James Rankin Acuff was born 18 December 1848 in Tennessee to Robert Acuff and his wife, Rebecca Rankin. On 24 November 1862, James enlisted in Company F, 2nd Tennessee Cavalry (CSA), at Pikesville, Bledsoe County, Tennessee. He mustered out with the rank of corporal.
Acuff married Betty Killian of Georgia, and the couple had at least two children born in Georgia during the 1870s.
Later in life, Acuff became active in the United Veterans of the Confederacy, formed in 1889 as a counterpart to the G.A.R. He attained the honorary rank of brigadier general in the organization and was one of the seventeen delegates sent from Arizona to the United Confederate Convention of 1924 in Memphis. The U.V.C. disbanded in 1951, by which time virtually all Civil War vets had passed away.
Acuff died of pulmonary tuberculosis on 12 March 1927 in Phoenix, Arizona, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery.
Acuff married Betty Killian of Georgia, and the couple had at least two children born in Georgia during the 1870s.
Later in life, Acuff became active in the United Veterans of the Confederacy, formed in 1889 as a counterpart to the G.A.R. He attained the honorary rank of brigadier general in the organization and was one of the seventeen delegates sent from Arizona to the United Confederate Convention of 1924 in Memphis. The U.V.C. disbanded in 1951, by which time virtually all Civil War vets had passed away.
Acuff died of pulmonary tuberculosis on 12 March 1927 in Phoenix, Arizona, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery.
James Rankin Acuff was born 18 December 1848 in Tennessee to Robert Acuff and his wife, Rebecca Rankin. On 24 November 1862, James enlisted in Company F, 2nd Tennessee Cavalry (CSA), at Pikesville, Bledsoe County, Tennessee. He mustered out with the rank of corporal.
Acuff married Betty Killian of Georgia, and the couple had at least two children born in Georgia during the 1870s.
Later in life, Acuff became active in the United Veterans of the Confederacy, formed in 1889 as a counterpart to the G.A.R. He attained the honorary rank of brigadier general in the organization and was one of the seventeen delegates sent from Arizona to the United Confederate Convention of 1924 in Memphis. The U.V.C. disbanded in 1951, by which time virtually all Civil War vets had passed away.
Acuff died of pulmonary tuberculosis on 12 March 1927 in Phoenix, Arizona, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery.
Acuff married Betty Killian of Georgia, and the couple had at least two children born in Georgia during the 1870s.
Later in life, Acuff became active in the United Veterans of the Confederacy, formed in 1889 as a counterpart to the G.A.R. He attained the honorary rank of brigadier general in the organization and was one of the seventeen delegates sent from Arizona to the United Confederate Convention of 1924 in Memphis. The U.V.C. disbanded in 1951, by which time virtually all Civil War vets had passed away.
Acuff died of pulmonary tuberculosis on 12 March 1927 in Phoenix, Arizona, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery.
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Brig. Gen. U.C.V.
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near daughter-in-law Virginia Acuff
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