| 2. | i. | JAMES HAYWOOD2 MIDDLETON, b. November 1829, Tennessee; d. Aft. 1900. | |
| ii. | WILLIAM MIDDLETON3, b. Abt. 1831; m. MALINDA NICKS, May 02, 1859, Wayne County, Tennessee. |
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Notes for WILLIAM MIDDLETON: Chattanooga National Cemetery (A-Z) MIDDLETON, WILLIAM G. A 212 PVT I do not know if this is my William. |
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More About WILLIAM MIDDLETON: Burial: possibly at Chickamauga during Civil War |
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Marriage Notes for WILLIAM MIDDLETON and MALINDA NICKS: I am not sure that this is William but put it in so I wouldn't lose it. |
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More About WILLIAM MIDDLETON and MALINDA NICKS: Marriage: May 02, 1859, Wayne County, Tennessee |
| iii. | EMILY C. MIDDLETON, b. Abt. 1835; m. WILLIAM MORRIS, Aft. 1885. |
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More About WILLIAM MORRIS and EMILY MIDDLETON: Marriage: Aft. 1885 |
| iv. | CASWELL MIDDLETON, b. Abt. 1841, Wayne County, Tenessee; d. February 11, 1864, Rock Island, Illinois. |
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Notes for CASWELL MIDDLETON: Middleton, Caswell (C. E. ) Pvt Co A 54th Tennessee Infantry, later became 48th Tn Inf. Enlisted November 30, 1861, Clifton/Wayne County, Tennessee. Captured Wayne County Tennessee Jan 12 1864, this was after going home sick from Corinth, MS retreat in July of 1862. Caswell returned to duty as he is carried on the muster rolls for September and October of 1862. Received in prison Jan 16,1864. Died Feb 11, 1864, cause of death Variola. Buried Grave #439 South of Prison barracks. "There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but I tell you, I wish that I owned every slave in the South, for I would free them all to avoid this war." - Robert E. Lee Caswell was captured at Fort Donelson 1Built between 1851 and 1853, this building accommodated riverboat travelers before and after the Civil War. General Buckner and his staff used the hotel as their headquarters during the battle. It also served as a Union hospital after the surrender. After Buckner accepted Grant's surrender terms, the two generals met here to work out the details. Lew Wallace, the first Union general to reach the hotel following the surrender, did not want his men to gloat over the Confederate situation and told Capt. Frederick Knefler, one of his officers, to tell the brigade commanders "to move the whole line forward, and take possession of persons and property ... (but) not a word of taunt-no cheering." An estimated 13,000 Confederate soldiers were loaded onto transports to begin their journey to Northern prisoner-of-war camps. Neither the Union nor Confederate governments were prepared to care for the large influx of prisoners. The Fort Donelson prisoners were incarcerated in hastily converted and ill-prepared sites in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and as far away as Boston, Mass. Fort Donelson POWs suffered more from the northern climate than any other hardship. In September 1862 most of the Fort Donelson prisoners were exchanged. On two occasions, once in mid-1862 and again in February 1863, Confederate forces tried to drive Federal troops from the area. Both attempts failed; but the second, led by soldiers under the command of Gens. Joseph Wheeler and Nathan Bedford Forrest, cost the town its future. That skirmish, known as the Battle of Dover, resulted in the destruction of all but four of the town's buildings. One of those to survive was the Dover Hotel, which remained in business until the 1930s. It has been restored through the efforts of the Fort Donelson House Historical Association and the National Park Service. The exterior looks much the same as it did when the surrender took place. This is about prisoners from the same unit that were taken to Camp Douglas in Chicago IL. The 48th was one of the first units ever to be incarcerated in hastily prepared Union prison camps. The Federals sent the field grade officers to Fort Warren, Massachusetts, the line officers to Camp Chase Ohio, and the enlisted men to Camp Douglas in Chicago, Illinois. (The officers were later transferred to Johnson's Island on Lake Erie.) The defeated Tennesseans began their trip north shortly after the surrender on the evening of 16 February. Grant's troops herded their prisoners aboard the steamer Empress. The steamer departed on the seventeenth and arrived at Cairo, Illinois, that night. The trip up the Mississippi was both uncomfortable and unhealthy. Many of the soldiers crowded aboard the Empress were already sick from exposure, poor diet, and frostbite. Sanitary conditions on the vessel were poor. The weather was cold, and the rations consisted of crackers and raw meat. Along the route, Union soldiers gathered to taunt the prisoners. In response, Andrew Campbell reported, "Our men never failed to cheer for Jeff Davis and the Southern Confederacy." At two points along the river, unknown assailants fired shots at the vessel and several prisoners were wounded. The Empress arrived at St. Louis on 20 February. The Confederates were surprised to find that the citizens of the city demonstrated pro-Southern sympathy by providing gifts of apples, cakes, tobacco, and money. The enlisted men boarded trains for Camp Douglas that evening, while the officers remained aboard other vessels for the next five days. Sympathizers risked insult and arrest to help the prisoners. One woman, who threw apples to the captives, was accosted by a Union officer who shook his fist in her face. To support her, one of the Confederate officers cut a button off his uniform and tossed it to the woman. When she attempted to retrieve the gift, a Federal guard stepped forward and "thrust his bayonet in front [of her] to push her back." Unimpressed, she simply pushed the bayonet out of the way and retrieved the button. Historians acknowledge that the prison systems on both sides during the war between the states were poor. The Federal prisons at Camp Chase and Douglas were among the worst. When A. J. Campbell surveyed the filthy, overcrowded conditions at Camp Chase, he thought that he could "with good grace go out and volunteer to be shot." At Douglas, death stalked the 48th. On 3 March, K. Company lost William Welch and on the ninth a "kind, and most beloved" James Hodges died. The death of Third Sergeant John E. Amis on the twelfth left two small sons fatherless. On the fourteenth a "fair and honest" James Akin passed away. At least forty-five, or seventeen percent of the 270 soldiers known captured at Fort Donelson died while in Federal hands. As the months of imprisonment worn on, death and sickness became a constant companion. Weekly, soldiers died of pneumonia and consumption. Union guards forced prisoners to stand by while money and personal items were stolen from them. Guards required little provocation to attack unarmed prisoners. At Camp Douglas, sixteen-year old Wilson Trousdale of Company E was bayoneted in the back by a guard. Johnson's Island guards routinely shot or shot at prisoners. Captain Campbell writes, "Everytime I see a villainous Yankee it makes my blood boil to think we are to be shot down like dogs without any provocation whatever and no means of redress. One does not know what minute he will be shot down as we frequently have guns leveled and cocked at us." In early May, the officers at Camp Chase were transferred to the infamous Johnson's Island aboard the Island Queen. In June the president of the United States Sanitary Commission urged that Camp Douglas be abandoned and burned due to poor sanitary conditions there. Escape attempts were not infrequent. On 23 July, a tall and bearded Allen Adcock from E Company took part in one of Camp Douglas's best known escape attempts. Adcock and several compatriots planned the escape for weeks. Adcock slept with a homemade ladder hidden in his bunk. The group kept delaying their attempt, hoping Adcock's sick brother Robert would improve enough to go with them. Robert, who was afraid to go to the prison hospital, failed to improve. Finally, on the dark and rainy night of the twenty-third, the group made a break for the prison fence. Four of Adcock's friends made it over before the guards discovered them and began to fire. Adcock was not one of the lucky ones and quickly had to make his way back into the barracks. Camp Douglas was "in a commotion." Mackey, who was not with Adcock, wrote "Our Federal excellencies were much alarmed; the cannon fired and general excitement prevailed." The Federals rushed to the barracks looking for prisoners with muddy shoes to indicate they had participated in the escape. Adcock, however, proved too smart for his jailers. He escaped detection because he had the foresight to wear socks over his shoes during the escape. Adcock's shoes looked as if he had been in his bunk the whole time. The Rebels did their best to entertain themselves. In the winter there were snowball contests, the "bloody" 48th and the 7th Texas heavily engaged against the 20th Mississippi. The Tennesseans attended church, wrote letters, read Northern newspapers, annoyed the guards, circulated unending rumor, and listened to antisecessionist speeches sponsored by their captors. In the summer, a group of twenty-one prisoners from the 48th pooled their money and had a photo taken. The soldiers in the photo stare seriously, hats cocked to one side or the other. They were young and mostly bearded but some looked too young to shave. They wore various uniforms, kepis, and slouch hats. By July 1862, rumors that the 48th would be exchanged were prevalent and believed by most. The prisoners believed war news from the South was good and morale in the 48th improved. A small but tough looking Private Joe Rainey let his high morale get him in trouble. When the Illinois Governor paid a visit to Camp Douglas, an impudent Rainey shouted a hurrah for Jeff Davis and The Yankees promptly hauled him off to the guard house. Just before their exchange in August, the Federals offered the Confederate prisoners a choice: they could accept exchange or they could take the oath of allegiance. At Camp Douglas, 918 opted to take the oath, among them were seventeen from the 48th. In September 1862 the Federal government exchanged the 48th. One Federal Officer thought the exchange was a mistake. Campbell reports the officer said "all the weakly prisoners had died, the cowardly had taken the oath, and the others would make invincible soldiers." The officers left their prison on 1 September 1862 and were released at Vicksburg on the 16th. On 3 September, jubilant enlisted soldiers left Camp Douglas and were released on the 23rd. They were in the words of Campbell "relieved of the presence of the hated Yankee once more." Shortly after the exchange sixty-year old Captain George W. Gordon, the well-loved commander of K Company died. The entire regiment mourned his loss. After the enlisted were freed on the twenty-fourth, they were able to spend a few days in Vicksburg. The newly freed soldiers poked around Vicksburg and found it, "A nice place with little to eat." On the twenty-sixth, the troops boarded "the cars" for a forty-five mile train ride to Jackson, Mississippi. There on 29 September, after seven months of captivity, the 48th was reorganized. The troops elected William Voorhies Colonel, Arron S. Goodwin, Lieutenant Colonel, and Andrew Jackson Campbell, Major. The reorganization of the 48th created a problem: the Confederate army now had two separate 48th Tennessee Infantry Regiments. One regiment was under Colonel Voorhies serving in Maxey's Brigade, District of Louisiana, Department of Mississippi; the other regiment served under Colonel Nixon in Polk's Brigade, Cleburne's Division, Polk's Corps, Army of Tennessee. Confederate Prisoners of War Who Died at Rock Island, IL in the same unit. Boyd, David L. Pvt F 48 Tenn Aug 11, 1864 1403 Loyd, Anderson Pvt F 48 Tenn Oct 13, 1864 1696 McGee, James Pvt F 48 Tenn Feb 16, 1864 480 Middleton, Caswell Pvt Pvt F 48 Tenn Feb 11, 1864 439 Morrow, W. T. Pvt F 48 Tenn Feb 19, 1865 1887 Rock Island, Illinois, located on the Mississippi River, was designated a national arsenal in July 1862. As the number of Confederate prisoners grew, it was selected as an ideal location for a prison camp. Construction began in August 1863 and on December 3, 1863, the first prisoners arrived. By the end of December, 1863, the original 468 prisoners, captured at the battle of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, had swollen to almost 5,600. The arriving prisoners brought smallpox with them. The prison doctors found 94 cases of smallpox in the first contingents to arrive, to which all the prisoners had been exposed. Because no hospital had been built for the prisoners, the sick remained in the barracks with the healthy. Smallpox, pneumonia, and diarrhia claimed 98 prisoners and 3 guards during the month of December 1863, 231 prisoners and 4 guards in January 1864, and 350 prisoners and 10 guards in February, 1864. A report on March 4, 1864 reported the current prison population was about 7,600. By the end of July 1864, the Confederate Cemetery had a population of over 1,300, fully two-thirds of the prisoner deaths that were to occur during the life of the camp, which had been in existence only eight months. It is estimated that the peak population of the camp, at any one time, was about 8,600. The field officers captured at Donelson were sent to Fort Warren, Massachusetts; the line officers to Johnson's Island; the enlisted men to Camp Douglas, Illinois. On April 10, 1862, from Camp Douglas, a petition from men in the 42nd, 48th, 49th and 50th Tennessee Regiments was sent to Andrew Johnson, Military Governor of Tennessee asking that he use his influence to secure permission for them to take the oath of allegiance to the Federal Government and return to their homes. |
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More About CASWELL MIDDLETON: Burial: Rock Island, Illinois Prison Camp Film # M231 Grave #439 Military service: 48th Tennessee Infantry (Nixons) Co. F Pvt. |
| 3. | v. | ANDERSON MIDDLETON, b. July 1843, Wayne County Tennessee; d. April 16, 1933, Childress County, Texas. | |
| vi. | MYRA ANN MIDDLETON, b. February 20, 1848, Perry or Wayne County, Tennessee; d. December 07, 1917, Lawrence County, Tennessee; m. REV WILLIAM BOYD ROACH, December 22, 1874, Hardin County, Tennessee. |
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More About MYRA ANN MIDDLETON: Census: 1860, Wayne County TN listed as Meries |
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More About WILLIAM ROACH and MYRA MIDDLETON: Marriage: December 22, 1874, Hardin County, Tennessee |
| 4. | vii. | JOHN W. MIDDLETON, b. February 24, 1852, Wayne County, Tennessee; d. January 03, 1936, Wayne County, Tennessee. | |
| 5. | viii. | MARY E MIDDLETON, b. Abt. 1853; d. 1884. | |
| 6. | ix. | ISABELE MAE MIDDLETON, b. January 06, 1857; d. April 10, 1914, Emery County, Utah. |
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