Henry T. Barnett, age 24, enlisted as a Private in Company E, 14th Tennessee Infantry May 18, 1861 at Fort Donelson, on November 25, 1861 his name appears on a receipt roll for clothing, died of disease December 1861, burial expenses of $15.00 were paid on January 15, 1862 which included $10.00 for the coffin, amount paid for Cernidsins?? to inter the Remains of Private Henry T. Barnett Co. E, 14th Regt. Tenn. Vol. in Woodbine Cemetery, Herisby.?? J., $2.00; For Digging Grave for same $3.00; Coffin for same & ???? $10.00; Total $15.00 [CSR M268]
The Fourteenth Tennessee Regiment was organized at Clarksville, Tenn., in May, 1861, under the first call of Governor Isham G. Harris for troops to serve in the war between states . . . Company E was raised with men from Stewart county.
"We remained in North-western Virginia until the latter part of 1861, when, in December, we were ordered to the Shenandoah Valley, and were placed under the command of Major-general Thomas J. Jackson." (Lindsley's Military Annals of Tennessee, Broadfoot Pub. Co., 1995, p. 324)
The eleven companies composing the regiment were organized during the month of May, 1861, and organized into a regiment at Camp Duncan, near Clarksville, on June 6, 1861. In a report dated March 31, 1864, at a camp near Orange Courthouse, Virginia, William McComb, then colonel commanding the regiment, gave the following history of its operations up to that time:
"The regiment was organized at Camp Duncan, Montgomery County, Tennessee, June 6, 1861; remained in camp of instruction until July 12, 1861, when we were ordered to Virginia, formed into a brigade with 1st (Maney's) and 7th Tennessee Regiments under Brigadier General Sam R. Anderson. Ordered to report to General Loring, Pocahontas County, Northwestern Virginia, General Lee commanding the department. On September 5, we marched to Cheat Mountain, enduring great hardships. Returned to Middle Mountain September 17. October 1 went to Greenbrier, remained there six weeks. November 7 went into winter quarters at Huntersville, Virginia. On December 10, marched to Winchester, arrived there December 27. On January 1, 1862, General T. J. Jackson took command of the department, and the army moved to Hancock, Maryland, where we had a slight skirmish with the enemy, a few men wounded. Then to Romney, Virginia, being there about ten days, when we were ordered back to Winchester, thence to Manassas Junction, where we took railroad to Fredericksburg, Virginia, where the regiment was placed in Major General Holmes' Division at Aquia Creek. Shortly afterwards, back to Fredericksburg, remaining there two weeks, then moved to Yorktown, joined command of General Joseph E. Johnston. [http://www.cwlhi.org/RECON3/14-Tenn/14TH-TN-WartimeRoster.htm]