The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-05-08

-oe4' eu1 Hos ecuL 70 lamp haFEi
and then 10 Camp Cheatham for il
struction. From Camp Cheatham IN
regimen was ordered 10 West Vii
ginia. At the Nashville Female Acad
envy they were presented regimenta
eolors by a daughter Of Gov. William
B. Campbell. Colonel Of the Blood,
I First" OF the Mexican War-(Misi
Campbell afterwards became the wifi,
Of Forests best fighter. Colonel D. c
Kelly)
With Hatton's Seventh and Forbes
Fourteenth they formed a brigade
commanded by Gen. Sam R. Anderson
and in Loying's division, were under
the immediate command of Gen. Rob
ert E. Lee during the campaigns OF
Cheat Pass and Valley Mountain. In
January 1862, the regiment was with
Stonewall Jackson in the Romney
campaign, the seventies of which
were so terrible that the Secretary of
War ordered the troops to withdraw
to Winchester, Va, thereby causing
Stonewall Jackson to tender his resig-
nation,-which fortunately was not
approved by Lee or accepted by Pres
ident Davis.
In March, 1862, the regiment was
ordered to the Army of Tennessee,
the left wing (including the "Maury
Greys") reaching Shiloh in time for
the second days battle. At Corinth
the regiment recognized and re-en-
listed for the war. Nancy was pro-
NOTED Brigadier General and Captain
Hume r. Field, as brave man as
ever served in any cause in any coun-
try in the world, was elected Colonel.
In Maney's brigade, Cheatham's di-
vision, the First Tennessee took a
glorious part in all the campaigns and
battles of the Army of Tennessee I'M
Ter Bragg, Joseph E. Johnston and
Hood surrendered with Johnston's
army in North Carolina in April, 1865,
md finally disbanded in Nashville on
he 81 of May 1865.
The losses at Perryville were so
,reat that at Murfreesboro, Dec 1862,
he 9th Tenn. was consolidated with
he 1st Tenn. and shared the hard
hips and glories until the final sur
endef.
The 'Maury Greys," like other COM
anies of this splendid regiment, fur
shed many distinguished officers to
Their commands; among them Major
!. NJ Looney, Adjutant Thomas H.
IcKinney, Colonel Cadwalader Polk,
lieutenant w. ]. Dale, Captain James
. Forgey, Captain John B. Groves,
lieutenant Robert G. Harris, Surgeon /
nd Major Hooper, Captain Hick Kel-
:, Captain Polk McFall, Lieutenant |
o. p Nicholson, Captain George S. {
artin, Captain John A. Packard, Cap {
L I
z. j. Whitthorne, was appointed G
lieutenant Colonel and Captain, but t
signed both to serve and surrender f
) private in Company H.. of the t
t Tennessee, a position he regarded 4
more honorable than any a soldier O
uld hold Three OF his brothers a
ere privates in the LIST Tennessee in t.
e Mexican war, one losing his life c
erein and one of them afterwards n
lied under Walker in Nicaragua. d
e served himself as Captain and a
ajor in the LIST Tennessee in the "
'anish-American war in the Philip Il
1es.) n
The "Maury Greys" suffered terribly b
killed and wounded at Perryville, W
=, October 8, 1862. Ordered by
neral Leonidas Polk to capture
ttery our regiment did so twice,
arging up to the guns through
rm of grape and canister only to
swept from the crest of the ridge r
the terrific front and cross fire of
Federal brigade supporting the Tt
terry. Ten color bearers had been
It down, but as the last one was ph
ing Adjutant Thomas H. McKin-
: seized the flag and calling on til
boys to follow the flag, with Co M
ell Hume R. Field, led the third and
j charge, which captured and held
battery. These Napoleon guns
e given to Cheatham's division,
under gallant Captain Bill Turner
saved the right wing of
gg's army in the first days fight
at Chicamauga.
he "Maury Greys" occupied the
It exposed part of the salient on
Kennesaw Mountain line, known