POLK COUNTY, GA - Military - Abraham York 1st GA Cavalry ***************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm *********************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: diane sanfilippo ABRAHAM HUDDLESTON YORK Found among my Grandmother Stark's papers was this handwritten account of A. H. Huddleston's Civil war record. " My father, Abraham Huddleston York joined the First Georgia Calvary, Morrison Regiment in Cedartown, Georgia. Captain Crabb was their captain. They were ordered to Murfreesboro, Tennessee where General Crittenden had headquarters. When they reached Murfreesboro they found about 50 yankees in the second story of the Courthouse and they would not surrender. Therefore Captain Crabb's and Captain Seawright's companies charged the Courthouse. After our men set fire to the building the yankees surrendered. Jasper York and Sam Brown broke the door open. While they were doing this some of our men squatted to keep from being seen. After the doors were opened all of our men went into the courthouse. A. H. York and Jesse Crabb were the first to go upstairs after the surrender. The first thing they did after going up was to release our men who the yankees had imprisoned. Some of the prisioners were 'bush whackers'. After they brought the yankees down one of them said to A. H. York, my father, "You fellows would charge hell with a cornstalk." Their regiment of about 600 captured Crittenden and his brigade. Two of our captains, Crabb and Seawright, were killed in this battle before our men entered the Courthouse. After this the First Georgia Cavalry went to Kingston, Tennessee. From there made a raid onto Frankfort, Kentucky going by Big Cree (?) Gap Mtns. They surrendered in Greensboro, North Carolina." Unfortunately both 'Hud', my great grandfather and Josiah the next oldest brother were both denied pensions since there were not enough witnesses to say they had been where they said, and brothers could not testify for brothers! The oldest brother, the only officer, William Thomas, died 8/2/1864 in Barnesville from wounds rec'd in the Battle at Peachtree Creek...