Fair complexion, blue eyes, light hair, 110 lbs., 5' 6" in 1920. Was a Union soldier, serving in Co. B 2nd Tennessee and did service at Fishing Creek and other minor engagements. Was captured at East Port and carried a prisoner to Chattanooga, then to Madison, Ga. Spent one night in Andersonville prison. Was then taken to Salisbury, N.C., where he and two comrades escaped ty strategy. They burnt their faces, hands and arms with a hot iron and bathed in salt water and made the blisters white so as to resemble smallpox. They were taken out of prison to the hospital for treatment, where they escaped in the night. He reached his command again at Somerset, Ky. and rejoined them after being held 18 months a prisoner. He was discharged at Knoxville, October 7, 1864.
He was with the Home Guard at Cave Springs in Overton County when that county was placed under military authority to suppress the Ku Klux.
He was constable of the sixth district of Livingston, Overton County just after the war; was Deputy Marshal in 1868.
From The History of Fentress County by Albert R Hogue
Fair complexion, blue eyes, light hair, 110 lbs., 5' 6" in 1920. Was a Union soldier, serving in Co. B 2nd Tennessee and did service at Fishing Creek and other minor engagements. Was captured at East Port and carried a prisoner to Chattanooga, then to Madison, Ga. Spent one night in Andersonville prison. Was then taken to Salisbury, N.C., where he and two comrades escaped ty strategy. They burnt their faces, hands and arms with a hot iron and bathed in salt water and made the blisters white so as to resemble smallpox. They were taken out of prison to the hospital for treatment, where they escaped in the night. He reached his command again at Somerset, Ky. and rejoined them after being held 18 months a prisoner. He was discharged at Knoxville, October 7, 1864.
He was with the Home Guard at Cave Springs in Overton County when that county was placed under military authority to suppress the Ku Klux.
He was constable of the sixth district of Livingston, Overton County just after the war; was Deputy Marshal in 1868.
From The History of Fentress County by Albert R Hogue
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PVT Marshall Logan Robbins
1838–1863
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Margaret Robbins
1841 – unknown
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Solomon Wade Winningham
1843–1914
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Margaret Jane "Peggie" Winningham Threet
1847 – unknown
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Mariah Winningham
1849–1880
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Susan E. "Susie" Winningham White
1854–1938
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Tennessee Louise "Tennie" Winningham Garrett
1863–1946
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Isaac Jackson Robbins
1839–1862
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John Robbins
1839–1930
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Rachel Winny Robbins Winningham
1840–1908
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George Robbins
1842–1918
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Nancy Robbins Gunter
1845–1896
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Alfred L Robbins
1849–1892
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Fannie Elizabeth Robbins
1850–1916
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James T "Jim Pop" Robbins
1854–1936
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Walter Richard Lugary "Dick" Sells
1856–1921
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Emma Robbins Robbins
1857–1944
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Jo Ann Sells
1858–1951
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Sarah Sells Hull
1866–1955
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Elmira Margaret Winningham Beaty
1858–1927
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Dudley Hunter Winningham
1860–1948
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Bell Winningham Cravens
1865–1925
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Douglas Angle Winningham
1867–1948
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Scott Winningham
1870–1892
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Dora Dean Winningham Threet Robbins
1872–1930
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Martha Della Winningham Winningham Bicknell Long
1873–1939
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Minerva Nora Winningham Norris
1874–1959
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Georgie Ann Winningham Richards
1876–1961
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James Valentine "Jim" Winningham
1877–1942
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Sarah Winningham
1878 – unknown
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Mada Edna Winningham Wilson
1879–1963
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Ollie Minnie Winningham Norris
1881–1977
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William Johnson Winningham
1882–1959
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Robert John Keeton Winningham
1884–1912
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James Porter Garfield Winningham
1888–1918
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