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 1843 - 1934 (90 years)
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| Name |
William Orlando White |
| Birth |
14 Mar 1843 |
Cleveland, TN  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
1881/1934 |
Knoxville (?), TN [1] |
| Person ID |
I17023 |
Bob Juch's Tree |
| Last Modified |
31 Dec 2022 |
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| Notes |
- [Broderbund WFT Vol. 14, Ed. 1, Tree #3264]
Fought in Civil War for the Tennessee Volunteer's (Northern) at about the
age of 17.
He went down the river as a teenager, seeing a slave-market in New
Orleans, and was horrified. Vowed if he could do anything about it, he
would.
Tennessee was a Confederate State.
William heard a bird-call, the call to slip down to the creek, to join
the other volunteers. His mother and sister were having tea with
good Southern women, and therefore, could not say goodbye to William.
Sister Adelaide discovered that the meeting point was known by the
Confederate Army, and rode down on her horse to warn the boys. The boys
made it out safely.
His sister Ella Adelaide refused to Reading or Rutland, VT during the
Civil War, to stay with her mother's sisters and brother and attend
school. At school she wrote a remarkable essay (copy exists) about how
she warned the Union Volunteers of the Cleveland region (including her
older brother William Orlando White) and thus prevented their capture by
the Confederates.
William was made a Captain of the union army while still a teenager.
William and Grandfather Samuel Tarrant fought against each other at The
Battle of Missionary Ridge. Both survived.
As a perk for doing well during the Civil War, William White was made a
'revenuer' for Tennessee. This was much more dangerous than the war.
I now have his revolver. William White has a gun as well.
Financier. Dealt in wholesale pharmaceuticals and other enterprises.
Fortunes shifted regularly.
It seems unlikely that both he and his future wife were born on the same
day.
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| Sources |
- [S72] Broderbund Software, Inc., World Family Tree Vol. 14, Ed. 1, (Name: Release date: October 20, 1997;), Tree #3264.
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