The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1902-01-31
THE BROWN GUARDS,
Or Co. @ of Col Hume X. Fields
First Tennessee Regiment.

was AhIucQ Mlcu lut Gail 10 arm
: was made in April 1861. There wa
none before il.
Capt George W. Campbell. decd.
then OF Carriers Greek. was the chic
promoter OF its organization, aided bl
Leigh bullock and Bob Caruthers
Capt. Campbell was the first captain
as were Leigh Bullock. Bob Caruther,
and Wes Cook the first heutenants Al
the time the Brown Guards were being
made up, Lutte Erwin, from Hardin
County, came 70 Columbia with some
men from that county, and as Capt.
Campbell lacked some of completing the
required number of men to form COM
pdny. Capt. Campbell and Irwin united
their men, and thus organized the
Brown Guards. -
In after years of the war Lutte Erwin
was made captain. No drawer and
better men were 10 be found than those
men from Hardin County. Hardin
County was bitterly Union, and these
men, coming of the fiery furnace of
Union intolerance. were all game cocks
OF the intensest Southern strain.
The Maury county portion of the
Brown Guards was from north of Duck
Rivor-mainly from Carriers Creek
some from the Santa Fe country and
some east of the Spring Hill pike.
The company was called the Brown
Guards in honor of Mrs. General Ewell,
who was at that time Mrs. Brown, of
Spring Hill Its uniform was brown
| jeans
The oldest men in our company were
| Kit Hadley and Allan Nichols, from
% to 10; the Youngest was Raleigh P.
Dodson, about 10 years, not weighing
100 pounds. The accoutrements OF
soldier in campaign in front OF an
enemy weigh about 70 pounds, SO that
Raleigh was physically unable to carry
them. and his comrades would portion
his luggage amongst themselves on the
march, The ugliest man was Daniel
Adams "Old By Neds,' as he was
called; the prettiest man was Joe
Foster, now of Carter's Creek. The
good man was Charlie Nichols who
could laugh louder and lat nothing)
more than all others. Jim Sanders at
first was regarded as a nonentity, but
when he got bushel of sweet potatoes
and gallon of whiskey from an old
man and then made the old man pay |
for them, he became at once a Moses |
in camp. Bill fuckers father had |
the finest barn in Maury County-so
be said. Russ Convey Russell Sidney |
was very proud man, tho he was
from Hardin County. He was always
talking of his Maury County kin-es-
pecially of my cousin Loose
Mathews. " Monroe Dawson was the
tallest Z feet jim Stamps, or Valen
tine, the shortest and smallest 4 feet
= inches) Thad Alexander the bravest
Bart johnson wounded oftenest. We
had a little fellow named Ollerson
who was with us in Virginia, and be-
came deluded with call from Nico-
demus to preach. He began preaching
in camp; was carried to the hospital
preaching, and finally died, still
to the last moment. We.had
also conscript named Vestal who
was also Quaker and utterly refused
to do military duty. and had to let
him go as bad job He would have
died before doing anything. Sticking
bayonets wouldn't move him.
Though the company numbered so
many. there was never at any one time
present for duty more than 40 or 80
men, and in the latter years of the
war it got down to 10 or 10 men.
sickness, wounds, discharges, absent
without leave and death brought US
Town to five or six men at Greensboro,
North Carolina, on tie 26th of April,
1866
The following is list of thuse who, ;
vt the beginning or afterwards, en- E
listed in the Brown Guards from !
Maury County. Their names are !
given as they were known in the army :,
md in the neighborhoods of their resi- r
iences. All marked with an asterisk r
y have died since the war: v
*Danlel Adams, Thad Alexander, La !
vergne, Tenn.; *Dan Akin, Conner u
Akin. killed IN Daltop-Atlanta cam s
,aign; *Frank Akin, *Walter Akin, q
i'm Anderson; Arkansas; Leigh Bull A
ock, tLieutenant) asning on, ID. c.. Y
George Bunch, Nashville, Tenn; *John
'urnet, Book Barnes, Texas; Bob
Jaruthers (Lieutenant); *Bill Carter,
George w, Campbell (Captain), Car. ~
er's Creek; Mack Campbell (Lieuten- 81
MT, Spring Hill; Emory Church, RUDE h,
'happell Missouri; Fount Chappell, x
ISIS ssippi; Albert Chappell, Georgia, q,
Jim Cook, West Tennessee; To-
Yes Cook, died during the war; Raleigh f.
). Dodson, Columbia; *Monroe n
lawson, *Mike Dillon, James 7. Davis, a,
De Foster, Carter's Creek; Jim Foster, A
awkinsville, Ga; bob Foster, Jack 90
fitzgerald, killed at PerryvIlle; Nor NJ M
an Fitzgerald, Carriers Creek; *Bev. :,
reen, Sgd Green, DarKs Mil; -
Johnse Holcomb, *Dock Hunter, *Kit
adley p. Harris, killed in Dalton
tianta campaign; b. M. johnson, he
anita Fe; *Dutch King, Bob Jacobs, M
ipscomb; John Jacobs, Carriers Creek, II,
Bill Lane, *Monk Lockridge, Rank 20
cKee, Texas; *Tom Mckee, Bill Nc ~,
lure, Marshall county; .Rufe Miller IN
Thompson Station; John 20,
iller Lieutenant), Williamson county; he
III Miller, killed vt Missionary Ridge; ev v
Tom Montgomery, Henry Montgomery,
alter Valley, Tenn; Pat Murphy,
-al kiln; ALLAN Nichols, Charlie Mich
,. *Dutch Nichols, Carter's Creek; ~,
lem Newcomb, John Owen, Brant w
wen. s. Olerson, ~Ed Pope, john try
well, Ed Russell, killed at Atlanta; NJ
I'm Riggs, Springfield, Mo-; Bob w;
gigs, died during the war; Bill Roun- IN,
se, Texas; Charlie Rountree, Carriers A. A.
eek; Sab Reeves, Jerry Sullivan, ma
Tom Shaw, Carriers Creek; '''
1t Shaw, Columbia; N. b. Sheppard,
,lumbja. *CSeO Smith X Rem Smith