The Confederate Ninth Tennessee Infantry

by James R. Fleming

Overview

A military history of one American Civil War battle unit based on soldiers’ correspondence, memoirs, war records, and obituaries.

Here is the story of the Confederate Ninth Tennessee Infantry, known as the “Southern Confederates,” one of the most well-educated, zealously religious, and unbelievably gallant groups of men to engage in the American Civil War. Using the soldiers’ actual letters, memoirs, war records, and obituaries, James R. Fleming documents this immortal “band of brothers,” which included five of his own ancestors, as they endure the privations of life on the western front. This valuable historical and genealogical resource also includes discussions of the battles at Columbus, Perryville, and Atlanta, as well as the regiment’s Order of Battle and each soldier’s service record.

The Confederate Ninth Tennessee Infantry contains a wealth of archival information taken from primary sources. The letters and reminiscences of Capt. James I. Hall, an educator who joined the war to watch over his young students, are published here in full for the first time. The author has also included C. B. Simonton’s detailed contemporary account of the unit’s organization, as well as transcripts of the speeches given at the presentation and acceptance of the company’s first flag. Mr. Fleming also features a regimental chronology and a roster containing approximately eleven hundred official war records from the Compiled Service Records.

Praise for The Confederate Ninth Tennessee Infantry

“This volume is a worthy contribution to the regimental history genre. . . . Useful for anyone interested in the Ninth or any of the campaigns and battles in which the regiment participated.” —William H. Mulligan, Jr., The Civil War News 

“Nothing brings an event alive more than the words of the actual participants. . . . A must read for anyone interested in the history of Tennessee troops in the Civil War.” —Connie Slaughter, historian, Wilson’s Creek National Military Park

“Civil War buffs, this book’s for you.” —Charles D. Townsend, National Genealogy & Heraldry, Fellowship of Rotarians

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781455602834
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	12/21/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	344
Sales rank:	957,738
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

James R. Fleming was awarded the Jefferson Davis medal for excellence in preservation and research of Civil War history by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. A graduate of the University of Tennessee at Martin, Mr. Fleming resides in his hometown of Memphis in a restored 1912 foursquare house with his wife, Judge Karen R. Williams. In addition to his writing projects and historical research, he enjoys participating in living histories, working as an interpretive historian for the National Park Service, and collecting Civil War artifacts. Mr. Fleming is also an accomplished bluegrass banjo player and, with his wife, collects and plays period musical instruments.

Table of Contents

	Preface	7
	Acknowledgments	11
	Introduction	13
	The Story of Company C, Ninth Tennessee Infantry	16
Chapter 1	Company C, Ninth Tennessee	27
Chapter 2	Charles Bryson Simonton 1838-1911	32
Chapter 3	A History of Company "C," Ninth Tennessee Regiment From Its Organization in 1861 To the Surrender, 1865	51
Chapter 4	Wartime Correspondence of Captain James Iredell Hall	127
Chapter 5	Wartime Correspondence of Private Samuel Gladney McCreight	149
Chapter 6	Wartime Correspondence of Sergeant John Riley McCreight	153
Chapter 7	Wartime Correspondence of Corporal William J. McDill	159
Chapter 8	Selected Obituaries of Officers and Men of the Ninth Tennessee Infantry	169
Chapter 9	The Ninth Tennessee Infantry	177
Chapter 10	Chronology of the Ninth Tennessee Infantry	181
	Notes	300
	Photographic Cedits	313
	Bibliography	315
	Index	318