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- [S84] E-Mail, Bill Leatherbury [bleatherbury@comcast.net], 2 Dec 2007.
The following was taken from Civil War Widow's Claim for Pension, application number 130716:
During the Civil War, Phillip Seaton Emert was a volunteer in the Union Forces and was enrolled on 8 November 1862 at Sevierville, Tennessee, as a private in Company M, commanded by Captain Robert A. Montgomery, in the Second Regiment of East Tennessee Cavalry, commanded by Colonel Daniel M. Ray. This cavalry regiment was sometimes simply called the Second Tennessee Cavalry. At enrollment, Phillip S. Emert was to serve in this cavalry for three years or during the war and he was mustered into service at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, on 26 January 1863. On 25 March 1871, Mitchel Maples testified that on or about 25 February 1863 he was also a private in the same company as Phillip S. Emert and that they were both sick and were taken in a wagon to a hospital in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. He stated that Phillip S. Emert had typhoid fever, but that he recovered his strength before Phillip S. Emert. He stated that he had helped the hospital surgeon and one or two others carry Phillip S. Emert to a darker room to avoid the light. Maples also stated that Emert's fever was very high and that the surgeon directed him to give him water. He testified that he and his sergeant returned to his company, but he had not fully recovered and was returned to the hospital a few days later to hear that Phillip S. Emert had died in this hospital. The date that Phillip S. Emert died was recorded as 12 March 1863.
- [S94] Sevier County, Tennessee Census, family 416, page 415a, line 18, 11 Sep 1850.
ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/census/tn/sevier/1850/pg0408b.txt
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