Bobby Prosser Thanks for your mention of Michael R. Bradley's book "With Blood and Fire: Life Behind Union Lines in Middle Tennessee, 1963-65". [Burd Street Press; (February 2003)] I have not read it yet, but have ordered it from amazon.com. Like you, I'm interested in the history of the area in general, but ever more so because we have lately discovered skeletons of Union soldiers in our family closet, never mentioned by Felix W. Motlow in his genealogy of the Daniel family, probably because that branch of the family had moved west to Wayne County Tennessee about 1853. >From my cousin in Wayne County: "A sad note about Pleasant Bennett was that he was called out to his porch on the night of Dec. 4, 1864, by unknown parties and shot dead. It was supposed by bushwhackers because Pleasant was a brother-in-law to Mark Daniel who was a soldier in the 2nd Tenn Mtd Infantry, a Union outfit." Pleasant Bennett, son of Hezekiah Bennett of Bedford County, also had two brothers and other Bennett & Daniel relatives in Company C, 23rd Battalion, Tennessee Infantry (Newman's), CSA, organized on Thompson Creek in Bedford County. Like you say, pretty tough times. Thanks for the book referral. Clay Daniels

Clay: Yes, I am going to say it like my father in law has said, " it was not a Civil War there was not one thing civil about it." The book is interesting as it is pretty well pinpointed around the Nashville - Chattanooga Railway and this put it in our local communities of Bedford, Marshall, Moore, Lincoln & Coffee County. Seemingly Major General Robert Milroy under the guise of his rank with the US Army, put himself above the law in some instances. On the other hand the Bushwhackers were committing very violent acts on the ones that were in sympathy with the union. The whole area was under control of the Union and there was a lot of pilfering going on. Also there seems to be that scores were settled among neighbors about issues that happened before the conflict under the umbrella of the war without civil penalty. This was a sad time for our people no matter which side they were in sympathy of. I was at a presentation conducted by Dr. George Schweitzer of The East Tennessee Historical Society some months ago. From what he presented the South was trying to make a change [there was an issue of economics to the South], but the powers to be of that time pressed the issue on. I don't want us to fight the conflict again in this forum, but I think it is a good topic for discussion, because so many of our ancestors were affected in so many ways. Bobby Prosser prossergenealogy@comcast.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Clay Daniels" <clay_1@airmail.net> To: <TN-CHESTNUTRIDGECOUSINS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 4:47 AM Subject: [TN-CHESTNUTRIDGECOUSINS] With Blood and Fire > Bobby Prosser > > Thanks for your mention of Michael R. Bradley's book "With Blood and Fire: > Life Behind Union Lines in Middle Tennessee, 1963-65". [Burd Street Press; > (February 2003)] I have not read it yet, but have ordered it from > amazon.com. > > Like you, I'm interested in the history of the area in general, but ever > more so because we have lately discovered skeletons of Union soldiers in our > family closet, never mentioned by Felix W. Motlow in his genealogy of the > Daniel family, probably because that branch of the family had moved west to > Wayne County Tennessee about 1853. > > >From my cousin in Wayne County: > > "A sad note about Pleasant Bennett was that he was called out to his porch > on the night of Dec. 4, 1864, by unknown parties and shot dead. It was > supposed by bushwhackers because Pleasant was a brother-in-law to Mark > Daniel who was a soldier in the 2nd Tenn Mtd Infantry, a Union outfit." > > Pleasant Bennett, son of Hezekiah Bennett of Bedford County, also had two > brothers and other Bennett & Daniel relatives in Company C, 23rd Battalion, > Tennessee Infantry (Newman's), CSA, organized on Thompson Creek in Bedford > County. > > Like you say, pretty tough times. Thanks for the book referral. > > Clay Daniels > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >