Calvin L. Brixey
Officer's Certificate of Death
Altamont, March
30th 1872
I, William H. Hampton, 1st Lieutenant of Company M, of the 10th Regiment of Tennessee
Volunteers Cavalry, certify on honor that Captain Calvin L. Brixey was a Captain in the
1st Independent Cavalry, and his widow is, as I am informed, an applicant for an army
Pension; that by communication with most any Loyal Citizen near Dechard and the Department
can get other information, corroborating with . And I
further certify, that the said Calvin L. Brixey, was captured by the Rebel General
Wheeler's command in Franklin County, Tennessee, 1864, while raising volunteers to go
West. James Canaster and Martin Phips, two of Brixey's enlisted men was with him and
escaped. Martian Phips now lives in Grundy County, Tennessee, and James Canatser
lives some where in Kentucky. The Rebels taken Captain Brixey tied upon a horse near
Murfreesborough and there they hung him by the neck until he was dead and then left him
hanging by the neck forbidding the Citizens taking him down. He was hung on or about
the 3rd of September, 1864 and remained there until about the 4th of September, 1864.
I know that I'm not mistaken in the identity of Brixey. I was well acquainted
with him.
William H.
Hampton
Late 1st Lieutenant Commanding Co M, 10 Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry
