. Report of proceedings incidental to the erection and dedication of the Confederate monument. ted at Richmond College, Tennessee, iS59-()i, and completed education after thewar in 1865. Enlisted as private in Company B. Forty-first regiment infantry, Tennessee volun-teers. November 4, iSGi. Engaged in the battle of Fort Donelson. where the entireregiment was captured February 16. 1S62, Imprisoned at Camji Morton, Indianapolis,and exchanged at Vicksburg. September, 1S62. Took part in the following battles: Springdale and Raymond. Miss . siege of Vicks-burg, Port Hudson and Jackson, great battl
. Report of proceedings incidental to the erection and dedication of the Confederate monument. ted at Richmond College, Tennessee, iS59-()i, and completed education after thewar in 1865. Enlisted as private in Company B. Forty-first regiment infantry, Tennessee volun-teers. November 4, iSGi. Engaged in the battle of Fort Donelson. where the entireregiment was captured February 16. 1S62, Imprisoned at Camji Morton, Indianapolis,and exchanged at Vicksburg. September, 1S62. Took part in the following battles: Springdale and Raymond. Miss . siege of Vicks-burg, Port Hudson and Jackson, great battle of Chickamauga and the Johnston-Sherman100 days fighting in Georgia, and under Hood in the bloody engagement at Franklinand disasters that followed. Promoted to first sergeant of his company, and serxed muchof his time as sergeant-major of the regiment. Engaged in journalism after the war. owned the Chattanooga Daily Thins. iSyo-Soand was connected with other daily and weekly papers of Tennessee. Established the CcnfeJetalc Vctcytin in January. 1S1J3. of which he is editor 206 COL. A. J. WEST, yuartermaster GenerHl of Georgia, Was another of the distinguished ex-soldiers present, a captain in theConfederate army during tlie war and was engaged in all of the battlesfought by the Western army, except when disabled by the many woundsreceived. At Perryviile, Ky., he was very severely wounded and dis-tinguished himself for bravery on that sanguinary field. Since the warhis military tendencies and e.\ecutive ability have brought him to thefront in the state militia, where he has rendered much valuable service,being at present the supply executive on the gubernatorial staff. Hewears the jeweled-scar insignia of his distinguished battle record andenjoys the military bearing so marked in the southern soldier. MAJ. J. L. McCOLLUM, Of Georgia. One of the prominent representatives from the empire state of thesouth, was the accomplished superintendent of the Western & Atla
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