Hopkins Co. TX - Luther Benjamin Thweatt

Submitted by: June E. Tuck  <1224be@neto.com>

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From the historical files of June E. Tuck, who does not validate or
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Past History and Present Stage of Development of Texas

Published by The Forrister History Company

Regan Printing House, Chicago, Ill.

I. G. Forrister, Publisher

(No date given. 1912??)

LUTHER BENJAMIN THWEATT born April 15, 1844, on a farm in Shelby County,
Alabama, his father, Dan Thweatt, being a native farmer of that state,
and his mother, a native of South Carolina, being Miss Eliza Davis. Being
seventeen years of age when the war came on, he enlisted at Harpersville,
his native county, in August 1861, Company I, 18th Alabama Volunteers.
The company was recruited with one hundred men, with Capt. Pete Hernly
first, and Capt. Dan Martin its last officer, and when mustered out of
service only five answered to the last roll-call, and the present time,
so far as Mr. Thweatt knows, there are but three now living, as follows:
R.A. "Parsons" Kidd, not at Birmingham, Ala.; G. T. Cullen, of Caledonia,
Ark.; and Maston A. Faulkner, of Sterritt, Ala. Mr. Thweatt received his
initial baptismal fire in the battler of Shiloh, and remained with the
Army of the Tennessee until it was divided into two parts, one going to
Virginia and the other to Mobile, Ala., he going with the Mobile
division, and participating in the sixteen days siege of the Spanish fort
at Mobile bay. Retracing to earlier stages, he was in the battles of
Resacca, Chickamauga, Hope Church, Kenesaw Mountain, Peachtree Creek,
Atlanta, Jonesboro, Franklin, Nashville, Tenn., etc., in fact, he was in
the thickest and busiest part of the melee. On May 10, 1865, Mr. Thweatt
received his discharge from the army at Meridian, Miss., and went to
Louisiana where he remained until coming to Hopkins county in the fall of
1868. He owns a nice farm and operates a store at Brinker, seven miles
east of Sulphur Springs on the Pine Forest Road. Mr. Thweatt is a
Missionary Baptist, a Democrat, and while he has served as special deputy
sheriff for ten years, has never particularly sought office. (Edited)