Son of Samuel H. Hackett of Greene County, Tennessee. Educated at Harvard and Tusculum Colleges. Lawyer prior to war. Member of Savage's 16th Tennessee Infantry. Killed at Atlanta. Originally buried at Griffin, Georgia; re-interred either at Confederate Cemetery (Chattanooga)(where headstone lies) or at Forest Hills Cemetery (where Chattanooga records show him) on October 31, 1899 (the same day as F.M. Walker was buried there).
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The Griffin Daily News and Sun.
Griffin, Georgia, Sunday Morning, October 27, 1889
The Confederate Dead
Who Are to be Removed to Chattanooga This Week
As previously announced, the bodies of two Confederate soldiers buried in the Griffin Cemeteries are to be removed to Chattanooga this week. The two immortal dead General F.M. Walker, of Maney’s Brigade, Cheatham’s Division, C.S.A., killed in front of Atlanta on July 22d, 1864, and Wright S. Hackett, Co. C., 16th Tennessee Infantry, C.S.A., mortally wounded in the same battle.
Col. Hanleiter received a letter yesterday morning stating that the following committee will arrive here on the 8:40 train on Tuesday night and stop at the Nelms House: Col. Tom Fort, Capt S.J.A. Frazier, Rev. J.W. Bachman, Major W.C. Payne, J.B. Smartt, L.T. Dickenson of Forest Camp. and Thomas Webster and J.H. Warner, citizens. It is probable that the committee will be accompanied by L.G. Walker, a son of Gen. Walker and Mr. Byles, a messmate of Hackett. They will find the bodied ready for shipment and after brief ceremonies at the Methodist church on Wednesday morning will leave for home on the 10:40 a.m. train. The ceremonies will include a short address by Major Payne, of the 16th Tennessee Infantry, and an address by someone to be selected by the Memorial Association of Griffin and possibly someone for the city council who will attend in a body. The Spalding Greys will furnish an escort from the church. A fuller and more definite program will be published on Tuesday morning.
The ceremonies of reinterment in Chattanooga will be very elaborate and impressive, and any citizens from Griffin desiring to attend them are cordially invited and will be able to get reduced rates.
The Griffin Daily News and Sun.
Griffin, Georgia, Wednesday Morning, October 30, 1889
Tennessee Confederates
Today’s Exercise Over Their Bodies In Griffin
Today is the day appointed by the Chattanooga committee to carry away their two dead comrades from Griffin. The following committee will meet the Chattanooga delegation at the 8:15 train this morning: J.G. Rhea, W.R. Hanleiter, H.H. Bass, J.A. Stewart, H.P. Brown, D. Glessner, J.P. Sawtell, D.J. Bailey, Jr., M.J. Patrick.
The exercises at the Methodist church will begin at 9 o’clock sharp as follows:
Hymn
Prayer by Rev. M. McN. McKay
Hymn
Memorial address by Hon. J.D. Stewart
Response by Maj. W.C. Payne of N.B. Forest Camp
Hymn
Benediction by Rev. H.S. Bradley
The bodies will then be escorted to the station. The public is generally invited to participate in the exercises. The remains of Gen. Walker and Private Hackett were disinterred yesterday and placed in the handsome caskets sent. Of Gen. Walker there was part of the skull left, while of Hackett there were only a few pieces of bones the balance in each case being nothing but gray moss. The caskets are standing in front of the alter in the Methodist church covered with flowers and with a miniature Confederate flag on each. The church is also decorated with flowers.
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The Griffin Daily News and Sun.
Griffin, Georgia, Sunday Morning, October 27, 1889
The Confederate Dead
Who Are to be Removed to Chattanooga This Week
As previously announced, the bodies of two Confederate soldiers buried in the Griffin Cemeteries are to be removed to Chattanooga this week. The two immortal dead General F.M. Walker, of Maney’s Brigade, Cheatham’s Division, C.S.A., killed in front of Atlanta on July 22d, 1864, and Wright S. Hackett, Co. C., 16th Tennessee Infantry, C.S.A., mortally wounded in the same battle.
Col. Hanleiter received a letter yesterday morning stating that the following committee will arrive here on the 8:40 train on Tuesday night and stop at the Nelms House: Col. Tom Fort, Capt S.J.A. Frazier, Rev. J.W. Bachman, Major W.C. Payne, J.B. Smartt, L.T. Dickenson of Forest Camp. and Thomas Webster and J.H. Warner, citizens. It is probable that the committee will be accompanied by L.G. Walker, a son of Gen. Walker and Mr. Byles, a messmate of Hackett. They will find the bodied ready for shipment and after brief ceremonies at the Methodist church on Wednesday morning will leave for home on the 10:40 a.m. train. The ceremonies will include a short address by Major Payne, of the 16th Tennessee Infantry, and an address by someone to be selected by the Memorial Association of Griffin and possibly someone for the city council who will attend in a body. The Spalding Greys will furnish an escort from the church. A fuller and more definite program will be published on Tuesday morning.
The ceremonies of reinterment in Chattanooga will be very elaborate and impressive, and any citizens from Griffin desiring to attend them are cordially invited and will be able to get reduced rates.
The Griffin Daily News and Sun.
Griffin, Georgia, Wednesday Morning, October 30, 1889
Tennessee Confederates
Today’s Exercise Over Their Bodies In Griffin
Today is the day appointed by the Chattanooga committee to carry away their two dead comrades from Griffin. The following committee will meet the Chattanooga delegation at the 8:15 train this morning: J.G. Rhea, W.R. Hanleiter, H.H. Bass, J.A. Stewart, H.P. Brown, D. Glessner, J.P. Sawtell, D.J. Bailey, Jr., M.J. Patrick.
The exercises at the Methodist church will begin at 9 o’clock sharp as follows:
Hymn
Prayer by Rev. M. McN. McKay
Hymn
Memorial address by Hon. J.D. Stewart
Response by Maj. W.C. Payne of N.B. Forest Camp
Hymn
Benediction by Rev. H.S. Bradley
The bodies will then be escorted to the station. The public is generally invited to participate in the exercises. The remains of Gen. Walker and Private Hackett were disinterred yesterday and placed in the handsome caskets sent. Of Gen. Walker there was part of the skull left, while of Hackett there were only a few pieces of bones the balance in each case being nothing but gray moss. The caskets are standing in front of the alter in the Methodist church covered with flowers and with a miniature Confederate flag on each. The church is also decorated with flowers.
Son of Samuel H. Hackett of Greene County, Tennessee. Educated at Harvard and Tusculum Colleges. Lawyer prior to war. Member of Savage's 16th Tennessee Infantry. Killed at Atlanta. Originally buried at Griffin, Georgia; re-interred either at Confederate Cemetery (Chattanooga)(where headstone lies) or at Forest Hills Cemetery (where Chattanooga records show him) on October 31, 1899 (the same day as F.M. Walker was buried there).
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The Griffin Daily News and Sun.
Griffin, Georgia, Sunday Morning, October 27, 1889
The Confederate Dead
Who Are to be Removed to Chattanooga This Week
As previously announced, the bodies of two Confederate soldiers buried in the Griffin Cemeteries are to be removed to Chattanooga this week. The two immortal dead General F.M. Walker, of Maney’s Brigade, Cheatham’s Division, C.S.A., killed in front of Atlanta on July 22d, 1864, and Wright S. Hackett, Co. C., 16th Tennessee Infantry, C.S.A., mortally wounded in the same battle.
Col. Hanleiter received a letter yesterday morning stating that the following committee will arrive here on the 8:40 train on Tuesday night and stop at the Nelms House: Col. Tom Fort, Capt S.J.A. Frazier, Rev. J.W. Bachman, Major W.C. Payne, J.B. Smartt, L.T. Dickenson of Forest Camp. and Thomas Webster and J.H. Warner, citizens. It is probable that the committee will be accompanied by L.G. Walker, a son of Gen. Walker and Mr. Byles, a messmate of Hackett. They will find the bodied ready for shipment and after brief ceremonies at the Methodist church on Wednesday morning will leave for home on the 10:40 a.m. train. The ceremonies will include a short address by Major Payne, of the 16th Tennessee Infantry, and an address by someone to be selected by the Memorial Association of Griffin and possibly someone for the city council who will attend in a body. The Spalding Greys will furnish an escort from the church. A fuller and more definite program will be published on Tuesday morning.
The ceremonies of reinterment in Chattanooga will be very elaborate and impressive, and any citizens from Griffin desiring to attend them are cordially invited and will be able to get reduced rates.
The Griffin Daily News and Sun.
Griffin, Georgia, Wednesday Morning, October 30, 1889
Tennessee Confederates
Today’s Exercise Over Their Bodies In Griffin
Today is the day appointed by the Chattanooga committee to carry away their two dead comrades from Griffin. The following committee will meet the Chattanooga delegation at the 8:15 train this morning: J.G. Rhea, W.R. Hanleiter, H.H. Bass, J.A. Stewart, H.P. Brown, D. Glessner, J.P. Sawtell, D.J. Bailey, Jr., M.J. Patrick.
The exercises at the Methodist church will begin at 9 o’clock sharp as follows:
Hymn
Prayer by Rev. M. McN. McKay
Hymn
Memorial address by Hon. J.D. Stewart
Response by Maj. W.C. Payne of N.B. Forest Camp
Hymn
Benediction by Rev. H.S. Bradley
The bodies will then be escorted to the station. The public is generally invited to participate in the exercises. The remains of Gen. Walker and Private Hackett were disinterred yesterday and placed in the handsome caskets sent. Of Gen. Walker there was part of the skull left, while of Hackett there were only a few pieces of bones the balance in each case being nothing but gray moss. The caskets are standing in front of the alter in the Methodist church covered with flowers and with a miniature Confederate flag on each. The church is also decorated with flowers.
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The Griffin Daily News and Sun.
Griffin, Georgia, Sunday Morning, October 27, 1889
The Confederate Dead
Who Are to be Removed to Chattanooga This Week
As previously announced, the bodies of two Confederate soldiers buried in the Griffin Cemeteries are to be removed to Chattanooga this week. The two immortal dead General F.M. Walker, of Maney’s Brigade, Cheatham’s Division, C.S.A., killed in front of Atlanta on July 22d, 1864, and Wright S. Hackett, Co. C., 16th Tennessee Infantry, C.S.A., mortally wounded in the same battle.
Col. Hanleiter received a letter yesterday morning stating that the following committee will arrive here on the 8:40 train on Tuesday night and stop at the Nelms House: Col. Tom Fort, Capt S.J.A. Frazier, Rev. J.W. Bachman, Major W.C. Payne, J.B. Smartt, L.T. Dickenson of Forest Camp. and Thomas Webster and J.H. Warner, citizens. It is probable that the committee will be accompanied by L.G. Walker, a son of Gen. Walker and Mr. Byles, a messmate of Hackett. They will find the bodied ready for shipment and after brief ceremonies at the Methodist church on Wednesday morning will leave for home on the 10:40 a.m. train. The ceremonies will include a short address by Major Payne, of the 16th Tennessee Infantry, and an address by someone to be selected by the Memorial Association of Griffin and possibly someone for the city council who will attend in a body. The Spalding Greys will furnish an escort from the church. A fuller and more definite program will be published on Tuesday morning.
The ceremonies of reinterment in Chattanooga will be very elaborate and impressive, and any citizens from Griffin desiring to attend them are cordially invited and will be able to get reduced rates.
The Griffin Daily News and Sun.
Griffin, Georgia, Wednesday Morning, October 30, 1889
Tennessee Confederates
Today’s Exercise Over Their Bodies In Griffin
Today is the day appointed by the Chattanooga committee to carry away their two dead comrades from Griffin. The following committee will meet the Chattanooga delegation at the 8:15 train this morning: J.G. Rhea, W.R. Hanleiter, H.H. Bass, J.A. Stewart, H.P. Brown, D. Glessner, J.P. Sawtell, D.J. Bailey, Jr., M.J. Patrick.
The exercises at the Methodist church will begin at 9 o’clock sharp as follows:
Hymn
Prayer by Rev. M. McN. McKay
Hymn
Memorial address by Hon. J.D. Stewart
Response by Maj. W.C. Payne of N.B. Forest Camp
Hymn
Benediction by Rev. H.S. Bradley
The bodies will then be escorted to the station. The public is generally invited to participate in the exercises. The remains of Gen. Walker and Private Hackett were disinterred yesterday and placed in the handsome caskets sent. Of Gen. Walker there was part of the skull left, while of Hackett there were only a few pieces of bones the balance in each case being nothing but gray moss. The caskets are standing in front of the alter in the Methodist church covered with flowers and with a miniature Confederate flag on each. The church is also decorated with flowers.
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