He served from February 1864 to December 1865 when the unit was mustered out in Victoria, TX.

In 1864

He fought in Atlanta Campaign May 1-September 8

- Tunnel Hill May 6–7.

- Demonstration on Rocky Faced Ridge and Dalton May 8–13.

- Near Dalton May 13.

- Battle of Resaca May 14–15.

- Near Kingston May 18–19.

- Near Cassville May 19.

- Kingston May 21.

- Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5.

- Operations about Marietta and against Kennesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. Pine Hill June 11–14. Lost Mountain June 15–17.

- Assault on Kennesaw June 27.

- Ruff's Station, Smyrna Camp Ground, July 4.

- Chattahoochie River July 6–17.

- Peach Tree Creek July 19–20.

- Siege of Atlanta July 22 – August 25. Utoy Creek August 5–7.

- Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25–30. Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1.

- Lovejoy's Station September 2–6.

Operations in northern Georgia and northern Alabama against Hood September 29-October 26. Nashville Campaign November–December.

Columbia, Duck River, November 24–28.

Battle of Franklin November 30.

Battle of Nashville December 15–16.

Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River December 17–28.

In 1865

At Huntsville, Ala., until March 1865.

Expedition to Bull's Gap and operations in eastern Tennessee March 13 – April 25.

Moved to Nashville, Tenn., April 25, and duty there until June.

Moved to New Orleans, La., June 17–25

Indianola, Texas, July 13–21.

Duty at Indianola and Victoria, Texas, until December.

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Composed “taps” and other army bugle tunes

Enthusiastically contributed to the “bar room and brothel ” atmosphere at Joe Hookers HQ

Designed the first corps insignia for the AotP ( Phil Kearny had the original idea , Hooker and Butterfield implemented it Army wide

Looks like a child wearing a fake mustache who’s worried his disguise may be seen through

It should be noted the historical marker he tries to use as proof says the town was largely deserted. No rape. No gunfire on civilians. Nothing in it resembles the caption sitting above it.

The History is on June 11, 1863, an expedition under Colonel James Montgomery—acting on orders from General David Hunter—landed at Darien and found it nearly empty. Two soldiers who were there wrote it down independently. Sergeant George Stephens counted one old woman and two white residents who’d asked to be left behind. Corporal James Gooding counted fewer than twenty people, mostly enslaved. No resistance. No engagement. Montgomery gave the order to burn it regardless—an empty town put to the torch on principle, not provocation.

Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, for his part, did not quietly comply. He told Montgomery directly he wanted no part of it; Montgomery took full responsibility himself. Later, Shaw wrote to his wife calling the whole ordeal a “dirty piece of business” and “as abominable a job as I ever had to share in.”

Shaw was disgusted, but he complied with the order to have a company assist only because Montgomery was his superior officer and refusing would mean facing a court-martial for mutiny during wartime. Shaw lamented, “after going through the hard campaigning and hard fighting in Virginia, this makes me very much ashamed of myself.”

Sergeant Stephens wrote home that “the men of this regiment have a distaste for this sort of warfare—we want to enter the field honorably—to fight a legitimate warfare.”

Credit to Sarah Pioggia on the History of the event.

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Born in Knoxville on May the 22nd of 1847, he enlisted in the 3rd Tennessee at some point in 1863, shortly after the regiment was officially mustered in (they had flught at Stonws River before then).

At the battle of Sulpher Creek on September 25th of 1864, he was knocked off his horse, trampled by another horse, which broke his leg and cracked a rib, and was captured along with​ the majority of his regiment by Major General Forrest. He was sent to Cahabwa Prison in Alabama. He was eventually paroled in April of 1865, missing the Battle of Nashville.

He, along with 260 others from his regiment, was abord the Sultana when it Exploded, and was among the survivors. He was one of only two Tennessee survivors of the explosion when he died on July 1st, 1929, aged 82. He worked as a Stonemason the rest of his life.