D. JARRED
D. JARRED,
Stamford, Texas --Born June 19, 1843, near Abbeville, S.C. Enlisted in
the Confederate Army in February, 1862, at Varnell's Station, Ga., in
Company B, Thirty-ninth Georgia, Runnels' Brigade, Pendleton's
Division, Howard Pitner, first Captain, and Joe McConnel, first
Colonel. Was never changed, wounded, nor promoted. Was captured at
Vicksburg, on July 4, 1863, paroled, was in all the fights from
Tennessee to Ohio and back. The hardest fights were at Perryville and
Big Black. I had a brother killed at White Church near Atlanta, Ga.,
Joe Jarred; also a cousin by the name of Mayfield, killed at
Petersburg, Va.
from
Reminiscences of the Boys in
Gray, 1861-1865, compiled by Mamie Yeary, Morningside
Publishing Company, 1912, p. 379.