James Calvin “Calvin” GILES - Spring City Cemetery, Spring City, Rhea Co, TN
Dica Ann “Dicy” GILES - New Hope United Methodist Church Cemetery, Loudon Co, TN
Paint Rock, Roane Co, TN (image courtesy of US Library of Congress)
Photo collage copyright 2006 D Giles Loiselle. Personal, noncommercial use only.

Preface: FINDING DICY

UPDATED notes (Analysis section rethinking: 17 May 2007)
My research: In the 1960s, my first cousin Jerry DENNEY conducted the earliest known family research for our GILES line. Though she knew that our great-grandmother Dicy GILES had been married twice and that she had several children when she married our great-grandfather James Calvin “Calvin” GILES, she did not know Dicy’s maiden name or the name of her first husband. My own questioning of family members over several years had uncovered very little more about Dicy than Jerry had discovered. I refused to give up, however, and now I can happily report that my research was the first to uncover documentation that definitively links Dicy GILES of Paint Rock, Tennessee to

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During the Civil War, David Washington MONTGOMERY (1842-1879), a Cherokee Co, NC resident, was in Co F, 2nd Tennessee Cavalry Regiment, USA, as were his brothers Elijah and Isaac:

Information from the regiment’s muster rolls -  Co F, 2nd Tenn Cav Regiment, USA extracts:
 

MONTGOMERY, David
Rank: PVT
Age: 18
Enlisted: 1 Aug 1862     Mustered: 26 Jan 1863
[No remarks]
Notes: This shows a term of service of 5 months, 25 days - not quite 6 months; the record indicates that David was 18 when he entered the Army, but his birth information from the family Bible indicates that he was more likely only a few days shy of his 20th birthday. During his period of service, the unit was engaged in the Stones River Campaign around Murfreesboro, Rutherford, Co, TN.
 [NARA Micropublication M392, Roll 11]

MONTGOMERY, Isaac T
Rank: PVT
Age: 34
Enlisted: 1 Aug  1862     Mustered: 26 Jan 63
Remarks: Left sick at Flat Lick, Ky., 29 Sep 1862

MONTGOMERY, Elijah
Rank: SGT
Age: 20
Enlisted: 1 Aug 1862     Mustered: 26 Jan 1863
[no remarks]

Following the war, in 1866, David married Mary BRANNON/BRANDON [see | here |], and the couple moved shortly afterwards from Cherokee County, NC - David’s birthplace and their marriage location - to Roane County, Tennessee, where David died of consumptionin 1879. He is buried just across the Roane Co line in the Bean Community Graveyard, Rhea Co, TN. He was a son of Allen MONTGOMERY and Susannah (LARGENT) MONTGOMERY.

Sources: [1] NARA M392, Roll 11. [2] Photo of grave marker by tn type; (3) Cherokee Co, NC and Roane Co, TN census records; (4) Cherokee Co, NC marriage record; (5) Bible of Lillian Floretta Montgomery McNew [photocopy of births page, Leland Rodgers Research Collection compiled by Linda LaHue, 2005.]

Gray HAGGARD
born 24 Feb 1844, Rockwood, Roane Co, TN
died 27 Jul 1864, Rock Island Union Prison, Rock Island, Rock Island Co, IL

He was a son of Robert Gilliland HAGGARD and Mary “Polly” McPHERSON of Roane County, Tennessee. On 30 Oct 1850, a six year-old Gray is recorded with his parents in the census for the 20th Subdivision of Roane County, TN. At sixteen, he is still at home with his family in Cross Keys, Roane County for the 1860 census. Mary HAGGARD ELLIS KEYLON was his sister, and she is five that year.

Gray was a private in Co H of the 3d Confederate Cavalry. His gravesite number at Rock Island is 1350. Here is how his information appears on the VA’s Nationwide Gravesite Locator:

HAGGARD, GRAY
PVT US ARMY
DATE OF DEATH: 07/27/1864
BURIED AT: SECTION A SITE 1350
ROCK ISLAND CONFEDERATE CEMETERY
ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, P.O. BOX 737 MOLINE , IL 61266-0737
(309) 782-2094

The National Cemetery provides some historical background about the cemetery:

Rock Island National Cemetery was established within the confines of the U.S. Arsenal located on Rock Island in the Mississippi River near the cities of Davenport, Iowa, and Moline, Ill. In 1863 an area was set aside to bury Union soldiers who died while serving as guards at the large Confederate prison camp established on Rock Island by the U.S. government….. Between 1863 and 1865, the federal government established a second cemetery of a little more than two acres for the burial of Confederate prisoners of war. Approximately 1,950 soldiers died at the Rock Island Confederate Prison, founded there in 1863. The first POWs, captured during the battles of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge in Tennessee in November 1863, arrived in December. Throughout the war, Confederates were brought to Rock Island from battle areas throughout the South; eventually, more than 12,000 POWs were confined there. Prisoners died from a variety of causes, including exposure to the cold, harsh winters, malnutrition and diseases such as smallpox.

Sources: Federal Census (Roane Co, TN); Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System; National Cemetery Administration; US Veteran’s Administration (Rock Island National Cemetery)