James
Galitzen Deaderick was elected third lieutenant of Company
B of the Nineteenth Infantry of Tennessee. This company camped
east bank of the river at Loudon, Tennessee, and saw its
first service guarding the Loudon bridge. He was orderly-sergeant
in Captain Z.T. Willet's company and furnished a list of
the company, as it was first organized in Jonesboro, in June
1861, to the Jonesboro Express. James G. Deaderick attained
the rank of lieutenant-colonel of his regiment.
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