Photos; Lewis in Confederate Uniform, 2nd, wife first wife Martha Elizabeth Rowe; 3rd. Lewis in later years with his Civil War Medal on; 4th. 2nd wife Minnie NeSmith and their daughter Iris. Last is Lewis and daughter Iris Gay Jordan.
Lewis and Martha are my 2nd Great Grandparents.
Lewis Gay-- Iris Lee Gay cherishes a distant memory of her Father. She can still see him sitting on the front porch with neighbors passing a Sunday with tales of his days in the Confederate Army of Tennessee. When Lewis Gay died in Oct. 1931 he was ninety-one. But Iris was only nine then and in time she became the custodian of her father's memory and of this fine photograph of him in uniform and spiky haircut during the war.
A reading of Private Gay's military record is no doubt bland compared to the old Veteran's front porch stories, but it provides an outline. A resident of Bradford County he joined Hunts Company of the 4th. Fla. Volunteer Infantry at Lake Butler in May 1861, a month after his 21st birthday. Scarcely nine months later in January 1862 he was captured at Cedar Keys, Florida, while serving a twenty-two man guard detachment sent to protect the port town's citzens. He was taken to Fort Delaware, a federal prison on a island in the Delaware River below Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. There he stayed until August 1862 when he was exchanged. Gay could not return to duty immediately after his release. He had contacted typhoid fever at Fort Delaware and had to undergo treatment, first in Richmond, Virginia, then in Chattanooga, Tennessee. But it seems Gay returned to his regiment in timeto fight in the Battle of Murfreesboro, Tennessee(Dec, 31,1862-Jan 2, 1863).
More combat followed for Gay and the 4th Fla. The Private fought at the Batles of Chickamauga(Georgia Sept 29, 1863)and Missionary Ridge(Tennessee Nov, 1863), the battles for Atlanta(Georgia May-Sept 1864), the Tennessee Battles of Franklin(Nov, 1964)and Nashville (Dec, 1864), and the Battle of Bentonville(North Carolina 1865). In April 1865, Gay was surrendered with-General Joseph E Johnston's Army of Tennessee to Union Major General William T Sherman. Gay was one of twenty three members of the 4th Fla still alive for the surrender.
Issued a parole in April 1865 at Greensboro, N. C. Gay returned home to Providence. He married and with his wife raised two-sons and five daughters. In 1919 after his first wife's death, he remarried. When Gay was eighty two years old, Iris was born. Now long after the old soldier's death and burial in the Olustee Baptist Church Cemetery near Providence, Iris Lee still remembers her veteran father spinning yarns on the porch: By Robert F France, Snellville, Ga.
Lewis and Martha are my 2nd Great Grandparents.
Lewis Gay-- Iris Lee Gay cherishes a distant memory of her Father. She can still see him sitting on the front porch with neighbors passing a Sunday with tales of his days in the Confederate Army of Tennessee. When Lewis Gay died in Oct. 1931 he was ninety-one. But Iris was only nine then and in time she became the custodian of her father's memory and of this fine photograph of him in uniform and spiky haircut during the war.
A reading of Private Gay's military record is no doubt bland compared to the old Veteran's front porch stories, but it provides an outline. A resident of Bradford County he joined Hunts Company of the 4th. Fla. Volunteer Infantry at Lake Butler in May 1861, a month after his 21st birthday. Scarcely nine months later in January 1862 he was captured at Cedar Keys, Florida, while serving a twenty-two man guard detachment sent to protect the port town's citzens. He was taken to Fort Delaware, a federal prison on a island in the Delaware River below Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. There he stayed until August 1862 when he was exchanged. Gay could not return to duty immediately after his release. He had contacted typhoid fever at Fort Delaware and had to undergo treatment, first in Richmond, Virginia, then in Chattanooga, Tennessee. But it seems Gay returned to his regiment in timeto fight in the Battle of Murfreesboro, Tennessee(Dec, 31,1862-Jan 2, 1863).
More combat followed for Gay and the 4th Fla. The Private fought at the Batles of Chickamauga(Georgia Sept 29, 1863)and Missionary Ridge(Tennessee Nov, 1863), the battles for Atlanta(Georgia May-Sept 1864), the Tennessee Battles of Franklin(Nov, 1964)and Nashville (Dec, 1864), and the Battle of Bentonville(North Carolina 1865). In April 1865, Gay was surrendered with-General Joseph E Johnston's Army of Tennessee to Union Major General William T Sherman. Gay was one of twenty three members of the 4th Fla still alive for the surrender.
Issued a parole in April 1865 at Greensboro, N. C. Gay returned home to Providence. He married and with his wife raised two-sons and five daughters. In 1919 after his first wife's death, he remarried. When Gay was eighty two years old, Iris was born. Now long after the old soldier's death and burial in the Olustee Baptist Church Cemetery near Providence, Iris Lee still remembers her veteran father spinning yarns on the porch: By Robert F France, Snellville, Ga.
Photos; Lewis in Confederate Uniform, 2nd, wife first wife Martha Elizabeth Rowe; 3rd. Lewis in later years with his Civil War Medal on; 4th. 2nd wife Minnie NeSmith and their daughter Iris. Last is Lewis and daughter Iris Gay Jordan.
Lewis and Martha are my 2nd Great Grandparents.
Lewis Gay-- Iris Lee Gay cherishes a distant memory of her Father. She can still see him sitting on the front porch with neighbors passing a Sunday with tales of his days in the Confederate Army of Tennessee. When Lewis Gay died in Oct. 1931 he was ninety-one. But Iris was only nine then and in time she became the custodian of her father's memory and of this fine photograph of him in uniform and spiky haircut during the war.
A reading of Private Gay's military record is no doubt bland compared to the old Veteran's front porch stories, but it provides an outline. A resident of Bradford County he joined Hunts Company of the 4th. Fla. Volunteer Infantry at Lake Butler in May 1861, a month after his 21st birthday. Scarcely nine months later in January 1862 he was captured at Cedar Keys, Florida, while serving a twenty-two man guard detachment sent to protect the port town's citzens. He was taken to Fort Delaware, a federal prison on a island in the Delaware River below Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. There he stayed until August 1862 when he was exchanged. Gay could not return to duty immediately after his release. He had contacted typhoid fever at Fort Delaware and had to undergo treatment, first in Richmond, Virginia, then in Chattanooga, Tennessee. But it seems Gay returned to his regiment in timeto fight in the Battle of Murfreesboro, Tennessee(Dec, 31,1862-Jan 2, 1863).
More combat followed for Gay and the 4th Fla. The Private fought at the Batles of Chickamauga(Georgia Sept 29, 1863)and Missionary Ridge(Tennessee Nov, 1863), the battles for Atlanta(Georgia May-Sept 1864), the Tennessee Battles of Franklin(Nov, 1964)and Nashville (Dec, 1864), and the Battle of Bentonville(North Carolina 1865). In April 1865, Gay was surrendered with-General Joseph E Johnston's Army of Tennessee to Union Major General William T Sherman. Gay was one of twenty three members of the 4th Fla still alive for the surrender.
Issued a parole in April 1865 at Greensboro, N. C. Gay returned home to Providence. He married and with his wife raised two-sons and five daughters. In 1919 after his first wife's death, he remarried. When Gay was eighty two years old, Iris was born. Now long after the old soldier's death and burial in the Olustee Baptist Church Cemetery near Providence, Iris Lee still remembers her veteran father spinning yarns on the porch: By Robert F France, Snellville, Ga.
Lewis and Martha are my 2nd Great Grandparents.
Lewis Gay-- Iris Lee Gay cherishes a distant memory of her Father. She can still see him sitting on the front porch with neighbors passing a Sunday with tales of his days in the Confederate Army of Tennessee. When Lewis Gay died in Oct. 1931 he was ninety-one. But Iris was only nine then and in time she became the custodian of her father's memory and of this fine photograph of him in uniform and spiky haircut during the war.
A reading of Private Gay's military record is no doubt bland compared to the old Veteran's front porch stories, but it provides an outline. A resident of Bradford County he joined Hunts Company of the 4th. Fla. Volunteer Infantry at Lake Butler in May 1861, a month after his 21st birthday. Scarcely nine months later in January 1862 he was captured at Cedar Keys, Florida, while serving a twenty-two man guard detachment sent to protect the port town's citzens. He was taken to Fort Delaware, a federal prison on a island in the Delaware River below Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. There he stayed until August 1862 when he was exchanged. Gay could not return to duty immediately after his release. He had contacted typhoid fever at Fort Delaware and had to undergo treatment, first in Richmond, Virginia, then in Chattanooga, Tennessee. But it seems Gay returned to his regiment in timeto fight in the Battle of Murfreesboro, Tennessee(Dec, 31,1862-Jan 2, 1863).
More combat followed for Gay and the 4th Fla. The Private fought at the Batles of Chickamauga(Georgia Sept 29, 1863)and Missionary Ridge(Tennessee Nov, 1863), the battles for Atlanta(Georgia May-Sept 1864), the Tennessee Battles of Franklin(Nov, 1964)and Nashville (Dec, 1864), and the Battle of Bentonville(North Carolina 1865). In April 1865, Gay was surrendered with-General Joseph E Johnston's Army of Tennessee to Union Major General William T Sherman. Gay was one of twenty three members of the 4th Fla still alive for the surrender.
Issued a parole in April 1865 at Greensboro, N. C. Gay returned home to Providence. He married and with his wife raised two-sons and five daughters. In 1919 after his first wife's death, he remarried. When Gay was eighty two years old, Iris was born. Now long after the old soldier's death and burial in the Olustee Baptist Church Cemetery near Providence, Iris Lee still remembers her veteran father spinning yarns on the porch: By Robert F France, Snellville, Ga.
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