The Tennessee Civil War Veterans Questionnaires

Volume 3

 

HUGHES, ARCHELAUS M.

Page 1176 & 1177

FORM NO. 2

  • Name: Archelaus M. Hughes

    Age: Eighty years.

  • State & County of Birth: Tennessee, Maury County
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    • Soldier of: Confederate

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    • Company G; Ninth Cavalry (N.B.: he states 9th and file folder has 19th)

  • Occupation: Lawyer.
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    • Full Name of Father; Born At; in the County of; State of; He Lived At:

  • Archelaus M. Hughes; ----; Stokes Co.; North Carolina; ----; States District Attorney General U.S. District Attorney and Circuit Judge.
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    • Mothers Name; Daughter of; and His Wife; Who Lived At:

  • Mattie Bedford Neill; John Lambert Neill; Sallie Martin Neill; Fairfield, Bedford County.
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    • Typewritten Page:

  • I ran away from home when I was fifteen years of age and joined Forrest's Calvary. I was with Forrest in two of his campaigns in West Tennessee and also with him on the celebrated Straight raid, and when he captured Straight and 1800 men with 350. I belonged to Company G. Ninth Tennessee Calvary from June '62 to July '63. Colonel D.B. Cooper was First Lieutenant of the Company. He came to me in July '63 when we were camped at Bambridge, Alabama at the foot of the Muscle Shoals, and told me that he had a commission from Pres. Davis, as Lt. Colonel and was to go into middle Tennessee inside of the Federal lines to raise a batallion of calvary. Cooper and I left Bainbridge and rode to Mt. Pleasant when he began recruiting. For two weeks I was the only man he had, in fact he was the Colonel and I was the regiment. This is no exaggeration. I was captured by the Federals the 15th of October 1863 and sent to the Federal prison, Camp Morton at Indianapolis, Indiana. I had the pneumonia, erysipelas and the mumps all at the same time. I don't know of a men living either in the 9th Tenn. Cav. or in Cooper's command with who I served, but R. P. Dodson of Columbia was in prison with me an also Gen. John P. Hickman, and we occupied the same bunk until I was sent to the hospital. I became so ill in the hospital that the prison authorities wired my father at Columbia that I would not live. He immediately took the first train for Indianapolis and when he arrived there I had improved somewhat and the doctors told him that if he could get me out of there I had a chance to live. He obtained the certificates from the doctor to that effect and immediately left for Washington and when he arrived there it so happened that Andrew Johnson who was then Military Governor of Tennessee was there, and he and my father went together to the White House to see Mr. Lincoln. Mr. Lincoln took the application and wrote on the back of it this order....."I direct the release of this young man as a "boon" to Governor Johnson." After my release I was along time recovering from the effects of the illness and just about the time I recovered I took inflamatory rheumatism and was in bed for three months. This order of Mr. Lincoln's was dated Feb. 13th, 1864. I want to say that when I was with Forrest that I never slept in a tent. His command hand no tents, as they had no use for them and they were in the saddle all the time.
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    • HUGHES, J. D.

    Page 1178

    FORM NO. 2

  • Name: J. D. Hughes, Cookville, Tenn.

    Age: I will be eighty years next June 15.

  • State & County of Birth: Tennessee Sumner Co.
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    • Soldier of: Confederate

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    • Company A; second Tenn. cavalelry

  • Occupation: Farmer
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    • Father: William Hughes; ----; dont know; Virginia; ----; none

  • Mother: Joyce Buckinham
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    • Have no record.

    I had a horse that I rode in the war valued $150 my company furnished there own horses also shot guns

    Slaves: none

  • Self/Parents: none

    Parents: they were poore people property limited

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    • I worked on farm did general farm work

    my father farmed my mother and sisters spun and wove all the clothing for the family

    none

    it was

    they did

    they generally did there own work except those that owned slaves

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  • about the same as a socald rich man and a poore man in this day you know how it is

    about the same as now

    there was friendley feeling. about the same as now between rich and poor

    it did not

    yes infact I think better as there was not so mutch pride and fast living

    they were incuraged same as to day if a man tryes to prosper by hard work and economy his credit is good and gives the confidence of the people

    2 to 3 months free school

  • Dist to School: most of the time 2 miles
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    • free school never went to but one subscribsion school and that onley 21 days the first black bord I ever saw was there

    Publick

    2 to 3 months

    yes except when we had to work on farm

  • Teacher: man
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    • I inlisted in service of confederacy earley in 61 I was just 18 years old all of the companey furnished our own horses our own uniforms and duble barrel shot guns mussel loader

  • First Battle: Eperson springs
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    • general engagement in Apr. 6-7-1862

    Shilow

    after the batle Shilow went to corrinth miss stayed there some three months eat pickled beef what grease was cooked out of the beef we put in bread never drew but one blanket one pare boots one saddle

  • Discharge: corrinth
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    • after discharg traveled 14 days foot and sick got 15 miles from wainesborough got sick staid 7 weeks at one place my fols sent a man with buggy after me

    farming

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  • this is a question that would take mutch writing I am nerves and cant see mutch I farmed most all my life my wife has bin dead 18 years I still work in the gardin I wouldlike to give you all my experience but it would require mutch time and paper it tiers me to write so mutch so will close as I am tiered hopeing you will excuse my bad hand write as I think you will after considering I am 80 yrs. old.

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    (Does not know where Roster is)

    "I will say my memory is pretty good but am failing fast it brings

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