James Marion Lewis was born 5 May 1821 in Claiborne Co TN, to William Lewis and Sarah Boyers. James was the 5th of 16 children. He was married 13 Feb 1845 to Annie Yadon, dtr. of Joseph Yadon and Phoebe Cabbage. Annie died 25 June 1850. On 28 Nov 1852, Joseph married Sarah H. Russell.
J M Lewis and two of his brothers joined the Confederate Army, serving in Co L, 1st Tenn. Cav. He was captured 12 Dec 1863, at Thorn Hill in Grainger County and taken to Fort Delaware on Pea Patch Island in the Delaware River, which is where he died. His brother Lt. Joseph Lewis was also a prisoner at Fort Delaware, and was released at the end of the War.
J M Lewis is listed in Union Records as a deserter from the Confederate Army, but he was held as a prisoner of war because he "refused to take the Oath". He was captured less than 10 miles from home, just 2 weeks before the birth of his 9th child. Was he on the way home, or had he paid a quick visit and was on his way to rejoin his regiment? We will never know.
From Union Army records, here's what was happening in Grainger County in December 1863:
"TAZEWELL, TENN., December 7, 1863--7 a.m.
(Received 3.50 p.m.)
Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK, General-in-Chief:
Longstreet is in full retreat up the valley. Your orders about following with cavalry shall be carried out. My division of cavalry attacked the enemy's cavalry in one of the passes of the Clinch Mountain yesterday afternoon and are now pushing them vigorously. I have not yet heard of the approach of our cavalry from Knoxville. I have sent General Willcox with his infantry and artillery toward the mountains to attack the enemy's flank at Bean's Station. Couriers from Knoxville arrived last night. The road is clear. Sherman arrived there yesterday.
J. G. FOSTER, Major-General.
(Same to General Grant.)
TAZEWELL, December 8, 1863.
Major-General BURNSIDE,Knoxville:
MY DEAR GENERAL: I received your request through Colonel Foster to move down and join you. I shall do so as soon as the provision wagons that have left the gap arrive so that we can escort them. I believe Longstreet to be in full retreat, the rear of his infantry about opposite here. The rear guard of his cavalry is between Blain's Cross-Roads and Rutledge.
Colonel Foster with the cavalry has moved to join your cavalry. I hope to see you soon.
With best regards, yours, most truly,
J. G. FOSTER,Major-General.
TAZEWELL, December 16, 1863--5.40 p.m.
Maj. Gen. JOHN G. PARKE:
GENERAL: Your dispatch of 6.45 p.m. yesterday received at 3 p.m. to-day. I sent you a dispatch this morning, inclosing others, both to you and General Foster, which were written night before last, but the first courier failed to get through. I hope you will receive those sent to-day. I have answered General Foster affirmatively in regard to the Twenty-third Corps, and replied fully to all dispatches received. I directed the courier who carried the dispatches to take a road which would take him in a little below Rutledge. A deserter from Longstreet's army reports that his brigade moved farther down from below Rogersville a few miles on Sunday. I fear you have had his whole army on your hands to-day. The enemy are at Thorn Hill in considerable force, and they are reported at other points between the river and the mountains. Please send me as early intelligence as possible. Success to you. The disposition of the troops between the river and Cumberland Gap will depend upon the information I may receive.
Very respectfully,
O. B. WILLCOX,Brigadier-General."
J M Lewis and two of his brothers joined the Confederate Army, serving in Co L, 1st Tenn. Cav. He was captured 12 Dec 1863, at Thorn Hill in Grainger County and taken to Fort Delaware on Pea Patch Island in the Delaware River, which is where he died. His brother Lt. Joseph Lewis was also a prisoner at Fort Delaware, and was released at the end of the War.
J M Lewis is listed in Union Records as a deserter from the Confederate Army, but he was held as a prisoner of war because he "refused to take the Oath". He was captured less than 10 miles from home, just 2 weeks before the birth of his 9th child. Was he on the way home, or had he paid a quick visit and was on his way to rejoin his regiment? We will never know.
From Union Army records, here's what was happening in Grainger County in December 1863:
"TAZEWELL, TENN., December 7, 1863--7 a.m.
(Received 3.50 p.m.)
Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK, General-in-Chief:
Longstreet is in full retreat up the valley. Your orders about following with cavalry shall be carried out. My division of cavalry attacked the enemy's cavalry in one of the passes of the Clinch Mountain yesterday afternoon and are now pushing them vigorously. I have not yet heard of the approach of our cavalry from Knoxville. I have sent General Willcox with his infantry and artillery toward the mountains to attack the enemy's flank at Bean's Station. Couriers from Knoxville arrived last night. The road is clear. Sherman arrived there yesterday.
J. G. FOSTER, Major-General.
(Same to General Grant.)
TAZEWELL, December 8, 1863.
Major-General BURNSIDE,Knoxville:
MY DEAR GENERAL: I received your request through Colonel Foster to move down and join you. I shall do so as soon as the provision wagons that have left the gap arrive so that we can escort them. I believe Longstreet to be in full retreat, the rear of his infantry about opposite here. The rear guard of his cavalry is between Blain's Cross-Roads and Rutledge.
Colonel Foster with the cavalry has moved to join your cavalry. I hope to see you soon.
With best regards, yours, most truly,
J. G. FOSTER,Major-General.
TAZEWELL, December 16, 1863--5.40 p.m.
Maj. Gen. JOHN G. PARKE:
GENERAL: Your dispatch of 6.45 p.m. yesterday received at 3 p.m. to-day. I sent you a dispatch this morning, inclosing others, both to you and General Foster, which were written night before last, but the first courier failed to get through. I hope you will receive those sent to-day. I have answered General Foster affirmatively in regard to the Twenty-third Corps, and replied fully to all dispatches received. I directed the courier who carried the dispatches to take a road which would take him in a little below Rutledge. A deserter from Longstreet's army reports that his brigade moved farther down from below Rogersville a few miles on Sunday. I fear you have had his whole army on your hands to-day. The enemy are at Thorn Hill in considerable force, and they are reported at other points between the river and the mountains. Please send me as early intelligence as possible. Success to you. The disposition of the troops between the river and Cumberland Gap will depend upon the information I may receive.
Very respectfully,
O. B. WILLCOX,Brigadier-General."
James Marion Lewis was born 5 May 1821 in Claiborne Co TN, to William Lewis and Sarah Boyers. James was the 5th of 16 children. He was married 13 Feb 1845 to Annie Yadon, dtr. of Joseph Yadon and Phoebe Cabbage. Annie died 25 June 1850. On 28 Nov 1852, Joseph married Sarah H. Russell.
J M Lewis and two of his brothers joined the Confederate Army, serving in Co L, 1st Tenn. Cav. He was captured 12 Dec 1863, at Thorn Hill in Grainger County and taken to Fort Delaware on Pea Patch Island in the Delaware River, which is where he died. His brother Lt. Joseph Lewis was also a prisoner at Fort Delaware, and was released at the end of the War.
J M Lewis is listed in Union Records as a deserter from the Confederate Army, but he was held as a prisoner of war because he "refused to take the Oath". He was captured less than 10 miles from home, just 2 weeks before the birth of his 9th child. Was he on the way home, or had he paid a quick visit and was on his way to rejoin his regiment? We will never know.
From Union Army records, here's what was happening in Grainger County in December 1863:
"TAZEWELL, TENN., December 7, 1863--7 a.m.
(Received 3.50 p.m.)
Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK, General-in-Chief:
Longstreet is in full retreat up the valley. Your orders about following with cavalry shall be carried out. My division of cavalry attacked the enemy's cavalry in one of the passes of the Clinch Mountain yesterday afternoon and are now pushing them vigorously. I have not yet heard of the approach of our cavalry from Knoxville. I have sent General Willcox with his infantry and artillery toward the mountains to attack the enemy's flank at Bean's Station. Couriers from Knoxville arrived last night. The road is clear. Sherman arrived there yesterday.
J. G. FOSTER, Major-General.
(Same to General Grant.)
TAZEWELL, December 8, 1863.
Major-General BURNSIDE,Knoxville:
MY DEAR GENERAL: I received your request through Colonel Foster to move down and join you. I shall do so as soon as the provision wagons that have left the gap arrive so that we can escort them. I believe Longstreet to be in full retreat, the rear of his infantry about opposite here. The rear guard of his cavalry is between Blain's Cross-Roads and Rutledge.
Colonel Foster with the cavalry has moved to join your cavalry. I hope to see you soon.
With best regards, yours, most truly,
J. G. FOSTER,Major-General.
TAZEWELL, December 16, 1863--5.40 p.m.
Maj. Gen. JOHN G. PARKE:
GENERAL: Your dispatch of 6.45 p.m. yesterday received at 3 p.m. to-day. I sent you a dispatch this morning, inclosing others, both to you and General Foster, which were written night before last, but the first courier failed to get through. I hope you will receive those sent to-day. I have answered General Foster affirmatively in regard to the Twenty-third Corps, and replied fully to all dispatches received. I directed the courier who carried the dispatches to take a road which would take him in a little below Rutledge. A deserter from Longstreet's army reports that his brigade moved farther down from below Rogersville a few miles on Sunday. I fear you have had his whole army on your hands to-day. The enemy are at Thorn Hill in considerable force, and they are reported at other points between the river and the mountains. Please send me as early intelligence as possible. Success to you. The disposition of the troops between the river and Cumberland Gap will depend upon the information I may receive.
Very respectfully,
O. B. WILLCOX,Brigadier-General."
J M Lewis and two of his brothers joined the Confederate Army, serving in Co L, 1st Tenn. Cav. He was captured 12 Dec 1863, at Thorn Hill in Grainger County and taken to Fort Delaware on Pea Patch Island in the Delaware River, which is where he died. His brother Lt. Joseph Lewis was also a prisoner at Fort Delaware, and was released at the end of the War.
J M Lewis is listed in Union Records as a deserter from the Confederate Army, but he was held as a prisoner of war because he "refused to take the Oath". He was captured less than 10 miles from home, just 2 weeks before the birth of his 9th child. Was he on the way home, or had he paid a quick visit and was on his way to rejoin his regiment? We will never know.
From Union Army records, here's what was happening in Grainger County in December 1863:
"TAZEWELL, TENN., December 7, 1863--7 a.m.
(Received 3.50 p.m.)
Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK, General-in-Chief:
Longstreet is in full retreat up the valley. Your orders about following with cavalry shall be carried out. My division of cavalry attacked the enemy's cavalry in one of the passes of the Clinch Mountain yesterday afternoon and are now pushing them vigorously. I have not yet heard of the approach of our cavalry from Knoxville. I have sent General Willcox with his infantry and artillery toward the mountains to attack the enemy's flank at Bean's Station. Couriers from Knoxville arrived last night. The road is clear. Sherman arrived there yesterday.
J. G. FOSTER, Major-General.
(Same to General Grant.)
TAZEWELL, December 8, 1863.
Major-General BURNSIDE,Knoxville:
MY DEAR GENERAL: I received your request through Colonel Foster to move down and join you. I shall do so as soon as the provision wagons that have left the gap arrive so that we can escort them. I believe Longstreet to be in full retreat, the rear of his infantry about opposite here. The rear guard of his cavalry is between Blain's Cross-Roads and Rutledge.
Colonel Foster with the cavalry has moved to join your cavalry. I hope to see you soon.
With best regards, yours, most truly,
J. G. FOSTER,Major-General.
TAZEWELL, December 16, 1863--5.40 p.m.
Maj. Gen. JOHN G. PARKE:
GENERAL: Your dispatch of 6.45 p.m. yesterday received at 3 p.m. to-day. I sent you a dispatch this morning, inclosing others, both to you and General Foster, which were written night before last, but the first courier failed to get through. I hope you will receive those sent to-day. I have answered General Foster affirmatively in regard to the Twenty-third Corps, and replied fully to all dispatches received. I directed the courier who carried the dispatches to take a road which would take him in a little below Rutledge. A deserter from Longstreet's army reports that his brigade moved farther down from below Rogersville a few miles on Sunday. I fear you have had his whole army on your hands to-day. The enemy are at Thorn Hill in considerable force, and they are reported at other points between the river and the mountains. Please send me as early intelligence as possible. Success to you. The disposition of the troops between the river and Cumberland Gap will depend upon the information I may receive.
Very respectfully,
O. B. WILLCOX,Brigadier-General."
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