7th Tennessee Calvary, Co E, private/corporal, enlisted for 3 years in Huntingdon, TN on 7/25/62 and mustered in Humboldt, TN on 8/11/62. He was captured at the battle of Lexington, TN on 12/17/62, paroled and exchanged at some point. Presumed captured again with the regiment at Union City, TN on 3/24/64, Childers ended up in Andersonville Prison in Georgia where he died of diarrhea on 9/3/64. He was buried in grave #7702 in the Andersonville National Cemetery. His widow, Eleaner Childers, applied for a pension in 1875.
source: http://7thtenncavusa.com/Roster-Ca-Ch.html
source: http://7thtenncavusa.com/Roster-Ca-Ch.html
7th Tennessee Calvary, Co E, private/corporal, enlisted for 3 years in Huntingdon, TN on 7/25/62 and mustered in Humboldt, TN on 8/11/62. He was captured at the battle of Lexington, TN on 12/17/62, paroled and exchanged at some point. Presumed captured again with the regiment at Union City, TN on 3/24/64, Childers ended up in Andersonville Prison in Georgia where he died of diarrhea on 9/3/64. He was buried in grave #7702 in the Andersonville National Cemetery. His widow, Eleaner Childers, applied for a pension in 1875.
source: http://7thtenncavusa.com/Roster-Ca-Ch.html
source: http://7thtenncavusa.com/Roster-Ca-Ch.html
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