Existing comment:
"We left Clarksville about eleven o'clock... as we passed our batteries below town, we were greeted with two salutes by Capt. Aker's artillery company and on arriving at Trice's Landing, by the New Providence brass band..."
-- 49th Tennessee Infantry, December 10, 1861
Confederate Soldier:
Montgomery County's Confederate soldiers were farmers, lawyers, business leaders and students from Stewart College. Local leaders raised and financed companies of troops and were often elected captains. After training camp, they boarded steamboats and railcars headed to war. They maintained local ties while away through letters to family and newspapers, reporting battle events, humorous stories, their general well-being and requesting needed personal items. For most, their first long distance travel from home began as an adventure, but the realities of war soon altered that view. |