Alfred
Shelby Deaderick, at age fifteen, ran away and enlisted in
the Confederate Army. Due to his age, his father, Judge James
W. Deaderick went to headquarters and had him released. Upon
turning sixteen, he ran away again and enlisted as a private
in Company F, Thirty-seventh Tennessee Infantry.
He was spotted soon after- ragged, dirty, and smoking a corn
cob pipe- by his brother Arthur
V. who was serving in Company B of the Nineteenth Infantry.
He was reported and again sent home. In early 1863 he enlisted
as second lieutenant of Captain
R. C. Brown's company.
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