Company "C"
Transcribed by Sue Bowers

Extracted from "HISTORY of the  Twentieth Tennessee Regiment CSA" 
Published in 1904

The "Tennessee and the Civil War" Project wishes to thank Sue for transcribing this information.

James L Rice, Captain, not re-elected at the re-organization and never returned to service, he was a lawyer of note.  Died in Nashville, in 1898.

James A. McMurray, elected First Lieutenant, resigned in June 1861 at Camp Trousdale, and raising a Company, was elected its Captain and went into Churchhill's Regiment, which was the 4th Confederate, and was elected Lieutenant Colonel, and at the death of Col. Churchhill was promoted to Colonel, then to Brigadier General while on the field of Chickamauga only a few hours before he received his death wound.  He was also a lawyer.

J. C. Thompson, elected 2nd Lieutenant, after the first years service was attached to the staff of Major General A. P. Stewart, and died in Nashville after the war.  He was a lawyer of more than ordinary ability.

M. N. Cox,  3rd Lieutenant, not re-elected at the re-organization, joined Gen. John H. Morgan's command, was taken prisoner and died at Camp Chase. He was a lawyer.

At Lieut. McMurray's resignation in 1861, Duval McNairy was elected Lieut. of Company C, and after the re-organization he raised a battalion of Cavalry and operated in the counties of Cheatham, Hickman, Perry, and Wayne, to the great terror of the Federal Scouts.

E. E. Grey,   Orderly Sergeant, badly wounded at the battle of Fishing Creek, and afterwards died.

A. C. McLaughlin,   2nd Sergeant, severly wounded at battle of Shiloh, died near Nashville after the war.

James W. Thomas,   3rd Sergeant, promoted to Adjutant and received a compliment from Adjutant General Cooper at Richmond as sending in as good Regimental reports as any that came to his office.  Adjutant Thomas was almost mortally wounded at the battle of Hoover's Gap and never returned to the service, and after the war was elected Treasurer of the State of Tennessee, and died an accomplished soldier and Christian gentleman at his home in Nashville, in 1889.

J. E. Ellis,     4th Sergeant.  Living near Nashville, but blind.

T. W. Shumate,   1st Corporal, promoted to Lieutenant and afterwards acted as Adjutant of the Regiment, and yet lives in the Nubbin Ridge Country.

A. V. Brown,   2nd Corporal, was a son of Ex Gov. A. V. Brown. Dead.

J. T. Bland    3rd Corporal.

E. B. Johnson    4th Corporal.
 

Allison, R. V.   Killed Aug. 31, 1864, at Jonesboro, GA.

Andrews, Jno.    Living near Antioch.

Austin, J. E.

Anderson, J. W.

Baker, J. W.

Bigly, Thomas

Baxter, J. S.   It is said, he was the only married man in the company, never missed a battle, never severely wounded and was never heard to complain, and fought from Wild-Cat to Bentonville. 

Barnes, C. W.    Killed at Murfreesboro.

Barnes, J. W.    Living near Antioch.

Barnes, P.       Dead.

Blair, G. M.

Blair, H. C.

Bostick, Lytton    Transferred and killed at Atlanta. 

Brown, A. S.

Brown, J. F.

Bugg, Sam       Dead.

Bundy, J. H.    Killed at Fishing Creek.

Burnett, A. G.

Burnett, James H.    Living in Nashville.

Caldwell, J. D.

Callender, James T.    Killed at Hoover's Gap.

Campbell, J. H.    Dead.

Carter, J. D.

Collins, J. C      Dead.

Collins, Tom       Dead.

Cooper, James L.   Promoted to Sgt, then to staff of Gen. Tyler; lives near Nashville.

Cross, James      Dead.

Curde, Samuel     Killed at Murfreesboro.

Daily, J.

Davis, G. W.      Dead.

Dennison, John    Living in the Nubbin Ridge Country.

Dennison, W.      Dead.

Dunn, W. L.       Living in Nashville.

Elkin, Milton S.    Developed into a fine lawyer after the war.  Surrendered in North Carolina in 1865;  Dead.

Ewin, H.      Promoted to staff duty, killed at Murfreesboro.

Felts, J. M.     Dead.

Felts, Julien

Fitzhue, J. A.   Dead

Fox, Thomas      Dead

Goodrich, Jno. A.   Killed at Shiloh.

Goss, A. C.    Living in Nashville.

Goss, T. J.    Living in Indian Territory.

Greenfield, George    Promoted to Color Guard, was the best Banjo picker in the Regiment;  Dead.

Greenfield, J. Woods    Promoted to Lieutenant at re-organization and soon resigned;   Dead.

Gregory, Alfred    Promoted to 3rd Lieutenant at re-organization and survived the war; Died July 1903, in Tennessee Soldier's Home.

Harrison, W. R.     Dead.

Hollister, T. B.    Killed at Chickamauga.

Hood, G. W.         Killed at Shiloh.

Horton, Benjamin    Dead. 

Horton, L.     Killed at Atlanta, July 22, 1864.

Huggins, J. W.      Killed at Fishing Creek.

Huggins, James      In Soldier's Home.

Hunt, J.

James, Benjamin    Dead.

Johnson, A. H.     Dead.

Johnson, C. G.

Jones, Henry       Living near Nashville

Jones, J. W.

Jones, T. W.

Jones, W. A.

Knight, R. B.      Dead.

Lucas, H. C.    Promoted to Commissary Sergeant, then to Captain, then to Major.  Died near Donaldson, Tennessee in 1874.

Manier, Frank G.    Living in Nashville;  totally blind.

Mason, L. H.

Matlock, W. G.    Dead.

McInturff, John

McLaughlin, W. M.    Killed at Shiloh.

Meadows, L. G.

Mitchell, J. W.     Killed at Missionary Ridge.

Mize, W. T.      Dead.

Montgomery, Dave    Died after the war.

Park, W. H.     Dead.

Peel, L. D.     Dead.

Perry, Robert

Pritchett, J. B.

Rawley, J. W.    Promoted to Lieutenant, died in Nashville, 1896.

Roberts, George W.

Roberts, W. H.

Russell, Hardin    Dead.

Sanders, E. A.

Savage, John    Killed at Resaca, GA.

Shields, Evan B.    Killed at Fishing Creek, one of the most talented men in the Regiment.

Shumate, J. C.   Living at Donaldson, Tennessee.

Simpson, W. D.   At Soldier's Home

Smith, M. T.     Dead.

Spain, W. H.     Dead.

Stephens, Henry    Dead.

Stephens, J. R.    Living near Brentwood.

Stone, M.        Dead.

Stone, S. M.     Dead.

Swain, L. P.     Dead.

Watson, A. L.    Living in Nashville.

Watson, E. E.    Died in Nashville, 1896.

Watson, George    Killed in Breckinridge charge at Murfreesboro. Your writer saw him after he was shot in the root of the neck, just before he died.

Watson, Rufus     Living in Nashville.

Wright, J. A.

Young, William  

Total Rank and File, 112.

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