Harrison Scott BRANDON served as a private in Company G, Seventh Tennessee Cavalry, U.S. during the American Civil War (verified by Seventh Cavalry personnel roster). He was captured at Trenton, Tennessee and held at Camp Chase, Ohio. He was discharged in October, 1863.
Note: Harrison Scott Brandon received an invalid pension while living in Kansas in 1890. (#791,765) His "helpless child" received a minor's pension with John R Brandon as guardian. (#651,752) His first wife died in Metropolis, Illinois (when they were refugees during the Civil War) and is buried there.
From Jerry McDaniel Watchers
Samuel H. DRAKE (brother of David D. Drake was born. 1848; Served as Sergeant in 22nd Tennessee Infantry. (Freeman's Regiment) and as a 2 Lieutenant in 12TH Tennessee Infantry Regiment, CSA, during the Civil War
Thomas H. DRAKE (Brother of David D. Drake was bor 1835, TN; Served as 2 Lieutenant 12TH Tennessee Infantry Regiment, CSA, during the Civil War
Albert G. HAWKINS - enlisted in Capt. Briant’s company, Fifty-fifth Tennessee, Confederate States Army Infantry, and served until 1862, when he came home on account of illness. Recovering, he joined Forrest’s cavalry and in that capacity served until the close of the war. He was wounded at Brice’s Cross-roads in 1864 and surrendered at Gainesville, Ala., May 11, 1865.
Biography
David D. "Dod" DRAKE was born in March 1837 in Lavinia, Carroll County, TN. The son of Dr. James W. Drake, a local physician, and Margaret Woods Drake, he would have been brought up in an educated and affluent home.
On September 1, 1863, David, called "Dod", was enlisted by a Captain Browning as a 4th Sergeant in Company D of the 20th Regiment Tennessee Calvary (Referred to as “Russell's Regiment“) for a period of three years and went to war for the Confederate cause.
20th (Russell's) Cavalry Regiment (also called 15th Regiment) was originally organized in February, 1864. Its members were recruited in the Tennessee counties of Henry, Gibson, Carroll, Madison, Dyer, Humphreys, and Weakley. Shortly afterward, these men were brought into North Mississippi and merged with several smaller organizations into a regiment under the command of Colonel Robert M. Russell. The unit was placed in Colonel Tyree H. Bell's Brigade in the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana. While David Drake was a member of the regiment, it fought at Okolona Mississippi on February 22, 1864, at Paducah, Kentucky on March 25, at Fort Pillow on April 12, at Brice’s Cross Roads near Baldwyn Mississippi on June 10, 1864, and at Harrisburg, which was fought over four days from the 13th to the 16th of July 1864.
At the Battle of Harrisburg, in what was then Pontotoc County, Mississippi, on July 14, 1864, David was gravely wounded. Five miles south of the battle site, just east of the Natchez Trace Parkway, was the house of W. H. Calhoun in the Palmetto Community of then Pontotoc, now Lee, County. That day the palatial home became a hospital and morgue for the wounded and dying. "Dod", so far from home, was taken to the Calhoun Mansion for care, but could not survive his severe injuries and died there.
