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Re: Gordon's Cavalry position in summer of 1863

Hello Bryan, for what it's worth this is part of his short biography that I'm doing on him at Camp Chase. If you see any flaws please let me know.

Private A. Green VITTETOE - Inscription on tombstone #28 reads “A. G. VILTETOE CO. G 1 TENN. CAV. C.S.A.” He was taken prisoner in Frankfort, Kentucky in August 1863. The compiler notes a letter written by the father in behalf of his son while held at Camp Chase and was written to the Provost Marshall of east Tennessee and the father signed his surname as G. W. Vittetoe. The letter stated his son was twenty years of age and had volunteered in Carter’s 1st Tennessee Cavalry or be forced into conscription by the Confederate Army. The compiler found it interesting that the part about his son volunteering for the Confederate Army had been underlined probably by Federal authorities. Before the Union authorities could interview Private Vittetoe it was noted that he had died. The letters are located in miscellaneous records located on www.fold3.com under A.P. Vittetoe. The 1860 United States census listed A. Green Vittetoe as born in 1842 and living in the household of George W., and Lucinda Vittetoe with their nine children in which A. Green Vittetoe was the oldest son. The family was living in Districts thirteen and fourteen in Grainger County, Tennessee with the nearest Post Office listed as Rutledge. Interestingly his Federal POW Records are listed under A.G. Vettitoe with Gordon’s Arkansas Cavalry except for his last entry which states he was with Company G of the 1st Tennessee Cavalry. If the compiler were making the tombstone it would read: “A. G. VITTETOE CO. G 1ST TENN. CAV. C.S.A.”

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