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- Served in the 43rd Confederate Infantry during the Civil War. Purchased his father's 660 acres in McMinn County after his fathers death on December 22, 1822. After 1880, Matilda (Martha) died and Asa was married to Sallie, who bore twins in Janua ry 1888. Asa filed for Confederate pension 9/24/1908. He was then a resident of Erie, Loudon County, Tennessee. He enlisted in the Confederacy 11/12/1862, Company F, 43rd Tennessee Gillispie's Regiment. Served under Captain S.T. Turner and was in the Battl e at the seige of Vicksburg. He contracted rheumatism while being exposed and was attended by Dr. Hodge. He was never in prison, but was forced to take the oath of Alliegience and was parolled from Vicksburg on July 4, 1863.
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