The following is from Sam McDowell's East Tennessee History.
"From boyhood he was a bitter opponent to slavery, and States rights, devoted to the union of States,
the flag and our free institutions. At the age of twenty-two years he scouted through the Confederate
lines to Kentucky..." On 1 Dec. 1862, joined Co. C, 8th Tenn. Infantry, Union Army. Mustered as
second sergeant 13 May 1863. Commissioned captain on 3 Dec. 1863 by Andrew Johnson, military
governor of Tennessee. Fought at the siege of Knoxville, Buzzard Roost Mountain, Resaca (14 May,
1864), Burnt Hickory, Kenesaw Mountain; was at the taking of Atlanta, Columbia, Franklin
(30 Nov 1864), Nashville (15 and 16 Dec. 1864) and at the surrender of Gen. Joseph Johnston at
Greensboro, N.C. 26 Apr 1865. He was mustered out 30 June 1865. He served as a deputy sheriff of
Green County in 1867 and 1868. He was elected to the 43rd General Assembly of Tennessee in 1882,
declined reelection in 1884, and farmed on the old homestead on the Little Chucky thereafter."