Location:
US Highway 321
Townsend, Blount County, Tennessee
N 35° 40.653 W083° 44.239
Date of Visit: December 21 2015
In Memory of
Adam Farmer
Pvt Co A 3 Tenn Cav
Confederate States Army
1838 1865
An Adam Farmer, a 24 year old from Blount County, Tennessee
enlisted in Company A of the 3rd East Tennessee Calvary on August 2,
1862. This Calvary unit was in the Federal Army. Farmer was captured a Sulphur
Branch Trestle in Alabama on September 25, 1864. He was paroled at Vicksburg on April 21, 1865. He is listed
as perished in the Sultana explosion on April 27, 1865. - Compiled Service Records of Union Soldiers Who
Served in Organizations from the State of Tennessee. Original data from: The National Archives, Retrieved from at
3-Fold January 20, 2016 (http://www.fold3.com).
