LDS film # 09962913, Excerpts from History of Kentucky, Illustrated, 1885, by
Battle, Perrin, and Kniffin.  Appeared in the Central City Messenger and
Times-Argus, Central City, Kentucky, in seven installments during May, June,
and July 1959.

George I. Briggs Enlisted in 1862 In Confederate Army at Age of
15

GEORGE I. BRIGGS, Muhlenberg County, was born June 18, 1847, in
Williamson County, TN, and is the fifth of six children born to
Isaac W. and Dorothy M. (Bennett) Briggs, natives of North
Carolina, and of Scot-Irish descent.  The mother of our subject
was a daughter of Dr. John Bennett, of North Carolina.  Isaac W.
Briggs' education was received at the Franklin Male and Female
Academy, at Franklin, TN, until the war broke out, when he
enlisted in September, 1862, in the Eleventh Tennessee
Confederate Cavalry; took part in the battle of Murfreesboro, TN,
before enlisting, while in the quartermaster's service; was at
the battle of Thompson Station; campaigns of Chattanooga and
Atlanta; Hood's campaign of Tennessee; battles of Franklin and
Nashville, and surrendered April, 1865, at Washington, GA;
returned home and farmed one year, when he engaged in mercantile
business, at Franklin, TN for ten years.  In 1876, he engaged in
the manufacture of staves and lumber in Logan County, KY.  In
1880, he located in Muhlenberg County, at Briggsville, engaged in
the stave and lumber trade and also in the mercantile business.
He and his brother J.B. Briggs, own three or four thousand acres
of timber land.  Mr. Briggs was married November, 1870, to Tillie
Harrison, of Williamson County, TN, a daughter of William and
Mary (Hughes) Harrison, of English descent.  To this union four
children were born: Anna James, Willie May, Tillie and Bettie B.
Mr. and Mrs. Briggs are members of the Methodist Church, and he
is a member of the K. of P.

Briggs, Bennett, Harrison, Hughes
=
Williamson-TN, NC, Logan

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