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Muster-roll of Captain Jame Soap’s company
Woodbury, August 4, 1837.
DEAR SIR: I hereby certify that the annexed is a correct roll
of the company of volunteers who tendered their services to the
United States under my command, and were received by Governor Cannon
under his proclamation of June 6, 1836.
JAMES SOAP, Captain.
His Excellency N. CANNON.
I hereby certify that James Soap, whose signature is placed to the
above certificate, made oath in due form, before me, the day it bears date,
that the annexed roll is a correct account of the volunteers named who
volunteered according to the above proclamation of June 6, 1836.
ELIJAH STEVENS, J. P.
Muster-roll of Captain Soap’s company of Tennessee volunteers.
James Soap, captain. James C. Green Philip Welber
Thomas Barton, 1st lieutenant. G. W. Knox James Higdon
James O. George, 2d lieutenant. W. Goodwin Abraham Brandon
Wm M., Knox, ensign. Thomas E. Woodfin Robert J. Patton.
Milton Fowler, 1st sergeant. Caleb Martin David R. Burton
Samuel J. Rund, 2d sergeant. Mark Adcock Jacob Falkenbury
U. D. Allen, 3d sergeant. Henry Young Greenbury Smith
William Barnett Ransom Young William Stroud
William Nevins R. C. Dogier Abn. Baty
Thomas Hodges Charles Bowen James Baty
Samuel Russell John Vassor Jacob More
John Bowen Martin Stroud William Spicer
William Potterfield D. C. Mereight James Edwards
Robert H. Patton Archibald Edwards Edmund Finley
Thomas C. Meloud Henry Markey Eli Bailey
William Boyd William Phillips Caswell Saron
George Walker James H. Alexander Richard Edwins
William Allen Isaac Soap Levi Pelham.
Thomas Crary William Reynolds Joseph Hollany
M. A. Morterfield Thomas J. Hicks John R. Cummings
William Patton Roswell Soap
STATE OF TENNESSEE, Executive Department:
I, Newton Cannon, governor of the State of Tennessee, do hereby
certify that the officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians,
and privates, whose names are enrolled upon this roll, were duly called
into service, and their services accepted by me, during the summer of 1836,
under my proclamation of June 6, 1836, to meet the requisition of the
Secretary of War, dated May 25, 1836.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and
caused the great seal of the State to be
[L. S.] affixed, at Nashville, the 30th day of August, 1837.
N. CANNON.
By the governor:
LUKE LEA, Secretary of State.
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Source:
American State Papers, House of Representatives, 25th Congress, 2nd
Session. Military Affairs: Volume 7, Page 752.
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