(cont.)

Oct. 1863, Wyatt's Ferry, Lafayette Co., Miss.: Chalmer's Raid in West Tennessee and

    Mississippi, John Uriah Green was promoted to Colonel for “gallantry on the field”

Jan. 1864 re-organization: General Nathan Bedford Forrest took command of all Cavalry

    forces in North Mississippi and reorganized all the fragmentary, skeletal, independent,

    and paper organizations with which he found himself confronted . . . January 25, 1864,

    he formed Richardson’s Brigade, Chalmers’ Division, with the following components:

    12th Tennessee, Marshall’s Regiment (17th), Bennetts Battalion, 15th (Stewart’s) Reg’t,

    Street’s Battalion, Collins’ Command, 14th Tenn. (Neely’s), 16th Tenn. (Logwood’s).

Feb. 1864, Okolona, Chickasaw Co., Miss,: Maj. Gen. Nathan B. Forrest’s Confederate

    Cavalry faced over 7,000 Federal cavalry and defeated them at Okolona;

Feb. 1864: Richardson’s Brigade, now known as the West Tennessee Brigade, moved to

    Grenada, Grenada County, Mississippi on February 23, (and)

Mar. 1864: (Richardson’s Brigade) attacked Yazoo City, Yazoo County, Mississippi

June 1864: The brigade, part of Brigadier General Gideon J. Pillow’s forces, attacked

    Sherman’s rail connections in Georgia, and attacked Federal forces at La Fayette, Georgia.

Aug. 1864: regiment was part of Gen. Forrest’s forces in his raid into the heart of Memphis

Oct. 1864: Forrest’s Old Regiment and the 12th Tennessee Cavalry drove back a

    Federal force supported by gunboats on the Tennessee River, attempting to land at

    Eastport, Tishomingo County, north-eastern Mississippi, south of Shiloh, Tennessee

Nov.-Dec. 1864: at Florence, Alabama with General Forrest . . . went north with Hood’s

    Army of Tennessee . . . participated in that campaign . . . ending in the Battle of Nashville.

    A Federal report of fighting on the Granny White Pike in Nashville on Dec. 16, reported:

    “in this melee, amidst intense darkness . . . the two regiments of 12th Tennessee Cavalry,

    Federal and Confederate, met and mixed in mad confusion, neither knowing the other . . .”

Feb. 1865 reorganization: General Forrest’s . . . consolidation and reorganization . . .

    the 3rd (Forrest’s Old Regiment) and at least a portion of the 12th Tennessee were

    consolidated to form the newly-named 3rd Consolidated Tennessee Cavalry

May, 1865: 3rd Consolidated Tennessee Cavalry was paroled at Gainesville, Alabama.

1870

Five years after the war, J. H. (James Henry) McAninch is back in Memphis, Shelby Co.,

Tennessee, where he is enumerated with three other men in the 1870 census:

William Gill       age 22  Male  White  (occ) (blank)    (born) Virginia  (U.S. Citizen > 21)

J. H. McAninch  age 26  Male  White  (occ) Carpenter  (b) Miss.(sic)   (U.S. Citizen > 21)

George Dallas     age 21  Male  White  (occ) Laborer     (b) Tenn.   (U.S. Citizen >= 21)

Addie Skinman   age 18  Male  White  (occ) Laborer     (b) Tenn.   (age 18, under 21)

J. H. McAninch, a carpenter, is following in his father John H.’s trade, carpentry.     [13]

J. H. (James Henry) McAninch, Arkansas

Geo.

"Across the River" Geographic note: Crittenden County, Arkansas (created 1825),

St. Francis County, Arkansas (created 1827), and (later) Lee County (created 1873), are

directly across the Mississippi River west of DeSoto County, Mississippi (created 1836)

and Memphis (founded 1819 on former Chickasaw land after the Treaty of Tuscaloosa),

in Shelby County (founded 1819, Tennessee, on opposite sides of the Mississippi river.

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James Henry McAninch, b1845 d1911, 12th TN Cav., and Robert, b1848 dUnkn, Miss. Inf.

McAninch Family History Newsletter, v.XXXIII (33) n.1   /   Dec. 2025   /   p.2025-05

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