My gggrandfather, Pvt. James Madison Martin, enlisted in Company K, 43rd Tennessee Infantry at Ooltewah, Hamilton County, Tenn. He was born in
Cocke County, Tenn., 1845, his parents from Washington County, Virginia ca 1820. That's as far as I've traced my line.

Grandpa Jim and brother and brother in law, both from Co. K, fled East Tenn. post war, settling in Magazine, Logan County, Arkansas in 1867.

"One style of amusement indulged in by Union people was to horsewhip Rebels who had returned to their homes unarmed and helpless. These lawless acts of oppression drove many of the best citizens out of the country, and today [1891] East Tennessee Confederates are scattered over every state in the Union." (Valleys of the Shadow, The Memoir of Confederate Captain Reuben G. Clark, Edited by Willene B. Clark, The University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, 1994, p. 60)