John Taylor Gaddis attended school in Lena, Miss, and was listed in the 1870 Census of Leake Co. as being a teacher. He and his wife Nola lived for a few years north of Clarksburg and then moved to the Stage Community in Scott Co. Miss. the present Luther Cooper place, where they remained the rest of their lives. He was a farmer and a member of the Farmer's Union making speeches concerning the pooling of their resources whereby it was easier to sell their commodities such as cotton, corn or cattle. The Springfield Baptist Church was a very special place to him, to worship, to serve his Church as Deacon and how he did love to sing the beautiful old Sacred Harp music. He was also a Mason. One of his daughter-in-laws Jonnie Bell (Saunders) Gaddis was quoted saying "he was the sweetest man she ever knew."
2nd Mississippi Cavalry
(from Dunbar Rowland´s "Military History of Mississippi, 1803-1898"; company listing courtesy of H. Grady Howell´s "For Dixie Land, I´ll Take My Stand´)
Company K -- Mississippi Body Guards (raised in Scott County, MS)
March 9, in line near Thompson's Station, the regiment was attacked by Minty's Cavalry and forced to retreat, with some slight loss. Gen. N. B. Forrest, with his brigade and Jackson's, on March 25, attacked the garrison at Brentwood, commanded by Col. Edward Bloodgood, including his Wisconsin Regiment and Col. William R. Shafter's Michigan Regiment, part of which latter had been captured March 5. The Fourth was not in action there, but immediately afterward Forrest took Companies D, G, H and K, under the command of Colonel Gordon, and the Tenth Tennessee and a battery and captured the stockade fort on Harpeth River, garrisoned by 275 men. All these movements were made in great haste. Before Gordon had proceeded a mile he was attacked by Green Clay Smith's Cavalry. Company D, under Lieut. H. P. L. McGee, checked the pursuit by a volley until Gordon could form on the next hill and the companies of Capt. John Gaddis and Capt. J. T. Pitts (under Lieut. J. Y. Smith) could deliver another volley. McGee's company dismounted and fired from a stone fence. "The enemy here charged me while my guns were empty," said Gordon, "and I was forced to make a precipitate retreat." The killed, wounded and captured were 20. The rest of the command stampeded, and the Mississippians were left alone before they gave way. The regiment was engaged in the unsuccessful attack on Franklin April 10, and had 1 wounded.
Forgotten MS Company Names & Local Defense Cos.
By:Jim Huffman, 43rd MS
Date: Monday, 25 December 2006, 5:46 pm
SOME PREVIOUSLY UNDISCOVERED MS CONFEDERATE COMPANY NAMES, INCLUDING HOME GUARD UNITS
found in:
Journal of the House
of Representatives of the State of Mississippi,
December Session of 1862, and November Session of 1863:
Electronic Edition.
Mississippi. Legislature. House of Representatives
http://docsouth.unc.edu/imls/msdec62/msdec62.html
[Modern Compile's Note: Most of the companies in this section are documented companies. The names below are almost certainly sim
Mrs. Body Guard, 1st Liuet. John Gaddis, com. (This is just a humorous mis-scanning of the "Mississippi Body Guards" of Scott County!)
2nd Mississippi Cavalry
(from Dunbar Rowland´s "Military History of Mississippi, 1803-1898"; company listing courtesy of H. Grady Howell´s "For Dixie Land, I´ll Take My Stand´)
Company K -- Mississippi Body Guards (raised in Scott County, MS)
March 9, in line near Thompson's Station, the regiment was attacked by Minty's Cavalry and forced to retreat, with some slight loss. Gen. N. B. Forrest, with his brigade and Jackson's, on March 25, attacked the garrison at Brentwood, commanded by Col. Edward Bloodgood, including his Wisconsin Regiment and Col. William R. Shafter's Michigan Regiment, part of which latter had been captured March 5. The Fourth was not in action there, but immediately afterward Forrest took Companies D, G, H and K, under the command of Colonel Gordon, and the Tenth Tennessee and a battery and captured the stockade fort on Harpeth River, garrisoned by 275 men. All these movements were made in great haste. Before Gordon had proceeded a mile he was attacked by Green Clay Smith's Cavalry. Company D, under Lieut. H. P. L. McGee, checked the pursuit by a volley until Gordon could form on the next hill and the companies of Capt. John Gaddis and Capt. J. T. Pitts (under Lieut. J. Y. Smith) could deliver another volley. McGee's company dismounted and fired from a stone fence. "The enemy here charged me while my guns were empty," said Gordon, "and I was forced to make a precipitate retreat." The killed, wounded and captured were 20. The rest of the command stampeded, and the Mississippians were left alone before they gave way. The regiment was engaged in the unsuccessful attack on Franklin April 10, and had 1 wounded.
Forgotten MS Company Names & Local Defense Cos.
By:Jim Huffman, 43rd MS
Date: Monday, 25 December 2006, 5:46 pm
SOME PREVIOUSLY UNDISCOVERED MS CONFEDERATE COMPANY NAMES, INCLUDING HOME GUARD UNITS
found in:
Journal of the House
of Representatives of the State of Mississippi,
December Session of 1862, and November Session of 1863:
Electronic Edition.
Mississippi. Legislature. House of Representatives
http://docsouth.unc.edu/imls/msdec62/msdec62.html
[Modern Compile's Note: Most of the companies in this section are documented companies. The names below are almost certainly sim
Mrs. Body Guard, 1st Liuet. John Gaddis, com. (This is just a humorous mis-scanning of the "Mississippi Body Guards" of Scott County!)
John Taylor Gaddis attended school in Lena, Miss, and was listed in the 1870 Census of Leake Co. as being a teacher. He and his wife Nola lived for a few years north of Clarksburg and then moved to the Stage Community in Scott Co. Miss. the present Luther Cooper place, where they remained the rest of their lives. He was a farmer and a member of the Farmer's Union making speeches concerning the pooling of their resources whereby it was easier to sell their commodities such as cotton, corn or cattle. The Springfield Baptist Church was a very special place to him, to worship, to serve his Church as Deacon and how he did love to sing the beautiful old Sacred Harp music. He was also a Mason. One of his daughter-in-laws Jonnie Bell (Saunders) Gaddis was quoted saying "he was the sweetest man she ever knew."
2nd Mississippi Cavalry
(from Dunbar Rowland´s "Military History of Mississippi, 1803-1898"; company listing courtesy of H. Grady Howell´s "For Dixie Land, I´ll Take My Stand´)
Company K -- Mississippi Body Guards (raised in Scott County, MS)
March 9, in line near Thompson's Station, the regiment was attacked by Minty's Cavalry and forced to retreat, with some slight loss. Gen. N. B. Forrest, with his brigade and Jackson's, on March 25, attacked the garrison at Brentwood, commanded by Col. Edward Bloodgood, including his Wisconsin Regiment and Col. William R. Shafter's Michigan Regiment, part of which latter had been captured March 5. The Fourth was not in action there, but immediately afterward Forrest took Companies D, G, H and K, under the command of Colonel Gordon, and the Tenth Tennessee and a battery and captured the stockade fort on Harpeth River, garrisoned by 275 men. All these movements were made in great haste. Before Gordon had proceeded a mile he was attacked by Green Clay Smith's Cavalry. Company D, under Lieut. H. P. L. McGee, checked the pursuit by a volley until Gordon could form on the next hill and the companies of Capt. John Gaddis and Capt. J. T. Pitts (under Lieut. J. Y. Smith) could deliver another volley. McGee's company dismounted and fired from a stone fence. "The enemy here charged me while my guns were empty," said Gordon, "and I was forced to make a precipitate retreat." The killed, wounded and captured were 20. The rest of the command stampeded, and the Mississippians were left alone before they gave way. The regiment was engaged in the unsuccessful attack on Franklin April 10, and had 1 wounded.
Forgotten MS Company Names & Local Defense Cos.
By:Jim Huffman, 43rd MS
Date: Monday, 25 December 2006, 5:46 pm
SOME PREVIOUSLY UNDISCOVERED MS CONFEDERATE COMPANY NAMES, INCLUDING HOME GUARD UNITS
found in:
Journal of the House
of Representatives of the State of Mississippi,
December Session of 1862, and November Session of 1863:
Electronic Edition.
Mississippi. Legislature. House of Representatives
http://docsouth.unc.edu/imls/msdec62/msdec62.html
[Modern Compile's Note: Most of the companies in this section are documented companies. The names below are almost certainly sim
Mrs. Body Guard, 1st Liuet. John Gaddis, com. (This is just a humorous mis-scanning of the "Mississippi Body Guards" of Scott County!)
2nd Mississippi Cavalry
(from Dunbar Rowland´s "Military History of Mississippi, 1803-1898"; company listing courtesy of H. Grady Howell´s "For Dixie Land, I´ll Take My Stand´)
Company K -- Mississippi Body Guards (raised in Scott County, MS)
March 9, in line near Thompson's Station, the regiment was attacked by Minty's Cavalry and forced to retreat, with some slight loss. Gen. N. B. Forrest, with his brigade and Jackson's, on March 25, attacked the garrison at Brentwood, commanded by Col. Edward Bloodgood, including his Wisconsin Regiment and Col. William R. Shafter's Michigan Regiment, part of which latter had been captured March 5. The Fourth was not in action there, but immediately afterward Forrest took Companies D, G, H and K, under the command of Colonel Gordon, and the Tenth Tennessee and a battery and captured the stockade fort on Harpeth River, garrisoned by 275 men. All these movements were made in great haste. Before Gordon had proceeded a mile he was attacked by Green Clay Smith's Cavalry. Company D, under Lieut. H. P. L. McGee, checked the pursuit by a volley until Gordon could form on the next hill and the companies of Capt. John Gaddis and Capt. J. T. Pitts (under Lieut. J. Y. Smith) could deliver another volley. McGee's company dismounted and fired from a stone fence. "The enemy here charged me while my guns were empty," said Gordon, "and I was forced to make a precipitate retreat." The killed, wounded and captured were 20. The rest of the command stampeded, and the Mississippians were left alone before they gave way. The regiment was engaged in the unsuccessful attack on Franklin April 10, and had 1 wounded.
Forgotten MS Company Names & Local Defense Cos.
By:Jim Huffman, 43rd MS
Date: Monday, 25 December 2006, 5:46 pm
SOME PREVIOUSLY UNDISCOVERED MS CONFEDERATE COMPANY NAMES, INCLUDING HOME GUARD UNITS
found in:
Journal of the House
of Representatives of the State of Mississippi,
December Session of 1862, and November Session of 1863:
Electronic Edition.
Mississippi. Legislature. House of Representatives
http://docsouth.unc.edu/imls/msdec62/msdec62.html
[Modern Compile's Note: Most of the companies in this section are documented companies. The names below are almost certainly sim
Mrs. Body Guard, 1st Liuet. John Gaddis, com. (This is just a humorous mis-scanning of the "Mississippi Body Guards" of Scott County!)
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