Everyone,

The August 1862 date of their enlistment coincides with the raid of Clarksville, TN by the troopers of Adam Rankin Johnson and Thomas Woodward. Both men were forming what would become, respectively, the 10th KY Partisan Rangers and Woodward's KY Battalion. They joined forces in Hopkinsville, KY and attacked Clarksville from there taking six companies of the 71st Ohio and tons of military stores.

According to Johnson's OR Supplement report (published in a Texas newspaper during the war - Johnson had moved to Texas before the war), he went back into KY with some of his men while Woodward took his command and the rest of Johnson's over to Dover to take that town held by the remaining 4 companies of the 71st Ohio. They were defeated and fell back on Clarksville. Johnson's men went back into KY and Woodward's command stayed in Tennessee joining Forrest in December 1862 for his western TN/KY raid.

When Clarksville was liberated in August 1862 men joined the commands of both Johnson and Woodward. Woodward's original command raised in 1861, the Oak Grove Rangers, had men from Clarksville in it and was actually listed as a Tennessee cavalry unit even though Oak Grove was and remains, in KY.

Greg Biggs