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- Isaac Nathon Woods' NARA Civil War Record indicates he served as a Private in the 59th Tennessee Mounted Infantry in Cooke's Regiment and later in 1st Eakin's Infantry Battalion. NARA Film Number: M231 roll 48
The National Parks Service Civil War Record: 59th Regiment, Tennessee Mounted Infantry (Cooke's) (Eakin's 1st Battalion)
59th Infantry Regiment was organized in June, 1862, using the 1st (Eakin's) Tennessee Infantry Battalion as its nucleus. Its members were from the counties of McMinn, Monroe, Carter, Knox, Grainger, Hamblen, and Polk. For a time the unit served at Cumberland and Big Creek Gaps, then was assigned to A.W.Reynolds' Brigade, Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana. It fought in the Vicksburg Campaign and was captured on July 4, 1863. After being exchanged and reorganized as mounted infantry, the regiment was placed under the command of General Vaughn. It went on to take part in the operations around Knoxville and in May, 1864, an inspection report showed the 59th with 241 present. The unit participated in the Shenandoah Valley Campaign, and during the spring of 1865 it disbanded in Southwestern Virginia. The field officers were Colonels James B. Cooke and William L. Eakin, Lieutenant Colonel James P. Brown, and Majors Chares M. Alexander and James F. Love.
Predecessor unit:
1st (Eakin's) Infantry Battalion [also called East Tennessee Battalion] was organized in February, 1862, with five companies. Its numbers gradually increased, and in June it became the 59th Tennessee Infantry Regiment. The unit was commanded by Major W.L. Eakin.
Cassie Belle Harrison in a letter to Fonda June Woods Bonner "There were many Georges, we had two. Fonda, your father was known by "Little George" all of his life by three generations. His and my great grandparents were, Isaac Nathan "Nathan" and Mary Brewer. They had four boys; George (Grandpa Woods), John, Isaac "Uncle Ike" my favorite and Dude. Nathon "Nath" served in the Civil War in Tennesee. He hadn't been home long, when he was sitting out side, a couple of men rode up by horseback and shot him. I never learned why, probably Yankees. Mary then married his brother Tom and they had three boys and a girl. They were Joe (Tom's Dad) this note Cassie wrote may mean that Joe was named after Isaac and Tom's father), Sam, Hector and Fanny,"
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1837 - 1865 (28 years)
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