Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-04-03
"reminiscences Of the Third Tennes-
see Cavalry.
BY ADJUTANT WILL, A. M'TEER.

| received orders to prepare for muster>
Tout ofseryice. This was received with
joy, yet the officers Of the little skele,
tons Of companies found that they had
no small job on hand. The muster-out
rolls had to account for each and every
man that had ever belonged to the
company. The regiment had been
captured, then blown up on the Sui
tana, number OF men died in prison,
and there had been many other cas-
ualiies, while the papers were scattered
to the forewnds. The writer. and some
other officers and men who were rapid
Nashville, and there worked hard for
some time copying muster.in rolls,
that we might have a true copy In
order to make the muster-out role.
Again General Johnson ordered the
writer to East Tennessee to get some
data from rome of the officers who had
resig D. cd and come home. This was
avoided, however, by supplying the
same thing in another way.
The other regiments OF the
brigade could make out their
rolls much more rapidly than
We, because they had not Met
with such niisfortunss. This delay
on the part of our own rolls aud the
rapid muster out on the part OF 9TH
ers, produced considerable dissatisfac.
ton among some of the men who
could not Understand the cause, and
at one time it appeared that u small
mutiny was iulmInent, but such dis.
grace was avoided.
Al length all was ready, and on the
3rd day of August, 1865, the regiment
was mustered out of service. The
boys boarded the train and went to
Nashville to receive their pay. Capt.
jacob P. BRENT, Capt. VIM. A. Camp
bell, Lieut.. George w. Wester and the
writer remained at Pulaski in order
to complete our returns and make the
final arrangements for turning over all
the papers and accounts to the govern
ment. We worked hard the 4th and
on the 5th completed our task, and on
the. 9Th went to Nashville. Thus 1t,
appea 70 that the writer was one of the
first four who enlisted in the regiment
aud one Of the last four to leave the
field.
On the 18th day of August commits.
sions were received In the regiment
which had before been issued, by
which the following prombtions were
made.
i Colonel Samuel w. Pickens, of
Sew Ter comfy; Lieutenant-Colonel-8
John A. Souers, of Hamilton county.
Msjors-Jacob p. BRENT, of McMinn
county; Will A. McTeer, of Blouut
county; William a. Campbell, Of
CsaplsinHJohn II. Morton, of se>
vier. 's
Captains-Archibsld s. Mason, of
MonToe; George A. Wade, of Sewer;
Oliver Henry, OF SEWER; Elijah j.
Pirkle, OF Bradley; George w. Wes-
'er, of Granger; Daniel E. Lebow, of
Blount. E'8 90 -FssEt8EsL m-s
FIRST Observation-Disclosures C. Half
ley, of BiouDt; Joshua Hines, Of
BIount; William d. Wade, Of Nc
Minn; William e Mansfield, OF Jeffer-
.ou; john w. Williams, iof Meigs;
Alexan der p. Rambo, OF KNOX; Chris.
topher A, Reynolds, of BlounI; Jona-
than Fl. Rodgers, of Bradley; John b.
Fr,cks, of McMinu; Madison g
Wright, of Monroe; Samue! III.
t,sdgett. Of .f,iount; William L.
Hmcheon, Of Meigs. 'N IeE1 EegrlH
Secnnd Robert s. Ma
son, -of Monroe; Andrew Il. Peery, Of
Bloun; William g. Douglass, of
SEWER; Joel "A. williams, of sKuox;
Willrnm A. McNott, eof Stvier; John
d. Pierce, OF Sewer; Joseph d. Brad
~, Of SEWER,
sOithe s b we received our pay aud
4ouu the buys who had 40 long worn
the biuec uid be seen with clothes OF
aiiIze 9, aud they were scarcely recog-
niz ,Ole
Now. another trying lime was at
nand. ItwaA truesthat We all wanted
10 re urn thoms. wapted 10 meet with
loved ones VINO had been left 10 per J.
,pls Ifi mes, wanted 10 see The Iacs
where we had lived and grown up,
out to do this we must part. The
third was never sgIln to 80 Into
camps, never to aga,n COME out on
another parade When the sixth In-
diana was mustered out, Captain Nc.
Milan Of that regiment came over and
babe adieu. He said when be left
home he found 1t bard to. part with
parep IL, sisters and dear friends the
com panions OF his childhood, "but
now" said be, " 1 am about to part
with comrades with W homR have
stood IN dangers where men have fallen,
with whom have shared In hardships
and priVadons, and the thought that
this Is last farewell 10 40 many, that
ties formed In blood must be forever
broken, makes this one Of the saddest
I hours OF my life." So 1t was with all
of US. The camps and the command
OF the Third had become q home to
us, and now we must break up camps,
disband and never again bivouac or
| march together. 1t was indeed q sad
hour, Hands were clasped, while
rood wishes were expressed In tears,
7 These were tears Of sorrow at the part.
ing, while tears of Joy were ready to
bsthe the face at the meeting of loved
ones Of whom we had dreamed on the
battlefield and In the darkest hours Of
the war. Aud so we parted. The
Third was disbanded and was no LON
ger regiment OF soldiers, but citizens
OF our GREAT REPUBLLC. ~
W ~ THE END