NOTE:This company was organized in the summer of 1862, the enlistments being from July 14 to 19. This Regi=1Fment first saw service in east Tennessee; then later, about the first of 1863, took over command of the Confederate defense position at Cumberland Gap mountain above Middlesboro, Kentucky. Here they were surrendered by their commander, General Frazier, in September, 1863. Major McDowell, however, refused to surrender, and with some 300 to 400 of his troops escaped from the mountain. Some of these troops were from Haywood. They returned to their homes, mostly on Pigeon, and entered the service again.
COMPANY E, LOVE'S REGIMENT, THOMAS' LEGION
NOTE: Haywood companies C and E were first a part of the old 16th N. C. Regiment, which Colonel R. G. A. Love helped to organize here in the spring of 1861. In 1862 they were transferred in a process of reorganization into the 69th Regiment, generally referred to as 'Thomas' Legion'. J. R. Love was at first Captain of old Company A; and after it became Company E (of the 69th Regiment) Julius M. Welch, Lieutenant, was promoted to Capta= in of the Company. Jesse F. Conley and Robert T. Conley also served in old Company A, as did also B. A. Cathey, who was mortally wounded in June 1861. (It is still believed that the unit was "only" called Thomas' Legion)
Elias died serving in the Confederate Service Army in Tennessee.
NOTE:This company was organized in the summer of 1862, the enlistments being from July 14 to 19. This Regi=1Fment first saw service in east Tennessee; then later, about the first of 1863, took over command of the Confederate defense position at Cumberland Gap mountain above Middlesboro, Kentucky. Here they were surrendered by their commander, General Frazier, in September, 1863. Major McDowell, however, refused to surrender, and with some 300 to 400 of his troops escaped from the mountain. Some of these troops were from Haywood. They returned to their homes, mostly on Pigeon, and entered the service again.
COMPANY E, LOVE'S REGIMENT, THOMAS' LEGION
NOTE: Haywood companies C and E were first a part of the old 16th N. C. Regiment, which Colonel R. G. A. Love helped to organize here in the spring of 1861. In 1862 they were transferred in a process of reorganization into the 69th Regiment, generally referred to as 'Thomas' Legion'. J. R. Love was at first Captain of old Company A; and after it became Company E (of the 69th Regiment) Julius M. Welch, Lieutenant, was promoted to Capta= in of the Company. Jesse F. Conley and Robert T. Conley also served in old Company A, as did also B. A. Cathey, who was mortally wounded in June 1861. (It is still believed that the unit was "only" called Thomas' Legion)
Elias died serving in the Confederate Service Army in Tennessee.
Family Members
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Sarah Elmina Medford
1858 – unknown
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Margaret E. Medford
1860 – unknown
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Celia R. "Amanda" Medford Snyder
1862–1887
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Nicholas Blair Medford
1866–1943
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Lewis Gordon Medford
1870–1912
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Lydia Elizabeth Medford Justice
1874–1941
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Mary Jane "Mollie" Medford Shook
1876–1965
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Martha Elenore Medford Shook
1878–1919
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William Strauder Medford
1880–1960
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