DOB:  December 14, 1841 DOD:  July 4, 1906 Age at Enlistment: 19 Date of Enlistment:  May 9, 1861 Place of Enlistment:  Franklin, TN Rank at Enlistment:  Private Rank at Discharge:  Private Casualty:  Severely wounded in the head at Murfreesboro December 31, 1862. Comments:  First appears in the 1860 Census living in Nashville and working as a Bar Keeper.  His real name was Solomon but he picked up the nickname Berry, which he is typically called on rosters.  He enlisted in the Company at its formation and served until being wounded in the head at the Battle of Murfreesboro at the end of 1862.  When the Confederate army retreated, Berry was left in the hospital and captured by the Federals.  He must have been paroled or exchanged quickly, because he is listed as being present by March of 1863.  Captain Atkeison recorded that he deserted on October 25, 1863, which would have been during the Siege of Chattanooga.  On April 22, 1864, he took the oath of allegiance to the U.S. in Nashville.  His oath papers describe him as Complexion: Fair, Hair: Light, Eyes: Gray, Height: 5'8".  William Pollard of the Company stated on Berry’s wife’s widow pension application that he was not sure where Berry was a the end of the war, but knew he was in a hospital for a long time at the end of the war.  It is possible Berry never fully recovered from his wounds at Murfreesboro and ended up going home to recover.  It still appears he left without permission given the desertion status by Captain Atkeison, but he may have had good reason to do so.  On the other hand Berry’s wife applied for the pension in 1917 and Pollard may have simply forgotten that he deserted.  Before the war ended, Berry married Margaret Rivers on February 7, 1865 in Williamson County.  By the 1870 Census the couple had two daughters and were living in District 19 of Williamson County, the area just north of Arrington.  Margaret passed sometime between 1870 and 1876 and Berry remarried to Martha Coleman on January 15, 1876 and moved to District 19, the area around Nolensville.  His wife states on her widow’s pension that they had 8 boys and 1 girl.  Berry remained a farmer most of his life.  He died of Paralysis in Nashville on July 4, 1906 and is buried in a family cemetery in Nolensville.