My Great Grandfather, Pvt. Nathan Oakes, served in Company D of the 32nd Mississippi Regiment. Following is Capt. F.S. Norman's meager report for today's date, 1863, concerning his company's march in response to the Yankees' movement across the river:
Left Blythes Ferry, Sept. 2, 1863 and marched to Harrison, a distance of 20 miles, then to Chattanooga...
The regiment arrived at Harrison the next day and remained in camp for several days more near a brick female college.
On this same date, another ancestor, Great-great Grandfather David Crockett Neal, with the 6th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment in Wharton's Division, is guarding passes through Lookout Mountain, watching for the enemy's approach.
On this same date, another ancestor, Great-great Grandfather David Crockett Neal, with the 6th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment in Wharton's Division, is guarding passes through Lookout Mountain, watching for the enemy's approach.
Sources: Muster Roll of the 32ndMississippi Infantry, complied by Tommy Lockhart; Pat Cleburne: Confederate General, Howell & Elizabeth Purdue; Autumn of Glory, Thomas Lawrence Connelly; The 6th Tennessee Cavalry (unpublished manuscript), John F. Walter; Huntsville Historical Review, Vol 26, No. 2. 1999: Transcription of Capt. Daniel Coleman Diary, Univ. North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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