23rd TENNESSEE INFANTRY REGIMENT

DESCENDANTS ROLL CALL

Soldier's Notes

 

Sgt. John Thomas Middleton and his brothers enlisted at Camp Trousdale. His brothers were James Elbert, Adolphus A., and Charles W. (he was killed and is buried in Tullahoma, Tennessee at the Maplewood Confederate Cemetery). John Thomas was wounded at Shiloh and sent to Corinth, Mississippi to a hospital there. He returned to fight again and was captured June 16, 1864 and sent to Elmira, New York. At war's end, he was sent back to the James River at Richmond, Virginia and walked home to Tennessee. The other two brothers were not captured.

Sgt. Jasper Newton Holt, Co. D, was awarded the Confederate Medal of Honor for his gallant conduct at Murfreesboro, Tennessee on September 16th and 17th, 1862. According to his pension records, he was captured on April 4, 1865 during Lee's retreat to Appomattox.

After the war, Private Abraham H. Davenport, Co. H, changed his name to Abram, not wanting to share the same first name with Abraham Lincoln.

1st Corporal George F. Mingle served in Captain M. M. Grien, Jr.'s Company H, 23rd Regiment, Tennessee Infantry. He was enrolled at Camp Trousdale, Tennessee on August 23, 1861 by Lt. G.H. Smith, CSA, for a period of ten months. He died from pneumonia on January 7, 1862 in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

John G. Arnold (b. 1842, d. 20 March 1900) was a 4th Sergeant in Company F and was captured on 17 June 1864 at Petersburg, Virginia. He later served as deputy sheriff of Shelbyville, Bedford County, Tennessee and for many years was the Secretary of the Frierson Bivouac No. 8 in Shelbyville, Tennessee.

Thomas Cheslie Arnold (b. 1846, d. 18 August 1936) was a Private in Company F and the younger brother of John G. Arnold. He was wounded by grape-shot at the Battle of Shiloh and died in Rutherford County, Tennessee at the age of 90, one of the last four living Confederate Veterans in that County.

 

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