CONFEDERATE VETERANS
Newspaper Article from the Paris Post-Intelligencer
Paris, Tenn., Sesquicentennial Edition - 1973
"HAPPY 150th BIRTHDAY HENRY COUNTY"
Paris Blues Have Reunion abt 1923
Newspaper Article from the Paris Post-Intelligencer
Paris, Tenn., Sesquicentennial Edition - 1973
"HAPPY 150th BIRTHDAY HENRY COUNTY"
Paris Blues Have Reunion abt 1923
5th
TENN REGT. CSA
 |
The Paris Blues was one of the best outfits from Tennessee during the Civil War. Company F was formed a year or so before the war’s outbreak. These men from the Paris Blues gathered here in about 1923 for this picture, belonging to Miss Rowena DAVIS. In numberred sequence, the men are:
For a detailed report of the Paris Blues during the Civil War, turn to page 5E - see below
1. Dr Frank TAYLOW
2. Joe HUDSON
3. R. P. DIGGS
4. Doc CRUTCHFIELD
5. F. S. SUMMERS [ Francis S. SUMMERS - from Weakley County]
6. W. D. HENDRICKS
7. J. W. ALLEN
8. Frank GIBSON
9. C. T. ALLEN
10. Jack COLEMAN
11. W. D. HALLAM
12. Wash WIMBESH
13. Frank RALLS
14. John ORR
15. John THOMPSON
16. Frank McMICLE
17. C. F. POTTS
18. Dr. F. F. PORTER
19. A. C. TROUSDALE
20. J. P. COOPER
21. O. B. HUDSON
22. J. P. LAMB [James P. LAMB - from Weakley County]
23. W. S. LANKFORD
24. D. F. ALEXANDER
25. B. JONES
26. George CAMP
27. S. A. MILLER
28. John J. LOWRY
29. George H. WYNNS
30. M. B. DINWIDDIE
31. A. H. LANKFORD
32. J. D. PORTER
33. Dick COLEY
34. Allen COLTHARP
35. W. M. BOWDEN
36. Bill EDMONDS
37. Jim HASTINGS
38. J. E. DANIEL
39. Jim SANDERS [ James E. SANDERS - from Weakley County]
40. Jake BROGDON [ Jacob W. BROGDEN - from Weakley County]
41. Hirman KENDALL
42. Joe WARREN.
Newspaper Article part one
- pdf file
you will need Adobe Arcrobat Reader installed on your computer - it is free
The last line of the first column is " tearing up and destroying"
The last line of the second column is " Atlanta, Jonesboro, Lovejoy and"
Newspaper Article continued -
COMMANDS FOLLOWS 'Paris Blues'
you will need Adobe Arcrobat Reader installed on your computer - it is free
The last line of the first column is " tearing up and destroying"
The last line of the second column is " Atlanta, Jonesboro, Lovejoy and"
Newspaper Article continued -
COMMANDS FOLLOWS 'Paris Blues'
"The balls from the ememy's pickets tore
up the ground around him like
pebbles thrown in a pond. He reached the works safely and was
pulled over them by his comrades."
"Providence decreed his escape" as he returned to the picket hole with more ammunition "almost out of breath".
"W. D. STREET went on a simular dangerous earrand to fill our canteens with water. These were two of the bravest deeds that I witnessed during the whole war."
Henry County's Company F was among the first line in the charge at the battle of Franklin. All the commissioned officers and sergeants of the company were either killed or wounded in the engagemanet, and at its close it was in the command of Corporal Tom J. JONES.
"Next morning we found the dead lying so think that we could have walked on them without stepping on ground, a sight I never saw elsewhere. Henry Countians killed were W. J. EDGAR and W. W. RIDGEWAY. Franklin was the Gettysburg of the west."
In the early spring of 1865 the "doom of the Confederacy was already sealed, and as SHERMAN and GRANT closed in around the outnumbered, but still unconquered, remnant of the Army of Tennessee......General Joe JOHNSTON saw the futility of further resistance and surrendered his Army. "All phases of human feeling were exhibited. Some raved and swore that they would never submit to it. Some paced back and forth like caged lions......some wept like children.
"Of the 1,300 men who followed the flag of the Regiment to the front, only 30 stood under its folds at the last sad scene of all. We were glad that our colors had never been captured, and we felt that our fallen comrades who had shed their blood on 15 batttlefields and numerous skirmishes were at least spared the mortification of seeing it surrendered to the foe who had never been able to capture it on the battlefield."
----------
Submitted by Elise Myers (great granddaughter of F.S. SUMMERS)
-----------
Note: Those known to be from Weakley are in bold type - there might be others - if you know of any Weakley men, please let me know
"Providence decreed his escape" as he returned to the picket hole with more ammunition "almost out of breath".
"W. D. STREET went on a simular dangerous earrand to fill our canteens with water. These were two of the bravest deeds that I witnessed during the whole war."
Henry County's Company F was among the first line in the charge at the battle of Franklin. All the commissioned officers and sergeants of the company were either killed or wounded in the engagemanet, and at its close it was in the command of Corporal Tom J. JONES.
"Next morning we found the dead lying so think that we could have walked on them without stepping on ground, a sight I never saw elsewhere. Henry Countians killed were W. J. EDGAR and W. W. RIDGEWAY. Franklin was the Gettysburg of the west."
In the early spring of 1865 the "doom of the Confederacy was already sealed, and as SHERMAN and GRANT closed in around the outnumbered, but still unconquered, remnant of the Army of Tennessee......General Joe JOHNSTON saw the futility of further resistance and surrendered his Army. "All phases of human feeling were exhibited. Some raved and swore that they would never submit to it. Some paced back and forth like caged lions......some wept like children.
"Of the 1,300 men who followed the flag of the Regiment to the front, only 30 stood under its folds at the last sad scene of all. We were glad that our colors had never been captured, and we felt that our fallen comrades who had shed their blood on 15 batttlefields and numerous skirmishes were at least spared the mortification of seeing it surrendered to the foe who had never been able to capture it on the battlefield."
----------
Submitted by Elise Myers (great granddaughter of F.S. SUMMERS)
-----------
Note: Those known to be from Weakley are in bold type - there might be others - if you know of any Weakley men, please let me know