Private, Company A, 7th Tennessee Cavalry, enlisted in Jackson, TN on 8/18/1862 and mustered same day, furnishing his own horse and equipment worth $75. He was one of the 100 or more men who went AWOL from the forts on the Miss/Tenn line in June 1863. He left on 6/20/1863 and was captured by the Confederates. Imprisoned in Richmond, VA, he died of small pox on 3/7/1864. In later years Captain Hays “remembered” that he had sent Riles on scout with Co C. His widow, Eliza J Riles, applied for a pension in 1869. She is on the 1883 pensioners list as receiving $8 per month and is unmarried in the 1890 veteran’s census.
Holley, Peggy Scott. Hawkins' Tories, A Regimental and Social History of the 7th Tennessee Cavalry USA in the Civil War, BrayBree Publishing, Dickson TN, 230 p, 2014
Holley, Peggy Scott. Hawkins' Tories, A Regimental and Social History of the 7th Tennessee Cavalry USA in the Civil War, BrayBree Publishing, Dickson TN, 230 p, 2014
Private, Company A, 7th Tennessee Cavalry, enlisted in Jackson, TN on 8/18/1862 and mustered same day, furnishing his own horse and equipment worth $75. He was one of the 100 or more men who went AWOL from the forts on the Miss/Tenn line in June 1863. He left on 6/20/1863 and was captured by the Confederates. Imprisoned in Richmond, VA, he died of small pox on 3/7/1864. In later years Captain Hays “remembered” that he had sent Riles on scout with Co C. His widow, Eliza J Riles, applied for a pension in 1869. She is on the 1883 pensioners list as receiving $8 per month and is unmarried in the 1890 veteran’s census.
Holley, Peggy Scott. Hawkins' Tories, A Regimental and Social History of the 7th Tennessee Cavalry USA in the Civil War, BrayBree Publishing, Dickson TN, 230 p, 2014
Holley, Peggy Scott. Hawkins' Tories, A Regimental and Social History of the 7th Tennessee Cavalry USA in the Civil War, BrayBree Publishing, Dickson TN, 230 p, 2014
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