Martin Van Buren Teal served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. He was a member of Company F. 40th Georgia Infantry. He drew a pension in his later years of life for his services from the state of Arkansas. He attended the reunions of former comrades and was a member of Camp John H. Morgan No. 448 of Confederate Veterans. (John Hunt Morgan (1825-1864, Confederate cavalry General in the American Civil War. In 1862 he began a series of famous raids in which his troopers attacked union units, trains, and supplies from Iuka, Mississippi, to Columbia, Tennessee. During the summer and fall he ranged through Kentucky and made sorties into Ohio and Tennessee. He was appointed Brigadier General in December, 1862 and the next spring he began a new series of raids that penetrated into Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. Captured and imprisoned (July, 1863) after a wild pursuit that ended near New Lisbon, Ohio he escaped the following November and was placed in command of the Department of Southwest Virginia. In September 1864 he was surprised and killed near Greenville, Tennessee.) 1865 July 2-26; raid of Confederate Joyhn Hunt Morgan into Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. One of the several cavalry raids by Morgan throughout the war.