16th Tennessee Volunteer Infantry Regiment

16th Tennessee Volunteer
Infantry Regiment:
Original Members

        I have attempted to find illustrations of any type of the original members of the Regiment what follows is all that I have managed to find to date. As the end you will find the Colour Guard from Perryville from which four of them have originated, and the group photo from which another has come.
        The highest rank that the person reached has been used, and please be aware that while dominated by officers they had a height casualty rate and many of these officers started as privates.
        I have had reference to other illustrations but as yet have not manage to track them down. If you have, or know, where these illustrations are, or can confirm that any from the group photo are from the Regiment please inform me.
        With time there will be links to as many photos as possible. All illustrations will have a short biography, some very short.
        Very few of the pictures illustrated here have a date for when they were taken so it should be noted that while some of these illustrations were taken during the war many others were taken post-war. Some of those shown died as late as 1932 so that if they look old they are and shouldn't be confused with re-enactors of the present day who are older than the very young men who were the soldiers of the time.
        The last surviving members of the unit were Privates Bluford Lafayette Scarlett F Company, who died, aged 91, on the 20 January 1935, and Ransom Gwyn Martin D Company, who died, aged 98, on the 22 May 1940.
        With help I have collected together cemeteries showing the Burial sites of original members of the unit. Slowly, to go with this, I have been collecting photos of their head stones which will be posted when time allows.

Missing Illustrations

03 August 2011

Colonel

John Houston Savage


Colonel                                    Lt Colonel

David M. Donnell Thomas Butler Murray

Majors

Joseph H. Goodbar                             Harvey H. Dillard

    Captains


    Calvin C. Brewer                                                Dury Clare Spurlock


                James M. Parks          Lucien Napoleon Savage            William G. Etter              James J. Womack


                                    John Hamilton Lewis (Louis) Duncan

1st Lieutenants

William Henry White Wright Smith Hackett Jesse Walling

2nd Lieutenants

                            John Knox Bain                        Carroll Henderson Clark

Sergeant Major

Thomas Benton Potter

                       Sergeant                                                  2nd Sergeant                         5th Sergeant

Milton M. Owen    Gabriel Marion Cummings                    James C. Biles                 Joshua Denton Phillips

                                                      4th Sergeant

                               John Payton Mayberry (Maberry)

Corporal

William Mitchell

2nd Corporals

Hugh Lawson Moffat(Moffitt Moffiet) Robert C. Carden John Madison Rayburn (Rayborn, Raybron)

Privates

    Ransom Gwyn Martin            Calvin Kersey (Keirsey)

                                John Alexander McWhirter

            John Hawk                Lewis (Louis) John Shockley                                    James Mathis

           Washington Bohanas Lafayette Campbell          T. J. Rodgers                                 William John Thomas Passons



John Bluford Wilkinson            Andrew Jackson Lacy         William Henderson Hugh(e)s    John Alexander Brogden

                                 James Samuel Dickerson     James Alexander Boyd         Samuel Baker                    Henderson Pearson Kidd

                                                                                                   George E. Purvis                                                     Thomas Anthony Head


                                                                                        Russell Lassiter Brown                                                        Jackson Van Buren Brown