HOW LEE'S ARMY SURRENDERED

General Chamberlain: As we stand there in the morning mist we see the rebel army, breaking camp, and then slowly and reluctantly forming ranks for the last time. And now they move, the great mass breaking into a column of march; General Gordon with the Stonewall Jackson corps, commanded by Heath. On they came, the rebellion battle flags, with the diagonal cross and thirteen stars. The head of the rebel column comes opposite our right, and at the bugle signal we come to "carry arms." The rebel commander, General Gordon, at the head of the column, observes this little courtesy and drops the point of his sword and gives the command to "carry." Not a sound from the trumpet nor a roll from the drum, but in stillness as if indeed the dead were passing there - thus they moved then they stacked arms and took off their cartridge boxes and laid them on the pile. Lastly, painfully they furled their battle flags and laid them in the dust, some kneeling down over them and kissing them with burning tears. And then the star spangled banner was left alone on the field.

• About Me

• Beginning Your Search in Hawkins County

• Books of Interest (Bailey/Britton Book Added)

  A Unionist in East Tennessee - Captain William K. Byrd and the Mysterious Raid of 1861.

  Jack Goins of Rogersville, TN - book Melungeons

• Books I have for sale: Blue and Gray of Hawkins County (note: Not many left of the Gray)

  Additional information on men not listed in Blue and Gray books

  Murders In East Tennessee (None Available -Sold Out

• Camp - Maj. Kyle Blevins Camp By-Laws, 1896

• Diaries:

  H. S. Burem Journal, 19th TN Infantry

  Fain Diaries (now published)

  1864 Diary of Captain Gaines Lawson, Co C, 4th TN Inf Vols

  Calvin Morgan Smith, 1st Lieut., Co D, 39th TN Mtd. Inf., CSA

• Divisions In The County - Where The Men Were

• Getting a Government Headstone or Marker

• Headstones Provided for Deceased Union CW Veterans-

  ca 1879 - ca 1903, Card Records On Microfilm(use your back button to return here)

• Horses In The War

• Last Roll - obits of the last ones to die

• Letters from the Civil War

• Links for your Online Research

• General Longstreet Museum

• Medal of Honor Winners From Hawkins/Hancock County

• Memorial Services: Pvt.William McAnnally

• Messages and Emails

• Military Service Records

• Morristown's Tribute To Jefferson Davis In 1889

• National Archives (use your back button to return here)

• Pension Applications - Index to TN Confederate - TN Colored CSA Appl.(use your back button)

• Pension Records - How to Obtain Confederate

• Pension Records - How to Obtain Union

• Poetry from Hawkins County CW Men

• Re-enactments:

  [Blue Springs]

• Resting Far From Home

• Rogersville

  Battle of Big Creek: [Big Creek Descendants] [Descendants Reunion] [Those Captured]

• Soldier's Stories

  [Capt. Burem] [Col. H.B. Clay] [Joseph A. Dykes] [Sam Grubb][African-American R. Hord, CSA] [John Kite] [Wm. Thos. McKirgan] [Lieut. Robert Powel][Powel Memorial & Letters][Lieut-Gen. Alexander Peter Stewart]

• Stories from the Civil War

• Tennesseans In The Civil War - Military Histories (use your back button to return here)

• Units (and men) from Hawkins County

• Unmarked Graves

• Vaughn's Brigade - (our men)

• Vicksburg:

  Love Story

  Our Men Buried at Vicksburg