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John Altom

Birth
Henderson County, Tennessee, USA
Death
22 Feb 1912 (aged 63–64)
Texas, USA
Burial
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Private, Companies A & C, 7th Tennessee Cavalry, enlisted for 3 years in Lexington, TN on 8/4/1862. AWOL from 6/20/1863 he was captured and spent time in prison in Richmond, VA., and was exchanged on 1/1/1864. He mustered out with the regiment on 8/9/1865 at Nashville, TN. By the 1890 veterans' census he resided near Bells Post Office in Grayson Co, TX. He applied for an invalid pension in 1890 and died 2/22/1912. His widow also received a pension.

Holley, Peggy Scott. Hawkins' Tories, A Regimental and Social History of the 7th Tennessee Cavalry USA in the Civil War, BrayBree Publishing, Dickson TN, 230 p, 2014
Private, Companies A & C, 7th Tennessee Cavalry, enlisted for 3 years in Lexington, TN on 8/4/1862. AWOL from 6/20/1863 he was captured and spent time in prison in Richmond, VA., and was exchanged on 1/1/1864. He mustered out with the regiment on 8/9/1865 at Nashville, TN. By the 1890 veterans' census he resided near Bells Post Office in Grayson Co, TX. He applied for an invalid pension in 1890 and died 2/22/1912. His widow also received a pension.

Holley, Peggy Scott. Hawkins' Tories, A Regimental and Social History of the 7th Tennessee Cavalry USA in the Civil War, BrayBree Publishing, Dickson TN, 230 p, 2014

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