Calvin Jones Andrews was born 19 October 1840 in Orange County, North Carolina. He first enlisted in Nashville, Tennessee on November 1, 1861 as a 2nd Sgt. in Capt. Allen Lea's Company (Lookout Rangers) Co. A. 2nd (Smith's) Regiment, Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry. He later joined Company A of Col. Esters 3rd Confederate Cavalry. He spent most of his war years with this unit and participated in the Battle of Davis Crossroads and the Battle of Shiloh where he was wounded in the thigh. Near the end of the war Jones Andrews joined up with Captain Gatewoods Raiders, a group of renegades with southern sympathies which operated in Northern Georgia and Tennessee during the war. After the surrender of the Confederates at Appomattox, he started to Texas with Gatewood's outfit, but after hiding out in Louisiana for sometime, he returned to walker County. Calvin Jones Andrews received a Confederate pension form the State of Arkansas and died at the age of 69 on March 21, 1909.
Source; ANDREWS Genealogy site owned by Joseph Philip James.
Source; ANDREWS Genealogy site owned by Joseph Philip James.
Calvin Jones Andrews was born 19 October 1840 in Orange County, North Carolina. He first enlisted in Nashville, Tennessee on November 1, 1861 as a 2nd Sgt. in Capt. Allen Lea's Company (Lookout Rangers) Co. A. 2nd (Smith's) Regiment, Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry. He later joined Company A of Col. Esters 3rd Confederate Cavalry. He spent most of his war years with this unit and participated in the Battle of Davis Crossroads and the Battle of Shiloh where he was wounded in the thigh. Near the end of the war Jones Andrews joined up with Captain Gatewoods Raiders, a group of renegades with southern sympathies which operated in Northern Georgia and Tennessee during the war. After the surrender of the Confederates at Appomattox, he started to Texas with Gatewood's outfit, but after hiding out in Louisiana for sometime, he returned to walker County. Calvin Jones Andrews received a Confederate pension form the State of Arkansas and died at the age of 69 on March 21, 1909.
Source; ANDREWS Genealogy site owned by Joseph Philip James.
Source; ANDREWS Genealogy site owned by Joseph Philip James.
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