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Jeremiah Green enlisted as a Private in Captain R. M. Whitson's Company, Tennessee Volunteers** November 30, 1861 at Centreville, Tennessee/December 4, 1861 in Hickman County, captured at Fort Donelson, February 16,1862, sent to Camp Morton, Indiana prison camp, recorded on March 10?, 1862 as Sergeant-Major, Field & Staff with notation, promoted to Captain September 24, 1862, killed in action July 27, 1864 [Atlanta campaign]
This company subsequently became Company D, 9th (Gantt's) Battalion Tennessee Cavalry.
The 9th (Gantt's) Battalion Tennessee Cavalry was organized with six companies, December 23, 1861. It was surrendered at Fort Donelson, February 16, 1862, and was exchanged at Vicksburg September 16,1862, when it was reorganized and temporarily consolidated with the 1st Mississippi Infantry until January 1, 1863, when remounted.
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9th Battalion, Tennessee Cavalry (Gantt's)
9th Cavalry Battalion was organized and mustered into Confederate service at Camp Maury, near Nashville, Tennessee, in December, 1861. Its six companies were from Maury, Hickman, and Wayne counties. A seventh company, made up of transfers and men from Hickman County, was added in October, 1864. The unit was assigned to the Western Department, and all but Company C were captured in the fight at Fort Donelson. They were exchanged in September, 1862, remounted in January, 1863, and attached to W. Adams, H.B. Davidson's, Humes', and H.M. Ashby's Brigade. The battalion skirmished the Federals in Mississippi and Louisiana, was involved in the Atlanta Campaign and the defense of Savannah, then part served with Wheeler in Georgia and part in Tennessee. After various engagements in the Carolinas, it surrendered with the Army of Tennessee. The field officers were Lieutenant Colonel George Gantt, and Majors James H. Akin and B.W. Porter.
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Company D
Robert M. Whitson, Captain, dropped
Eli A. Hornbeak, 1st Lieutenant, Captain
L. B. McClanahan, L. B. 2nd Lieutenant, dropped
Alton McCaleb, 2nd Lieutenant, dropped
Jeremiah Green, Captain, killed July 27, 1864
Marshall D. Foser, 1st Lieutenant, resigned May ?
George H. Broom, 2nd Lieutenant
Record of Events
December 4, 1861 to August 1,1862 - Station not stated
November 1, 1862 to April 30, 1863, dated August 17, 1863 - Stationed at Georgetown, Mississippi
Company Muster Roll March 15, 1864 - Stationed at Dalton, Georgia
June 30 to December 31, 1864 - Stationed at Hardeeville, South Carolina
This company has been in all of the general engagements of Major General Wheeler's command since last muster