Tipton's Company Tennessee National Guard – shot and killed in action
Jonathan Mize joined the National Guard after his sons William Alexander, Rufus Lee, and John Clark joined the 2nd Tennessee Calvary and Robert joined the 3rd Tennessee Infantry. Jonathan(59) was considered too old to serve in the regular Army and his youngest son James Harold(17) was too young. Both joined the National Guard.
Around the start of the Civil war, William Holland Thomas of western North Carolina felt that the mountain people would fare better as part of the Confederacy than with the Unites States. He joined the Confederate army and was appointed the rank of Colonel. Likewise, the Cherokee tribe he was adopted by appointed him chief of the Quallatown Cherokee when the great chief died. He was able to gather troops from both the white men and Cherokee. In 1863 Thomas's Legion crossed over the Smoky Mountains and occupied Gatlinburg, TN. A few of their scouts were captured by the Federal home Guard in Sevierville and thrown into a makeshift jail in the basement of the Sevier County Courthouse.
Upon hearing of his men being captured, Col. Thomas became infuriated. On December 8th, Thomas along with 200 of his men closed in on the courthouse. Jonathan Mize and his son James were guarding the courthouse along with several other men. The raid caught the guards by surprise. Six men were shot with only 2 surviving. They broke open the jail and released the prisoners. Jonathan Mize was fatally wounded and died on December 14th. His son James was wounded but survived. Sixty Federal Home Guards and Six regular federal army soldiers were captured along with their guns and ammunition.
Attending physician, J.W. Hammer, reported that he "attended Jonathan Mize after he was wounded by the Rebels and Indians in the town of Sevierville…and that his wound was a gunshot or pistol shot inflicted while engaged as National Guard under order of Major C. Inman."
He was laid to rest in the Middle Creek Methodist Church Cemetery. All of his sons would return home from the war though some sustained injuries and gunshot wounds.
Jonathan Mize joined the National Guard after his sons William Alexander, Rufus Lee, and John Clark joined the 2nd Tennessee Calvary and Robert joined the 3rd Tennessee Infantry. Jonathan(59) was considered too old to serve in the regular Army and his youngest son James Harold(17) was too young. Both joined the National Guard.
Around the start of the Civil war, William Holland Thomas of western North Carolina felt that the mountain people would fare better as part of the Confederacy than with the Unites States. He joined the Confederate army and was appointed the rank of Colonel. Likewise, the Cherokee tribe he was adopted by appointed him chief of the Quallatown Cherokee when the great chief died. He was able to gather troops from both the white men and Cherokee. In 1863 Thomas's Legion crossed over the Smoky Mountains and occupied Gatlinburg, TN. A few of their scouts were captured by the Federal home Guard in Sevierville and thrown into a makeshift jail in the basement of the Sevier County Courthouse.
Upon hearing of his men being captured, Col. Thomas became infuriated. On December 8th, Thomas along with 200 of his men closed in on the courthouse. Jonathan Mize and his son James were guarding the courthouse along with several other men. The raid caught the guards by surprise. Six men were shot with only 2 surviving. They broke open the jail and released the prisoners. Jonathan Mize was fatally wounded and died on December 14th. His son James was wounded but survived. Sixty Federal Home Guards and Six regular federal army soldiers were captured along with their guns and ammunition.
Attending physician, J.W. Hammer, reported that he "attended Jonathan Mize after he was wounded by the Rebels and Indians in the town of Sevierville…and that his wound was a gunshot or pistol shot inflicted while engaged as National Guard under order of Major C. Inman."
He was laid to rest in the Middle Creek Methodist Church Cemetery. All of his sons would return home from the war though some sustained injuries and gunshot wounds.
Tipton's Company Tennessee National Guard – shot and killed in action
Jonathan Mize joined the National Guard after his sons William Alexander, Rufus Lee, and John Clark joined the 2nd Tennessee Calvary and Robert joined the 3rd Tennessee Infantry. Jonathan(59) was considered too old to serve in the regular Army and his youngest son James Harold(17) was too young. Both joined the National Guard.
Around the start of the Civil war, William Holland Thomas of western North Carolina felt that the mountain people would fare better as part of the Confederacy than with the Unites States. He joined the Confederate army and was appointed the rank of Colonel. Likewise, the Cherokee tribe he was adopted by appointed him chief of the Quallatown Cherokee when the great chief died. He was able to gather troops from both the white men and Cherokee. In 1863 Thomas's Legion crossed over the Smoky Mountains and occupied Gatlinburg, TN. A few of their scouts were captured by the Federal home Guard in Sevierville and thrown into a makeshift jail in the basement of the Sevier County Courthouse.
Upon hearing of his men being captured, Col. Thomas became infuriated. On December 8th, Thomas along with 200 of his men closed in on the courthouse. Jonathan Mize and his son James were guarding the courthouse along with several other men. The raid caught the guards by surprise. Six men were shot with only 2 surviving. They broke open the jail and released the prisoners. Jonathan Mize was fatally wounded and died on December 14th. His son James was wounded but survived. Sixty Federal Home Guards and Six regular federal army soldiers were captured along with their guns and ammunition.
Attending physician, J.W. Hammer, reported that he "attended Jonathan Mize after he was wounded by the Rebels and Indians in the town of Sevierville…and that his wound was a gunshot or pistol shot inflicted while engaged as National Guard under order of Major C. Inman."
He was laid to rest in the Middle Creek Methodist Church Cemetery. All of his sons would return home from the war though some sustained injuries and gunshot wounds.
Jonathan Mize joined the National Guard after his sons William Alexander, Rufus Lee, and John Clark joined the 2nd Tennessee Calvary and Robert joined the 3rd Tennessee Infantry. Jonathan(59) was considered too old to serve in the regular Army and his youngest son James Harold(17) was too young. Both joined the National Guard.
Around the start of the Civil war, William Holland Thomas of western North Carolina felt that the mountain people would fare better as part of the Confederacy than with the Unites States. He joined the Confederate army and was appointed the rank of Colonel. Likewise, the Cherokee tribe he was adopted by appointed him chief of the Quallatown Cherokee when the great chief died. He was able to gather troops from both the white men and Cherokee. In 1863 Thomas's Legion crossed over the Smoky Mountains and occupied Gatlinburg, TN. A few of their scouts were captured by the Federal home Guard in Sevierville and thrown into a makeshift jail in the basement of the Sevier County Courthouse.
Upon hearing of his men being captured, Col. Thomas became infuriated. On December 8th, Thomas along with 200 of his men closed in on the courthouse. Jonathan Mize and his son James were guarding the courthouse along with several other men. The raid caught the guards by surprise. Six men were shot with only 2 surviving. They broke open the jail and released the prisoners. Jonathan Mize was fatally wounded and died on December 14th. His son James was wounded but survived. Sixty Federal Home Guards and Six regular federal army soldiers were captured along with their guns and ammunition.
Attending physician, J.W. Hammer, reported that he "attended Jonathan Mize after he was wounded by the Rebels and Indians in the town of Sevierville…and that his wound was a gunshot or pistol shot inflicted while engaged as National Guard under order of Major C. Inman."
He was laid to rest in the Middle Creek Methodist Church Cemetery. All of his sons would return home from the war though some sustained injuries and gunshot wounds.
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