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Note: try and was 21 years old at the muster-in roll of Oct. 1, 1861 at Camp Myers. He is present for duty in Company A. In the muster roll for Sept. and Oct. 1862 it says he was paid by M.C. Dibrell on August 31 and is shown as a 2nd Sergeant as early as June 30, 1862. He is present on all muster rolls in 1863 and paid last by Capt. Dibrell on Sept. 1, 1863. On muster roll dated Nov. and Dec. 1863 it says deserted Dec. 3, 1863 at Knoxville, TN. stopages for los of ordnance 1 canteen and strap 26 cents. Then on April 7, 1864 muster near Zollicoffer, TN. says deserted Dec. 3, 1863 and joined the 8th Tenn. Cavalry.
There is a Confederate Pension #1081, 25th Infantry.
Pension Application for William H. Meredith, native of White Co. Tennesee, born 1840. Application dated Aug. 23, 1892. Stated he enlisted in Co. A, of 25th Tennessee under Col. Sydney Stanton. (As did Jonathan Scott and W.R. Hill) When captured was in Co. D, under Jefferson Leftwitch captain, G.G. Dibrell Col. States that on the 15th of Feb. 186-? was captured and confined at Fort Delaware for 12 months where he was badly frost bitten in both legs. He has lost almost the entire use of both legs. He was paroled about 1 month before the surrender and "stayed in Richmon and Rolley N. C. until the surrender." Says he is married, wife is 45, two children, 7 and 3, both boys, tries to work as a carpenter, owns no land. Doctor verification is by S.H. Snodgrass, Witness is William E. Austin and L. Lowry, and Hill and Mitchell of Sparta are the Attorneys looking after this application.
(Not sure when he was captured. Is it Feb. 1864? That would fit with being in the prison for 12 months and being paroled just before surrender.February, 1864 would make more sense.)
In Vol. 9 of Civil and Criminal Minutes, p. 318, 321, William Meredith is charged with "prowling in disquise" in Oct. 1876. He agrees to pay a fine of $500., and was secured by Henry C. Snodgrass and J.A. Dibrell.
In 1880 census, 13th Dist. White Co. p. 499, Will Merideth (34) is shown living as a widowed son-in-law to Margaret Brown, 54, with a granddaughter Martha Meredith 17, and David Meredith 8. He is a carpenter and maimed.
He stays living there it seems, from 1871 to 1884, always appearing on the tax lists as paying his poll tax, but not owning land. When he marries Kitty Hudgens Fisk in 1885 his name disappears from the tax rolls. In 1888, Kitty Meredith appears owning 175 acres in Dist. 1, next to Dibrell, Brown, Jarvis, and Gracy. She continues to show up through 1895.
Land Records: Vol. 43, p. 534. On July 5, 1899 the Fisk heirs sold 3 acres of land to W.H. Meredith for $15. Then on Oct. 31, 1903 (Vol. 43, p. 537) W.H. Meredith sold the same 3 acres for $50. to D.A. Wiggins.
In 1903, the Tennessee Legislature ordered an audit to see if all pensioners should still be on the rolls, and a second document to #1081 was sworn to on June 29th, 1903 to W.L. Dibrell, County Clerk that he owned nothing but 3 acres, valued at $50. He has no wife and no family living with him. He says here that he was paroled at Washington, Georgia in May, 1865 and he did not take an oath of allegiance to the U.S. government.
In Vol. 12 of Civil and Criminal Minutes, p. 547, Bill Meredith is charged by State of TN with carrying a pistol.
There is a court case between W.H. Meredith vs. Bon Air Coal in Vol. 18 of the White Co. Minute Book Civil and Criminal Record. Page 147, 209, and it ends with an out-of-court settlement. Bon Air Coal then countersues and the record on p. 20, dated May 6, 1904, Plantiff dismisses suit and pays court costs. This must be the court case that Jeff Dibrell was so upset about, mentioned under Daniel Martin Meredith.
There is a W.H. Meredith buried in the Winchester City Cemetery next to Elisha Meredith, Elisha's wife Hannah, and their son John Meredith. There is nothing to indicate if this is our W. H. Meredith because there are no dates on the headstone, yet there are no other W.H. Merediths in this area and he has no known burial in Sparta. The fact that W.H. named his son Daniel Martin, also indicates a possible connection with Daniel McCoy possibly as one of the grandfathers, the other being Martin Meredith. This is all speculation.
Note: National Archives: Show that William H. Meredith enlisted July 25, 1861 at Tullahoma by. Col. Stanton and Lt. Hardcastle as a Private in Jas. H. Snodgrass' Company of the 25th Rigiment Tennessee Infan
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