Company Unknown
Surgeon
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48th Tennessee Infantry
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Company Unknown
Private
Major David also went by W D Crawley of the 45th Tenn. Not sure why.
Company Unknown
Private
He was my gggrandfather and was from Maury and Lawrence County Tenn. He married Margaret Gilmore,Nancy Jane Roach and Sarah E Turnage. Died in Columbia or Mt Pleasent Tenn. Any information would be appreciated
Company Unknown
Rank unknown
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Company A
Private
Inducted Nov. 26, 1861
Captured at Ft. Donelson, Tn. Feb. 16, 1862
POW Camp Douglas, Il. until Sept. 3, 1862, prisoner exchange
Discharged April, 1865
Company A
Private
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Company B
Sergeant
collateral ancestor.....(Voorhie''s)
Company B
2nd Lieutenant
collateral ancestor..(Voorhie''s)
Company B
Sergeant
He was my 3rd Great-Granduncle. He was captured in 1862 at Fort Donelson, taken to Camp Douglas in Illinois where he died in 1863.
Company B
Private
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Company C
Captain
Not related but have information on him. Have his sword that he had through the War. Great piece along with copies from the US archives of papers he signed while getting supplies for his men.
Company C
Private
My great-great-great grandfather. Born 1823 in Orange County, NC. Lived in Lewis Co., TN in 1861. Enlisted Nov. 29, 1861 at Newburg, TN. Avoided capture at Ft. Donelson. Died of disease at a ''Citizen''s Hospital'' in Columbus, MS on June 2, 1862. Probably buried at Friendship Cemetery in Columbus.
Company D
2nd Lieutenant
His war record shows that he enlisted Dec.7,1861 from Hickman Co.,Tn. as a private in Co.D 48th Tenn. Inf.(Voorheis'). He was captured at Ft. Donelson Feb. 16,1862 and kept as a prisoner of war at Camp Douglas,Illinois until exchanged at Vicksburg,Miss. He was a 2nd.Lt. from Sep29,1862 until Feb20,1865. He joined the 9th. Bn. Tn. cavalry as a Pvt. until paroled at Charlotte,N.C. May3,1865 after Johnston's surrender. In his papers he indicated that he never took the oath of allegiance.
Company D
Rank unknown
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Company E
Private
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Company E
2nd Sergeant
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Company G
Captain
Helton Rutherford Walker enlisted in November 1861 and was mustered in the following month. He was taken prisoner at Fort Donelson in February 1862, and spent 7 months in Camp Douglas prison camp, in Chicago. He was exchanged in September 1862, and was shortly thereafter elected Captain of Company G by the men he was imprisoned with. They were reorganized into a second 48th Tenn, under Colonel Voorhies. He served until the close of the war, and was still with his unit at the Battle of Bentonville, NC on 19 March 1964 (his performance in this battle was praised by General Johnston), and at the final surrender in April 1865. He returned home to Hickman County, Tennessee, where he is found in the Pinewood area at the time of the 1870 census. In the spring of 1872 he moved his family to Howell County, Missouri, where he homesteaded, and donated the land for Walker's Chapel Church and Cemetery, where his descendants and others gather every Memorial weekend.
Company H
Major
Maj. Joseph T. Younger, 48th Tennessee Infantry, fought under Capt. David Sowell Detachment. Younger was my great, great grandfather. He was from Maury County, so I am guessing Company H...
Company I
2nd Lieutenant
Voorhies Regiment, Captured at Ft Donelson, held in Camp Douglas Prison until exchanged at Vicksburg.
Company K
Rank unknown
Loking for info. on this man WC Vandiver TN.48th (Nixion's) Inf.