McCRARY AND THE HUSBAND OF NANNIE GOSSETT McCRARY. HE DIED BEFORE 1870 AS A RESULT OF HIS INJURIES.