14^th Tennessee Volunteer Infantry

Cpl./Sgt. John Hurst, Co. H May 23, 1861 Enlisted (Clarksville, TN) July 14, 1863 POW Falling Waters, VA (Age 23) March 3, 1864 Exchanged Washington City

"By this time all the talk was about the South going to war - April 1, 1861. The war fever had struck the country, and everybody was talking about joining the Confederate Army. All was excitement, but I did not get much enthused. Mr. Beaumont began to raise a company and he had gotten almost enough men, but I had said nothing about joining. One day he said he expected to close the store, and if I would join his company he would pay me a hundred dollars a year more salary than I was getting at his store. So I joined him and went into the Confederate Army, with the same determined spirit that I had in everything."

From "A Little Sketch of My Life" (John Hurst, 14th Tennesse, Co. H)