MAGISTERIAL RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT AND OTHER RECORDS
MADISON COUNTY, TENNESSEE
By Jonathan K. T. Smith
Copyright, Jonathan K. T. Smith, 1996THE MARTYRS OF JACKSON
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These young soldiers died in the Battle of Shiloh, April 5-6, 1862, members of the 6th Tennessee Inf. Regiment, CSA. This regiment was organized in Jackson, May 23, 1861.
- JOHN J. CAMPBELL, Company H;
- AUGUSTUS FRED EPPINGER, Company H;
- JOSEPH B. FREEMAN, capt., Company G;
- WILLIAM JAMES HADAWAY, Company H;
- ISAAC M. JACKSON, 1 Lt., Company G;
- THOMAS McCORRY, Company G.
Company G was known as the JACKSON GRAYS.
Company H was known as the SOUTHERN GUARDS.
Taken from the WEST TENNESSEE WHIG, Jackson, April 25, 1862
THE MARTYRS OF JACKSON
In common with many others, our own community has been made to feel the discomforting ills of this cruel war, in the loss of several of out most promising youth. They fell on the battle field of Shiloh, nobly and valiantly contending for the rights of free man, and the maintenance of their Country's institutions. In our endeavor to relieve the suffering of the sick and wounded in our midst, we are apt to forget those brave martyrs who sacrificed their young lives on the alter of Southern independence. They have gone from among us, some of them in the pride of youth, when life was in its spring, full of hope and virtue resolutions. Let us revive their memories; and in after years let the names of Joseph Freeman, Isaac Jackson, John Campbell, Thomas McCorry, James Haddaway, and Augustus Eppinger, be mentioned to our children to inspire them with true courage and patriotism.
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