Chalmers
Deaderick was too young to enlist for service in the Civil
War. However, when his brother Oakley was ill, he served
one month as his substitute and participated in a raid into
Kentucky with the Second Tennessee Cavalry.
Taken from: Sketches of the Shelby
McDowell Deaderick Anderson Families
From
Harper's Weekly, 1862: " The
First Virginia (Rebel) Cavalry At A Halt. — Sketched
From Nature By Mr. A. R. Waud"