This suite of sites is dedicated to my ancestors:
ARNOLD, WILLIAM* - PVT - 23 May 1864 Clarksville, AR - Lincoln Co, TN - age 45 2nd Arkansas US Company I
ARNOLD, BENJAMIN F. - CPL - 24 Dec 1863 Clarksville, AR - Jackson, Co, AL** - age 18 2nd Arkansas US Company K
ARNOLD, JAMES - PVT - 13 Dec 1863 Clarksville, AR - Johnson Co, AR - age 18 2nd Arkansas US Company K
*Father and two sons **"Place of residence different. Third son was enroute to Missouri being a few years younger.
Family migrated from TN to Arkansas.
Later to Iowa through Missouri then to the Dakotas and into Minn.
These were not twin sons. Benjamin apparently lied about his age to enlist. The brothers were half brothers from the same mother. William and
his brother married two sisters. One died and the two brothers took up
housekeeping with the surviving sister. It took us a while to determine that both
had children by the surviving sister. Unraveled only when the various records
showed they both claimed the same mother. Uncle Dad!
Grandpa William and his sons joined the Union Army (leaving the Confederate Army)
after General Bedford Forrest's men burned Berryville, Arkansas and shot their cousin on his wedding night for having Union Calvary boots.
HORINE JOHN W. Captain 36 VANDALIA JASPER IOWA MARYLAND 14th Iowa Infantry Company E
(Shiloh, Corinth --unit nearly destroyed at Hornet's Nest)
Grandpa John raised this company.
Cort, Thomas, PVT 15th Illinois volunteer infantry Co K (veteran) Mustered out Sept 13, 1865
(Shiloh (unit destroyed at Hornet's nest), Siege of Corinth, Perryville (attached to 75th Illinois--later 14th and 15th combined as battalion),
Stone's River (Murfreesboro), Tullahoma Campaign, Missionary Ridge (Chattanooga), Atlanta Campaign [Buzzard's Roost Gap, Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain, Peachtree Creek, Jonesborough, Lovejoy Station], March to the Sea, Campaign of the Carolinas [Bentonville] )
CORT, John Private Adeline Sep 7, 1861 Mustered out Sep 13, 1865 Company H 34th Illinois (Shiloh, Siege of Corinth, Perryville (Unit attached to 75th Illinois--listed as such), Stone's River (Murfreesboro) (wounded in initial assault,
far right regiment refusing the line at creek), Tullahoma Campaign, Missionary Ridge (Chattanooga), Atlanta Campaign [Buzzard's Roost Gap, Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain, Peachtree Creek, Jonesborough, Lovejoy Station], March to the Sea, Campaign of the Carolinas [Bentonville] )
Borland John Pvt. A 77th Pa. Chambersburg, Pa. 10/5/1861
(Shiloh, Siege of Corinth, Perryville, Stone's River (Right flank of Brigade at assault) (Murfreesboro), Tullahoma Campaign, Missionary Ridge (Chattanooga), Atlanta Campaign [Buzzard's Roost Gap, Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain, Peachtree Creek, Jonesborough, Lovejoy Station], March to the Sea, Campaign of the Carolinas [Bentonville] )
His home in Chambersburg was burned by Jubal Early's Men.
Swinney, Alexander T.- private May 13, 1862.Stovall's Brigade
41st Georgia Infantry Company "K" (Campbell County) Campbell Salt Springs Guards
Captured at Vicksburg, Miss. July 4, 1863, and paroled there July 4, 1863.
(Born in Ga. May 7, 1829) Surrendered at Greensboro, N. C. April 26, 1865.
BRIDGEPORT, AL. TAZWELL, TN. INVASION of KENTUCKY 1862 [Perryville] CHICKASAW BAYOU, MS.
BAKER'S CREEK, MS. VICKSBURG, MS. MISSIONARY RIDGE, TN. DUG GAP, GA. RESACA, GA.
CASSVILLE, GA. NEW HOPE CHURCH, GA. KENNESAW MOUNTAIN, GA. CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVER, GA.
PEACHTREE CREEK, GA. ATLANTA, GA. JONESBORO, GA. FRANKLIN, TN. NASHVILLE, TN.
ORANGEBURG, S.C. COLUMBIA, S.C. KINSTON, N.C. BENTONVILLE, N.C.
THE SURRENDER at GREENSBORO, N.C. APRIL 26, 1865
Only ten of 67 soldiers representing 26 families having more than one member in the 41st survived
the war. Four of those were the Swinneys. Brothers and cousins all. The Swinney family lost none of the four who
fought from Spring of 1862 to Spring of 1865. .