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Col. "Jack" Moore was a native of Hickman County and was born in 1842 to Dr. Samuel B. Moore and his wife Mary A. Hornbeak. According to Spence's History of Hickman County, the Colonel was a cadet at West Point at the time the Civil War broke out and quickly enlisted May 20th 1861 in Nashville in the Confederate States Army as a 3rd Leutenant in the 7th TN Infantry Company B. Here he fought under C.S.A. Gen. Robert Hatton in Archer's Brigade and was elected 1st Leutenant by the wars' end serving the entire wartime in The Army of Northern Virginia. He was in every battle his command participated in from Seven Pines to Appomattox. His name appears as a signature to a parole of prisoners of war belonging to the Army of Northern Virginia listed as surrenderring by General Robert E. Lee C. S. A. at Appomattox Court House, Va April 9, 1965. According to an article in 'The Confederate Veteran', the title "Colonel" was out of consideration for his high character. The article goes on to say that "on more than one occasion he left a sick bed to join his regiment when he knew they were going in action only to return to bed after the battle was fought. Comrade Moore is one of the very few survivors of his regiment who, in Pickett's immortal charge at Gettysburg, crossed the stone wall nearest to the enemy and for a moment stood amid the guns of the Federal battery."
After the war he married Cordelia M. Williams on February 6th, 1869 in Centerville and became a well known & respected lawyer. His political life included an unsuccessful run for Congress loosing to W.C. Whitthorne of Columbia. After his death in Nashville Sept 6th 1906, a SCV camp was named for him in Hickman County in 1907 but later disbanded though records are unclear to exactly when.
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