There will be a grave marker dedication for three Brigham brothers from Stewart County TN (near Dover/Ft. Donelson area; across Tennessee River from Calloway Co. KY) who served in the CSA on Saturday, Nov. 6.

The ceremony will take place at either 1:00 pm or 2:00 pm on Sat./Nov. 6, 2010. The dedication will take place at the Brigham Cemetery in LBL (see links below).

Here is a link for a LBL driving map:

http://www.lbl.org/pdf/09_LBL_Recreation_Map_South.pdf

Re additional and updated details, please contact either:

Greg Miller at gsmiller@newwavecomm.net
or
John Young at riverotterone@wk.net

Pasted below is a bio-document re the 3 Brigham brothers and their family; feel free to use/distribute the above/below info as you see fit.

Hope to see y'all on Nov. 6 in LBL!!

Ken

Pvt. Albert C. Brigham Jr. - Albert Jr. and George W. Byrd joined their other cousins Marion M.
Bailey and Thomas H. Bailey who had enlisted in the Rock City Artillery earlier that summer. It is
assumed that Pvt. Brigham and his cousins helped construct fortifications and practice artillery
drills during this time before the battle of Ft. Henry on Feb. 6, 1862. After the battle of Ft. Henry
on Feb. 6, CSA service record documents indicate that the three cousins of Pvt. Albert C. Brigham -
- George Wesley Byrd, Marion M. Bailey, and Thomas H. Bailey --were all taken prisoners by
Federal soldiers, but Pvt. Brigham’s name was not among them. A report written by a 1st Lt.
Mortimer Neely, Co. K, 5th Iowa Cavalry (Curtis Horse) and printed in the O.R. (Ser.I, Vol.10, Pt.1,
page 46) states that Pvt. Albert C. Brigham, Co. C (Taylor’s) of the 1st Tennessee Artillery was
captured by his Federal patrol on Mar. 25, 1862 and “...at the urgent request of the Union citizens...”
of the area. Pvt. Brigham was then sent to POW prison at Camp Douglas in Chicago, IL. A National
Archives (NARA) microfilm document (microcopy #M-598, Roll #54, Vol. #189) of Camp Douglas
POWs describes the following: “No. 789 Brigham, A.C. Private Rock City Artillery Captured at
home. Captured Feb. 16, 1862. Sent to Cairo for exchange Sept. 7, 1862.” Apparently paroled with
other Confederate POWs at Camp Douglas in September of 1862, Pvt. Brigham eventually ended
up in Vicksburg MS where the paroled/exchanged Confederate soldiers were received. On Sept. 30,
1862 Pvt. Brigham and other exchanged members of the Rock City Artillery were stationed at
Jackson MS until they were formally declared exchanged in November; the battery was then moved
to Port Hudson LA. At Port Hudson, Pvt. Albert C. Brigham Jr. was a member of Captain F. J.
Weller’s Co. B, 1st Tennessee Heavy Artillery Battalion and commanded by Lt.-Colonel Paul F.
DeGournay. At Port Hudson, Captain Weller’s Co. B of the 1st Tennessee Heavy Artillery Battalion,
including Pvt. Albert C. Brigham Jr., was apparently part of Battery No. 7, “the Hot Shot Battery”,
that may have been alternately commanded by Capt. Weller and Capt. J.M. Sparkman. As part of
the Port Hudson garrison under the overall command of Major General Franklin K. Gardner, the
men of Battery No. 7, including Pvt. Albert C. Brigham Jr., were called to their stations by “the long
roll” alarm of the Confederate drummers at about 11:25 p.m. on Mar. 14, 1863. This is when the
Federal flotilla commanded by Federal Fleet Admiral David G. Farragut ran the Rebel batteries. It
is likely that Pvt. Brigham may have been present with the 1st Tennessee Heavy Artillery Battalion
when Captain J.M. Sparkman was mortally wounded and Captain F.J. Weller killed during Federal
General Banks’ assault of May 27, 1863 against Commissary Hill. It appears that Pvt. Albert C.
Brigham Jr. attempted to escape before the actual surrender of Port Hudson by CSA Major General
Gardner on July 9, 1863 -- “A.C. Brigham, Pvt., 1st Tenn. Heav. Arty.” appears on a list of POWs
captured by Federal cavalry (1st Division) and “...paroled by Capt. E.A. Hancock, Pro. Mar. Sent
north.” Albert Jr. was then sent to several POW camps: Maysville, Alabama (Aug. 25, 1863);
Louisville, Kentucky; Camp Morton, Indiana (Oct. 28, 1863); Fort Delaware, DE (Mar. 22, 1864);
and finally to City Point, Virginia (Feb. 27, 1865) where he was exchanged. At war’s end on April
9, 1865 he was apparently on his way home to Stewart Co. TN since his Tennessee State Pension
documents state that “I was at Columbus, Mississippi when the war ended and came from there
home.” Pvt. Albert C. Brigham Jr., Co. B, 1st Tennessee Artillery died on May 26, 1911. He is
buried in the Brigham Cemetery, Land Between The Lakes NRA in Stewart County TN with his
brothers Marion M. Brigham and James H. Brigham.

Pvt. James H. Brigham and Pvt. Marion M. Brigham – The service records of these two brothers
indicate that they were continuously present with the 33rd Tennessee Infantry except for a brief
period between Mar. 21 and Apr. 4, 1862 when James appears on a register for the 1st Mississippi
CSA Hospital in Jackson, Mississippi; a notation reads "returned to duty April 4, 1862” -- indicating
he was indeed present at the horrific battle of Shiloh, TN April 6-7, 1862. After reorganization
following Shiloh, the two brothers and the 33rd Tennessee Infantry saw action at Corinth MS (April-
June, 1862), Perryville KY (Oct. 8, 1862), Murfreesboro TN (Dec. 31, 1862-Jan.3, 1863),
Tullahoma TN (June 1863), Chickamauga GA (Sept.19-20, 1863), Chattanooga TN (Nov.23-25,
1863), New Hope Church GA, (May 25-June 4, 1864), Kennesaw Mountain GA (June 27, 1864),
Peach Tree Creek GA (July 20, 1864), Atlanta GA (July 22, 1864), Jonesboro GA (Aug. 31 - Sept.1,
1864), Franklin TN (Nov. 30, 1864), Nashville TN (Dec. 15-16, 1864), and Bentonville NC
(Mar. 19-21, 1865). At Chickamauga, James, Marion, and the 33rd Tennessee Infantry were in the
brigade of Brigadier General Otho F. Strahl with the 4th/5th, 19th, 24th, and 31st Tennessee Infantries.
Strahl’s Brigade was in the Division of Major General Benjamin F. Cheatham and the so-called
Right Wing of the Confederate Army of Tennessee, commanded by then Lieutenant General
Leonidas Polk. Around 2:00 p.m. on Sept. 19, 1863, Strahl’s Brigade advanced into the eastern edge
of the Brock Field and was met with a ferocious hail of canister and musket fire administered by
forces commanded by Federal Brigadier General William B. Hazen. Assuming that his right flank
was protected by Maney’s Brigade, General Strahl continued to advance his men across Brock
Field, where they encountered destructive enfilade fire from Federal soldiers on their right. Now
being blasted from in front and from their right side, Strahl’s Brigade maneuvered quickly to
prevent being flanked and retreated from the field, leaving most of their killed and wounded behind.
It was probably during this time that Pvt. James H. Brigham was wounded in the shoulder,
according to his Tennessee State Pension documents. General Strahl stated that his losses from this
bloody encounter were near 200 men, with several of his field officers dismounted by their horses
being shot from beneath them. Recently, members of the Stewart County Historical Society
discovered a partial letter written by Pvt. Marion M. Brigham which confirms his participation in
CSA General John Bell Hood’s 1864 Tennessee Campaign (Nov.-Dec. 1864). The original
document is in the possession of the Stewart County Historical Society, Stewart County, TN. Its
transcription by Stewart County Historical Society members reads:

“…left Decater on the 29th and went to Cortland and staid all night left next morning and went to
Tuscumbia Ala whear we are now the first day of November we expect to cross the Tennessee river
to morow at Florence if we leav hear don’t know yet whether we will leav hear or not to morow or
not P S I hav heard of the Soldiers living on parched corn in the ancient wars but never believed it
but now I cant dout it for for we hav had the meial of it. I no that men can live on corn a week or to
I can for one if they will carry me to Tennessee and think that they are doing well to do that parched
corn and beef eats fine but corn alone is ----- eating but it is the case very offen on this campaign
that we could not get nothing to eat when we was on the mountain whear the was nothing but bush
whackers living Ive expected to see hard times crossing that mountain we are getting plenty of
bread and beef now. I expect to live hy if we get into Tennessee if we come in fifty miles of home you
may look for me to come home with out a furlow for I no the head officers ont grant one – but if ther
is a thousand officers wants to go home they can go and stay as long as they please and I hav bin
hear as long as any body and I consider my self as good as the officers and dun as much for the
confederacy as most of the privats dun as much duty as ------------------------- ---------------------------
----------------- that this regiment has bin in to and I am going to come home if the armey goes in
Tennessee which I think it wil tel all the co[nn?]ection howdy for me I would like to write them all
but it is getting dark I hope to be with you all a Christmas a few days if I live and --- well but I trust
in God the war will end by Christmas and let all go home.
Your brother M- M- Brigham”.

At Franklin, on Nov. 30, 1864, James, Marion, and the men of the
33rd Tennessee Infantry were still in Strahl’s Brigade, but now in the Division of Major General
John C. Brown and the Corps of Major General Benjamin F. Cheatham; these units of the Army of
Tennessee were under the overall command of General John Bell Hood. Seemingly to punish his
men for letting the Federal army escape his trap at Spring Hill the day before, General Hood
ordered a massive frontal assault (20,000 men) against the strongly entrenched Federals at Franklin
-- with the men in both Brown’s Division and Cleburne’s Division leading the way. The combined
force of Brown’s and Cleburne’s Divisions (about 8,000 men) quickly overran the 4,000 Federals at
the outer line of works; as the awed Federals retreated back towards the main fortifications near the
Cotton Gin and Carter House, the men in Brown’s and Cleburne’s Divisions ran after them and
followed them into the main works. Intense, savage hand-to-hand fighting using rifles, bayonets,
pistols, clubs, and bare hands engulfed both sides in the death zone near the Carter House. The
attacking Confederates soon became pinned-down defenders as the rallying Yankees poured
enfilade fire upon them; General Strahl was handing loaded muskets to his men in a ditch 50 yards
West of the Columbia Pike when he was killed. It was probably sometime during this chaos that
Pvt. James H. Brigham suffered a fractured skull, again according to his Tennessee State Pension
documents. General Hood continued his assault until well after nightfall; along with 6 Confederate
generals killed that day, 6,300 Confederate soldiers were also killed or wounded. Both James and
Marion survived Franklin and Nashville; they were present when the remnants of the 33rd Tennessee
Infantry were consolidated with the 4th, 5th, 19th, 31st, 35th, 38th, and 41st Tennessee Infantries into
the 3rd Tennessee Consolidated Infantry on April 9, 1865; this occurred after the battle of
Bentonville NC on March 19-21, 1865. On May 1, 1865 both James and his brother Marion, as
members of Co. G, 3rd Tennessee Consolidated Infantry, were surrendered and paroled in
Greensboro, NC; this in accordance with the terms of the surrender negotiated between CSA
General Joseph E. Johnston and Major General W.T. Sherman on April 26, 1865. According to
Stewart County TN estate settlement documents, Private Marion M. Brigham died sometime in
1904; his brother Private James H. Brigham died on May 4, 1920; they are both buried in the
Brigham Cemetery, Land Between The Lakes NRA.

by Kenneth E. Byrd*, Indianapolis, IN Sept. 25, 2010
(*5th cousin of Albert C. Jr., James H., and Marion M. Brigham; great-great-great-great-nephew of
Albert Clausel Brigham, Sr.; great-great-great-grandson of Luna Louisa Brigham Byrd)

Above text excerpted/updated from online bios at:
http://11arkansas.com/yank/albert_brigham.htm
http://11arkansas.com/yank/james_brigham.htm
http://11arkansas.com/yank/marion_brigham.htm

Text also enhanced by materials found by (1) research historian Gregory S. Miller, Murray KY
and (2) the Stewart County Historical Society, Dover TN