DOB: About 1846 DOD: After 1880 Age at Enlistment: 15 Date of Enlistment:  May 9, 1861 Place of Enlistment:  Franklin, TN Rank at Enlistment: Private Rank at Discharge: Private Casualty:  None Comments:  Andrew is believed to be the youngest soldier in the Williamson Grays and came from a wealthy family. His father, Tilman, designed the Courthouse on the square in Franklin.  His family’s house was on West Main Street on what is now Petway Street.  The 1860 Census shows Andrew attending school and he is believed to be one of the boys from Harpeth Academy that walked out of school one day with their Principal, James P. Hanner.  He was the younger brother of Captain Oscar Atkeison and the uncle of Tilman Haynes, both in the Williamson Grays.  His older brother, Tilman, served in Company C of the Rock City Guards before being promoted to Captain in the Quartermaster Department.  He had an older sister named Sallie who is noted in the History of the 124th Ohio Infantry as being fond of singing Confederate songs to Union Soldiers.  Andrew served until May 16, 1863, when he bought a substitute and was discharged.  His substitute, John Crayton deserted shortly after enlisting.  In the Confederate Citizen’s file he shows up under the record of O.J. Kennedy as being with his brother Tilman in Meridian, MS on July 29, 1863.  Not sure if he went with his brother since Federal soldiers occupied Franklin and he could not return home.  The Atkeison family had a rough time after the war.  By 1870, his brother Oscar, his father Tilman, and his sister Sallie had all passed away and his nephew Tilman Haynes had killed another man and fled town.  In 1878 Map of Williamson County, the Petway family is living in their old house and by the 1880 Census, the Atkeison’s were living on a farm in Madison, TN where Andrew is listed as single and living with his mother and his brother Tilman’s family.  A family source told me they eventually moved to Alabama but Andrew’s trace disappears.

Atkeison-Petway House courtesy of the Williamson County Heritage Foundation