Captain Hugh M. Middleton
1835 - 1903
Captain Hugh M. MIDDLETON was born Aug. 20, 1835, near Cunningham, in Forsythe
Co., GA. He moved with his parents
Capt. and Mrs. John MIDDLETON of Chattanooga county near Summerville, in the
same state, in the year 1838. His
father died there in the same year, leaving his widow, Matilda MIDDLETON, and
five sons, Albert, Andrew J., John, Hugh M., and William P. MIDDLETON.
Albert MIDDLETON died in Mexico in the year 1847, being at that time a
member of Capt. William FULTON'S company of cavalry.
William P. MIDDLETON died near Centreville, Va., in December, 1861, a
member of Company B, Ninth Georgia volunteer infantry, C. S. A.
Andrew J. MIDDLETON died in April, 1897, in Gordan county, ten miles
north of Calhoun, Ga. John
MIDDLETON died at an early age, about 1840, at that time being seven years old.
Hugh M. MIDDLETON married Miss Mary A. CARTER at Summerville, Ga., in
June, 1860. In the early months of
the year 1862 he helped to organize Company H. Thirty-ninth Georgia infantry,
and was elected third lieutenant. In the regular order of promotion he was made captain of the
company in the early part of 1864 while the Confederate army was in winter
quarters at Dalton, Ga.
IN
THE WAR
On Feb. 21, 1864, he received a furlough to visit his home and walked
from Dalton to Summerville, a distance of forty miles, making the trip in one
day. On Feb, 22 he was captured by
a detachment from the Fifteenth Pennsylvania United States troops at
Summerville, and was carried to Chattanooga, and then to Nashville, and finally
landed at Fort Delaware about March 30. He
remained there until Kirby SMITH surrendered the trans-Mississippi department,
and was then paroled on July 25, 1865. He
then returned to Summerville and sold out his
possessions
there and moved to Elizabethtown, Ky., with his wife and daughter Ella.
They lived there for twenty-five years and in 1890 moved to Chattanooga.
IN
BATTLES AROUND CHATTANOOGA
Capt. MIDDLETON was under fire with his company at Bridgeport Ala., in
May, 1862, and afterwards at Baker's Creek or Champion Hill, Miss., in May,
1863. He was in Vicksburg when that
city was besieged by the union forces. Capt.
MIDDLETON was also in the battle of
Mission ridge and the operations around Chattanooga.
At the time of his death Capt. MIDDLETON was a member of the Master
Masons lodge, Hardin Lodge, No. 249, Knights of Honor, and N. B. FORREST camp.
For some years he was a member of the county court, having been elected
as successor of the late J. A. HOLTZCLAW, immediately after the latter's demise.
Since living in Chattanooga Mr. MIDDLETON has taken much interest in
politics and was one of the best known democrats in the county.
Mr. MIDDLETON'S term expired
about
three years ago and he has not taken an active part in politics since that time.
Chattanooga Times Sunday March 29, 1903
Submitted
by Donna B. Fitzgerald
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