TROUT (TROUTT), GRANVILLE, Companies E & C, duty sgt/sgt,
enlisted by Lt. Bradford for 3 years in Oak Grove, TN on
6/24/62 and mustered in Humboldt, TN on 8/11/62 at age
25/28. He was 6'1" tall, fair complexion, blue eyes, dark
hair, a farmer, born in Carroll Co, TN. He received a $100
bounty for enlistment. Captured and paroled with the
regiment at the battle of Trenton on 12/20/1862, Troutt
most likely spent time in parole camp at Camp Chase in
Columbus, OH along with Colonel Hawkins and others of the
regiment awaiting exchange. These men were exchanged from
June through September, 1863. Presumed captured with the
regiment at Union City, TN on 3/24/64, he was imprisoned in
Andersonville in Georgia and other eastern prisons. He was
exchanged through Savannah, GA and Charleston, SC in
November/December 1864, and taken to Maryland. No
discharge date is given in the muster rolls. Troutt
married 1st Lydia Pinkston (1857) and the Sarah C Pinkston
in 1863. He died sometime after 1880 and is buried in
Prospect Cemetery, Carroll Co, TN with a military marker
but no dates.3
Sources:
- Granville Trout Civil War Service Record
- Ancestry.com. Tennessee, Marriage Records, 1780-2002
- THE 7TH TENNESSEE CAVALRY USA (Originally 2nd West Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry) Peggy Scott Holley
