Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1922-10-06
ROSTER -TENsAs CAVALRY
When Asstered Into the Confederate
: Service At Msmphis, Tenn.
August 29th. 1861.

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younger ones, when the tocsin Of
war sounded in our Southland in
1861, Tensas Parish sent to the front
as fine body of fighting men al
ever wore the grey. The Tensas Cav
airy was organized at st. Joseph in
the summer Of 1861 and included
practically all young men of this
parish of that day able to bear
arms, while recruits from neighboring
parishes answered the call, offering
to the Confederacy the flower Of
our young manhood.
OF that fine body Of men who laft
/ here on that July morning on the
steamer Mary E. Keen for Memphis,
where the Tensas Cavalry was to be
formally mustured into the service
Of the Confederate States as Com
pany "A of Writ Adams Cavalry
Regiment, but known "a. the First
Mississippi Cavalry, and later aug
mented by other enlistments, there
are scarcely more than five surviving
members, viz: Mr.. Geo. N. Clarke and
Mr.. w. S. H. WALES Of st. Joseph;
Mr.. Allen T. Bowie of Natchez, and
Mr.. David H. Farnham and Mr.
Henry E. Hoover, whose addresses
are not known to US.
While the struggle Of 1861-65 is;
now over, and the two belligerent
sections are now united into an in
dissoluble whole, Zone an INSOFAR
able, now and forever" the memo
ries of those troublesome times still
liyes in the minds and hearts Of the
few who yet live to tell the story,
and the tradition is preserved as O.
rich legacy to their issue.
That the descendants Of those who
wore the gray may preserve the full
list of this command, the Gazette
gives below the roster Of the Tensas
Cavalry as it was mustered into SER
vice in 1861, and the roster a. it
was mustered out Of service in 1866.
followed by full compliment Of men
enlisting during the full four years
replacing the constantly thinning
ranks. -
Clip it out and paste away in your
scrap-book, that children perhaps yet
unborn may know their :. fathers
were numbered among the patriots
of their day and. fought and bled
and died for what they believed to
be right.
Here follows the roster Of 1861 a.
given ns by the late Col. w. g.
Mobley in his "Reminiscences Of the !
Tensas Cavalry" published in the
Gazette in 1919. Col. Mobley, like
many Of his. comrades, has since
Joined the silent majority. |
commissionsd Officers.
Captain-I. G. Harrison
1st Lieutenant-A. Bondurant
I'd Lieutenant-G w. Montgomery
Bird Lieutenant-H. s. Doniphan
Non-Commissionsd of6esss
LIST Sgt. D. s. Newell
End Sgt. X. Routh
3rd Sgt.-G. L. Ellis
4th Sgt.-Jas Nichols
5th Sgt.-W. J. C. Austin
1st Corporal-Wm. West
End Corporal-Lee Briscoe /
3rd CsrporA-C. h. Snyder
4th Corporal-John Register
Privatse
Adams, w. A.
Anderson, Simeon
Bondurant, h.
Bowie, G. O.
Bowie, A. G. Jr.
Buckner, VIM.
Bonham, ]. n.
Coopage, 8. S.
Chamberlain, L. G. |
Chri%ian, D. h.
Clarkson, w. G.
Castleman, R. L.
Compton, E. G.
Christmas, J. Y.
Christmas, b. II.
Crossgrove, g. D.
Crossgrove, C. n. I
Campbell, W. s.
Davidson, A. S.
Dobbins, w. L.
Diamond, w.
Dalton, J. ].
Ewing, ]. s.
Fischel, L.
Falkner, w. J.
Ford, II. W.
Fairbanks. W. A.
Gwinn, w.
Coca, G. |
Gorton, F. A.
Green, "A. v.
Holstein, X. G..
Hodkins, E. L.
Harper, E. L.
Hughes W. G.
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