LIFE OF A MOUNTED TROOPER 
In the pension application of Amos Vaughan, of Company C First Tennessee Mounted
Infantry, the life of member of unit is told by Vaughan, Leroy A. Vaughan and R.
B. Waller. The Unit was scouting near Livingston, Overton Co., Tennessee in
October 1864. The area was in scout in the mountainous regions of Putnam ,
Jackson and Overton Counties for purpose of breaking up guerrilla bands that
infested the country. Orders were very rigid and perfect discipline to be
maintained day and night not stopping longer than to feed horses, but very
little ourselves except a small snack chasing and charging the enemy over such
rough country-over mountains-across streams of water0through farms-over fences,
logs, bush thickets; and having orders to carry guns crosswise in front of us,
between our person and for tree of saddle in order to be in the most ready
attitude in which we could have-expecting to be shot at continously from the
brush and thickets.
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