COLONEL WILLIAM JOHNSON
 

    * DESIGNATION: 3rd Regiment East Tennessee Militia 
    * DATES: September 1814 - May 1815 
    * MEN MOSTLY FROM: Knox, Claiborne, Greene, Jefferson, 
                       Anderson, Blount, Carter, Cocke, Grainger, 
                       Hawkins, Rhea, Roane, and Sevier Counties.
    * CAPTAINS: Christopher Cook, Henry Hunter, Joseph Kirk, Andrew Lawson, 
                Elihu Milikin, David McKamy, Benjamin Powell, James R. Rogers, 
                Joseph Scott, James Stewart, James Tunnell.

BRIEF HISTORY:
Part of General Nathaniel Taylor's brigade, this unit of drafted militia (about 900 men) was mustered in at Knoxville 
and marched to the vicinity of Mobile via Camp Ross (present-day Chattanooga), Fort Jackson, Fort Claiborne, and Fort 
Montgomery. Along the way the men were used as road builders and wagon guards. Many of them were stationed at Camp 
Mandeville (near Mobile) in February 1814, where there was much disease. For example, the company of Captain Joseph 
Scott had thirty-one listed sick out of an aggregate of 104 at the final muster. 

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