CANNON’S COMPANY TENNESSEE MOUNTED MILITIA
SABINE
WAR – REPUBLIC OF TEXAS
This company,
commanded by Capt. Benjamin B. Cannon, was mustered in at Athens,
Tennessee, July 15, 1836, to serve twelve
months. Although the muster took place
in Athens, the officers and men
were from Hamilton County. The list was copied from records in the War
Department:
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Capt. Benjamin B. Cannon
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Second Lt. Moses A. Nelson
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Enoch Archer
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James W. Banyard
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Mathew F. Barnes
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Anderson Brooks
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Joseph B. Burton
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James Calvert
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John Castell
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Edward Copelin
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James M. Copelin
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Tyner W. Corbett
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Sylvanus Couch
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Isaac Curry
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Arthur Daughtry
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Henry Daughtry
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John Daughtry
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Barney Davis
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Benjamin F. Davis
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James Davis
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Wesley Davis
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Hezekiah Dennis
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Thomas Fennell
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James W. Fields
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Harrison Frazier
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Sevier Fryar
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William Fryar
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John W. Gideon
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Dotson Goens
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Claiborne Gott
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William Grayson
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Isaac Haney
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Thomas Henderson
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Morgan Hood
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George W. House
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Alfred Jackson
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John Langham
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Samuel M. Love
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McKinney
Lovelady
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John S. Marsh
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James Martin
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George W. McGuire
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Mathias Mount
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Jesse R. Newlen
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David Olinger
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James Pofford
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John M. Payne
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Tillman Payne
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William B. Puckett
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John Ramsey
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Rezin M. Rawlings
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Joshua J. Riddle
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George B. Roberts
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James Rogers
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Noah Scott
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Daniel Shields
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John C. Shirley
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Thomas Stiff
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James Stringer
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John J. Tunor
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Reuben J. Tyner
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Seth Q. Waddill
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Thomas Walters
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William Walters
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C. C. Waters
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Lewis Webb
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Wallace A. Willoughby
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Compiled by: PHEBE MORGAN phebem@comcast.net
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The Sabine War
Prepared by the staff of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
We have checked for information on the Sabine War and have found only a
reference to the "Sabine-Southwestern War, 1836-1837" in listings
of U. S.
Army conflicts with the Indians. The online military encyclopedias
include
the name of the "war," but have no article on the topic at this
time. In
general, the term probably arises from the stationing of U.
S. troops along
the Sabine River during the Texas Revolution.
Their purpose was to maintain
the peace and to enforce U. S.
neutrality by preventing citizens and U. S.
soldiers from joining the conflict on the side of the revolutionaries.
The
commanding officer was Edmund Pendleton Gaines.
Information about Gaines' service on the Texas border and his call for
additional troops can be found in various U. S. government documents,
including those on Militlary Affairs.
Documents submitted to the Congress
concerning the attempts to remain neutral during the Texas Revolution are
transcribed online at:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsp&fileName=021/llsp021.db&Page=416
The documents include Gaines' call on the governors of several states,
including Tennessee, to raise troops to be sent to Louisiana to help to
preserve the peace (page 420). The complete series of documents runs
from
page 416 - 427. Secretary Cass's request for additional troops to
maintain
the neutrality in Texas appears on page 412 of the same publication:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsp&fileName=021/llsp021.db&recNum=427
Additional information about Gaines and his actions during the Texas
Revolution is located in the Handbook of Texas Online article about Gaines
located at:
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/GG/fga3.html
Because this service was United States military service, the names of
servicemen in the volunteer companies raised to assist Gen. Gaines are not
part of the Texas Revolution records. Their service and pension records
are
in the National Archives.
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