DeKALB COUNTY, TN - MILITARY - David C. Baine Letter of Resignation,
			       2d Lt Company C, 1st Tennessee Battalion
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Dalton, Georgia, December 6, 1863

Honorable J.A. Seddon
Secretary of War



     I respectfully tender my Resignation as 2d Lieutenant Company (C) 1st 
Tennessee Battalion and ask its acceptance. By consent of the Lieutenant 
General Commanding the officers and men of the 1st Tennessee Battalion have 
consolidated the five companies of said Battalion into three and consolidated 
the Battalion with the 50th Tennessee Regiment. By which consolidation nine 
company officers are requisite and that number still remains. I am not in 
arrears with the Confederate States, and there are no charges against me which 
will effect my pay. I have no government property on my possession.



Very Respectfully

David C. Bain 2d-Lt Company

(C) 1st Tennessee Battalion 

Notes: 

(1) The only modification to this document is the complete spelling of words 
that were originally abbreviated.

(2) David was elected 2nd Lieutenant on September 20, 1862. On the Company 
Muster Roll David is listed as being “captured while on retreat” from November 
2, 1862 to February 24, 1863.

(3) The remarks section of the January and February 1864, Company Muster Roll 
states “ Resigned and gone home on January 15, 1864.”

(4) Brief Family Bibliography:    David Crockett Bain (1839-1882) was the 
youngest of six sons born to Peter (1783-1851) and Sinah (1789-1870) [Benton] 
Bain. Peter and Sinah raised their family in what was originally Warren 
County, which became part of DeKalb County, in 1837, and each son enlisted in 
the Confederate Army. All of these men enlisted at Titsworth’s Store in DeKalb 
County. David, Henry, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and William Bain enlisted in Captain 
Perry Adcock’s Company C, 1st Battalion (Colms’), Tennessee Infantry, on 
December 10, 1861. John K. Bain enlisted in the same unit on November 10, 
1862. Henry Bain (1815-1897) was appointed First Sergeant January 19, 1863, 
captured at Fort Donalson on February 16, 1862, and discharged on March 6, 
1863, “on account of disability.” Isaiah Bain (1819-1863) was Fourth Sergeant 
to September 20, 1862, Third Corporal to January 19, 1863, captured at Fort 
Donalson on February 16, 1862, captured at Oxford, Mississippi, and died at 
Alton, Illinois, as a Prisoner of War on January 2, 1863. Jeremiah Bain (1833-
1863) was appointed 2nd Corporal, captured at Oxford, Mississippi, and died at 
Alton, Illinois, as a Prisoner of War on February 2, 1863. Jeremiah’s name 
does not appear in “History of DeKalb County, Tennessee” by Will T. Hale. John 
K. Bain (1827-1915) was appointed First Sergeant on January 19, 1863, and 
listed as being “absent wounded” on the Company Muster Roll for November and 
December 1863. William Bain (1816-1910) was captured at Fort Donalson on 
February 16, 1862, and discharged at Jackson, Mississippi, for chronic 
diseased kidneys and ulcers on October 4, 1862. William moved into White 
County, and settled on the Caney Fork River.

     David C. Bain probably moved to Arkansas, in 1870, given that: first, his 
name does not appear in the 1870 census report; and second, the 1880 census 
report states his sons Thomas (1869) was born in Tennessee, and James (1873) 
was born in Arkansas. Henry Bain most likely moved to Arkansas, in 1880, since 
his name does not appear in the 1880 census report. According to the Garland 
County, Federal Land records David purchased acreage in section number three 
on August 30, 1882. Henry purchased acreage in section number 23 on January 
09, 1886. The land patents are on file at the Camden land office, and the 
purchase were made under the authority of the original Homestead entry dated 
May 20, 1862.