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Name: John Calhoun Lester Rank: 2nd Lieutenant Company: A Company G, formerly Company A
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The 3rd Tennessee Infantry Regiment was organized under a sugar maple tree at Lynnville Station in Giles Co, Tennessee--5/16/1861..Regiment composed pf 10 companies of picked men..

Company G, formerly Company A - Captain David Rhea, 1st Lt. David S. Martin, 2nd Lt. John C. Lester, Junior 2nd Lt. Wallace W. Rutledge, rank and file 97 men, with recruits
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http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/imagegallery.php?EntryID=G015

Pulaski was the birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan. Organized shortly after the war by John C. Lester, James R. Crowe, John Kennedy, Calvin Jones, Richard R. Reed, and Frank O. McCord, the secret society spread across the state as its reputation for violence and intimidation evolved. In recent years attempts to stage Klan activities in Pulaski have met stiff resistance from the community.
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Name: White, Wilford Lee--Enlisted 1861-- Rank: Conflict: Civil War Side: Confederate--General Price..His health failing he was discharged from the army..Pg 340--Obituary Confederate Veterans Magazine--July 1912
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Title White, Wilford Lee. ,
Gen. note Born: January 29, 1839, Harvard County, Missouri. (NOTE: probably means Howard Co, MO)
Note Died: April 7, 1912; Rock Lake, Washington
Note Service Unit: Served under General Price.
Note Confederate Veteran: v. 20, p. 340.
Subject - Personal White, Wilford Lee. , d. April 7, 1912.
Subject - Topical Veterans -- Virginia.
Subject -Geographic Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Added Entry Library of Virginia. Archives.

System Number 001273074
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Wilford Lee White was born January 29, 1839, in Howard Co., Mo.; and died at Rock Lake, Wash., April 7, 1912. He was laid to rest in Walnut Grove Cemetery at Boonville, Mo., beside his wife.

He was the oldest son of James and Mary White. His mother's maiden name was Lee, being closely related to Light Horse Harry Lee, of Revolutionary fame. While a small boy his parents moved to Cooper County, and settled on a farm near Lone Elm, where he lived until the breaking out of the war, when he enlisted for the cause of the South and served under General Price. His health failing, he was given an honorable discharge from the army, and in company with one of his brothers he crossed the plains, and they engaged in the mining industry. After a few years of toil he returned to Cooper County, and his father helping, settled on a splendid farm near Pilot Grove, Mo.

In 1867 Wilford White was married to Bethiah Julia Talbot, daughter of William Talbot of LaMine, Mo. This marriage united two of the oldest and most prominent families in Cooper County. Death came to this comrade as a passing into sleep. He is survived by a son and daughter

Thomas Lafayette Rosser
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Handbook of Texas

http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/RR/froct.html
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ROSSER, THOMAS LAFAYETTE (1836-1910). Thomas Lafayette Rosser, Confederate Army officer, was born on October 15, 1836, in Campbell County, Virginia, the son of John and Martha Melvina (Johnson) Rosser. In 1849 the family moved to a 640-acre farm in Panola County, Texas, some forty miles west of Shreveport, Louisiana. As his father was compelled by business to remain for a while in Virginia, Tom Rosser, at age thirteen, led the wagon train bearing his mother and younger siblings to Texas. For four years he attended the Mount Enterprise school in Rusk County. Upon the nomination of Congressman Lemuel D. Evans, Rosser entered the United States Military Academy at West Point on July 1, 1856; he resigned on April 22, 1861, only two weeks before graduation, when Texas left the Union. Among his fellows in the class of 1861 was George A. Custer, who graduated dead last in a field of thirty-four cadets.

Rosser was commissioned a first lieutenant in the regular Confederate States Army and assigned as an instructor of artillery. He commanded a company of the New Orleans Washington Artillery battalion at the first battle of Manassas (Bull Run) and was wounded at the battle of Mechanicsville. He returned to the army after recovering and was appointed colonel and commander of the Fifth Virginia Cavalry at the instigation of Gen. James E. B. (Jeb) Stuart. Rosser was promoted to brigadier general on September 28, 1863, and given command of one of Stuart's divisions. He was given command of the Confederate cavalry in the Shenandoah Valley in October 1864 and promoted to major general on November 1. In 1865 he rejoined Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia at Petersburg and took part in the Appomattox campaign. Refusing to surrender, he cut his way out of the federal lines and attempted to lead his division to a junction with the army of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston in North Carolina. He was intercepted and captured, however, and paroled in May. After the war he returned to Virginia, where he became chief engineer of the Northern Pacific and Canadian Pacific railroads. He later became a planter in Charlottesville. On June 10, 1898, President William McKinley appointed Rosser a brigadier general of United States volunteers for the Spanish-American War. He was honorably discharged on October 31, 1898. He died at Charlottesville on March 29, 1910, and is buried at Ridgeview Cemetery.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Millard Kessler and Dean McKoin Bushong, Fightin' Tom Rosser, C.S.A. (Shippensburg, Pennsylvania: Beidel Printing, 1983). Francis B. Heitman, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army (2 vols., Washington: GPO, 1903; rpt., Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1965). Jon L. Wakelyn, Biographical Dictionary of the Confederacy (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 1977). Ezra J. Warner, Generals in Gray (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1959).
Thomas W. Cutrer
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6th Reg MO Cavalry (Shelby's Brigade)

Name: James M. McKay
Side: Confederate Regiment State/Origin: Missouri
Regiment Name 6th Regiment, Missouri Cavalry COMPANY: I
Rank In: Private
Rank Out: Private
Film Number: M380 roll 10
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Confederate Veteran Magazine--10-1909--pg 521

James Madison McKay

At Milo, MO, on 7/14/1909 occurred the death of James Madison McKay after a lingering illness. He was born near Franklin, TN in 1836. Deprived of a father's care and counsel at 2 years of age, he was reared by a mother of unusual strength of character, and her devout Christian principles were impressed upon her children. When the war came on, James McKay enlisted for the South, becoming a soldier under Jo Shelby, and faithfully endured the hardships and perils of that service. He was far from home and penniless when the end came. Death had claimed his elder sister, and with his mother & remaining sister, he returned to Bates Co, MO to rebuild the home which had become ashes. He went to work with a brave heart, and the years brought him prosperity.

He married in 1869 to Miss Elizabeth J. Bartlett and to this union was born 2 sons and 5 daughters, to whom comes the heritage of a life pure in thought and act. He was a benefactor to his community, beloved and respected by all who knew him..

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