Confederate Biography :  J. K. P. BLACKBURN, Giles Co, TN

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson, p. 197

J. K. P. Blackburn of Lynnville, Tenn., was born in Maury county, 
Feb 20, 1837.  He removed with his parents to Fayette county, Texas, in
the fall of 1856, where he completed his education.  In September 1861 
he enlisted in the Confederate army as a private in Co. F., 8th Texas 
Cavalry, better known as Terry's Texas Rangers.  He was in the battles 
of Woodsonville, Shiloh, Murfreesboro, Chicamauga, Farmington, and many 
minor conflicts.  In the last named battle he was wounded in both 
thighs, and the following day was captured by the Federal forces and 
remained a prisoner on parole for more than a year.  He rejoined his 
regiment in South Carolina and later was at Bentonville and was in 
Greensboro, N. C., when the armistice was proclaimed.  With other 
Texas Rangers he attempted to reach Gen. Dick Taylor at Mobile but he
surrendered before they could join him, and a similar attempt to reach 
Gen. Kirby Smith failed for like cause, and so the little squad of 
Texans proceeded to their homes with arms, horses, etc., without 
paroles and are still "soldiers of the Confederacy, without orders and 
without a government!"  Mr. Blackburn was married to Miss Mary M. 
Laird, in the brick church in Giles county, Tenn., Feb. 10, 1867.
They reared a family of nine children-two girls and seven boys.  
The elder daughter died a year or so after her marriage.  The younger 
daughter and six of the sons reside in Giles county, Tenn., and the 
other son is a physician in Lewisburg.  Mrs. Blackburn died in June, 
1901.