Occupation before War:
Clerk for Henry County Tennessee County Court
Civil War Career:
1861: Adjutant for 5th Tennessee Infantry Regiment
1861 – 1862: Lt. Colonel of 5th Tennessee Infantry Regiment
1862: Colonel of 5th Tennessee Infantry Regiment
1862: Wounded during the Battle of Perryville
1862: on Recruiting Duty in Western Tennessee
24th Tennessee Infantry Regiment in Strahl's Brigade
While General Braggs Army was camped at Murfreesboro, TN, Dec 1862, Col Venable, together with about six officers including one surgeon, left the army under orders to go to West Tennessee and seek recruits for their command. Col Venable's home was in Henry County and he was a member of the 24th Tennessee Infantry Regiment in Strahl's Brigade. Saturday in the Christmas week, the detail proceeded to Versailles, 12 miles southwest of Murfreesboro, where they stopped overnight with Richard Ransom's mother, then Elizabeth Snell Ransom Covington. Col Venable complained of not feeling well, suddenly became worse, and died about 10:00 p m that night, presumably of pneumonia or heart attack.
He was buried by his comrades the next day, Sunday, assisted by members of Mrs Covington's family, in what is now known as the Ransom Cemetery in Versailles. Col Venable is believed to be the first to be buried in the cemetery. In 1890, Mrs Covington was in her 81st year and personally seeing that the graveyard received appropriate care as a number of her family members were buried there by that time. A few Negroes were buried near the cemetery but remain unnamed due to the attitudes of the times. B B Taylor of the Versailles neighborhood placed a stone slab marking Col Venable's grave.
Wife: Mary Kendall Venable
Clerk for Henry County Tennessee County Court
Civil War Career:
1861: Adjutant for 5th Tennessee Infantry Regiment
1861 – 1862: Lt. Colonel of 5th Tennessee Infantry Regiment
1862: Colonel of 5th Tennessee Infantry Regiment
1862: Wounded during the Battle of Perryville
1862: on Recruiting Duty in Western Tennessee
24th Tennessee Infantry Regiment in Strahl's Brigade
While General Braggs Army was camped at Murfreesboro, TN, Dec 1862, Col Venable, together with about six officers including one surgeon, left the army under orders to go to West Tennessee and seek recruits for their command. Col Venable's home was in Henry County and he was a member of the 24th Tennessee Infantry Regiment in Strahl's Brigade. Saturday in the Christmas week, the detail proceeded to Versailles, 12 miles southwest of Murfreesboro, where they stopped overnight with Richard Ransom's mother, then Elizabeth Snell Ransom Covington. Col Venable complained of not feeling well, suddenly became worse, and died about 10:00 p m that night, presumably of pneumonia or heart attack.
He was buried by his comrades the next day, Sunday, assisted by members of Mrs Covington's family, in what is now known as the Ransom Cemetery in Versailles. Col Venable is believed to be the first to be buried in the cemetery. In 1890, Mrs Covington was in her 81st year and personally seeing that the graveyard received appropriate care as a number of her family members were buried there by that time. A few Negroes were buried near the cemetery but remain unnamed due to the attitudes of the times. B B Taylor of the Versailles neighborhood placed a stone slab marking Col Venable's grave.
Wife: Mary Kendall Venable
Occupation before War:
Clerk for Henry County Tennessee County Court
Civil War Career:
1861: Adjutant for 5th Tennessee Infantry Regiment
1861 – 1862: Lt. Colonel of 5th Tennessee Infantry Regiment
1862: Colonel of 5th Tennessee Infantry Regiment
1862: Wounded during the Battle of Perryville
1862: on Recruiting Duty in Western Tennessee
24th Tennessee Infantry Regiment in Strahl's Brigade
While General Braggs Army was camped at Murfreesboro, TN, Dec 1862, Col Venable, together with about six officers including one surgeon, left the army under orders to go to West Tennessee and seek recruits for their command. Col Venable's home was in Henry County and he was a member of the 24th Tennessee Infantry Regiment in Strahl's Brigade. Saturday in the Christmas week, the detail proceeded to Versailles, 12 miles southwest of Murfreesboro, where they stopped overnight with Richard Ransom's mother, then Elizabeth Snell Ransom Covington. Col Venable complained of not feeling well, suddenly became worse, and died about 10:00 p m that night, presumably of pneumonia or heart attack.
He was buried by his comrades the next day, Sunday, assisted by members of Mrs Covington's family, in what is now known as the Ransom Cemetery in Versailles. Col Venable is believed to be the first to be buried in the cemetery. In 1890, Mrs Covington was in her 81st year and personally seeing that the graveyard received appropriate care as a number of her family members were buried there by that time. A few Negroes were buried near the cemetery but remain unnamed due to the attitudes of the times. B B Taylor of the Versailles neighborhood placed a stone slab marking Col Venable's grave.
Wife: Mary Kendall Venable
Clerk for Henry County Tennessee County Court
Civil War Career:
1861: Adjutant for 5th Tennessee Infantry Regiment
1861 – 1862: Lt. Colonel of 5th Tennessee Infantry Regiment
1862: Colonel of 5th Tennessee Infantry Regiment
1862: Wounded during the Battle of Perryville
1862: on Recruiting Duty in Western Tennessee
24th Tennessee Infantry Regiment in Strahl's Brigade
While General Braggs Army was camped at Murfreesboro, TN, Dec 1862, Col Venable, together with about six officers including one surgeon, left the army under orders to go to West Tennessee and seek recruits for their command. Col Venable's home was in Henry County and he was a member of the 24th Tennessee Infantry Regiment in Strahl's Brigade. Saturday in the Christmas week, the detail proceeded to Versailles, 12 miles southwest of Murfreesboro, where they stopped overnight with Richard Ransom's mother, then Elizabeth Snell Ransom Covington. Col Venable complained of not feeling well, suddenly became worse, and died about 10:00 p m that night, presumably of pneumonia or heart attack.
He was buried by his comrades the next day, Sunday, assisted by members of Mrs Covington's family, in what is now known as the Ransom Cemetery in Versailles. Col Venable is believed to be the first to be buried in the cemetery. In 1890, Mrs Covington was in her 81st year and personally seeing that the graveyard received appropriate care as a number of her family members were buried there by that time. A few Negroes were buried near the cemetery but remain unnamed due to the attitudes of the times. B B Taylor of the Versailles neighborhood placed a stone slab marking Col Venable's grave.
Wife: Mary Kendall Venable
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