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Richard Anderson Winningham

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Richard Anderson Winningham

Birth
Overton County, Tennessee, USA
Death
6 Sep 1922 (aged 85)
Overton County, Tennessee, USA
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Overton County, Tennessee, USA Add to Map
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2nd East Tn Infantry Co. B USA

Fair complexion, blue eyes, light hair, 110 lbs., 5' 6" in 1920. Was a Union soldier, serving in Co. B 2nd Tennessee and did service at Fishing Creek and other minor engagements. Was captured at East Port and carried a prisoner to Chattanooga, then to Madison, Ga. Spent one night in Andersonville prison. Was then taken to Salisbury, N.C., where he and two comrades escaped ty strategy. They burnt their faces, hands and arms with a hot iron and bathed in salt water and made the blisters white so as to resemble smallpox. They were taken out of prison to the hospital for treatment, where they escaped in the night. He reached his command again at Somerset, Ky. and rejoined them after being held 18 months a prisoner. He was discharged at Knoxville, October 7, 1864.
He was with the Home Guard at Cave Springs in Overton County when that county was placed under military authority to suppress the Ku Klux.
He was constable of the sixth district of Livingston, Overton County just after the war; was Deputy Marshal in 1868.
From The History of Fentress County by Albert R Hogue
2nd East Tn Infantry Co. B USA

Fair complexion, blue eyes, light hair, 110 lbs., 5' 6" in 1920. Was a Union soldier, serving in Co. B 2nd Tennessee and did service at Fishing Creek and other minor engagements. Was captured at East Port and carried a prisoner to Chattanooga, then to Madison, Ga. Spent one night in Andersonville prison. Was then taken to Salisbury, N.C., where he and two comrades escaped ty strategy. They burnt their faces, hands and arms with a hot iron and bathed in salt water and made the blisters white so as to resemble smallpox. They were taken out of prison to the hospital for treatment, where they escaped in the night. He reached his command again at Somerset, Ky. and rejoined them after being held 18 months a prisoner. He was discharged at Knoxville, October 7, 1864.
He was with the Home Guard at Cave Springs in Overton County when that county was placed under military authority to suppress the Ku Klux.
He was constable of the sixth district of Livingston, Overton County just after the war; was Deputy Marshal in 1868.
From The History of Fentress County by Albert R Hogue

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