Pvt. Gideon Chesney

 

This is my 3rd Great Granduncle, Gideon Chesney. He enlisted as a Private in the Confederate Army on July 6, 1861, in General Wheeler's Tennessee Company C, 4th Battn Cavalry. Unfortunately, while still enlisted, he contracted Scarlett Fever, was discharged, and sent home only to die a short time later. He, his brother Levi, and their mother, Ruth, all died a few months apart in 1862. Here is a photo of Gideon's gravesite in the Sharp-Chesney Cemetery in Union Co. Tennessee.