... Richard M. Knox, third son of Dr. Absalom Knox, was born March, 1838; was ten years old when the family moved to Mississippi. When twenty years of age he returned to Milan, Tenn., obtained a situation in the first drygoods store opened there, and remained until January, 1861. Going back to Mississippi, he clerked in a store in Batesville until June, when he enlisted with his brother in the First Mississippi Cavalry. He served under Van Dorn and Forrest, and was in all the battles in which his command was engaged, including Shiloh, Holly Springs and Corinth; was at Atlanta, Franklin and Nashville, and helped to cover Hood's retreat. At Selma, Ala., three-fourths of his command was captured, but he made his escape. He had two horses shot from under him, but was never wounded nor taken prisoner.
At the close of the war he made a corn crop on a piece of land bought during the war with Confederate money. After finishing his crop he went to Memphis, secured employment as salesman in a wholesale drygoods house, remained there until July, 1871, having saved money enough to go into business for himself.
He is now in the mercantile business in Pine Bluff, Ark. ; president of the R. M. Knox Company, Knox Block, 225 and 227 W. Barraque Street, corner Chestnut.
He is one of the directors, also vice-president of the Citizens Bank, Pine Bluff, Ark, Mr. Knox has always taken great interest in the reunions of the veterans; was at Birmingham, Houston and Richmond. His daughter, Miss Sue Knox, was chosen maid of honor for her State at the reunion in Richmond.
The reunion in Dallas, in 1902, was the ninth in succession he had attended. He is one of the founders of the Confederate Home, in Little Rock. In the beginning he. Col. J. B. Trulock and the late Capt. John Murphy spent a week at the State Capitol, urging the Legislature to make an appropriation, and finally got them to levy one-fourth of a mill for pensioning indigent soldiers and the building of a home, each of them contributing one hundred dollars personally. While commander of the J. Ed. Murry Camp at Pine Bluff, he is also brigadier-general of the Second Arkansas Division, V. C. V. Having been a private during the entire war, he selects his staff from those who served as privates.
He is a Methodist.
He has been married twice.
His first wife was Martha Sparks; second wife, Victoria Tucker.
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