Occupation (pre-war): Farmer
Occupation (post-war): School Land Commissioner for Giles County, Tennessee
Captain
Company 'K' The Boonshill Minutemen
1st Tennessee Infantry (Turney's Regiment)
At Chancellorsville, The Boon's Hill Company, led by Captain Turney, deployed as skirmishers/sharpshooters and "...soon they had taken the Yankee pickets off their posts... Captain Turney was wounded in leg but continued with the company..." (as related by Private Henry T Childs in an article published in 1917 in the Fayetteville Observer newspaper).
Jacob B Turney was the second man to breach the Union line at Cemetery Ridge during The Battle Of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on July 3, 1863 (the so-called High Point of the Confederacy). He was beside General Lewis Armistead when Armistead was shot and caught the General as he fell.
Obituary in the Confederate Veterans Magazine Volume XVII p242 states, "...Captain J. B. Turney died at his home, near Hughey, Tennessee on March 19, 1909, aged seventy seven years. He enlisted at the beginning of the war in the Boon's Hill Company, Turney's regiment and faithfully performed the duties of a soldier and officer. His intrepidy carried him into the thickest of fights always and he received several wounds which he has suffered for nearly half a century. As a citizen he showed the same intensity and steadfastness of purpose, striving for the best of all things, rendering faithful service to Church and State. He is survived by his wife...".
Occupation (post-war): School Land Commissioner for Giles County, Tennessee
Captain
Company 'K' The Boonshill Minutemen
1st Tennessee Infantry (Turney's Regiment)
At Chancellorsville, The Boon's Hill Company, led by Captain Turney, deployed as skirmishers/sharpshooters and "...soon they had taken the Yankee pickets off their posts... Captain Turney was wounded in leg but continued with the company..." (as related by Private Henry T Childs in an article published in 1917 in the Fayetteville Observer newspaper).
Jacob B Turney was the second man to breach the Union line at Cemetery Ridge during The Battle Of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on July 3, 1863 (the so-called High Point of the Confederacy). He was beside General Lewis Armistead when Armistead was shot and caught the General as he fell.
Obituary in the Confederate Veterans Magazine Volume XVII p242 states, "...Captain J. B. Turney died at his home, near Hughey, Tennessee on March 19, 1909, aged seventy seven years. He enlisted at the beginning of the war in the Boon's Hill Company, Turney's regiment and faithfully performed the duties of a soldier and officer. His intrepidy carried him into the thickest of fights always and he received several wounds which he has suffered for nearly half a century. As a citizen he showed the same intensity and steadfastness of purpose, striving for the best of all things, rendering faithful service to Church and State. He is survived by his wife...".
Occupation (pre-war): Farmer
Occupation (post-war): School Land Commissioner for Giles County, Tennessee
Captain
Company 'K' The Boonshill Minutemen
1st Tennessee Infantry (Turney's Regiment)
At Chancellorsville, The Boon's Hill Company, led by Captain Turney, deployed as skirmishers/sharpshooters and "...soon they had taken the Yankee pickets off their posts... Captain Turney was wounded in leg but continued with the company..." (as related by Private Henry T Childs in an article published in 1917 in the Fayetteville Observer newspaper).
Jacob B Turney was the second man to breach the Union line at Cemetery Ridge during The Battle Of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on July 3, 1863 (the so-called High Point of the Confederacy). He was beside General Lewis Armistead when Armistead was shot and caught the General as he fell.
Obituary in the Confederate Veterans Magazine Volume XVII p242 states, "...Captain J. B. Turney died at his home, near Hughey, Tennessee on March 19, 1909, aged seventy seven years. He enlisted at the beginning of the war in the Boon's Hill Company, Turney's regiment and faithfully performed the duties of a soldier and officer. His intrepidy carried him into the thickest of fights always and he received several wounds which he has suffered for nearly half a century. As a citizen he showed the same intensity and steadfastness of purpose, striving for the best of all things, rendering faithful service to Church and State. He is survived by his wife...".
Occupation (post-war): School Land Commissioner for Giles County, Tennessee
Captain
Company 'K' The Boonshill Minutemen
1st Tennessee Infantry (Turney's Regiment)
At Chancellorsville, The Boon's Hill Company, led by Captain Turney, deployed as skirmishers/sharpshooters and "...soon they had taken the Yankee pickets off their posts... Captain Turney was wounded in leg but continued with the company..." (as related by Private Henry T Childs in an article published in 1917 in the Fayetteville Observer newspaper).
Jacob B Turney was the second man to breach the Union line at Cemetery Ridge during The Battle Of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on July 3, 1863 (the so-called High Point of the Confederacy). He was beside General Lewis Armistead when Armistead was shot and caught the General as he fell.
Obituary in the Confederate Veterans Magazine Volume XVII p242 states, "...Captain J. B. Turney died at his home, near Hughey, Tennessee on March 19, 1909, aged seventy seven years. He enlisted at the beginning of the war in the Boon's Hill Company, Turney's regiment and faithfully performed the duties of a soldier and officer. His intrepidy carried him into the thickest of fights always and he received several wounds which he has suffered for nearly half a century. As a citizen he showed the same intensity and steadfastness of purpose, striving for the best of all things, rendering faithful service to Church and State. He is survived by his wife...".
Inscription
Double Headstone
Capt
J B Turney
Dec 4 1832
Mar 19 1909
Mary J
wife of
J B Turney
Feb 6 1837
Jan 25 1920
Gravesite Details
The birtdate for J B Turney carved on his headstone is wrong - should be Oct 14, 1831 not Dec 4, 1831
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