Sergeant Major Thomas Benton Potter
A Company

He was born 11 January 1835.

He enlisted on the 18 May 1861.

Appointed Sergeant. Major to the Regiment on the 12 July 1861

Wounded at Perryville (Chaplin Hills), 8 October 1862.

Having served so long he he up and walked away from the war on the 16 December 1864.

Turned up at Nashville 8 January 1985 and took the Oath.

After the war he went back to Smithville and ran a bank and mercantile store.  Was the brother of W. C. Potter who was a former governor of Tennessee.

Dying on the 24 November 1898 he was buried in Smithville City Cemetery.

Married to Samantha who died 25 January 1929 and is also buried there.