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Color Guard, 1st Tenn. Infantry

Joe L. Campbell, Company C
Color bearer 1st Tennessee Infantry,
Maney's Brigade, Cheatham's Division, C. S. A.,
Killed here Saturday afternoon, September 19, 1863
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Joseph L. Campbell, age 21, Private, Capt. Robert C. Foster's Company, 1st Regiment Tennessee Infantry,* enlisted May 25, 1861 at Camp Cheatham by Col. B. R. Johnson for 12 months, re-enlisted May 1, 1862 at Corinth for 2 years, severely wounded at Murfreesboro, Tenn. December 31, 1862, captured at Stone's River/Murfreesboro January 5, 1863, , forwarded to Nashville January 24, 1863, thence to Camp Morton, Indianapolis, Ind., Color Sergeant, arrived City Point, Va. for exchange, April 2, advanced to 3rd Corporal, n.d., recorded on the Jan/Feb, 1863 muster roll as transferred to Non Commissioned Staff, listed as Sergeant, Color Guard, recorded as on Furlough on a record of the Confederate States Hospital, Petersburg, Va., April 19, 1863, recorded on Company Muster Roll dated January 9, 1864 as Killed, no other information

* This company subsequently became Company C, 1st (Field's) Regiment Tennessee Infantry

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John L. Hardy, Private, Company K, 1st (Field's) Tennessee Infantry, enlisted July 1, 1861 at Camp Cheatham for 12 months, re-enlisted for 2 years May 1, 1862, recorded as with Color Guard, F & S, on the July/Aug, 1862 muster roll, wounded at Perryville, Ky October 8, 1862, promoted Ensign & 1st Lieut. June 22, 1864 to take rank April 9, no further records

Dalton, Ba. March 23, 1863
Sir, I respectfully ask that Sergt. Jno. L. Hardy of Co. K, My regiment be appointed "Ensign" Seregt Hardy is a brave and gallant young man, he has bee a color guard since the reorganization of the reg in May 62 and was promoted to the position of Color Sergt for gallant conduct in several engagements, and especially for the cool courage exhibited by him at Murfreesboro and Chickamauga. He is a native of Tenn., and enlisted in May 1861. He was amont the first to re-enliste for the War this Spring and has always done his duty as a good and true soldier. Very Respedtfully, Your obdt Servant, H. R. Field, Col 1st Tenn. Regt.
Hon. Jas A. Seddon, Secty of War, Richmond, Va

M268: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Tennessee