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Creed Taylor

Creed Taylor; Weiser-Alexander, Kathy; WebPage @ Legends of America website; accessed August 2021

• Creed Taylor (1820-1906)
• Parents Josiah and Hepzibeth Luker Taylor, in Alabama, April 20, 1820, eight siblings
• "moved with his family to DeWitt County, Texas in 1824"*

• fought in the Battle of Concepción, alongside James Bowie and James Fannin, October 28, 1835
• "fought in the "Grass Fight" just south of San Antonio de Bexar on November 26, 1835, and in the Siege of Béxar in December 1835."
• April 21, 1836 fought in the Battle of San Jacinto.
• joined the Texas Rangers in 1841
• fought Apache with John Coffee Hays in the Battle of Bandera Pass.
• wounded at the Battle of Salado Creek
• private in the Texas Mounted Rangers during the Mexican-American War
• February 1864 - enlisted in the Confederate Army
• "In 1867, his wife Nancy died and the following year"

He married Nancy Matilda Goodbread, April 25, 1840. They had two sons, John and Phillip, and a daughter. feud started 1868- both sons died in the feud.

Taylor moved to Kimbell County, Texas and married Lavinia Spencer, February 1873. They had 5 children. He died December 26, 1906. Buried in Noxville Cemetery, Kimball County.

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Harley H. Hall

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REMARKS: KIENTZLER TOLD HALL KILLED

SYNOPSIS: CDR Harley H. Hall was the commanding officer of Fighter Squadron 143 onboard the aircraft carrier USS ENTERPRISE. On January 27, 1973 he and his Radar Intercept Officer (RIO), LTCDR Philip A. Kientzler, launched in their F4J Phantom fighter aircraft on an attack mission against North Vietnamese supplies and logistic vehicles 15 miles northwest of Quang Tri, South Vietnam. Hall and Kientzler were under the direction of an OV10 Forward Air Controller (FAC).

CDR Hall's aircraft came under intense anti-aircraft fire while attacking several trucks and was hit. He made an attempt to fly back out to the safety of the sea, but minutes later the aircraft caught fire on the port wing and fuselage.

Both Hall and his co-pilot, LCDR Philip A. Kintzler ejected at 4,000 feet and were seen to land 100 feet apart near a village on an island in the Dam Cho Chua and Cua Viet Rivers. CDR Hall was seen moving about on the ground, discarding his parachute. No voice contact was made with the men, and the probability of immediate capture was considered very high. ...

No other returned POW reported having knowledge of Harley Hall, yet the Pentagon maintained him in POW status for over 6 years, and documents were obtained that indicated that he was indeed captured. The Hanoi government claims to have no knowledge of CDR Harley Hall. This former member of the famed Blue Angels flight team remains missing.

Harley Hall was shot down on the last day of the war and was the last Navy air casualty of the Vietnam War. He was the last American to be classified Prisoner of War in the Vietnam War.

Harley H. Hall was promoted to the rank of Captain during the period he was maintained as a prisoner.

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Tinker Dave Beaty

David Beaty (sometimes Beatty), better known as "Tinker Dave" Beaty, (February 19, 1817 – August 22, 1876) was a Union guerrilla fighter from Fentress County, Tennessee. Beginning in 1862, he led a group of independent scouts loyal to the Union.

• Crouch book: Away from the major battles between the Confederacy and the Union, countless smaller engagements shaped the course of the Civil War and the country that emerged in its aftermath. As hostilities escalated, residents of the mountainous border between Tennessee and Kentucky found themselves divided in their allegiance. Secessionists rallied around Champ Ferguson, the Confederate-allied commander who held sway over the Cumberland Mountains with an iron fist. Contesting Ferguson’s supremacy was fellow Tennessean Tinker Dave Beaty. Brutalized by Ferguson’s men, Beaty rose to rally Union loyalists and joined the fight that would become the defining conflict of the region. Throughout the war, the two men’s paramilitary forces fought a series of guerrilla actions and deadly cat-and-mouse battles that ran through the harsh countryside, a war of neighbors that stands as a microcosm of the larger struggle.Often overshadowed by the more infamous Ferguson, Crouch brings to life Beaty’s unsung heroism and selflessness. Compiled from primary historical accounts, Tinker Dave Beaty, His Life and Times brings to life the bitter divisions and mutual desperation of the era where defeat and death were one and the same.

• Upper Cumberland plateau area of Tennessee

• one man war against notorious Confederate guerrilla Champ Ferguson.

• In 1860, he was appointed by the Tennessee state legislature as one of three state supervising officials in charge of improvements along the Obed River.

• Born 19 Feb 1817 in Overton County, Tennessee. Beaty continued to be uninterested in the war until Confederate General Willis Scott Bledsoe came riding in to his farm one day, demanding that Beaty take sides. Beaty was reluctant to do so, but finally gave in. Following the Battle of Mill Springs, Beaty became one of the most outspoken Unionists in Fentress County.

• Beaty, along with his sons Claiborne and Dallas, formed a company of sixty men. This group became known as “David Beaty’s Independent Scouts.” Most of Beaty’s men came from his community, and most were extremely poor

• Together these men became the most brutal band of Union guerrillas in the Tennessee–Kentucky region. Beaty received financial assistance from Dr. Jonathan Hale, a prominent Jamestown physician.

• Beaty was provided horses by the Union army. Most of the men who joined Beaty’s guerrillas, had been affected by Champ Ferguson and his men in some way

• Beaty was given authorization by General Ambrose Burnside to go out and bushwhack roads, opening them up to him and his soldiers. In return for this, Burnside gave Beaty and his scouts all the ammunition they needed. He also wanted military governor Andrew Johnson to make Beaty a colonel. The offer must have been extended to him, because Beaty turned it down. He claimed that he was “doing the best work where he was, in what he was doing.” Beaty, while a rough man, protected all Unionists, especially those in the Upper Cumberland.

• Beaty was given authorization by General Ambrose Burnside to go out and bushwhack roads, opening them up to him and his soldiers. In return for this, Burnside gave Beaty and his scouts all the ammunition they needed. He also wanted military governor Andrew Johnson to make Beaty a colonel. The offer must have been extended to him, because Beaty turned it down. He claimed that he was “doing the best work where he was, in what he was doing.” Beaty, while a rough man, protected all Unionists, especially those in the Upper Cumberland.

• During the Civil War, the Upper Cumberland became known as “no man’s land,” because of all the guerrilla violence in the area.

• In 1862, it was ruled that no raids be made into Albany, Kentucky or Livingston, Tennessee. Beaty actually laid down his arms for a short time. This was an attempt at a truce between Union and Confederate guerrillas. This truce did not last long, and later that year, Tinker Dave was back raiding. He and his men were able to intercept and raid a wagon full of medical supplies and cattle, heading South. Later they were able to get a hold of some paper going south at the Taylor Place. They captured the Rebels and sent them back to where they had come from.

• It is very much open for debate whether Tinker Dave Beaty was a regular bushwhacker, or a partisan. There is no evidence of him ever receiving a partisan commission under the Partisan Ranger Act, however according to the book Homegrown Yankees by James Alex Baggett, it can be proven that Beaty and his men received $125,000 as payment for their service during the Civil War. One unknown Union officer stated that “...if Beaty had a regiment, he would do wonders.” Beaty was also widely regarded as a “rough man,” but the “savior of the Union” in his region. His brutality is often compared to notorious Kansas Jayhawker, James H. Lane. Tinker Dave Beaty, while brutal in many of his tactics, was fully committed to protecting the people in his neighborhood, who shared his same beliefs, from Confederate threats.

• Died 22 Aug 1876 (aged 59) in Alpine, Tennessee, at Beaty-Lacy Cemetery in Jamestown, Fentress Co., Tennessee.

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• Memorial Marker: at 35°56.795′N 84°56.633′W. Marker is near Crossville, Tennessee, in Cumberland County. Tinker Dave" Beaty – Union Partisan of the Cumberlands

David “Tinker Dave” Beaty, a native of Fentress County, was the best-known Union partisan in the Upper Cumberland mountains. In 1862, he formed a group called Beaty's Company of Independent Tennessee Scouts, also variously called partisans, guerillas, and bushwhackers. Such irregular forces were common on both sides during the war, especially in areas where opinion was divided between Unionists and secessionists. Like Beaty's company, they protected the property of civilians on their own side while looting and killing those on the opposing side, and harassed enemy troops and supply lines.

Union Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside supported Beaty after the Federals took control of East Tennessee in 1863. Beaty wrote that Burnside "wanted me to go out in the mountain forks and bushwhack the Rebels and keep the roads open.” Beaty's men subsequently fought several small engagements against the Confederates, including with partisan Champ Ferguson, who was tried and executed for war crimes in October 1865. Ferguson told a newspaper reporter, “Well, there are meaner men than Tinker Dave. He fought me bravely and gave me some heavy licks, but I always gave him as good as he sent. ... We both tried to get each other during the war, but we always proved too smart for each other.” Confederate Gen. Basil W. Duke later wrote of Beaty and Ferguson that the former “possessed a cunning and subtlety with the other, Champ Ferguson in great measure, lacked.” Beaty died in 1876 and is buried in Lynn Cemetery in Fentress County.

Erected by Tennessee Civil War Trails.

• Tombstone pix: https://teva.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15138coll6/id/9021 open gov source, uoload pic 3

• David Beaty at IMDB

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