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    1. [TNHARDIN-L] Company G ,1st Confederate Cavalry Regiment
    2. from Hardin Countians in the 19th Century, A Supplement to Hardin County's People compiled by Tony Hays 1986 ".....Enrolled at Savannah in October of 1861, the company was commanded by Captain Charles S. Robertson, a local lawyer. They went into camp at Jackson, Tennessee. Six months later , they were with the force commanded by Albert Sidney Johnston which attacked Grant at Pittsburgh Landing from Corinth, Mississippi. Again, they fell back into camp and were then ordered to Chattanooga. After this they went to Perryville, Kentucky. It appears that the next battle was at Murfreesboro. They were surrendered at the little town of Sumpterville, Alabama in 1865." My gggrandfather Theodore Phylander BARNHILL was in this company. He was wounded at the battle of Shiloh, got separated from the group and met up with them later. His brothers William, James and a John i believe were also in the company. A book called "Tennesseans in the Civil War, A Military History of Confederate and Union Units with Available Rosters of Personnel" 1964. also has the company in the Battle of Chickamauga as part of A.A. Russell's Brigade, General W.T. Martin's Division, Wheeler's Cavalry corps. This battle took place after the battle at Shelbyville where most or all of the officers and the majority of the troops were killed or captured.;292 prisoners were sent to Camp Douglas, Illinois in June 1863. They participate in the Atlanta Campaign and the invasion of Tennessee with General John B. Hood. Surrendered at Gainesville, Alabama on May 12,1865. Muster rolls were lost with General Wheeler's train during the last campaign in North Carolina. Next: Roster as given by J.M. Porterfield in June of 1880 with annotations by the compiler.

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