Following is what I have put together as to a relative's service in the Confederate Army's 14th Tennessee Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. I would appreciate some critique or affirmation as to what I understand to be the role of Capt. Phillips' Company F as set out by me.

David Outlaw Askew, Jr. of Stewart County, TN served in the Civil War as a Corporal in the Confederate Army's 14th Tennessee Infantry Regiment, in Company F, enlisting on November 11, 1863, soon after his 18th birthday. Apparently that unit was initially commanded by Captain W. E. Lowe, but, during David's service, his commander was his neighbor Capt. Bruce L. Phillips. Most of the 14th TN Regiment was serving with Gen. Lee in Virginia, but it appears after fall, 1863 Capt. Phillips and Company F were closer to the Stewart/Humphreys County vicinity. Goodspeed's 1886 HISTORY OF TENNESSEE lists this as Capt. B. L. Phillips' Company of Independent Scouts (presumed by others as Cavalry) and as performing local service in Humphreys County. The following newspaper item, found May 12, 1865 in the 83rd ILLINOISAN (published in Clarksville, TN by the Union Army unit stationed at nearby Fort Donelson) makes it clear the 14th was active in the Stewart County area: "The noted guerilla and bushwhacker Capt. Bruce Phillips came into Fort Donelson one day last week and was pardoned. We understand that he is now gathering up his men with the intention of surrendering them also. It is a pity that he has not graced the end of a rope long since." (Reported in Jill K. Garrett's, THE RIVER COUNTIES, 1972, p. 230.) In the 1919 pension application of Harvey M. Lane (#2479) is a deposition by Greenberry Summers, age 72, indicating about Dec. 15, 1864 Lane was seen among troops of the 14th Tennessee Regiment under Capt. Bruce Phillips on the day before capture of the (Union) gunboats at Cumberland City (midway between Clarksville and Fort Donelson). (Iris H. McClain's THE HISTORY OF HOUSTON COUNTY, 1966, p. 40.) David Askew apparently surrendered and was pardoned on May 5, 1865 with Capt. Phillips at Fort Donelson.