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Muster-roll of Captain Jame Soap’s company


Woodbury, August 4, 1837.
DEAR SIR: I hereby certify that the annexed is a correct roll of the company of volunteers who tendered their services to the United States under my command, and were received by Governor Cannon under his proclamation of June 6, 1836.
JAMES SOAP, Captain.
His Excellency N. CANNON.

I hereby certify that James Soap, whose signature is placed to the above certificate, made oath in due form, before me, the day it bears date, that the annexed roll is a correct account of the volunteers named who volunteered according to the above proclamation of June 6, 1836.
ELIJAH STEVENS, J. P.

Muster-roll of Captain Soap’s company of Tennessee volunteers.
James Soap, captain.             James C. Green     Philip Welber
Thomas Barton, 1st lieutenant.   G. W. Knox         James Higdon
James O. George, 2d lieutenant.  W. Goodwin         Abraham Brandon
Wm M., Knox, ensign.             Thomas E. Woodfin  Robert J. Patton.
Milton Fowler, 1st sergeant.     Caleb Martin       David R. Burton
Samuel J. Rund, 2d sergeant.     Mark Adcock        Jacob Falkenbury
U. D. Allen, 3d sergeant.        Henry Young        Greenbury Smith
William Barnett                  Ransom Young       William Stroud
William Nevins                   R. C. Dogier       Abn. Baty
Thomas Hodges                    Charles Bowen      James Baty
Samuel Russell                   John Vassor        Jacob More
John Bowen                       Martin Stroud      William Spicer
William Potterfield              D. C. Mereight     James Edwards
Robert H. Patton                 Archibald Edwards  Edmund Finley
Thomas C. Meloud                 Henry Markey       Eli Bailey
William Boyd                     William Phillips   Caswell Saron
George Walker                    James H. Alexander Richard Edwins
William Allen                    Isaac Soap         Levi Pelham.
Thomas Crary                     William Reynolds   Joseph Hollany
M. A. Morterfield                Thomas J. Hicks    John R. Cummings
William Patton                   Roswell Soap
STATE OF TENNESSEE, Executive Department:
I, Newton Cannon, governor of the State of Tennessee, do hereby certify that the officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates, whose names are enrolled upon this roll, were duly called into service, and their services accepted by me, during the summer of 1836, under my proclamation of June 6, 1836, to meet the requisition of the Secretary of War, dated May 25, 1836.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the great seal of the State to be [L. S.] affixed, at Nashville, the 30th day of August, 1837.
N. CANNON.
By the governor:
LUKE LEA, Secretary of State.

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Source:
     American State Papers, House of Representatives, 25th Congress, 2nd Session. Military Affairs: Volume 7, Page 752.


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