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Jackson Purchase Confederate in the Civil Jackson Purchase Confederate . wr.. In mid-May, th ~se men arrived at Harper's Ferry, were or- thel~ ~d into ten infa ntry companies and mustered into service as the ganl' ntucky Infantry Regiment.' In The Civil War First Ke Berry Craig The purchase sol~iers were raised .by Edward C:ossland, a former presentative, In Fulton and Hickman counties and by C. C. state ar~ in Calloway County. Crossland's 124 men, the "Alexander During the Civil War, the Jackson Purchase region Was BOW " became company " E" and Bowman's 104 men became com­ Guord ::F "8 whelmingly Southern in sentiment while, for the most part, the pOny . Kentucky remained loyal to the Union. In fact, the Pu rchase At MoscOW, Kentucky, Crossland's men were presented a Con­ only region in the state where the vast majority of the people o te flag by a Miss Nannie Wi lson on behalf of the women of secession. Because of its Southern sympathy, the region, which rif~~ County. Evidently Miss Wilson was a genuine Southern belle, as the Civil War encompassed Ballard, Calloway, Fulton, urave, FtJ of those present wrote: man, Marshall and McCracken counties, became known one Carolina of Kentucky.'" ··1 have often been dazzled by th e blaze of beauty, but never before beheld such perfect lovelin ess. All the harmony of The intense Southernism of the Jackson Purchase was form and of soul was personi fied in this fair creature w ith clearly in the number of volunteers the region furnished sweet patrioti c lips, whose color mocks the rose. Rich, ripe, federate Army. Th e Purchase gave up more men to the and teeming with the dews of bliss.'" A rmy and fewer men to the Federal A rmy than any other part tucky. Approximately 5,500 Confederate volunteers were raised After delivering a patriotic speech, Crossland received the flag. to Such seven counties as opposed to only 650 Federals. 2 was the way men sometimes marched off to war in 1861, About 850 Confederate soldiers and 124 Federal soldiers In May and June, Confederate recruiting in the Jackson Purchase recru ited in Ballard Co unty. From Calloway County, 900 men gal·ne d momentum . Four companies, numbering about 400 men, were the Confederate Army, but forty-seve n men fought for organized. Army. Fulton County sent approximately 450 Confederate SOld"... Drew A. Outlaw and a band of Hickman countians went to Union one Federal soldier to the War. Nearly 1ADO men volunteered Confederate Army from Graves County while 156 chose the City, Tennessee, and enlisted as company "K" of the Twel~h Tennessee Infantry Regiment. However, soon after the battle of Shiloh, Outlaw Army. Six hundred Hi ckman countians wore the Confederate and his men were transferred to the Thi rd Kentucky Infantry Regiment.ll only eleven donned the Federal blue. In Marshall County, volunteers left for the Confederate side and 221 enlisted in the A company raised in McCracken County and southern Illinois by ranks. Finally, 900 McCracken countians ioined the Confederate Thorndike Brooks and H. B. Cunningham was sworn i~ at Union .City as and eighty-eight went with the Federal Arm y.3 company "G" of the Fifteenth Tennessee Inf?ntry Regi ment. D~n~~ the Aside from the Jackson Pu rchase, only seven other Civil War, the Fifteenth Tennessee fought In nearly every Significant counties gave up considerably more Confederate than Union bottle in the western theater, including Belmont, Shiloh, Stone's Ri ver, About 2, 100 Confederate and 608 Federal volunteers were Chickamauga, Cha ttanooga and the Atlanta Campaign. The regiment livingston, Trigg, Union a nd Webster counties of western laid down its arms a t Greensboro, North Carolina, on May 1, 1865, as while nearly 1,600 Confederates and 352 Federals were sworn part of General Joseph E. Johnston's army.l2 Scott and Owen counties in the Bluegrass region. Logan County, Henry Clay King of Memphis, but form erly of Paducah, raised a tobacco rich Pennyroyal region, furnished about 1,000 Ccmtedercltes 4 company in his native McCracken County. Th ese men, known as the 408 Federals. The remaining ninety-six counties of "Pillow Guards Number Two" entered service as company "K" of the approximately 20,000 soldiers to the Confederate Army Twenty- first Tennessee Infantry Regiment. However, in September 1861, 60,000 soldiers to the Federal Army' on the order of General Leonidas Polk, the company was detached, and The first Confederate soldiers were recruited in the Jackson along with three other companies recruited in th e Jackson Purchase, chase shortly after the firing on Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861 became King's cavalry battalion. 13 April 22 Confederate Secretary of War l eroy Pope Walker asked The "Magoffin Guards," raised in Fulton Co unty and southern tucky Governor Beriah Magoffin to send an infantry regiment to Ill inoi s by Frank Marberry, were assig ned to the Fifth Tennessee Infantry Ferry, Virginia.· But Magoflin, on April 15, had refused a call as company " L." The Fifth Infantry, organized at Pa ris, Tennessee, also President lincoln for fou r Kentucky regiments and he li kewise fou ght in most of the western battles a nd surrendered at Greensboro Walker's request. Nevertheless, about 1,000 Kentuckia with Johnston's army.14 228 men from the Purchase, responded to the Confederate Secre,tary 4 5 In July 1861 approximately 2,200 volunteers left the d Hicl:mm.l countians became com pany "A" of the Se:ond Kentucky the Confederote Army. Colonel Ll oyd Tilghman of Paducah led an ntry Regiment and Slayden's 146 men formed company " D" of the f man battalion of Kentucky State Guards (state militia) to Camp In ~e reg iment18 In Februa ry 1862 the Second Kentucky was captured near Clarksville, Tennessee. Tilghman, a West Poin t ,a the battle of Fort Donelson and, in 1863, the regiment was ex­ Mexican War veteran, had resigned his Federal commission to ~anged for Federal. prisoners of war. Th e Second fought with the Army l5 for the Confederate Army and his men eagerly enlisted. f Tennessee at ChICkamauga, Chatttanooga and in the Atlanta cam. ooig . In 1865, after serving for a time as mounted infantry, the men At Camp Boone, the main en li stment point for Confederate n ~f the Second Kentucky surrendered in Georgia.19 teers from throughout Kentucky, the Guardsmen were joined by body of Purchase recru its and formed into nine infantry co rnDan;;~ Also in July 1861 , Wi lliam Lindsey and a party of Fulton and them was added a Lyon County artillery company Hickman co untians crossed into Tennessee and enlisted as company " F" Captain, and later General, Hylan 8. Lyon. Like Tilghman, Lyon of the Twenty:second Tennessee Infantry Regiment. But in May 1862, West Pointer and State Guard officer. In addition, he was the lindsey and hrs men were transferred to the Third Kentucky as company of Revolutionary War hero and Kentucky Congressman Matthew "M,"" These ten western Kentucky companies became the Third In September 1861 Camp Henry C. Burnett was laid out in Hick­ Infantry Regiment. However, Lyon 's co mpany soon was de·tach ..~ . man County as a recruiting point for Confedera te volunteers. There th e organized as an independent artillery battery. But Seventh Ken tucky Infantry Regiment, numbering approximately 1,200 command of his battery to Robert Cobb and then joined Conm· ... men , was raised by Charles Wickliffe, a former state representative Henry C. Burnett of Trigg County in raising the Eighth fro m Ballard County and W . O. lannom, a former state representative fantry Regiment. Cobb's battery became one of the most from Hi ckman County. artillery units in the Army of Tennessee. Th e Seventh Kentucky fought at Sh iloh , Ba ton Rouge, and Corinth Tilghman was elected colonel of the Th ird Kentucky, but in and in 1864, along with the Third Kentucky, was mounted and assigned 1861 he was promoted to brigadier-general and placed in corm n'n. to Forrest's cavalry. It remained with Forrest until the close of the war.21 Fort Henry, an important Confederate defensive position on nessee River. At this time, Albert P. Thompson, a prominent Company "A" of the Seventh Kentucky conta in ed men mostly from lawyer, became colonel of the regiment. 16 fulton and Graves County. Company "B" was ra ised in Hickman County whi le Ballord County contributed company "c." Marshall and Call oway The Th ird Kentucky fought in the battles of Shiloh, countians made up compa ny "0 " and Graves countians company " E. " Baton Rouge; in 1864 the regiment was mounted and put Company " F" was also from Ballard County while company "G" was command of the Confederate "Wizard of the Saddle," General roi sed in Calloway County. A party of Graves County men mustered in Bed ford Forrest. In June 1864 the Third Kentucky participated os compan y " H" and a group of men from fulton County enrolled as battle of Brice 's Crossroads, Mississippi, Forrest's greatest trium company " I. " A band of men from Desha County, Arkansas, was added fought on with him to the end of the war, to the Seventh Kentucky as company "K," However, the Razorbacks soon were as signed to the Thirteenth Arkansas Infantry and were re. Company "A" of the Third Kentucky was recruited in placed by C. P. Ray 's Ballard Co unty company. Ray and his men had County and company " B," "The Lovelacevi lle Rifl es," was enlisted in the First Mississippi Valley Infantry Regiment.22 men from Ballard, Graves and McCracken Counties.
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