MAJOR ANDREW JACKSON MCWHIRTER
We doubt if there is a more gentle, pleasant or popular gentleman in Tennessee than Major Andrew Jackson McWhirter. Fully six feet in height, weighing one hundred and ninety pounds of splendid physique blue eyes a large head with very high forehead, and face expressing a kind and benignant nature with courtly, winning manners that invariably convert strangers in to friends this gentleman's history will prove interesting to many people.
He was born in Wilson county, Tennessee, June 15, 1828 of Scotch-Irish parentage, and spent the early years of his life on his father's farm, where he attended the school of his grandfather, George McWhirter, who died in 1836, after which he attended Campbell's Academy at Lebanon until old enough to enter Cumberland University, where he remained for two and a half years, and only withdrew to accept the deputy county court clerkship under Josiah McClain who was clerk of Wilson county for forty years. In 1847 the Honorable John Bell tendered him a cadetship at West Point, which he declined, preferring to enter commercial life, which he shortly afterwards did, with the wholesale dry goods house, of H.& B. Douglas at Nashville, So valuable did he become to this famous firm, that on the first January, 1850, he was admitted into the concern as a junior partner, and continued with them in business, amassing considerable wealth, until 1856. Retiring from this firm, he formed a copartnership with Col. Thomas L. Bransford and Russel Kinnaird, and opened a wholesale dry goods establishment. At the expiration of three years Major McWhirter bought out the firm and ran the business, on his own account until the civil war commenced. He was an ardent Whigg and bitterly opposed to succession, but when he saw that the war was inevitable, raised a company of 106 men, known as the Edgefield Rifles, which became company A, of the eighteenth Tennessee infantry, then Col. (now Gen.) J. B. Palmer. As captain of this company he was captured at Fort Donaldson, and after being exchanged at Vicksburg, received orders to report at Richmond V., whence he was assigned duty under J. F. Cummings, of the commissary department, and was stationed in Northern and Western Georgia, and continued in that department with the rank of Major purchasing supplies for Bragg, Johnston and Hood until April 20, 1865.
The war being over, Major McWhirter went to New York and engaged in the brokerage and commission business, but returned to Nashville in 1867, and has made it his home ever since.
In 1867 he became connected wholesale clothing house of Bolivar H. Cooke & Co.,and was recognized far and wide as the leading and most influential salesman in the southern states, in appreciation of which fact this firm paid him for years a salary of seven thousand five hundred dollars per annum. In January, 1882, his friend, Gov. William B. Bate, appointed him commissioner of agriculture, statistics and mines, which position he is now filling with distinguished ability indeed, at this writing (1885 ) it is almost impossible to pick up a Tennessee paper that does not contain complimentary notice of him. His speeches at various agricultural conventions in and out of his state, stamp him a man of broad and comprehensive intellect, breathing a spirit that is in unison with the rapid progress of the times. While his memory is wonderful, his information is even more so. As a writer, he is fluent, forcible and pungent. As a worker, he is tireless. His policy as commissioner can be commended to the officials of other states, and if followed by them, will revolutionize many things South during the next few years. The organization of the southern Immigration Association is alone due to his efforts, and as its first president he has given it an impetus that causes the entire south to manifest the liveliest interest in its success.
Major McWhirter as before stated, is descended from the Scotch-Irish stock so numerous in the Carolinas, Virginia. Kentucky and Tennessee. His father, George Ferrier McWhirter,was born in Davidson county, Tennessee, in 1787, and was a farmer in Wilson and Davidson counties for more than eighty years. He was a soldier under Gen. Jackson during his Indian campigns, participating in the battles of Talladega, Emuckfaw and the Horseshoe, and was a man of strong sense and thorough education. His grandfather, George McWhirter,was born in Mecklenburg county, North Carolina, in 1759, and was educated by the distinguished Rev. Hezekiah Balch, the author of the (Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence). After the death of Balch, George McWhirter married his widow, Mrs. Balch, who became the grandmother of the subject of this sketch. He was the first man who taught the classics in Tennessee; was a great student and one of the thoroughly educated men in this section at this time. His pupils came from far and near, among whom were the Honorable John Bell, Bailie Peyton, James C. Jones, Jo. C. Guild, the Yergers and others of eminence. This grandgather changed the name of MacWhirter to McWhirter. Mrs. Balch's maiden name was Mac-candlis of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and one of her ancestors was martyred on the coast of Scotland for expousing the Presbyerian faith.
Major McWhirter's great-grandfather, William MacWhorter, a farmer and physician was born in South Carolina. His father and mother came over from the north of Ireland in the latter part of the seventeenth century. Two of Willam Mac-Whorter's brothers continued to live in Georgia and South Carolina, where their descendants are now living and have changed the spelling of the family name to McWherter and McWhorter.
On the maternal side our subject's mother was a Miss Blair. She was born in 1796 at Mul Herron Fort, about five miles from Nashville, and is now living. Her father, Samuel Blair one of the first settlers in Tennessee, was born in Mecklenburg county, North Carolina, in 1769 participated in the defense of Buchanan's fort and the battle of Nickajack and lived to the ripe age of ninety-six. His wife Major McWhirter's maternal grandmother was the daughter of Gen. Simpson a celebrated Indian fighter. He was killed and scalped by the Indians in 1794, near a fort on what is now a part of the Vaulx estate on the Franklin Pike.
Major McWhirter married, in 1853 , Elizabeth Marshall Bransford, at Glasgow, Kentucky, daughter of Col. Thomas l. Bransford, who was then a wholesale merchant, at once in Louisville, Kentucky, Nashville and Memphis, Tennessee. Col. Bransford was a prominent and influential politician; was the first president of the Nashville and Danville railroad; often in the state legislature, at times a State elector. he was born and raised in Virginia. Col. Bransford's wife was Miss Settle. Her mother was Pickett, of Virginia, who was closely related to the Picketts and Marshalls of that State.
Major McWhirter had two sons, Louis and George.
18TH TENNESSEE INFANTRY REGIMENT
Organized June 11, 1861; Confederate service August 7, 1861; reorganized September 26, 1862; formed field consolidation with 26th Tennessee Infantry Regiment October, 1863; formed Company "I", 4th Consolidated Tennessee Infantry Regiment April 9, 1865; paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina May 1, 1865.
FIELD OFFICERS
Colonel-Joseph B. Palmer
Lieutenant Colonels-A. G. Carden, William R. Butler.
Majors-Samuel W. Davis, W. H. Joyner.
CAPTAINS
Andrew Jackson McWhirter, John Dick, Joseph B. Matthews, Co. "G". Men from Davidson County.
We doubt if there is a more gentle, pleasant or popular gentleman in Tennessee than Major Andrew Jackson McWhirter. Fully six feet in height, weighing one hundred and ninety pounds of splendid physique blue eyes a large head with very high forehead, and face expressing a kind and benignant nature with courtly, winning manners that invariably convert strangers in to friends this gentleman's history will prove interesting to many people.
He was born in Wilson county, Tennessee, June 15, 1828 of Scotch-Irish parentage, and spent the early years of his life on his father's farm, where he attended the school of his grandfather, George McWhirter, who died in 1836, after which he attended Campbell's Academy at Lebanon until old enough to enter Cumberland University, where he remained for two and a half years, and only withdrew to accept the deputy county court clerkship under Josiah McClain who was clerk of Wilson county for forty years. In 1847 the Honorable John Bell tendered him a cadetship at West Point, which he declined, preferring to enter commercial life, which he shortly afterwards did, with the wholesale dry goods house, of H.& B. Douglas at Nashville, So valuable did he become to this famous firm, that on the first January, 1850, he was admitted into the concern as a junior partner, and continued with them in business, amassing considerable wealth, until 1856. Retiring from this firm, he formed a copartnership with Col. Thomas L. Bransford and Russel Kinnaird, and opened a wholesale dry goods establishment. At the expiration of three years Major McWhirter bought out the firm and ran the business, on his own account until the civil war commenced. He was an ardent Whigg and bitterly opposed to succession, but when he saw that the war was inevitable, raised a company of 106 men, known as the Edgefield Rifles, which became company A, of the eighteenth Tennessee infantry, then Col. (now Gen.) J. B. Palmer. As captain of this company he was captured at Fort Donaldson, and after being exchanged at Vicksburg, received orders to report at Richmond V., whence he was assigned duty under J. F. Cummings, of the commissary department, and was stationed in Northern and Western Georgia, and continued in that department with the rank of Major purchasing supplies for Bragg, Johnston and Hood until April 20, 1865.
The war being over, Major McWhirter went to New York and engaged in the brokerage and commission business, but returned to Nashville in 1867, and has made it his home ever since.
In 1867 he became connected wholesale clothing house of Bolivar H. Cooke & Co.,and was recognized far and wide as the leading and most influential salesman in the southern states, in appreciation of which fact this firm paid him for years a salary of seven thousand five hundred dollars per annum. In January, 1882, his friend, Gov. William B. Bate, appointed him commissioner of agriculture, statistics and mines, which position he is now filling with distinguished ability indeed, at this writing (1885 ) it is almost impossible to pick up a Tennessee paper that does not contain complimentary notice of him. His speeches at various agricultural conventions in and out of his state, stamp him a man of broad and comprehensive intellect, breathing a spirit that is in unison with the rapid progress of the times. While his memory is wonderful, his information is even more so. As a writer, he is fluent, forcible and pungent. As a worker, he is tireless. His policy as commissioner can be commended to the officials of other states, and if followed by them, will revolutionize many things South during the next few years. The organization of the southern Immigration Association is alone due to his efforts, and as its first president he has given it an impetus that causes the entire south to manifest the liveliest interest in its success.
Major McWhirter as before stated, is descended from the Scotch-Irish stock so numerous in the Carolinas, Virginia. Kentucky and Tennessee. His father, George Ferrier McWhirter,was born in Davidson county, Tennessee, in 1787, and was a farmer in Wilson and Davidson counties for more than eighty years. He was a soldier under Gen. Jackson during his Indian campigns, participating in the battles of Talladega, Emuckfaw and the Horseshoe, and was a man of strong sense and thorough education. His grandfather, George McWhirter,was born in Mecklenburg county, North Carolina, in 1759, and was educated by the distinguished Rev. Hezekiah Balch, the author of the (Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence). After the death of Balch, George McWhirter married his widow, Mrs. Balch, who became the grandmother of the subject of this sketch. He was the first man who taught the classics in Tennessee; was a great student and one of the thoroughly educated men in this section at this time. His pupils came from far and near, among whom were the Honorable John Bell, Bailie Peyton, James C. Jones, Jo. C. Guild, the Yergers and others of eminence. This grandgather changed the name of MacWhirter to McWhirter. Mrs. Balch's maiden name was Mac-candlis of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and one of her ancestors was martyred on the coast of Scotland for expousing the Presbyerian faith.
Major McWhirter's great-grandfather, William MacWhorter, a farmer and physician was born in South Carolina. His father and mother came over from the north of Ireland in the latter part of the seventeenth century. Two of Willam Mac-Whorter's brothers continued to live in Georgia and South Carolina, where their descendants are now living and have changed the spelling of the family name to McWherter and McWhorter.
On the maternal side our subject's mother was a Miss Blair. She was born in 1796 at Mul Herron Fort, about five miles from Nashville, and is now living. Her father, Samuel Blair one of the first settlers in Tennessee, was born in Mecklenburg county, North Carolina, in 1769 participated in the defense of Buchanan's fort and the battle of Nickajack and lived to the ripe age of ninety-six. His wife Major McWhirter's maternal grandmother was the daughter of Gen. Simpson a celebrated Indian fighter. He was killed and scalped by the Indians in 1794, near a fort on what is now a part of the Vaulx estate on the Franklin Pike.
Major McWhirter married, in 1853 , Elizabeth Marshall Bransford, at Glasgow, Kentucky, daughter of Col. Thomas l. Bransford, who was then a wholesale merchant, at once in Louisville, Kentucky, Nashville and Memphis, Tennessee. Col. Bransford was a prominent and influential politician; was the first president of the Nashville and Danville railroad; often in the state legislature, at times a State elector. he was born and raised in Virginia. Col. Bransford's wife was Miss Settle. Her mother was Pickett, of Virginia, who was closely related to the Picketts and Marshalls of that State.
Major McWhirter had two sons, Louis and George.
18TH TENNESSEE INFANTRY REGIMENT
Organized June 11, 1861; Confederate service August 7, 1861; reorganized September 26, 1862; formed field consolidation with 26th Tennessee Infantry Regiment October, 1863; formed Company "I", 4th Consolidated Tennessee Infantry Regiment April 9, 1865; paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina May 1, 1865.
FIELD OFFICERS
Colonel-Joseph B. Palmer
Lieutenant Colonels-A. G. Carden, William R. Butler.
Majors-Samuel W. Davis, W. H. Joyner.
CAPTAINS
Andrew Jackson McWhirter, John Dick, Joseph B. Matthews, Co. "G". Men from Davidson County.
MAJOR ANDREW JACKSON MCWHIRTER
We doubt if there is a more gentle, pleasant or popular gentleman in Tennessee than Major Andrew Jackson McWhirter. Fully six feet in height, weighing one hundred and ninety pounds of splendid physique blue eyes a large head with very high forehead, and face expressing a kind and benignant nature with courtly, winning manners that invariably convert strangers in to friends this gentleman's history will prove interesting to many people.
He was born in Wilson county, Tennessee, June 15, 1828 of Scotch-Irish parentage, and spent the early years of his life on his father's farm, where he attended the school of his grandfather, George McWhirter, who died in 1836, after which he attended Campbell's Academy at Lebanon until old enough to enter Cumberland University, where he remained for two and a half years, and only withdrew to accept the deputy county court clerkship under Josiah McClain who was clerk of Wilson county for forty years. In 1847 the Honorable John Bell tendered him a cadetship at West Point, which he declined, preferring to enter commercial life, which he shortly afterwards did, with the wholesale dry goods house, of H.& B. Douglas at Nashville, So valuable did he become to this famous firm, that on the first January, 1850, he was admitted into the concern as a junior partner, and continued with them in business, amassing considerable wealth, until 1856. Retiring from this firm, he formed a copartnership with Col. Thomas L. Bransford and Russel Kinnaird, and opened a wholesale dry goods establishment. At the expiration of three years Major McWhirter bought out the firm and ran the business, on his own account until the civil war commenced. He was an ardent Whigg and bitterly opposed to succession, but when he saw that the war was inevitable, raised a company of 106 men, known as the Edgefield Rifles, which became company A, of the eighteenth Tennessee infantry, then Col. (now Gen.) J. B. Palmer. As captain of this company he was captured at Fort Donaldson, and after being exchanged at Vicksburg, received orders to report at Richmond V., whence he was assigned duty under J. F. Cummings, of the commissary department, and was stationed in Northern and Western Georgia, and continued in that department with the rank of Major purchasing supplies for Bragg, Johnston and Hood until April 20, 1865.
The war being over, Major McWhirter went to New York and engaged in the brokerage and commission business, but returned to Nashville in 1867, and has made it his home ever since.
In 1867 he became connected wholesale clothing house of Bolivar H. Cooke & Co.,and was recognized far and wide as the leading and most influential salesman in the southern states, in appreciation of which fact this firm paid him for years a salary of seven thousand five hundred dollars per annum. In January, 1882, his friend, Gov. William B. Bate, appointed him commissioner of agriculture, statistics and mines, which position he is now filling with distinguished ability indeed, at this writing (1885 ) it is almost impossible to pick up a Tennessee paper that does not contain complimentary notice of him. His speeches at various agricultural conventions in and out of his state, stamp him a man of broad and comprehensive intellect, breathing a spirit that is in unison with the rapid progress of the times. While his memory is wonderful, his information is even more so. As a writer, he is fluent, forcible and pungent. As a worker, he is tireless. His policy as commissioner can be commended to the officials of other states, and if followed by them, will revolutionize many things South during the next few years. The organization of the southern Immigration Association is alone due to his efforts, and as its first president he has given it an impetus that causes the entire south to manifest the liveliest interest in its success.
Major McWhirter as before stated, is descended from the Scotch-Irish stock so numerous in the Carolinas, Virginia. Kentucky and Tennessee. His father, George Ferrier McWhirter,was born in Davidson county, Tennessee, in 1787, and was a farmer in Wilson and Davidson counties for more than eighty years. He was a soldier under Gen. Jackson during his Indian campigns, participating in the battles of Talladega, Emuckfaw and the Horseshoe, and was a man of strong sense and thorough education. His grandfather, George McWhirter,was born in Mecklenburg county, North Carolina, in 1759, and was educated by the distinguished Rev. Hezekiah Balch, the author of the (Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence). After the death of Balch, George McWhirter married his widow, Mrs. Balch, who became the grandmother of the subject of this sketch. He was the first man who taught the classics in Tennessee; was a great student and one of the thoroughly educated men in this section at this time. His pupils came from far and near, among whom were the Honorable John Bell, Bailie Peyton, James C. Jones, Jo. C. Guild, the Yergers and others of eminence. This grandgather changed the name of MacWhirter to McWhirter. Mrs. Balch's maiden name was Mac-candlis of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and one of her ancestors was martyred on the coast of Scotland for expousing the Presbyerian faith.
Major McWhirter's great-grandfather, William MacWhorter, a farmer and physician was born in South Carolina. His father and mother came over from the north of Ireland in the latter part of the seventeenth century. Two of Willam Mac-Whorter's brothers continued to live in Georgia and South Carolina, where their descendants are now living and have changed the spelling of the family name to McWherter and McWhorter.
On the maternal side our subject's mother was a Miss Blair. She was born in 1796 at Mul Herron Fort, about five miles from Nashville, and is now living. Her father, Samuel Blair one of the first settlers in Tennessee, was born in Mecklenburg county, North Carolina, in 1769 participated in the defense of Buchanan's fort and the battle of Nickajack and lived to the ripe age of ninety-six. His wife Major McWhirter's maternal grandmother was the daughter of Gen. Simpson a celebrated Indian fighter. He was killed and scalped by the Indians in 1794, near a fort on what is now a part of the Vaulx estate on the Franklin Pike.
Major McWhirter married, in 1853 , Elizabeth Marshall Bransford, at Glasgow, Kentucky, daughter of Col. Thomas l. Bransford, who was then a wholesale merchant, at once in Louisville, Kentucky, Nashville and Memphis, Tennessee. Col. Bransford was a prominent and influential politician; was the first president of the Nashville and Danville railroad; often in the state legislature, at times a State elector. he was born and raised in Virginia. Col. Bransford's wife was Miss Settle. Her mother was Pickett, of Virginia, who was closely related to the Picketts and Marshalls of that State.
Major McWhirter had two sons, Louis and George.
18TH TENNESSEE INFANTRY REGIMENT
Organized June 11, 1861; Confederate service August 7, 1861; reorganized September 26, 1862; formed field consolidation with 26th Tennessee Infantry Regiment October, 1863; formed Company "I", 4th Consolidated Tennessee Infantry Regiment April 9, 1865; paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina May 1, 1865.
FIELD OFFICERS
Colonel-Joseph B. Palmer
Lieutenant Colonels-A. G. Carden, William R. Butler.
Majors-Samuel W. Davis, W. H. Joyner.
CAPTAINS
Andrew Jackson McWhirter, John Dick, Joseph B. Matthews, Co. "G". Men from Davidson County.
We doubt if there is a more gentle, pleasant or popular gentleman in Tennessee than Major Andrew Jackson McWhirter. Fully six feet in height, weighing one hundred and ninety pounds of splendid physique blue eyes a large head with very high forehead, and face expressing a kind and benignant nature with courtly, winning manners that invariably convert strangers in to friends this gentleman's history will prove interesting to many people.
He was born in Wilson county, Tennessee, June 15, 1828 of Scotch-Irish parentage, and spent the early years of his life on his father's farm, where he attended the school of his grandfather, George McWhirter, who died in 1836, after which he attended Campbell's Academy at Lebanon until old enough to enter Cumberland University, where he remained for two and a half years, and only withdrew to accept the deputy county court clerkship under Josiah McClain who was clerk of Wilson county for forty years. In 1847 the Honorable John Bell tendered him a cadetship at West Point, which he declined, preferring to enter commercial life, which he shortly afterwards did, with the wholesale dry goods house, of H.& B. Douglas at Nashville, So valuable did he become to this famous firm, that on the first January, 1850, he was admitted into the concern as a junior partner, and continued with them in business, amassing considerable wealth, until 1856. Retiring from this firm, he formed a copartnership with Col. Thomas L. Bransford and Russel Kinnaird, and opened a wholesale dry goods establishment. At the expiration of three years Major McWhirter bought out the firm and ran the business, on his own account until the civil war commenced. He was an ardent Whigg and bitterly opposed to succession, but when he saw that the war was inevitable, raised a company of 106 men, known as the Edgefield Rifles, which became company A, of the eighteenth Tennessee infantry, then Col. (now Gen.) J. B. Palmer. As captain of this company he was captured at Fort Donaldson, and after being exchanged at Vicksburg, received orders to report at Richmond V., whence he was assigned duty under J. F. Cummings, of the commissary department, and was stationed in Northern and Western Georgia, and continued in that department with the rank of Major purchasing supplies for Bragg, Johnston and Hood until April 20, 1865.
The war being over, Major McWhirter went to New York and engaged in the brokerage and commission business, but returned to Nashville in 1867, and has made it his home ever since.
In 1867 he became connected wholesale clothing house of Bolivar H. Cooke & Co.,and was recognized far and wide as the leading and most influential salesman in the southern states, in appreciation of which fact this firm paid him for years a salary of seven thousand five hundred dollars per annum. In January, 1882, his friend, Gov. William B. Bate, appointed him commissioner of agriculture, statistics and mines, which position he is now filling with distinguished ability indeed, at this writing (1885 ) it is almost impossible to pick up a Tennessee paper that does not contain complimentary notice of him. His speeches at various agricultural conventions in and out of his state, stamp him a man of broad and comprehensive intellect, breathing a spirit that is in unison with the rapid progress of the times. While his memory is wonderful, his information is even more so. As a writer, he is fluent, forcible and pungent. As a worker, he is tireless. His policy as commissioner can be commended to the officials of other states, and if followed by them, will revolutionize many things South during the next few years. The organization of the southern Immigration Association is alone due to his efforts, and as its first president he has given it an impetus that causes the entire south to manifest the liveliest interest in its success.
Major McWhirter as before stated, is descended from the Scotch-Irish stock so numerous in the Carolinas, Virginia. Kentucky and Tennessee. His father, George Ferrier McWhirter,was born in Davidson county, Tennessee, in 1787, and was a farmer in Wilson and Davidson counties for more than eighty years. He was a soldier under Gen. Jackson during his Indian campigns, participating in the battles of Talladega, Emuckfaw and the Horseshoe, and was a man of strong sense and thorough education. His grandfather, George McWhirter,was born in Mecklenburg county, North Carolina, in 1759, and was educated by the distinguished Rev. Hezekiah Balch, the author of the (Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence). After the death of Balch, George McWhirter married his widow, Mrs. Balch, who became the grandmother of the subject of this sketch. He was the first man who taught the classics in Tennessee; was a great student and one of the thoroughly educated men in this section at this time. His pupils came from far and near, among whom were the Honorable John Bell, Bailie Peyton, James C. Jones, Jo. C. Guild, the Yergers and others of eminence. This grandgather changed the name of MacWhirter to McWhirter. Mrs. Balch's maiden name was Mac-candlis of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and one of her ancestors was martyred on the coast of Scotland for expousing the Presbyerian faith.
Major McWhirter's great-grandfather, William MacWhorter, a farmer and physician was born in South Carolina. His father and mother came over from the north of Ireland in the latter part of the seventeenth century. Two of Willam Mac-Whorter's brothers continued to live in Georgia and South Carolina, where their descendants are now living and have changed the spelling of the family name to McWherter and McWhorter.
On the maternal side our subject's mother was a Miss Blair. She was born in 1796 at Mul Herron Fort, about five miles from Nashville, and is now living. Her father, Samuel Blair one of the first settlers in Tennessee, was born in Mecklenburg county, North Carolina, in 1769 participated in the defense of Buchanan's fort and the battle of Nickajack and lived to the ripe age of ninety-six. His wife Major McWhirter's maternal grandmother was the daughter of Gen. Simpson a celebrated Indian fighter. He was killed and scalped by the Indians in 1794, near a fort on what is now a part of the Vaulx estate on the Franklin Pike.
Major McWhirter married, in 1853 , Elizabeth Marshall Bransford, at Glasgow, Kentucky, daughter of Col. Thomas l. Bransford, who was then a wholesale merchant, at once in Louisville, Kentucky, Nashville and Memphis, Tennessee. Col. Bransford was a prominent and influential politician; was the first president of the Nashville and Danville railroad; often in the state legislature, at times a State elector. he was born and raised in Virginia. Col. Bransford's wife was Miss Settle. Her mother was Pickett, of Virginia, who was closely related to the Picketts and Marshalls of that State.
Major McWhirter had two sons, Louis and George.
18TH TENNESSEE INFANTRY REGIMENT
Organized June 11, 1861; Confederate service August 7, 1861; reorganized September 26, 1862; formed field consolidation with 26th Tennessee Infantry Regiment October, 1863; formed Company "I", 4th Consolidated Tennessee Infantry Regiment April 9, 1865; paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina May 1, 1865.
FIELD OFFICERS
Colonel-Joseph B. Palmer
Lieutenant Colonels-A. G. Carden, William R. Butler.
Majors-Samuel W. Davis, W. H. Joyner.
CAPTAINS
Andrew Jackson McWhirter, John Dick, Joseph B. Matthews, Co. "G". Men from Davidson County.
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