CROMWELL HOME GUARDS

CROMWELL HOME GUARDS OF OHIO COUNTY

            Captain Porter is mentioned in Colonel Burbridge's report of the Woodbury Skirmish as the commander of the Home Guard Unit that assisted in this action.   While the Home Guards were not intended to be the first line fighting units, they did succeed in harassing tactics, supplying needed information to active units, and in denying information and supplies to Confederate units active in the area of operations.  Captain Lewers, First Mississippi Cavalry alluded to the success of the Home Guard in supplying pertinent information of Confederate forces in his report of 30 October 1861 to Colonel Wirt Adams.

            The sentiment of the neighborhood in which I was staioned being almost exclusively inimical to our cause, the enemy was always in possession of the most accurate information as to our strength and movements[1]

This company was organized in June of 1861 and maintained its identity for seven or eight months, fighting at different times and places that were not reported specifically. 

NAME                                   GRADE                                 

PORTER, W.H.                    Captain

LEACH, J.H.                        1LT

REID, Jonathon                    2LT

ROGERS, W.L.                    3SGT

*HOUSE, J.W.                      1 SGT

PORTER, M.V.                    SGT

WHITTINGHILL, Elijah         SGT

*TAYLOR, R. F.                  SGT

TAYLOR, M.                        CPL

HOCKER, J.W.                    CPL

*KEOWN, T.M.                   CPL

*WISE, H.P.                        Musician

**LEACH, J.J.                     Musician

ARNOLD, W.                       PVT

ARNOLD, S.                       PVT

ALLEN, V.P.                       PVT

*ARBUCKLE, J.W.             PVT

*ANDERSON, J.W.             PVT

*ALLEN, WE.B.                  PVT

*ARNOLD, Jacob B.           PVT

CROWDER, D.H.                PVT

CROWDER, Henry             PVT

*ARNOLD, J.H.                   PVT

ALBIN, B.T.                         PVT

ANGLEA, Wm.                    PVT

ARBUCKLE, Logan             PVT

BLANKENSHIP, T.M.          PVT

BAIZE, John                        PVT

BRIZENDINE, E.G.              PVT

BROWN, P.H.                     PVT

*BRACKEN, Wm.                PVT

*BRADLEY; Thomas            PVT

BECK, P.A.                         PVT

BRIANT, J.A.                      PVT

BRYANT, Volney                 PVT

*BAISE, Henry                    PVT

COPE, S.R.                        PVT

*COX, L.T.                           PVT

COX, T.J.                             PVT

CULBERSON, R.J.               PVT

*CORNELL, H.T.                  PVT

CROWDER, W.A.                PVT

PORTER, E.O.                    PVT

PERSON, Jordan                 PVT

CHAPMAN, J.J.                   PVT

*COPE, J.E.                        PVT

DAVIS, T.J.                          PVT

DOCKERY, W.E. PVT

*DAVIS, W.H.                     PVT

*DAVIS, T.L.                       PVT

DAVIS, A.H.                       PVT

DOUGHETY, Thos. J.          PVT

DOUGHETY, Benj.              PVT

*AVIS, B.M.                         PVT

DAUGHTEY, W.H.               PVT

*EZEL, B.                            PVT

FINDLEY, J.D.                     PVT

*FLENER, J.A.                     PVT

*FLENER, B.F.                     PVT

FLENER, HARRISON           PVT

GEORGE, J.A.                      PVT

GOFF, H.                             PVT

*GILSTRAP, F.M.                 PVT

HOUSE, P.M.                       PVT

HUDSON, J.A.                     PVT

*HODGES, U.A.                  PVT

*HOBDEZ, J.B.                    PVT

HER, H.L.                            PVT

JAMES, J.L.                        PVT

#JAMES, J.A.                     PVT

JINKINS, John H.                PVT

*JINKINS, B.F.                    PVT

*JONAGIN, J.H.                   PVT

JOHNAGIN, N.A.                 PVT

*JONES, J.H.                       PVT

*JONES, H.S.                      PVT

KEOWN, W.S.                     PVT

*KING, W.T.                        PVT

KEOWN, Harrison               PVT

KEOWN, Nathan                 PVT

LEACH, L.H.                        PVT

*LEACH, J.H.                      PVT

LEACH,  J.G.                      PVT

LIKENS, J.                          PVT

LEACH, W.C.                      PVT

LANHAM, G.J.                    PVT

*LEACH, W.B.                    PVT

MORRIS, H.F.                     PVT

MILLER, W.H.                     PVT

MONTAGUE, A.P.              PVT

*MARTIN, R.R.                   PVT

MARTIN, W.N.                   PVT

MILLER, A.J.                       PVT

MILLER, R.H.                      PVT

MITCHELL, Jno                    PVT

NORMAN, J.P.C. PVT

PARROTT, F.M.                  PVT

RAFFERTY, B.P. PVT

RAFFERTY, S.S. PVT

*RAMSEY, C.P.                  PVT

RAFFERTY, G.T.                 PVT

RANEY, J.S.                       PVT

REID, J.J.                            PVT

*RALEY, J.J.                       PVT

*RALEY, H.J.                      PVT

*RAMER, M.B.                   PVT

RAFFERTY, J.W.                PVT

RAINES, L.H.                       PVT

*ROBERTS, J.A.                 PVT

RUDD, Thomas                   PVT

RAGSDALE, J.E. PVT

RALEY, J.S.                        PVT

RANEY, S.P.                       PVT

STEWART, G.T.                  PVT

SMITH, J.M.                         PVT

STEWART, J.M.                  PVT

SIGLER, Dr. J.J.                  PVT

*STEVENS, H.B. PVT

*STEWART, C.W.                PVT

*SINCLAIR, A.C.                   PVT

SANDIFER, R.J.                  PVT

SHUTTS, M.J.                      PVT

SMITH, N.B.                         PVT

**SMITH, Thomas                PVT

**STEVENS, J.A.                 PVT

STEWART, W.N. PVT

SANDEFER, W.A.               PVT

*SHUTTS, J.L.                      PVT

STEWART, B.W. PVT

SANDEFER, J.B. PVT

SANDEFER, W.H.               PVT

TAYLOR, J.H.                      PVT

*TAYLOR, W.D. PVT

TAYLOR, L.D.                     PVT

TAYLOR, A.W.                   PVT

*TAYLOR, J.R.                    PVT

TATAM, S.A.                      PVT

*TAYLOR, H.W. PVT

TAYLOR, R.L.                     PVT

TAYLOR, W.H.                   PVT

TAYLOR, S.S.                    PVT

TAYLOR, Milton PVT

VOLENTINE, G.Y.               PVT

WILSON, J.R.                      PVT

WATSON, B.F.                   PVT

WALL, Henry                      PVT

WILLIAMS, J.W.                 PVT

WILLIAMS, S.T.                 PVT

YOUNG, P.M.                    PVT

YOUNG, ALFRED               PVT

  

*Enlisted in U.S Service

** captured 1 Jan. Borah's Ferry

# KIA, 1 Jan. Borah's Ferry

Source:  War Comes to Butler County, by Richard J. Reid, EdD

Copyright  Richard J. Reid

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[1] OR's, Series I, Volume 4, p.223.