Person:Zuretha Eckford (1)

Zeuritha married Col. Clark R. Barteau, commander of the 2nd (also called 22nd) Tennessee Cavalry Regiment in 1864. "Colonel Clark Russell Barteau, of Memphis, was born April 7, 1835 near Cleveland, Ohio and became a citizen of Tennessee after he had obtained his education at the Wesleyan University in his native state. He was principal of the male academy at Hartsville, 1856-58, and then began to edit and publish the Hartsville Plaindealer in which he erarnestly advocated the doctrine of State rights and denounced the anti-slavery crusade. ...on October 17, 1861, [he] enlisted as a private in Company D, Seventh Battalion, Tennessee cavalry. ... June 12, 1862, in the Second regiment, he was elected second lieutenant-colonel. In 1863 he was promoted to colonel and on frequent occasions he was in command of his brigade, so that he was known in the army as General Barteau.... As an officer he was distinguished for coolness and daring...he was always in the front of the fight. He was wounded in many battles, including Shiloh, Murfreesboro, Harrisburg, Okolona and Franklin. At Okolona, February 22, 1864, he had an heroic part in the defeat of the Federal forces, commanding Bell's brigade; at Brice's Cross-roads, or Tishomingo Creek, he attacked the enemy in the rear, precipitating the rout... On December 6, 1864, during Hood's campaign in Tennessee, he was so seriously wounded as to be disabled for further service. Subsequently he resided at Aberdeen, Miss., practicing law after his admission to the bar in 1868, until 1870, when he made his home ... near Memphis. Colonel Barteau was married in January, 1859, to Mary Cosby, who died in his absence as a soldier, and ... he was married a second time, to Zura Eckford, of Mississippi."

1. ↑ Noxubee, Mississippi, United States. Noxubee, Mississipi, United States. 1850 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   pg 232 Fam 613.

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2.   Johnson, Bradley T. (Bradley Tyler); Clement Anselm Evans; Robert White; and Jed. (Jedediah) Hotchkiss. Confederate military history: a library of Confederate States history, in twelve volumes, written by distinguished men of the South. (Dayton, Ohio: Morningside Bookshop, 1975)
   Vol ?, pp 368-369.

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