ROBT. MOORHEAD -- Entered army in September 1863. He would have volunteered
long before but on account of his father's age and feebleness, he hired a
substitute, in fact hired two. But as soon as his father passed away, he
joined the army. Mr. Moorhead was badly wounded at the battle of Dandridge in
east Tennessee on January 17, 1864, on Sabbath morning. Mr. Moorhead says that
on that day he saw artillery dashing by him in a gallop after this Mr. Moorhead
lay in the hospital for several months and the nurses gave up all hope for him,
general health gone, and he says that he had no hope of ever seeing his mother
again. Mr. Moorhead has promised a bit of his war experience which will be
read with great interest and anybody in Anderson will say this much, "If Robert
Moorhead was the soldier that he is citizen, he was hard to beat." Mr.
Moorhead was with Company C, Palmetto Sharp Shooters.
Anderson Intelligencer May 26, 1914 Special issue featuring interviews with local Civil War veterans Anderson Soldiers Additional Sketches of Survivors Residing in This County Interviewed for "The Intelligencer" By The Old Country Lady