(From the Athens Post Newspaper~ Tennessee, 1861) The Athens Post - 12 July 1861 (Vol. XIII, No. 663) ~This company, John M. Bridgeman, Captain, reached Camp Cummings, Knoxville, on Friday. Sequatchie Valley has the honor of furnishing the finest Cavalry Company that has yet entered the service. We have the pleasure of an acquaintance with most of the officers and members, and will go bail that if they are put at the right place they will not be long in giving the enemy a taste of their capacity. The name, Tulloss Rangers, is in compliment of Colonel James A. Tulloss, of Pikeville, for his liberal aid in money and other respects in behalf of the Company. The Company is handsomely uniformed, at an expense of some fifteen hundred dollars, contributed by a few patriotic citizens of Bledsoe. Below is a list of the officers and privates. ~After mustering into Confederate service the Tulloss Rangers would first become a company of Branners 4th Tennessee Cavalry Battalion and the following year, Company F/ 2nd Tennessee Cavalry Regiment under Colonel Henry M. Ashby serving under General Joseph Wheelers Cavalry command and fighting in over 200 contests of arms. Here are the officers and men from Bledsoe a few from newly formed, Cumberland County, Tennessee. ~Officers, non-Commissioned Officers, musicians, and blacksmith (spelled as listed in the roster) J Bridgeman Captain, James Walker 1st Lieutenant, A R Couk 2nd Lieutenant, James M Farley 3rd Lieutenant, Wm A Smith 1st Sergeant, R B Hutcheson 2nd Sergeant, J M Cunningham 4th Sergeant, L T Billingsley 1st Corporal, John R Roberson 2nd Corporal, James J Dyer 3rd Corporal, Richard R Gist 4th Corporal, Anthony Griffith 1st Bugler, Geo W Taylor 2nd Bugler, and John P Ketts Blacksmith ~Privates Abott, J M Acuff, Jasper S Beaveret, Virgil A Berger, Franklin Brown, Reuben Brown, David S Campbell, G B Carnes, S E Davis, Timothy Deatheridge, H C Douglas, W J Durham, O P Epperson, Geo N Finley, Geo H Ford, C A Frazier, John C Freeman, James N Gentry, J K Gentry, S B Gillespie, Geo L Greer, James L Hatfield, M B Hawkins, Thomas J Hickenbotton, Wm Hinch, Thomas H Hutcheson, Wm F Jones, John Kerrick, John W Knight, Leroy Lamb, James Houston Lewis, Charles L Loyd, Thomas McCulley, Wm McDonald, George McDonough, J M Nail, James B Panter, Sampson B Pope, Lavander W Rankin, James Rankin, Reuben Reid, S A Roberson, Adam Roberson, John R Roberson, S J Rodgers G W (sick) Scott, James Sherrell, Andrew Sherrell, Thomas Simmons, W L Sloan, Dr. R A Standefer, Luke L Standefer, Wm L Swafford, Alfred Jr. Swafford, M P Swafford, T A Thomas, Isaac N White, James Worthington, J C Worthington, J. Frank Worthington, James Worthington, Sam P Worthington, W J Worthington, William
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