Private, Company D, 7th Tennessee Cavalry, enlisted for 1 year in Carroll Co, TN on 8/4/1962 and mustered at Trenton, TN on 9/24/1862. He was one of the 100 or more men who went AWOL from the forts on the Miss/Tenn line in June 1863. Captured by Colonel Napier's irregular forces on 12/18/1863 and paroled. On 1/1/1864 he enlisted in Co K, 2nd TN Mounted Infantry, a unit his brother Littleton Gooch joined later. He married Martha J Hatch and died in Decatur Co, TN on 1/2/1894. Both Willis and Martha Gooch applied for pensions.
Holley, Peggy Scott. Hawkins' Tories, A Regimental and Social History of the 7th Tennessee Cavalry USA in the Civil War, BrayBree Publishing, Dickson TN, 230 p, 2014
Holley, Peggy Scott. Hawkins' Tories, A Regimental and Social History of the 7th Tennessee Cavalry USA in the Civil War, BrayBree Publishing, Dickson TN, 230 p, 2014
Private, Company D, 7th Tennessee Cavalry, enlisted for 1 year in Carroll Co, TN on 8/4/1962 and mustered at Trenton, TN on 9/24/1862. He was one of the 100 or more men who went AWOL from the forts on the Miss/Tenn line in June 1863. Captured by Colonel Napier's irregular forces on 12/18/1863 and paroled. On 1/1/1864 he enlisted in Co K, 2nd TN Mounted Infantry, a unit his brother Littleton Gooch joined later. He married Martha J Hatch and died in Decatur Co, TN on 1/2/1894. Both Willis and Martha Gooch applied for pensions.
Holley, Peggy Scott. Hawkins' Tories, A Regimental and Social History of the 7th Tennessee Cavalry USA in the Civil War, BrayBree Publishing, Dickson TN, 230 p, 2014
Holley, Peggy Scott. Hawkins' Tories, A Regimental and Social History of the 7th Tennessee Cavalry USA in the Civil War, BrayBree Publishing, Dickson TN, 230 p, 2014
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