Tulare County Biographies

Francis C. Scott

Transcribed by: Craig A Hahn

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     As a soldier no less a citizen Francis C. Scott is deserving of attention 
by writer and reader. He was born in Martin county, Ind., May 19, 1841. When he 
was nineteen years old he enlisted in Company E, Twenty-fifth Regiment, Indiana 
Volunteer Infantry. His first fighting was at Fort Donelson. He saw plenty more 
at Shiloh, Corinth, Hatchers Run, Grand Junction, Holly Springs, Mud Creek, 
Pearl River, Marion Station, Memphis, Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge, Kennesaw 
Mountain, Buzzard�s Roost, Atlanta, Chattanooga, Kingston, Goldsboro and at 
other points in the South. He has vivid recollections of the men of his command 
drinking the polluted water of Mud creek. After that fight his company was so 
small because so many of its members had been killed that it was assigned to 
provost duty in Tennessee. From there it went to Vicksburg and later went with 
Sherman to Mississippi. A sixty days� furlough came soon afterward, and Mr. 
Scott rejoined his command at Chattanooga. The march from Atlanta to the sea 
under Sherman he will never forget. A provisional division, of which his 
regiment was a part, was sent back to Chattanooga. From that point a march was 
made to Paducah, Ky., thence to Cincinnati and thence to Baltimore, where the 
regiment joined its old command. A coast voyage followed and Mr. Scott was 
shipwrecked in Cuban waters, but was finally landed in North Carolina and 
marched to Newberne, where fighting was resumed. After the fight at Goldsboro, 
the regiment was marched to Raleigh, N. C. Several skirmishes followed, then 
came the Confederate surrender, the Grand Review at Washington, D. C., the 
discharge and muster out. 
 
     Returning to Indiana, Mr. Scott located in Perry county, settled down to 
farming and married Louisa Goble, a native of that state, who bore him children 
as follows: Harrison Y., John W., Hiram Curtis, Thaddeus M., Sidney F., Lee 
Esting, Flora C. All have died except Thaddeus M. and Sidney F. John W. married 
Nancy Harmon, by whom he had a son named Edmund L. By a second marriage two 
daughters were born. Sidney F. married Nellie Wilson and has had four children: 
Ray, Leslie, Maynard and Flora. Leslie has passed away. 
 
     From Indiana Mr. Scott moved in 1866 to Montgomery county, Iowa, where he 
lived three years and then returned to Indiana. From there he went to Shelby 
county, Ill., and after a years� residence there move to Sedgwick county Kans., 
where he remained until he was forced to leave on account of his crops being 
destroyed by pest. From there he returned to Illinois, whence he went to 
Nebraska. There he remained four years, meantime preempting and improving land, 
after which he returned to Union Star, DeKalb county, and two years later took 
up his residence in Shannon county, Mo., where he conducted a hotel for four 
years. He again took up farming in Texas county for eight years. He came to 
Fresno county in 1904 and bought ten acres near Laton. Six months later he sold 
out and came to Tulare city, bought ten acres, then sold and purchased residence 
property and remained there until he came to Orosi. He bought ten acres half in 
vines and trees and the balance in pasture. His profits from this investment are 
quite satisfactory. 
 
     As a farmer Mr. Scott is successful along his chosen lines and as a citizen 
he is public spirited and helpful. In politics he is a Republican. He is a 
member of the Grand Army of the Republic and is a Mason. 
 
SOURCE:  History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical 
Sketches - Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913 Pp 339, 340