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Tennessee Volunteers
Some 1836 Captains’ Militia Companies as
Identified in
Messages of the Governors of Tennessee
1835-1845, Volume Three
&
American State Papers
Military Affairs: Volume 7, 1837-1838
Anderson County, Captain Chiles.
Anderson County, Captain John B. Crozier.
Bedford County, Captain Miller.
Bedford County, Captain S. Mitchell.
Bedford County, Captain Warner.
Bedford County, Captain Willie B. Watkins.
Bledsoe County, Captain Terry.
Cannon County, Captain James Soap.
Carroll County, Captain Totten.
[Davidson County] Nashville, Captain Grund.
[Davidson County] Nashville, Captain Rayburn.
Davidson County, Captain Battle.
Franklin County, Captain Callaway.
Franklin County, Captain Roberts.
Franklin County, Captain Turney.
Hamilton County, Captain Cannon.
Henderson County, Captain N.H. Darnell.
Hardeman County, Captain Neely.
Henry County, Captain Dunlap.
Jackson County, Captain John H. Hamilton.
[Knox County] Knoxville, Captain Morrow.
Lincoln County, Captain Wilson.
Madison County, Captain Hay.
Madison County, Captain Bradford.
Robertson County, Captain Henry.
Maury County, Captain D. R. Mitchell.
Overton County, Captain H. C. Armstrong.
Overton County, Captain Henry S. Maxwell.
Rutherford County, Captain Jetton.
Rutherford County, Captain Weatherford.
Rutherford County, Captain Benet G. White.
Rutherford County, Captain Yoakum.
Sumner County, Captain Lauderdale.
Warren County, Captain Adrian Northcutt.
Warren County, Captain John B. Rogers. (Mountain Blues)
“... In 1836 he [ John H. Savage] began its practical study, volunteering under a
call by Gen. Gaines for 2,000 mounted volunteers to
defend the neutrality of the Texas frontier. Within forty days’
time, however, his company, ‘The Mountain Blues,’ had been discharged,
news having come of Santa Anna's capture by Houston. On the return
of the company from Nashville Savage and five others of his county
proceeded to Fayetteville to offer themselves for the Florida war. In that
struggle he fired the first shot in Armstrong’s brigade and was in all its
marches and battles, being mustered out in New Orleans, Jan. 14, 1837 ...”
Source
Wayne County, Captain Alexander.
Weakley County, Captain Currey.
Williamson County, Captain Crouch.
Wilson & Smith counties, Captain Porterfield.
------------, Captain Bledsoe.
------------, Captain Fletcher.
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Militia Companies from Others Sources
At Outside Websites
Franklin
County Tennessee Men in Indian Wars
Volunteers to Florida. Seminole War
Includes:
Muster-roll of Captain Benjamin Cherry’s Company, 27 October 1837
Muster-roll of Captain Sanders Faris’ Company, 6th November 1837
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Sumner
County Tennessee, Seminole War, 1836
Includes:
Muster Roll of Captain Josephus Conn Guild’s Company
Muster Roll of Captain Joseph G. Meador’s Company
Muster Roll of Captain William Trousdale’s
Company of the Second Regiment
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Campbell
County Tennessee
Captain Ayres Maupin’s Company S
2nd Mounted Tennessee Militia
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