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Note: * 1850 Marshall Co TN, Dist. 11, (P 24), age 17 TN, with parents. * Civil War: Confederate; Hamilton's Co "A", 2nd battalion; Tennessee Calvary * The Tennessee 19th (Biffle's) Cavalry Regiment, usually known as Biffle's 9th Cavalry, was organized in October, 1862. The men were from the counties of Wayne, Lawrence, Maury, Perry, Lewis, and Madison. It served in J.B. Biffle's and Dibrell's Brigade, and fought at Parker's Cross Roads , Thompson's Station , Brentwood , and Chickamauga . Later it skirmished in Tennessee, then was active in the Atlanta Campaign and Forrest's operations during Hood's Campaign. It moved to Mississippi and ended the war in Alabama. During December, 1862, this regiment contained about 400 effectives and on May 3, 1865, there were 22 officers and 281 men present. It was included in the surrender of the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana as part of T.H. Bell's command. * From the book titled "Coryell County Families"...... "...Allen Carrigan and Obediance Carrigan traveled in a covered wagon from Maury County, Tennessee in 1850 (transcriber's note: the Carrigans did not come to Texas until between 1870 and 1880, according to census records) to the southwestern part of Coryell County, four miles southwest of Bee House. They pre-empted 160 acres of land. There they built a large log cabin near an ever-flowing spring located on a mountainside. The Indians were a threat at all times. The children were taught mostly at home. Most travel was done in wagons or on horse back. There was no church near enough to attend. Several families met in their homes weekly for scripture reading, songs, and prayer." Information from Seanne Carrigan: In the 1850 TN census for Maury county you will find Allen, aged 18, living with his widowed mother and sisters who are still at home. Through the school census conducted in the county around 1846 or so we found a John carrigan with the children who fit the ages of those in the 1850 census. Living next store to Nancy and her children in 1850 is Shaddrock Loftin and his second wife and children, some hers and some the children of of his first wife Polly. Also living with him is Jane Sample Carrigan, the mother in law of Shaddrock and Nancy, his sister in law from his first marriage. Jane died sometime around 1853-54. She died while filing for her Revolutionary War widow pension. She was 96 or 97 at the time of her death. Her husband was James Carrigan. From Allen Carrigan's Civil War POW discharge paper: "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. I, Allen Carrigan, Biffle's "[illegible single letter]" 19th [illegible] OF THE COUNTY OF Maury, STATE OF Tennesee, DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR, IN PRESENCE OF ALMIGHTY GOD, THAT I WILL HENCEFORTH FAITHFULLY SUPPORT, PROTECT, AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, AND THE UNION OF THE STATES THEREUNDER; AND THAT I WILL, IN LIKE MANNER, ABIDE BY AND FAITHFULLY SUPPORT ALL ACTS OF CONGRESS PASSED DURING THE EXISTING REBELLION WITH REFERENCE TO SLAVES, SO LONG AND SO FAR AS NOT REPEALED, MODIFIED, OR HELD VOID BY CONGRESS, OR BY DECISION OF THE SUPREME COURT; AND THAT I WILL, IN LIKE MANNER, ABIDE BY AND FAITHFULLY SUPPORT ALL PROCLAMATIONS OF THE PRESIDENT MADE DURING THE EXISTING REBELLION HAVING REFERENCE TO SLAVES, SO LONG AND SO FAR AS NOT MODIFIED OR DECLARED VOID BY DECISION OF THE SUPREME COURT: SO HELP ME GOD. [Signed with an 'X' and 'his mark' and written 'Allen Carrigan'] SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN TO BEFORE ME, AT Camp Morton, Ind [?], THIS 31st DAY OF March, A.D. 1865. [signed] A. A--- [illegible name and rank]. THE ABOVE NAMED HAS dark COMPLEXION, dark HAIR, AND Grey [sic] EYES; AND IS 5 FEET, 10 1/2 INCHES HIGH." [Transcribers note: According to family oral history, Allen Carrigan was a Prisoner of War and Confederate Soldier. The National Parks Soldiers and Sailors System online lists Allen as Private in the Confederate Cavalry, Biffle's 19th Regiment,Tennessee. This document appears to be what was required of Confederate P.O.W.s to sign before the Union would release them from prison, thereby legally binding the Confederate Soldier to abstain from any other fighting or rebellion against the North and the US Government.] Newspapers.com - The Waco Daily Examiner - 3 Dec 1881 - Page 4 Allen Carrigan's death announcement Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
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