Gentry, Watson Meredith, 17th Tennessee Volunteer Regiment, CSA, 16 Mar 1914

Gentry, Watson Meredith, Surgeon, 17th Tennessee Volunteer Regiment, CSA. This document is a War Records of Tennesseans form filled out by the subject's daughter. Gentry was a Confederate surgeon of note; his appointment by Governor Isham Harris to Major of Cavalry in 1861 was confirmed by Jefferson Davis. He was with Gen. Felix Zollicoffer's campaign into Kentucky and participated as Medical Staff Officer of the division in the battles of Rock Castle, Fishing Creek (where Zollicoffer was killed), Shiloh, Murfreesboro, Perryville, Corinth, and Chickamauga, and was Staff Officer to Generals George Crittenden, Bushrod Johnson, A. P. Stewart and John Hood. As surgeon-in-chief of the nine hospitals of Montgomery, AL, Gentry had forty surgeons under his command. On his 70th birthday, he became the first in his county to receive the Cross of Honor. The document also traces Gentry's genealogy from Europe to the American Revolution.