16th Tennessee Volunteer
Infantry Regiment:
Original Members

        I have attempted to find illustrations of any type of the original members of the Regiment what follows is all that I have managed to find to date. The highest rank that the person reached has been used, even if this was while in another unit. All illustrations are linked to a short biography, some very short.
        Very few of the pictures illustrated here have a date for when they were taken so it should be noted that while some of these illustrations were taken during the war many others were taken post-war.  Some of those shown died as late as 1940 so that if they look old they are and shouldn't be confused with re-enactors of the present day who are older than the very young men who were the soldiers of the time.
        I have had reference to other illustrations but as yet have not manage to track them down.  If you have, or know, where these illustrations are, or can confirm that any from a group photo are from the Regiment please inform me.  
        The last surviving members of the unit were Privates Bluford Lafayette Scarlett F Company, who died, aged 91, on the 20 January 1935, and Ransom Gwyn Martin D Company, who died, aged 98, on the 22 May 1940.
        With help I have collected together cemeteries showing the Burial sites of original members  of the unit.  Slowly, to go with this, I have been collecting photos of their head stones which will be posted when time allows.

Officers                         This covers photos from when they were in the US Army during the Mexican - American War, through the Civil War, with most being post-war and into when they were old men. 30 January 2013

NCO's                           There is the odd pre-war photo, a couple from during the war, with most being post-war and into when they were old men.

Other Ranks                 One pre-war photo, a few from during the war, and again with most being post-war and into when they were old men. 02 February 2013

Other Photos                  Posted here are ones that don't fit into the categories above the: Perryville Colour Guard McMinnville High Street and two of  the memorial to the killed and died. 30 January 2013

Officers uniforms           Some of these are drawings and only portraits at that so I have not posted them hopefully the original photos come to light in time.
        Those posted are: Carroll Henderson Clark, John Hamilton Lewis Duncan, Lucien Napoleon Savage, James M. Parks and Joseph H. Goodbar. 10 February 2013

Other Ranks Uniforms   Here are photos of NCOs and ORs, but not officers, taken during their service in the war, a couple have been taken post-war but possibly with uniforms of the type that they wore during the war.
        Those posted are: Hiram Taylor Kersey, T. J. Rogers, John Alexander Brogden, Wallace McPeak, John Payton Mayberry, Russell Lassitor Brown, Pleasant Marion Wasson, Thomas Benton Potter, George Washington Kennedy, Benjamin Rowland, Hamilto Mortimer Hennessee, James Alexander Boyd and William Dalton Passons. 10 February 2013

Some uniforms have not been included in the two links above: John Houston Savage, Calvin C. Brewer, as they are not wartime photos; that of George Edward Purvis as he is in his artillery uniform: and those of Andrew Jackson Lacy and Samuel H. Alexander as its unlikely either were in the Regiment.

Missing Illustrations

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