Captain/Private, 7th Tennessee Cavalry, Companies H & I, enlisted in Lexington, TN on 9/24/1862 and mustered at Trenton, TN on 9/28/1862, furnishing his own horse and equipment. Derryberry was either elected or became captain of Company H after having raised it, but it never had enough enlistees and he eventually became a private in Co I. Presumably captured with the regiment at Union City, TN on 3/24/1864, he spent time in Andersonville Prison in Georgia and died in prison in Savannah, GA on 11/1/1864 of chronic diarrhea and scurvy according to his muster roll but on 10/8/1864 according to the Savannah Hospital death list published in the New York Times. He was married to Susan C Wallace and their son, William H, enlisted in Co A.
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
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
Captain/Private, 7th Tennessee Cavalry, Companies H & I, enlisted in Lexington, TN on 9/24/1862 and mustered at Trenton, TN on 9/28/1862, furnishing his own horse and equipment. Derryberry was either elected or became captain of Company H after having raised it, but it never had enough enlistees and he eventually became a private in Co I. Presumably captured with the regiment at Union City, TN on 3/24/1864, he spent time in Andersonville Prison in Georgia and died in prison in Savannah, GA on 11/1/1864 of chronic diarrhea and scurvy according to his muster roll but on 10/8/1864 according to the Savannah Hospital death list published in the New York Times. He was married to Susan C Wallace and their son, William H, enlisted in Co A.
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
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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