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The 13th Regiment Tennessee Cavalry organized near Knoxville, Tennessee, in October-November 1863. The men were mainly recruited from Carter and Johnson counties in northeastern Tennessee, probably the most intensely Unionist area in any of the…

Bartlett Yancey Martin resided with his wife and infant son on a farm in the “South East District” of Ashe County. His farm and personal property were each valued at $300.

Martin was one of ninety-seven men and boys who enlisted for twelve months…

Mitchell M. Plummer (born ca. 1838) lived in the South Eastern District of Ashe County, evidently as a farm laborer. He enlisted as a private at Jefferson on May 17, 1861, in Ashe County’s first company, known variously as the “Jeff Davis Mountain…