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Hello - Peter Gose Litz is my GGG grandfather. He was a Col. in the War of 1812, but was too old to serve in the Civil War. This is what I have on his son John Tiffany Huddle Litz, my GG grandfather.
Leut. in "Tazewell Troopers" Confederate militia, was a POW in Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio through war.
Served as 2nd Lieut. Company F, 22nd Regiment VA Cavalry aka Bowen’s Regiment Virginia Riflemen, 22nd Cav. and was formed from the 188th Tazewell County Militia in 10/1863.
“During the Civil War, John Tiffany, a lieutenant of the Tazewell Troopers, ran a supply wagon train from Virginia and Kentucky. (His father, the colonel, too old to fight, had to content himself with drilling troops.) John’s wagon guides were the famous scouts “Devil” John Wright and “Big Ben” Bates. Captured by Yankees and taken to Camp Chase near Columbus, Ohio. John remained a prisoner until the end of the war. The story goes that he carved delicate rings and brooches out of the gutta percha chunks that littered every battlefield (from cannons). The guards traded John’s jewelry in town for badly needed food which everyone shared, prisoners and guards alike. At the end of the war the Yankees liked John so well they gave him a horse to ride home on. His case of little carving tools is still in the family.”
sources:
com/users/n/a/l/Debra-Youngberg-Nall/GENE5-0003
Annals of Tazewell County Virginia From 1800-1922
Tazewell County Heritage
LDS website
-Joe McGuire
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