Archibald Scruggs Jared was the son of Samuel Raulston Jared & Mary Susan Scruggs Jared, born 08May1837. He was killed during the Civil War & died in Macon, GA 06Oct1864 & buried in Rose Hill Cemetery. He had joined the confederacy ...Company K of the 28th Tennessee Infantry. He was brought home to Putnam Co., TN & buried near his parents in the Jared-Huddleston Cemetery near Baxter 20Oct1990.
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CONFEDERATE SOLDIER TO BE RETURNED FOR BURIAL -- Putnam Countian Died fighting Sherman

Archibald Scruggs Jared left Putnam County in the fall of 1862 to join his brothers in the Confederate Army.
Later this month, he will rejoin his family here 126 years after dying far from home as he fought to halt Sherman's infamous "March to the Sea."
Pvt. Jared, one of the soldiers who helped defend Georgia--and the remainder of the Confederate South--will be buried later this month in his family cemetery on a hill in the Gentry community.
Maurine Patton, who is working here to find a place to bury Archibald Scruggs Jared, said the return home of the Confederate soldier answers several questions for the Jared family.
An uncle to her grandmother, Pvt. Jared died "from a stray bullet while he was near his camp according to family history", Mrs. Patton said.
However, Bert Jared of Lavergne, the great-great nephew of Pvt. Jared, said that he was killed from a cannon ball to the ribs.
"Whenever a soldier was killed, it was not uncommon to write something good about the soldier to his family", Bert said.
Choosing the less gruesome means of death, the letter writer said Pvt.
Jared was sitting under a tree reading a Bible when the stray hit him.
Bert's research into the history of the Jared family came as a result of his joining the Sons of Confederate Soldiers, an organization which requires a person to prove ancestry to a soldier, and his love of Southern history.
"I remember in the early 1950's when my grandfather told me about three brothers who went to war", Bert Said. "I was too young to remember much about some of the stories he told me. In 1980 my daughter and I drove down to Macon to do some further research about the three brothers", he added. " I had found out that my great-great grandfather and two great-great uncles served in the Civil war".
According to further research Bert conducted, only two of the brothers returned home alive after the war ended in April 1865.
Not returning was Pvt. Jared, one of Bert's uncles.
On October 20, after 126 years, Pvt Jared will be placed beside his
mother and father, Samuel Raulston and Mary Susan Scruggs Jared, in the Jared and Huddleston Cemetery on Stanton Ridge Road in Gentry.
Born May 8, 1837, in Gentry, Pvt. Jared was the fourth child in a family of eight. He was hit Aug. 8, 1864, and entered the Ocmulgee Hospital in Macon where he stayed for almost two months before he died on Oct. 6.
Since two of his brothers had already joined a unit formed in Put-
County, young Pvt. Jared said goodbye to his family in the fall of
1862 and traveled to Nashville to join his brothers' company, Company K of the 28th Tennessee Infantry Regiment, a Confederate unit made of mostly Putnam volunteers.
All three brothers fought side-by-side in the Battle of Murfreesboro,
also called the Battle of Stones River, in the fall of 1863 and in several other battles prior to the Atlanta campaign of 1864.
When Bert went to Macon to find where Pvt. Jared was buried, he found
the Private relatively soon after consulting the library and archives there in Macon.
Bert found payroll records for Pvt. Jared which traced his military life from Murfreesboro to Macon.
"We located Pvt. Jared's marked grave at the Rose Hill City Cemetery", Bert said. "I felt most fortunate, as a lot of the 602 Confederate soldiers buried there were in graves marked 'unknown.'
"As I understand, there were a lot of Southern ladies in Macon and they took care of their fighting men. They were very good about marking every grave they could."
And 10 years after Bert made that trip to Macon, Pvt. Jared is coming
home - home to the family cemetery in Gentry.
"I didn't find much opposition. I went to the health department there
and fill out all the paperwork and then went back to the cemetery and
completed all of the forms there."
Bert was then able to begin digging for Pvt. Jared's remains.
"The men there wanted to use a backhoe, but I've read enough to know that some soldiers weren't buried as deep as others.
"I allowed them to use the machine down to two feet and then they started using shovels. When we finished, the bottom of the grave was
right at 3' 10"."
What Bert found was mostly bones, a decomposing coffin and two
buttons.
"Those buttons told me that he was buried in his uniform which is odd. I figured that since he was in the hospital for so long, he wouldn't be buried in it.
"I've just wanted to bring him home to be with the rest of the family. He has a right to be with them. He should have the same treatment as his brothers who came back. He deserves to come back."
Bert had a friend build a pine coffin similar to the dimensions used by the Confederacy. And Pvt. Jared's original tombstone will mark the grave site. Both tombstone and coffin with remains inside -- are in Bert's garage until later this month.
Now back in Tennessee, Pvt. Jared's remains are waiting for the 2 p.m. Oct. 20, 1990, burial services in Gentry which will be "as authentic as possible," according to Bert.
"We plan to have several Confederate re-enactors at the cemetery that day serving as pallbearers. And members of the Sons of Confederate Soldiers will be there as well as the Military Order of the Stars and Bars, of which Bert is a member. And when all the military fanfare has concluded, Pvt. Jared will rest with his mother and father on a hill overlooking the home he lived in just before he volunteered for service.
"We're talking about something that will never happen again," Bert said. "There will never be another Confederate States of America.
"Now, after 10 years, I have finally realized my dream of bringing Pvt. Archibald Scruggs Jared back home to be buried in the family cemetery with his mother and father."

THANKS TO EDGEBERT DALE JARED who died April6, 2010. DM