Virgil Augustus Cresap
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Birth: Nov. 14, 1835
Alabama, USA
Death: Aug. 15, 1907
Hardin County
Tennessee, USA
VIRGIL AUGUSTUS CRESAP was born November 14, 1835 in Huntsville, AL as the third of six children to Alexander Hamilton Cresap (1805-1892) and Nancy Hess (1800-1854). Virgil's father was the son of James Michael Cresap, a miller of Oldtown, MD, and a grandson of Revolutionary War soldier, Capt. Michael Cresap, and a great-grandson of the Maryland frontiersman, Col. Thomas Cresap. In 1847 Virgil's father moved the family from Huntsville to Gibson Co., TN where Alexander operated a tan yard and shoe shop in the Hopewell community. After Virgil's mother Nancy died in 1854, his father remarried to Eliza Rust. Both parents and his brother, Nelson, are buried in the Old Shiloh Burying Ground in Gibson County.
At the time of the 1860 census Virgil was living in Overton Co., TN. In 1861 he joined Co. D of the 26th Mississippi Infantry, CSA. After his regiment surrendered at Corinith, MS, he returned to Overton County and re-enlisted Feb. 1, 1864 at Monterey, Putnam Co., TN into Co. H Forrest's Reg't. Cavalry. (This subsequently became Co. H, of the 18th Tennessee Cavalry, which was organized by the consolidation of Newsom's Cavalry Regiment and four companies of Forrest's Alabama Cavalry Regiment, on May 11, 1864.) He was wounded in the battle of Harrisburg, MS in July of 1864 and captured near Franklin, TN on Dec. 16, 1864. He passed through the military prison in Louisville, KY on his way to Camp Douglass, IL, and from there was transferred in March of 1865 to Point Lookout, MD, where he stayed until June 10 of that year and was released after giving an oath of allegiance. He was given transportation back to his family in Gibson Co., TN. At the time of his release he was described as light-complexioned, auburn hair, with light blue eyes and standing at 5'11ΒΌ ". . . . . . . . . .
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