WILKINSON, Charles Thomas - CSA

Served in the 14th Tenn. Reg. under Col. Forbes of Clarksville, Tn. Served under General Lee and took part in all battles around Richmond. He was very young -- 17 -- when he volunteered for service and was wounded, but served the duration, 1860 to 1865.
When he came home from the service, he was ragged, filthy, lousy, and a grown man with a beard all over his face, and none of them knew him. She cleaned him up and dressed him in new clothes and took him to Cadiz to his mother and father. ( she was his sister.

Later his son James (born later) owned a little Bible that his mother gave him when he went into the service. He was still in prison when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated and wrote on the fly leaf of his Bible how glad he was. The Bible must have been lost on the steamer Buttorff when it struck the bridge pier at Clarksville one night and sank, with Jim as pilot.

He was the son of James H. Wilkinson and Joicey Tillotson Wilkinson who came to Ky in ox-carts about 1836.

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WILKINSON, Edward Tillotson - C.S.A.

Co. F., 50th Tn. Regiment. He served under Captain A.C. Richard and Colonel Sugg. He was taken prisoner at Fort Donelson, carried to Chicago ( to the Federal prison), exchanged, sent South and took part in the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee.
He was the son of James H. Wilkinson and Joicey Tillotson Wilkinson who came to Ky in ox-carts about 1836.

Special Collections - The Wilkinson Family - Murray State University