A Wilson Family Tree
Notes for Jesse Franklin Gathright
WFT Volume 5, Tree 1346:
Jesse and Lucy were listed in the census of 1860 in Union Co., Ark. Only in[i]tials were used, J T was for Jesse Franklin, Lucy J, James H, Jn T for John Franklin, Jesse P for Jesse Parnell. The other children were not listed. He died July 4, 1863, in the Civil War, at the battle of Vicksburg, Miss. He served in Company C., the 19th Arkansas Inf. of the Confederacy. He enlisted at Hillsboro, Ark., March 1, 1862, under Col. T. P. Dockery and Capt. John A. Meeks, recorded in Confederate records Arkansas History Commission Old State House, Little Rock, Ark.
From Craig Gathright (Dallas Gathright family tree):
Jesse and Lucy are listed on the 1860 Union County, Arkansas Federal Census. Jesse is listed as JT.
Jesse enlisted in C Company, 19th Arkansas at Hillsboro, Arkansas on 1 March 1862.
The following details the battle history of Jesse Gathright’s Confederate unit. He would die at the Battle of Vicksburg in 1863.
History of The 19th (Smead's-Dockery's) Arkansas Infantry Regiment
The 19th AR Infantry was organized at DeVall's Bluff, AR, on April 3, 1861 with the following officers: Colonel H.P. Smead of Columbia county; Lt. Col. Ben Hale, of Hot Springs; Maj. D.L. Kilgore of Magnolia; Quartermaster Thomas P. Dockery; Commissary H. Bussy. The captains were: Co. A, J.G. Johnson of Lewisville; Co. B, H.G.P. Williams of Hillsboro; Co. C, B.R. Mathews of El Dorado; Co. D. John Cook of Falcon; Co. E, P. Dismukes of Columbia county; Co. F, J.I. Kendrick of Columbia county; Co. G, William C. Langford of El Dorado; Co. H, James Henry of Hot Springs county. Under an act of Congress, the regiment was reorganized by electing Tom Dockery as Colonel, W.H. Dismukes as Lt. Col., and H.G.P. Williams as major. From Memphis, TN the regiment was ordered to Fort Pillow.
On April 12, 1862, the Federal fleet which had caused the evacuation of Island No. 10 proceeded 80 miles downriver to Fort Pillow and began a vigorous bombardment of that strongpoint and of Randolph, about 12 miles below on the Tennessee bluffs. Both places were rendered untenable, and the Confederates there were withdrawn and sent to Corinth, Mississippi. They took part in the battles of Iuka and Corinth as a part of Cabell's Brigade, under General Sterling Prices's Corps, where the 19th AR bore themselves with greatest gallantry. The 19th earned for its colonel, Tom Dockery of Lamartine, promotion to brigadier general and a brigade command. Colonel Dockery seemed designed for a soldier. Nothing excited him. His apparent indifferences to danger was such in fact that at times it rendered him negligent of necessary precautions. It was this defect, really, that prevented his further promotion. Upon the promotion of Colonel Dockery, Lieutenant Colonel Dismukes became colonel of the regiment. The 19th AR was assigned to Green's Brigade in January 1863, with which it participated in the defenses of Vicksburg, MS. The regiment fought hard throughout the battles of the Vicksburg campaign in the summer of 1863, engaged at Port Gibson, Champion Hill, the Big Black River bridge, and was besieged with the remainder of Pemberton's Army in Vicksburg ... finally surrendering with the garrison of that strongpoint on July 4, 1863.
The soldiers of the regiment were paroled at Vicksburg later that month, and many of the survivors made their way back to AR, where they re-formed the regiment as a mounted rifles unit under their old commander BG Dockery's new brigade in Fagan's Cavalry Division. Here, they participated in the Confederate counterattacks against the federal Camden Expedition in March though May of 1864, and served ably at the battle of Marks' Mill on April 25, 1864. No records for the regiment exist after the summer of 1864, but it is believed the survivors were consolidated into the 3rd Infantry Regiment, Consolidated, of the Trans-MS Dept. that summer, eventually surrendering with General Kirby Smith on May 26, 1865.
From Carolyn Gathright:
[JOYCE]-Was in Confederate army
[MUNAR]- J.F. GATHRIGHT age 21 of Union Parish, LA
[HOWELL]- d in battle of CSA. [Census1860]- value of real estate 1,000 value of personal estate 200
[JLG-CL]- Entered the confederate service from Homer, LA. His company was later transferred to Little Rock, AR and he was killed in the battle of Vicksburg on July 4, 1863. He is buried in the confederate part of the cemetery at Vicksburg Miss. He volunteered into the 19th LA Regiment.
[UnionMarr]- bk B p 058B
[ARWills]- p 624, will bk E p 551 union Co AR (1968)
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