. Campaigns and battles of the Sixteenth Regiment, Tennessee Volunteers, in the war between the states, with incidental sketches of the part performed by other Tennessee troops in the same war. 1861-1865 . ten men were from the same county, and theywere always kept under the discipline and rules of theregular service. Tennessee Volunteers. 237 At the battle of Belmont. Captain Jackson wasmounted and afterward promoted to colonel, and placedin command of the Seventh Tennessee Cavalry, andwas subsequently made a l^ CAPTAIN W. \V. CARXES. rW^0$ When Captain Jackson was promoted
. Campaigns and battles of the Sixteenth Regiment, Tennessee Volunteers, in the war between the states, with incidental sketches of the part performed by other Tennessee troops in the same war. 1861-1865 . ten men were from the same county, and theywere always kept under the discipline and rules of theregular service. Tennessee Volunteers. 237 At the battle of Belmont. Captain Jackson wasmounted and afterward promoted to colonel, and placedin command of the Seventh Tennessee Cavalry, andwas subsequently made a l^ CAPTAIN W. \V. CARXES. rW^0$ When Captain Jackson was promoted, Carneswas made captain of the battery. Captain Jackson,who was now colonel and afterward brigadier-generalof cavalry, was a graduate of West Point, and waslieutenant in the First Mounted Rifles till the war com-menced. 238 CARNESS BATTERY Captain W. W. Carnes was a young man of excel-lent literary and military attainments. He was in. theofraduatino- class at the United States Naval Academywhen thQ war commenced, and at the time he wasmade captain of this batter}- he was only twenty yearsold. and was beyond a doubt the youngest captain ofartillery in the Confederate States Army. When as-sio-ned to Donelsons brig-ade the officers of the bat-tery w^ere as follows: W. W. Carxes, Captain; L. G. Marshall, First Lieutenant; Lewis. Bond, First Lieutenant; R. E. FooTE, Second Lieutenant; James M. Cockrill. Second Lieutenant. 2vIilton Brown, was for a while attached to thebattery as supernumerary second lieutenant, but wa
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