44th Tennessee Infantry Regiment

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Soldier's Notes

 

Private Green Moore enlisted December 30, 1861 in Nashville, TN with the 44th (Consolidated) TN Infantry, Co. I. He was wounded at Murfreesboro on December 21, 1862, continued in the service; was captured April 2, 1865 at Hatcher's Run; Prisoner of War at Point Lookout, MD. He took the Oath of Allegiance June 29, 1865 and released. He was born in 1837 to George W. and Sally Moore; lived most of his life in Russell Co. Kentucky. He went on to become a medical doctor. His practice was located in the McKinney, KY area until his death in 1904.

John Andrew Ratley was awarded the Southern Cross of Honor in January 1904 at Camp #621, Marshall, Texas.

 

Fellow Company C member, Sergeant Dawson Gwaltney, married the sister of Captain William N. James after the war.

Private Rufus J. Norton of Company D is buried in the Beechgrove Cemetery in Coffee County, Tennessee. A tintype of him in Confederate uniform is shown below with with his wife Julia after the war.

 

America Arnold was born in 1821 in middle Tennessee and lived in Beech Grove, Coffee county, TN when the war broke out. He was elected as the original Captain of Company F of the 44th Tennessee Infantry. He resigned his Confederate Commision at Camp Hardee, Kentucky in 1862 due to rheumatisms. He said his health would not allow him to continue on a campaign. He is buried in Coffee County, Manchester, Tennessee at the Asbury United Methodist Church.

 

1st Lieutenant William Franklin Terry, Company C, was wounded on 19 September 1863 during the Battle of Chickamauga and died of his wounds on 26 September 1863 at Chickamauga.

 

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