James P. Fielder TENN>ARK Confederate d.1900
Article in CONFEDERATE VETERAN mag.,
dated 1900, page 326. {This is not my family,
only post Confederate articles}.
JAMES POLK FIELDER departed this life Jan.21, 1900 in Greene County, Ark. He was born in Maury Co. Tenn, Nov. 28, 1837 and was reared in Hickman Co. He enlisted in the Confederate army in April, 1861 in Capt. Tom P. Bateman's Company, the first made up in Hickman Co.,11th Tenn. Regiment, Col. Raines and afterwards commanded by Col. [later Gen.] G.W. Gordon, now of Memphis, Tenn. Comrade Fielder was in the battles of Perryville, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga and all the later battles fought by the prince of warriors, Gen Cheatham, surrendering with Joe Johnston.