The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1902-01-31
A Short Sketch of the Life of DR.. r.
Il. Harrison.

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The following from the Colorado
Citizen (Texas) was handed lis fol
publication, relative to an old-tlmt
esteemed citizen of Troy:
Robert Henry Harrison is a SOL
OF the late DR.. Jesse and Mrs. Mar
garet A. Hulsee Harrison and was
born in GAINESVILLE, Ga, on the 13tl
day of November, 1926. The father
and family in the latter part O.
1929 removed to Middle Tennessee
and eventually settled in Clarks
vile in that State, where the sub
ject of this sketch received a prac
teal education. After taking d
literary course in the GAINESVILLE
academy, he then attended the
John w. Tyler High School in Ken
tucky-a highly celebrated school
at that time. The family then re-
moved to Nashville, where the Doc
tor began to study medicine in his
fathers private in6rmary, subse-
quently attending medical lectures
in the schools of Cincinnati, O. AT
ter finishing in the schools of that
city he located in Troy, Obion
County, Tenn, where he practiced
medicine for while, then for the
second time settled in Clarksville,
where his youth was spent in min,
istering to the afflicted.
A few years later he was elected
to fill the chair of Materia Medica
and Therapeutics in one of the
medical colleges in Memphis, which
position he filled with credit several
years. In May, 1856 he was united
in wedlock. to Miss Martha V. Tow
ell, of COvington, Tenn
The Doctor was among the first
in 1861 to rise in defense of our
beautiful Southland AS private
he raised company of artillery for
the defense of Fort Pillow in West
Tennessee on the Mississippi River.
After the fall of Island No. Ten
this company was disbanded aud
it's gallant members recruited into
the different arms of service at Cor
NTH, Miss, where in the reorgani-
cation of Tennessee troops the
Doctor was elected Captain of Com
pany E, Ninth Tennessee Volun-
teers. This company was with Gen.
Bragg's army during his campaign
n Kentucky. After the battle of
Murfreesboro the (then) Captain
vas recommended for promotion
md ordered to report to Gen. Penn
)erton at Jackson, Miss. The Gen
,ral ordered him to West Tennes-
zee to organize a regiment of con-
cripts that had been disbanded.
n the vain endeavor to accomplish
his end the Captain was captured
y Federal forces and held priso-
Ter twenty-one months at Alton,
H., from there he was transferred
0 the military prison on Johnson
sland where he encountered Secfe-
airy Stanton's starvation allow
nee six months longer before or
cred to Aiken's landing for ex-
hange. He was then ordered to
eport to Gen. Forrest in Mississlp-
/. AT Montgomery, Ala, he met
en- Buford and was placed on du-
7 as inspector general of defense
that city against the approach
{ the Federal Gen. Wilson with I
1000 men. When it was deter
inc ] to abandon the city the Doc I
II was placed in command of a
-1gade of Alabama reserves re- :
eating in the direction of Column
is, Ga, under orders to obstruct /
e thoroughfares as. effectively as |
,ssible with the view of delaying I
e march Of the Federal troops. +
hen the brigade arrived in Column
IS it was placed on duty for the !.
Tense of the city and this was the i
st battle fought east of the Mis- c
ssippi River. After the surrender S
e Doctor returned to West Ten
ssee, subsequently removing to
ississippi, thence to Columbus, $
tx, in 1869, since which time he (
s been resident of this city e
From 1880 to 1887 the Doctor con e
cted the railroad hospital in this !
y. After the removal of its head
arters to San Antonio the Doctor =
S having the buildings reno j
ted to open up private hospital P
t the magnificent structure was G
stroyed by fire and with it an in E,
uable library, surgical instru- :,
nts, furniture, fixtures all, n
ice that time the Doctor has been Jt
lcticing his profession and living N
uiet life as good ny and citl r
/. He has been much 4terested Il.
securing good health laws for
general good of the State, and =
been untiring in spending his F.
neY and time to bring about NJ
h an end AS physician we r
not believe hrs peer resides in
xas. More than fifty years '61
61t omitted continuous practice til