The Tennessee
Civil War Veterans
Questionnaires
- In 1914 and 1915, Questionnaire forms were sent to all known living Tennessee Civil War Veterans by Dr. Gus
Dyer, who was then serving as Archivist of Tennessee. In 1920, Mr. John Trotwood Moore, Director of the Tennessee
Historical Commission, sent a revised from which covered essentially the same information.
- All the completed forms were returned by 1922 and contain such information as date and place of birth; date
and place of enlistment; war service, including descriptions of battles, prison life and hospital experiences;
rosters of the Company of which ;the veteran was a member; comments on the economic and social status of the veteran;
opinions on slavery; genealogical data; educational and religious data; his and his father's occupation both before
and after the war, and many incidental facts. The ve terans were encouraged to write fully of their experiences
and to give as much family history as they remembered. Many of them included additional pages of material, newspaper
clippings, book pages of published information from the Veteran, and an occasional photograph.
- These interviewed veterans came from all social classes, and their answers varied from short and barely literate
annals of the poor farmer to perceptive assessments of pre-war social conditions and detailed autobiographies of
well educated sons of pla nters, artisans and merchants. This cross-section of human experience makes the material
useful to historians, as well as to the genealogist pursuing information about lives of specific ancestors.
- The questionnaires have been published in a five volume set of books by the Southern Historical Press, inc.
of Easley, S. C. The microfilm copy is housed in the Manuscripts Section of the Tennessee State Library and Archives.
The following is a list of those men from DeKalb County that returned the Questionnaires.
- Since the books are under copyright, I can not post the information that was given for each of the men listed
below.
|
VOLUME
NO.
|
PAGE NO.
|
NAME
|
BORN OR
LIVED AT
|
|
I
|
11
|
Benjamin F. Bennett |
DeKalb Co. |
|
I
|
19
|
Joseph Bozarth |
DeKalb Co. |
|
I
|
41
|
Tom Davis |
Liberty |
|
I
|
57
|
William H. George |
Smithville |
|
I
|
87
|
Thomas Mason |
Alexandria |
|
I
|
319
|
Lewis Green Bing |
Smithville |
|
II
|
816
|
John Armenus Fite |
Alexandria |
|
III
|
906
|
John Dale Givan |
Smithville |
|
III
|
1140
|
Tennessee Monroe Hooper |
Smithville |
|
III
|
1264
|
William J. Jones |
Alexandria |
|
IV
|
None
|
None |
None |
|
V
|
1795
|
Crawford Monroe Rankhorn |
Smithville |
|
V
|
1806
|
James Monroe Redmon |
Smithville |
|
V
|
1960
|
Lewis Ellison Simpson |
Alexandria |
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