I wasn't aware of East Tennessee's LOYALTY to the UNION - that is GREAT!
I found a Charles Parker*Mills/Michigan - but my ancestors didn't arrive into Michigan or the thumb until 1869 - homesteading 160 acres. Farmer/construction worker - Irish side - Francis Taafe/Sullivan.
On the other side - years back I researched a Great Great Grandfather - Jesse Gardner - 1858 - 1900 was in the British Calvary and fought in Afghanistan, India and finally Boer War/Africa - they liberated the town of Ladysmith then he came down with FEVER/DRINKING WATER and died..................That was a expensive - time consuming search - several years. I interviewed my Great Aunt who was dieing in a nursing home and all I could get or all she remembered as a 4 year old girl was her father died of pnemonia and was in Boer war.
It took countless letters to England and researchers to figure out why they couldn't locate his death cert. Wasn't in England and one lady said they found a old box with his papers in it in South Africa and hidden away in a file? But then couldn't find his burrial.
He was burried in a Naval Cemetary which was close to the Naval Hospital he died in.
Doug