Col. Isaac W. Smith Camp #458
Sons of Confederate Veterans
Ancestor of Compatriot Dan Burch
Born: February 2, 1845
Died: December 20, 1911
Buried: Logan Missionary Baptist Cemetery, Logan, Cullman Co. Alabama
Units: Co. F, 25th Alabama Infantry
Service: First entered service as a Private on October 30, 1861 at Wesobulga, Alabama in the 25th Alabama Infantry. He particpated in the Battle of Shiloh, the Murfreeboro Campaign, the Chattanooga Campaign, and the Nashville Campaign. Between April 1 and April 15, 1865, the 25th Alabama consolidated with the 22nd Alabama Infantry and he was was paroled at Greenville, North Carolina on April 26, 1865.
Post-War: He married Nancy Ogletree in 1868 and had five chidren, 4 boys and 1 girl. He farmed and worked at the family sawmill and became a charter member of the Logan Missionary Baptist Church, donating the land on which the church sets and for the cemetery where he now rests.
Ancestor of Compatriots Norm, Erik, and Karl Ernst
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Units: Co. F, 20th Arkansas Infantry
Major Battles: Corinth, Hatchie Bridge, Vicksburg
Service: 20th Infantry Regiment, formerly G. W. King's 22nd Regiment, was organized during the spring of 1862. During the end of 1864 it disbanded.
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Ancestor of Compatriots Brent and Bryan Jacobs
Born: 1835 Russell Co. Virginia
Died: 1886 Hunt Co. Texas
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Units: Co. K, 64th Virginia Mounted Infantry
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Service: The 64th Virginia Infantry regiment was formed on the basis of limited service to guard mountain passes in Lee, Scott, and Wise counties. It was organized in December, 1862, by consolidating the 21st and 29th Battalions Virginia Infantry. On September 9, a large part of this unit was captured at Cumberland Gap. Later it served in Williams', Giltner's, and W.E. Jones' Brigade and confronted the Federals in various conflicts in East Tennessee, western Virginia, and North Carolina. During April, 1864, it totalled 268 effectives, but in April, 1865, less than 50 disbanded.
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Ancestor of Compatriot Glen Edens
Born: 21 January 1826, McMinn County, TN.
Died: 3 May 1903, Granbury, Hood County, TX.
Buried: Nubbin Ridge Cemetery, Granbury, Hood County, TX.
Unit: Co. E. 1st Tennessee Infantry (Turney's) Regiment
Service: Company E was raised at Lynchburg in March 1861 and joined the Regiment in Winchester the following month where they were sworn into service on 29 April 1861. The men were from Lincoln County (became Moore County). They were nicknamed "The Lynchburg Rangers". John H. Taylor, a prominent Southern gentleman of the old school, outfitted the Company at his own expense.
Ancestor of Compatriots Norm, Erik, and Karl Ernst
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Units: 7th Mississippi Cavalry
Major Battles: Collierville, Oxford
Service: 7th Cavalry Regiment [also called 1st Partisan Rangers] was oranized during the early summer of 1862 and in July had 35 officers and 817 men present for duty. It served in the Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana and later was assigned to Chalmer's, R. McCulloc's, and Starke's Brigade. The unit took an active part in the operations in North Mississippi, Kentucky, and West Tennessee.
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Ancestor of Compatriots Brent and Bryan Jacobs
Born: 18 July 1840, Loutre Island, Montgomery County, MO.
Died: 26 December 1905, Stephens, Callaway County, MO.
Buried: Old Cedar Cemetery, Stephens, Callaway County, MO.
Units: Co. A. 2nd Division, 2nd Infantry Battalion, Missouri State Guard, 1861-1862.
Brig. Gen. M. Jeff Thompson's Regiment, Missouri, 1862-1864.
Major Battles: Booneville, Wilson's Creek (Oak Hills), Lexington (Battle of the Hemp Bales), Elkhorn Tavern (Pea Ridge).
Service: Capt. Jacobs was in his third year at VMI (Class of '62) when the war began. He was commissioned a Lieutenant in an Infantry Company in the Missouri State Guard under Gen. Sterling Price, where he saw most of his combat. He re-enlisted as a Captain under Brig. Gen. M. Jeff Thompson "The Swamp Fox" after the Missouri State Guard disbanded in 1862. Captured "recruiting rebels" in Montgomery County, Missouri, Oct. 7, 1862, he was held as a common criminal at the Gratiot Street Jail in St. Louis with other "bushwackers and guerillas", before being transferred to Alton Federal Military Prison in Alton, Illinois. Paroled to the city-limits of Alton, 17 September 1863, he was re-captured in Missouri on 20 October 1863, and sentenced "to be confined at hard labor for remainder of rebellion", and sent back to the Alton Military prison. Alton prison housed a total of 11,764 Confederate soldiers during the War, of which at least 1,534 died of disease, exposure, and malnutrition. Capt. Jacobs was finally released 28 May 1864.
Post-War: Captain Jacobs was a stock-raiser and farmer in Callaway County, Missouri, where he owned 1,100 acres and raised over 350 acres of grain annually. The "History of Callaway County" states that Capt. Jacobs occupied "a prominent place among the foremost farmers of the county."
Ancestor of Compatriots Norm, Erik, and Karl Ernst
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Units: Co. K, 19th Georgia Infantry
Major Battles: Seven Pines, Chancellorsville, Cold Harbor, Petersburg
Service: 19th Infantry Regiment was assembled during the summer of 1861. In April, 1862, it totalled 395 effectives and during the war served under the command of Generals W. Hampton, Archer, and Colquitt. In 1865 the unit participated in the North Carolina Campaign and surrendered with the Army of Tennessee.
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Ancestor of Compatriot Dan Burch
Born: Abt. 1832
Died: July 27, 1863
Buried: Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, Georgia
Units: Co. F, 25th Alabama Infantry
Service: Joined the 25th Alabama, Co. F, in March 1862 at approximently 30 years old. He participated in the Battle of Shiloh just weeks after he joined his company. On July 15, 1863, he was admitted to Atlanta Medical College Hospital where he died of disease on July 27, 1863. A report states that he died of consumption.
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Ancestor of Compatriot Thom Faller
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Units: Co. A, 5th Kentucky Cavalry
Major Battles: Morgan's Kentucky, Indiana & Ohio Raid
Service: The Kentucky 5th Cavalry Regiment was organized during the summer of 1862 with men recruited in the central section of Kentucky. It was attached to Buford's Brigade and skirmished in Tennessee and Kentucky. Later it fought with J.H. Morgan, and many of its members were captured at Buffington Island on July 19 and the remaining part at New Lisbon on July 26, 1863.
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