Company Unknown
Major
Shot by Confederates while on recruiting mission in Pine Knott Tavern, Pine Knott, Ky.
Union service · tennessee
7th Tennessee Infantry
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Company Unknown
Captain
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Company C
Rank unknown
Lutentant in company E 11th tennessee calvary
Company C
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Company C
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Company D
Corporal
Thomas Benjamin Smith, b. 1806, Jefferson, Rutherford Co, TN d. abt 1895 Bledsoe Co, TN. Enlisted: 9 Oct 1864 Discharged: 27 Jul 1865 Disability Incurred: Weak Lungs. Sources: (1)Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War-Bledsoe Co, TN, (2) 1890 Veterans Census-Bledsoe Co, TN, (3) Bledsonians in the Civil War: Compiled from various sources and lists of men who enlisted from or who were living in Bledsoe Co, TN at the time the 1890 Veterans Census was taken, (4) Tennesseans in the Civil War-Union Military History: Federal Military Rosters, 7th TN Vol Inf, Co D.
Company E
Private
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Company I
Private
Another brother Thomas Russell was killed in Civil War
Company I
Private
JOHN RUSSELL (b 1806) lived in 'The Cove' and at least three, possibly all nine of his sons served in the Union Army. His son THOMAS RUSSELL (1835) was killed in the war. His son JOHN F. RUSSELL (1838-1920) served and his son JAMES B. (1839-1910) served in Company I, 7th TN Inf. and later lived in Roane. AARON RUSSELL (b 1846) may have gotten into service near the end of the War.