McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-03-19

tenant, A M. Coyey, 1st lieut., Bob
Gates, Fletcher Cobb, Robert Cobb,
George Churchill, Ned Dicus, John
! Dunn, Tom Darien, Polk DarieD, John
East, Tom Estes, Troy Erwin, Dave
Farmer, Marion Fisk, Dave Gill, Ben
Gill, Will Gill, Straud Gill, John Glib
son, Joe Gibson, Bill Gibson. Bill Hal
brooks. John Huddleston, Henry
Holderfeld, Milford Hendrix, Hiram
Hawkins, D. P. Hogue, Frank Howell,
John Howell, Matt. HALEY, John Hol-
man, ]. N. Jeans, Fayette Jeans, Cic-
ero Jeans, Tom Jones, H. H. Jones,
Jesse Jones, John Knots, A. ]. Luns-
ford, John Monroe, Dave Mckenzie.
Jim Mckenzie, Hugh McAlpin. John
Miller, Dick McGoughey, Riley MCGEE,
Moody McGee; John McWait, John
McNamee, Faust Moore, Ord lieut.,
Carroll Moore, Jim Owens, George
Ovens, Dave Price, John D. Page,
Jim Ray, Buck Ray, Sam Ray, John
Ray, Hugh NJ. Ray, Bill Ray, W, S.
Ray, Jim Rains. Yves Rains, josh
Roller, E. d. Roberts, Bob Stewart,
Zene Sullivan, Ned Sanders, Bill
Smallwood, Polk Smith, Dick Turner,
Bill Turner, Frank Tanner. Dick Tan
ner. Tom TillmaD, Monroe Wardlow,
John Waller, Jack Wilkerson, Dick
Wilkerson, Charley Wharton, Bill
Wharton. Caleb Wharton. Dick Whar-
ton, Jim Wiseman, Tom Wagner.
After Shiloh the Confederate army
rendezvoused at Corinth and the Fed
eral army had possession of that
country. Several of this company
dropped out and were with the COM
pany no more.
This company was known as Co. !
of the l54 Tenn. Infantry, that being
the number it bore in the stats mill
tia. This regiment was organized
with ten full companies, making in
all over fourteen hundred men; three
companies were from different parts
of West Tennessee, the other seven
were from Memphis. Each company
bore name as follows: Light Guards,
Bluff City Greys, Southern Guards,
Jackson Guards, Crockett Rangers,
Hickory Rifles, Harris Gonave Cadets
These seven companies were from
Memphis. The three others were:
Henry Guards. from Paris; Sons of
Liberty, from Salisbury; McNairy
Guards, from Purdy. Afterward
there We're added the Beauregards,
company from Memphis; Maynard
Rifles, from Memphis, and company
from Hardeman county we called the
Blazers-Why they were thus named
| never knew. This regiment when
first organized was commanded by
Col. Preston Smith, of Memphis, after
wards brigadier general, and killed at
Chickamauga; and Marcus ]. Wright,
lieutenant colonel, afterwards briga-
der general and now of Washington,
D. C. This regiment bore the dis
tinction of having turned out more
generals than any other regiment in
the Confederacy. Gen. N. B. Forrest
having first volunteered in this resi-
ment as private in the Memphis
Southern Guards, was elected lieu
tenant and transferred to company
of cavalry, next elected captain; at
Shiloh he was commanding a regi-
ment Of cavalry. The world knows
his record thenceforward. Maj
Martin Of this regiment rose to a
brigadier general, and was killed at
Corinth.
We are not now arguing whether
our cause was just and right or not;
that is for the historians, politicians
and the prejudices of men to decide;
but | will say, just little boastfully,
that the man or boy that followed
the colors of this regiment through
the war to the surrender knows what
the hardships of a Confederate soldier