1. Who was the youngest of the original recruits of Baxter's Company?

2. What member of Baxter's Company was the only man in the 1st District of Williamson County to vote against Tennessee's succession from the union?

3. Who was the last surviving member of Baxter's Company?

4. Who served as "horse Sergeant" of Baxter's Battery?

5. How many round of ammunition were fired by Baxter's Battery in the Battle of Chickamauga?

6. What Nashville attorney was said to have argued more cases before the United States Supreme Court than any other lawyer of his time?

7. How many members of Baxter's Company died of typhoid in camp at Bean Station, TN and are buried in unmarked graves there?

8. How many members of Baxter's Company joined the Union Army to gain release from Federal prisons?

9. Under what General's command was Baxter's Battery first assigned?

10. Who was the oldest member of the original recruits of Baxter's Company?

11. Who was the first member of Baxter's Company to die while in service.

12. How many men in Baxter's Company who were captured in the Atlanta campaign died at Camp Douglas, Il. and are buried in Chicago City Cemetery?

13. When and where did the majority of Baxter's men take the oath of allegiance after the surrender?

14. What member of Baxter's Company was shot through the leg with a minie ball during the Battle of Atlanta?

15. Under what General did Baxter's Battery serve at the Battle of Missionary Ridge?

16. What was the most common cause of disability reported on Applications for Confederate Pensions
Submitted by Baxter's men?
 
17. What member of Baxter's Company was nephew and namesake of a famous navigator who served the
        Confederate Navy?

18. What member of Baxter's Company preached for over 50 years at Turnbull Primitive Baptist Church
In Dickson County?

19. Private Robert Sayers served as company Physician for Baxter's Company how much extra pay did he receive for being a Doctor?

20. How much supplemental pay did Captain Baxter receive for furnishing his own horse?

21. What member of Baxter's Company was discharged from Company B of the 24th Tennessee Infantry Regiment for being over 35 years of age?

22. What member of Baxter's Company wrote a letter to his mother describing the carnage on the Chickamauga Battlefield?

23. What member of Baxter's Company joined McNairy's Scouts after being unable to return to the Company after sick furlough?

24. What Franklin Attorney assisted descendents of several of Baxter's men in getting government gravestones?

25. What Dickson physicians signed pension applications for several of Baxter's men and other Confederates?

26. What 3 members of Baxter's Company completed Civil War Veteran Questionnaires?

27. What Dickson County Magistrate notarized many of the pension applications for Baxter's men?

28. How much bounty did Captain Baxter pay recruits for enlisting?

29. What Union General commanded the force which captured Baxter's men in Macon & Milledgeville, GA.

30. What members of Baxter's Company operated a gristmill on Parker's Creek in Dickson County?

31. What member of Baxter's Company was nicknamed "Duck"?

32. Who was the tallest soldier in Baxter's Battery?

33. Who was the shortest member of Baxter's Battery?

34. What is an Artificer?

35. What family supplied the most sons to Baxter's Battery?

36. Confederate pension applications show several of Baxter's men resided at Jingo, TN after the war, where was Jingo?

37. What members of Baxter's Company fought in the Battle of Shiloh while members of other companies (Baxter's Company 2nd Organization was not recruited until 8 months after Shiloh) ?

38. How many members of Baxter's Battery died in Ocmulgee Hospital in Macon, GA and are buried in Rose Hill Cemetery in Macon?

39. How much were the Privates in Baxter's Company paid per month?

40. Before organizing this Battery, Captain Baxter commanded Baxter's Battery 1st Organization which was also know as?

                                                    ANSWERS

1. Private Wesley Welch of Dickson County 15 years old

2. Sgt. Aaron Beard.  His 2 brothers who voted for succession joined the Union army.

3. Private Benjamin Brown.  He was also the last surviving Confederate Soldier in Dickson County.

4. Sgt. Arter R. Lankford.  Each company of artillery had one Sergeant assigned to care for horses and mules.

5. 13.  The long-range 3-inch rifle cannon proved ineffective in the wooded terrain at Chickamauga.

6. Edmund D. Baxter

7. 6.  Pvt. George Carr of Dickson Co., Artificer Joseph Ferrell of Williamson Co., Pvt. William Hooper of Dickson Co., Pvt. Richard Jackson of Dickson Co., Pvt. Lewis Thompson of Cheatham Co.& Corp. James McCrory of Davidson Co.

8. 3.  Pvt. Elisha Varden at Camp Douglas, IL. And Pvt. Thompson Davis & Pvt.  John Mangrum  at Point Lookout, MD. Prison(Mangrum also deserted from the Union army)

9. Brig. Gen. Archibald Gracie, a native of New York City

10.   Artificer Benjamin F. Gillam of Cheatham County was 40 years old upon enlistment.

11. Pvt. John D. Groves of Dickson County.  Died December 10, 1862 of hypertrophy of the heart in Williamson County one day before Baxter's Company was organized into Confederate service.

12. 4. Pvt. James Barnhill of Williamson Co, Pvt. Ira Castleman of Hickman Co., Pvt. Benjamin Ferrell of Williamson Co. , & Pvt. John Norris of Campbell Co., GA..

13. Chattanooga, TN May 5, 1865

14. Private James W. Powell of Murray Co., GA.

15. Gen. William Hardee

16. Rheumatism from sleeping on the ground.

17. Sgt. Matthew Fontaine Maury

18. Rev. Aaron P. Beard

19. 25 cents per day

20. 40 cents per day

21. Sgt. Aaron P. Beard.  Beard also served in the 3rd Tennessee Regiment in the Mexican War

22. Private John Dillard of Dickson County

23. Private William G. D. Buttrey.  He was paroled at Dean House in Hickman County May 16, 1865

24. Tom Henderson

25. Dr. J. J. Suggs & Dr. E. W. Ridings

26. Pvt. James B. Thompson, Pvt. John Dillard, & Pvt. Wesley Welch

27. Samuel Hammon.  He served in Co. K 11th TN. Infantry Regiment. Was captured  during the Battle of Nashville and spent the last 6 months of the war at Camp Chase, Ohio

28. 50 Dollars

29. Gen. James Wilson

30. Corp Hiram & Pvt. Abraham Spencer.  Their brother Samuel was exempt from the army to continue operation of Spencer's Mill.  The Mill is being restored to original condition and is operated as a recreational site.  http://oldspencermill.com

31. Radford Lampley.  Story goes  when  Yankees started shooting at the company all the men except Radford got down to keep from being shot.  The other men yelled:  "Duck, Lampley, Duck" and the name stuck.  While he deserted before the company's first big engagement at Chickamauga, the incident could have happened in  a skirmish around Cumberland Gap.

32. Sgt. James F. E. Buttrey  at 6' 2".

33. Private Wesley Welch.  Confederate records upon enlistment show him to be 5' 0".  Union surrender records show him to be 5" 8".  If records are correct, he grew 8 inches in 2 and 1/2 years.

34. An artificer was a soldier holding a skilled position such as blacksmith, saddlemaker, harnessmaker, etc. They were paid at a higher rate than others of the same rank.

35. John & Nancy Lankford of Dickson Co. had 4 sons in Baxter's Co:  Sgt. Arter, Cpl. William, Pvt. Dillard, & Pvt. Tillman Lankford.  They also had three nephews (Privates John, Robert, & Lawrence Lankford.  All 4 sons returned safely from the war.  All 3 nephews died in the war.

36. Williamson County, currently known as Fairview.  Jingo post office stood near Horn Tavern Springs.

37. Capt. ED Baxter (Harding Artillery), Lt. John Gault(C Co. 1st TN Inf.), Pvt. John Demumbrane (D Co. 20th TN Inf, Sgt. Aaron Beard (B Co 24th TN Inf), Pvt William May (B Co 38th TN Inf.) & Pvt. William Moore (I Co. 44th TN Inf.)  Private May was wounded at Shiloh.

38. 2 Pvt. James Gray of Clayton Co., GA & Corp. William Ellison of Dickson Co.

39. 10 Dollars

40. Company B Harding Artillery  or Monsorrats Battery