It seems hard to believe, but 150 years after the American Civil War, children of Civil War veterans can still be found living among us. One of these living links had a father who served in the Chattanooga Campaign. Iris Lee Gay Jordans father Lewis F. Gay served with the 4th Florida Infantry. Organized in 1861 with 983 officers and men, the 4th Florida lost forty-two percent of the 468 engaged at Murfreesboro, forty percent of the 217 at Chickamauga, and eighty-nine percent of the 172 at Missionary Ridge. Just 21 when he joined, Gay was captured at Cedar Key, Florida in January 1862 and shipped to Fort Delaware on the Steamship Katskill. Gay was paroled and back in the Confederate Army by the end of 1862. Sick with a fever upon his return to the army in Chattanooga, Tennessee and then Dalton, Georgia, Gay rejoined the army to serve at Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge. Fifty-seven years after the end of the war, in 1922, Iris was born. Now, at 92 years old, she can still remember her father, though he died when she was just nine. (ws)
Posted on: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 15:00:13 +0000
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