Served in Co. A, 7th Tennessee Cavalry, enlisted in Lexington, TN on 8/4/1862 and mustered at Jackson on 8/18/1862, furnishing his own horse and equipment. He was captured and paroled with the regiment at the battle of Trenton, TN, on 12/20/1862. He is presumed captured with the regiment at Union City, TN, on 3/24/1864. He spent time in Andersonville Prison in Georgia but was released through Charleston, SC, on 12/11/1864 and taken to the military hospital in Annapolis, Maryland. He died there of diarrhea and scrobutus (scurvy) on 1/9/65 and was buried in the Ashgrove Cemetery in plot #1372. He had “an outfit” at death which would have been the new clothes he was issued to replace his prison clothes. Hosea Preslar, administrator of his estate reported the balance in the estate on August 2, 1867 as $63.26. This was confirmed by the court in September 1867.
--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.
Served in Co. A, 7th Tennessee Cavalry, enlisted in Lexington, TN on 8/4/1862 and mustered at Jackson on 8/18/1862, furnishing his own horse and equipment. He was captured and paroled with the regiment at the battle of Trenton, TN, on 12/20/1862. He is presumed captured with the regiment at Union City, TN, on 3/24/1864. He spent time in Andersonville Prison in Georgia but was released through Charleston, SC, on 12/11/1864 and taken to the military hospital in Annapolis, Maryland. He died there of diarrhea and scrobutus (scurvy) on 1/9/65 and was buried in the Ashgrove Cemetery in plot #1372. He had “an outfit” at death which would have been the new clothes he was issued to replace his prison clothes. Hosea Preslar, administrator of his estate reported the balance in the estate on August 2, 1867 as $63.26. This was confirmed by the court in September 1867.
--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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