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	This following item is a portion of an original letter regarding Corporal Joseph W. Temple, Company C, by his Great Great Grandson Raymond Temple Garland.  According to Raymong his GGGrandfather was wounded in the head at the Battle of Shiloh (April 6-7, 1862) and spent time in two different federal prisons.  The surviving portion of the letter reads as follows (no scan available): Jackson, Tennessee August 3, 1862 Colonel Harras Provost Marshal Gen St. Louis      Sir enclosed please find bond of some citizens of this county, the object being to effect the release of Joseph W. Temple, who was wounded and taken prisoner at Shiloh.  This young man seems to have been a favorite in the neighborhood and clemency to him would have a very beneficial effect in the community.  I have visited and talked with him about the matter and find him well improved.  He was shot in the head, face and will be disfigured for life.  I have seen and conversed with his father and several neighbors and believe they...
	Our next bit of information comes from Great Great Grandson Gil Davis, and he gives us some background/family information on Martin Van Buren Exum of Company G. "Martin Van Buren Exum was born on December 25, 1839 in Madison County, Tennessee on the family farm.  He was the sixth, of eight children born to Robert and Eliza Exum who had settled in the region from North Carolina around 1800.  Martin Exum is listed as a private in the Sixth and Fourteenth Tennessee serving from 1861-1865.  He went back to farming after the war and married in 1871.  He had five children one of which, a daughter, married into the Adams family in the same area.  Ones of there sons, Guilford Adams, is my great paternal grandfather and my father and I are his namesakes.  MVB died of pneumonia at age 74 just on day shy of his 75th birthday on December 24th, 1914."
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