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When you obtain a copy of Shadows Over Us Part II you will be taken back to the true life and times of your ancestors.  Below is a sample of  what you will find:

Aaron Hatmaker, son of George "Tank Man" Hatmaker, grandson of Francis and Hannah Sharp Hatmaker, great grandson of Johann Melchior and Anna Barbara Hauser Huthmacher and great-great grandson of Melchior and Catharina Bub Huthmacher, was born at Hatmaker, Tennessee about 1845.

WIFE AND CHILD:

Aaron Hatmaker married Mary Ann German on January 26, 1862 at Hatmaker, Campbell County, Tennessee. From their union was born one child, Aaron Thomas Hatmaker, born December 10, 1863. Aaron Hatmaker died October 15, 1863 at Nashville, Tennessee from wounds suffered in battle. The widow Mary Ann German Hatmaker married a second time to Lafayette Walker May 20, 1869. She died soon after of unknown causes. Lafayette Walker is listed as a widower in the 1880 Campbell County census. The Circuit Court of Campbell County, Tennessee appointed Isaac German guardian for Aaron Thomas Hatmaker, also known as Daniel T. Hatmaker, son of Mary Ann German and Aaron Hatmaker.

MILITARY SERVICE:

Aaron Hatmaker, enrolled by Maj. Peck as Private in the Army of the Confederate States of America on March 18, 1863 at Knoxville, Tennessee, was mustered into Company E, 1^st Battalion (Colm’s) Tennessee Infantry, and was listed on the muster rolls of Company E (H), 1^st Battalion, Tennessee Infantry in May and June of 1863. Company E subsequently became part of the 50^th Tennessee Infantry (Consolidated). He is listed as "deserted June 29, 1863" on the Company Muster Roll dated Bluff Church, Mississippi. On June 30, 1863 Indiana Union Forces under General Rosecrans

General Rosecrans

(Pictured—NARA) captured him, and he was forwarded to Winchester, Tennessee. He is listed as "deserted—wishes to enlist in the 1^st East Tennessee Cavalry (Union). Will be released or allowed to enlist at Nashville upon taking the oath of allegiance. Not forwarded". Aaron was paroled and released at Tullahoma, Tennessee on July 9, 1863. After a spending short time at home, he enlisted. "Enlisted in the 22^nd Indiana Volunteer (Infantry)." July 09, 1863; Notated by the Provost Martial, General Department of the Cumberland, Nashville, Tennessee; Roll no. 48. Aaron, age 18, was later enrolled at Winchester, Tennessee July 31, 1863, in Captain Taggert’s Company E of the 25^th Regiment of the Illinois Volunteer Infantry. Joseph Blount, Surgeon, certified his medical condition. He was wounded in action at Chickamauga on September 19, 1863, and died at Nashville, Tennessee on October 15, 1863. His muster-out is recorded on roll dated September 5, 1864, Springfield, Illinois, with Remarks: "Died in hosp. At Nashville, Tenn." [Note: Indians, long before Whites fought the Civil War, called the river Chickamauga, the "River of Blood."]

A Medical Descriptive List was prepared at Ward 2, Bed 23 at No. 13, General Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee. Name: A. Hatman, age 17, Rank Private, Company E, 25^th Illinois. Admission; September 25^th 1863; disease or injury, Vulnus Sclopeticum; results, death by Pyaemia, October 15^th 1863. Daily doctor’s report follows:

September 25—Simple dressing; full diet; wounded in the Battle of Chicamauga, September 20^th.

September 26-October 4th—Simple dressing; full diet; A conical ball has traversed the left leg about 4 inches above the ankle joint—passing behind the tibia & through the fibula. The tibia is uninjured. The broken ends of the fibula are necrosed for the space of an inch each way from the seat of fracture. Patient is chloroformed and the loose fragments of the fibula are removed & the necrosed ends are sawn off with the chain saw.

October 5^th—Patient has one or two chills followed by fever.

October 8^th—Pulse 120—headache—has another chill—in short he has pyaemia.

October 10^th—diet, milk punch given every three hours; He has cough and pain in the chest & foul breath. He has pain and diarrhea & swelling in the knee joint of the left leg.

October 14^th—Rapidly sinking.

October 15^th—Died this morning. Post Mortem: The left knee joint was filled with pus & there was pus infiltration in the muscles behind and below the knee joint to the extent of two or 3 inches down the calf of the leg. The upper end of the paphiteal vein on the left side contained a clot, which was undergoing disorganization & the inner coat of the vein around this clot was roughened & inflamed. The femoral vein about the clot was healthy as also were the venousarea below the clot clear down to the seat of the injury. The right knee joint was healthy. The lower fragment of the fibula in the left leg was also healthy. The upper fragment was inflamed and partially necrosed clear up to the knee joint & sinuses c2ontaining pus extended along the posterior side of the apex fragment from the seat of the injury up to the upper end of the fibula. A small quantity of paralins serum was found in the right pleural cavity—slight pleura adhesions on this side also. The base of each lung was affected with lobular pneumonia. Some of these lobules were in a state of red hepatization, which gave the bases of the lungs a mottled look. Some of the lobules had gone on to the formation of complete abcess. The upper half of each lung was very nearly healthy. The size of the affected lobules varied from dimensions of a hickory nut downward to the size of a small filbert. The deposit of pure pus seemed to commence in the center of the grey masses, sometimes only a few drops would be found in other spots & teaspoonful would have collected & the grey mass would be almost entirely transformed into an abcess.

[Aaron Hatmaker’s death is recorded in Book 10—a—1863—Army of the Cumberland. He is buried at the National Military Cemetery in Nashville, Tennessee. His military file is recorded on card numbers: 29241607; 29250002; 29250066; 29250131; 29250196; 29250257; 29250366; 49797803, 7889; 46552019, 535344; 47071357 at the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C.]

Learn more about Aaron Hatmaker from his widow's pension file in Shadows Over Us Part II

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