Thomas K. Hogan Sr. enlisted for military service as a private in the Confederate army on 8 May 1862 in Hiawassee, Georgia, under Capt. George W. Standridge. He was to serve on horseback in Standridge's Company, a cavalry company that also went by the name of Towns Rangers, so called since it was formed in Towns County, Georgia. His period of service was to be for three years or the duration of the war.
It was recorded on 1 Jul 1862 in the Company Muster Roll that this organization was one of the companies of the Cavalry Battalion, Col. Simon J. Smith's Legion, Georgia Volunteers, which battalion became the 6th Regiment Georgia Cavalry in March 1863, this company becoming Company A of that regiment.
In their Kentucky Campaign of 1862, Smith's Legion was moving through the Cumberland Gap near where the states of Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia come together when Thomas fell ill from food poisoning and died.
Two fellow-soldiers who had enlisted with Thomas - Jesse M. Parker and his brother William C. Parker - later told how they buried Thomas in the woods in a coffin they had made from hewn logs, marking his grave with a field stone. The location of the grave is now lost, and the brothers could not determine which of the three states Thomas died in. But since the town of Cumberland Gap is in Tennessee, that's the place name by which I have chosen to identify it.
On Sep. 8, 1863, the widow Amanda A. Hogan appeared before justice of the peace Joseph Scroggs in Towns County, Georgia, and made her mark on a sworn affidavit to serve as an application to the government of the Confederate States for any back pay or other allowances that may have been due to Thomas for his military service. William J. Woods was also deposed as a substantiating witness for the authenticity of Amanda's claim. It is not known whether Amanda ever received anything.
An interesting turn of events took place in 1906. Forty-four years after Thomas Hogan's death, Jesse Parker's son Jayhue Nelson Parker married Thomas Hogan's great-niece Cona Demerica Cook. Stated another way, Jesse Parker became the father-in-law of Cona Cook Parker, a granddaughter of Rebecca Hogan Cook, sister of Thomas Kimsey Hogan, Sr., through her son Alfred Benton Cook, my great-grandfather. Thomas K. Hogan was my second great-granduncle.
It was recorded on 1 Jul 1862 in the Company Muster Roll that this organization was one of the companies of the Cavalry Battalion, Col. Simon J. Smith's Legion, Georgia Volunteers, which battalion became the 6th Regiment Georgia Cavalry in March 1863, this company becoming Company A of that regiment.
In their Kentucky Campaign of 1862, Smith's Legion was moving through the Cumberland Gap near where the states of Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia come together when Thomas fell ill from food poisoning and died.
Two fellow-soldiers who had enlisted with Thomas - Jesse M. Parker and his brother William C. Parker - later told how they buried Thomas in the woods in a coffin they had made from hewn logs, marking his grave with a field stone. The location of the grave is now lost, and the brothers could not determine which of the three states Thomas died in. But since the town of Cumberland Gap is in Tennessee, that's the place name by which I have chosen to identify it.
On Sep. 8, 1863, the widow Amanda A. Hogan appeared before justice of the peace Joseph Scroggs in Towns County, Georgia, and made her mark on a sworn affidavit to serve as an application to the government of the Confederate States for any back pay or other allowances that may have been due to Thomas for his military service. William J. Woods was also deposed as a substantiating witness for the authenticity of Amanda's claim. It is not known whether Amanda ever received anything.
An interesting turn of events took place in 1906. Forty-four years after Thomas Hogan's death, Jesse Parker's son Jayhue Nelson Parker married Thomas Hogan's great-niece Cona Demerica Cook. Stated another way, Jesse Parker became the father-in-law of Cona Cook Parker, a granddaughter of Rebecca Hogan Cook, sister of Thomas Kimsey Hogan, Sr., through her son Alfred Benton Cook, my great-grandfather. Thomas K. Hogan was my second great-granduncle.
Thomas K. Hogan Sr. enlisted for military service as a private in the Confederate army on 8 May 1862 in Hiawassee, Georgia, under Capt. George W. Standridge. He was to serve on horseback in Standridge's Company, a cavalry company that also went by the name of Towns Rangers, so called since it was formed in Towns County, Georgia. His period of service was to be for three years or the duration of the war.
It was recorded on 1 Jul 1862 in the Company Muster Roll that this organization was one of the companies of the Cavalry Battalion, Col. Simon J. Smith's Legion, Georgia Volunteers, which battalion became the 6th Regiment Georgia Cavalry in March 1863, this company becoming Company A of that regiment.
In their Kentucky Campaign of 1862, Smith's Legion was moving through the Cumberland Gap near where the states of Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia come together when Thomas fell ill from food poisoning and died.
Two fellow-soldiers who had enlisted with Thomas - Jesse M. Parker and his brother William C. Parker - later told how they buried Thomas in the woods in a coffin they had made from hewn logs, marking his grave with a field stone. The location of the grave is now lost, and the brothers could not determine which of the three states Thomas died in. But since the town of Cumberland Gap is in Tennessee, that's the place name by which I have chosen to identify it.
On Sep. 8, 1863, the widow Amanda A. Hogan appeared before justice of the peace Joseph Scroggs in Towns County, Georgia, and made her mark on a sworn affidavit to serve as an application to the government of the Confederate States for any back pay or other allowances that may have been due to Thomas for his military service. William J. Woods was also deposed as a substantiating witness for the authenticity of Amanda's claim. It is not known whether Amanda ever received anything.
An interesting turn of events took place in 1906. Forty-four years after Thomas Hogan's death, Jesse Parker's son Jayhue Nelson Parker married Thomas Hogan's great-niece Cona Demerica Cook. Stated another way, Jesse Parker became the father-in-law of Cona Cook Parker, a granddaughter of Rebecca Hogan Cook, sister of Thomas Kimsey Hogan, Sr., through her son Alfred Benton Cook, my great-grandfather. Thomas K. Hogan was my second great-granduncle.
It was recorded on 1 Jul 1862 in the Company Muster Roll that this organization was one of the companies of the Cavalry Battalion, Col. Simon J. Smith's Legion, Georgia Volunteers, which battalion became the 6th Regiment Georgia Cavalry in March 1863, this company becoming Company A of that regiment.
In their Kentucky Campaign of 1862, Smith's Legion was moving through the Cumberland Gap near where the states of Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia come together when Thomas fell ill from food poisoning and died.
Two fellow-soldiers who had enlisted with Thomas - Jesse M. Parker and his brother William C. Parker - later told how they buried Thomas in the woods in a coffin they had made from hewn logs, marking his grave with a field stone. The location of the grave is now lost, and the brothers could not determine which of the three states Thomas died in. But since the town of Cumberland Gap is in Tennessee, that's the place name by which I have chosen to identify it.
On Sep. 8, 1863, the widow Amanda A. Hogan appeared before justice of the peace Joseph Scroggs in Towns County, Georgia, and made her mark on a sworn affidavit to serve as an application to the government of the Confederate States for any back pay or other allowances that may have been due to Thomas for his military service. William J. Woods was also deposed as a substantiating witness for the authenticity of Amanda's claim. It is not known whether Amanda ever received anything.
An interesting turn of events took place in 1906. Forty-four years after Thomas Hogan's death, Jesse Parker's son Jayhue Nelson Parker married Thomas Hogan's great-niece Cona Demerica Cook. Stated another way, Jesse Parker became the father-in-law of Cona Cook Parker, a granddaughter of Rebecca Hogan Cook, sister of Thomas Kimsey Hogan, Sr., through her son Alfred Benton Cook, my great-grandfather. Thomas K. Hogan was my second great-granduncle.
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