{"id":1129,"date":"2012-07-06T15:56:16","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T15:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=1129"},"modified":"2024-03-13T10:04:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T14:04:19","slug":"civil-war-find-the-fighting-1st-tennessee-cavalrys-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/civil-war-find-the-fighting-1st-tennessee-cavalrys-reunion.html","title":{"rendered":"Civil War Find: The \u201cFighting\u201d 1st Tennessee Cavalry\u2019s Reunion"},"content":{"rendered":"

The nice thing about newspapers is that they record everything that happens: births, deaths, and everything in-between. A lot of that \u201cin-between stuff\u201d are the stories of our ancestors\u2019 lives that help us get to know them better.<\/p>\n

In general, Americans are a social people. We form groups, make plans, organize, and hold meetings. Milestones are often celebrated with anniversary gatherings and reunions.<\/p>\n

These reunions\u2014like the ninth annual reunion of the First Tennessee Cavalry held in 1895\u2014were reported in the local newspaper.<\/p>\n

Here is one such reunion story about a gathering of former veterans from that famed Tennessee Civil War regiment that fought in the Union army. This long newspaper article was published in the Knoxville Daily Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Knoxville Daily Journal (Knoxville, Tennessee), 1 September 1895, page 13<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This historical news article covers the basics, such as the names of the Tennessee regiment\u2019s officers and the order of the activities in the meeting.<\/p>\n

Reading down the article, we find that the \u201csecretary was ordered to prepare a complete roster of the survivors of the regiment, together with rank and post office address.\u201d<\/p>\n

Great! Note to self: track down a copy of that roster.<\/p>\n

The last half of the old newspaper article is a \u201cvery brief history of the First Tennessee Cavalry.\u201d This historical news article provides great genealogical information we can use to trace our military ancestry, gives a glimpse into these Tennessee Union soldiers\u2019 lives, and provides some Civil War history.<\/p>\n

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Knoxville Daily Journal (Knoxville, Tennessee), 1 September 1895, page 13<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Genealogy Search Tip<\/em><\/strong>: Did your ancestor serve in the Civil War or other American wars? Then search in\u00a0GenealogyBank\u2019s Historical Newspaper Archives<\/a> for newspaper articles and military records about the unit your veteran ancestor served with: its campaigns, reunions, history, etc.<\/p>\n

Newspapers are packed with the stories of our ancestors\u2019 lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many Civil War reunions \u2013 like the ninth annual reunion of the First Tennessee Cavalry held in 1895 \u2013 were reported in the local newspaper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[453,12,2719,2096,1130],"class_list":["post-1129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-american-civil-war","tag-genealogy","tag-genealogy-search-tips","tag-reunions","tag-veterans"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/illustration-1011-2016-featured-graphic-civil-war-battle-of-chickamauga.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1129"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98187,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions\/98187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}