EGBERT E. TANSIL, a well-known resident of Dresden, Tenn., was born in the county where he now lives, May n, 1839, his parents being Erasmus B. and Matilda C. (Allen) Tansil, both descendants of English families who settled in Virginia a short time before the commencement of the Revolution. His grandfather was born in Virginia, and after the Revolution removed to North Carolina, where he married. A brother of Erasmus B. Tansil was a soldier in the Florida Indian war. Egbert E. Tansil received his education in the Cumberland university, graduating from the law department in the spring of 1861. Upon leaving college, he immediately set to work to organize a company for the Confederate service. When this company was completed he was elected captain, and it was mustered into the service as Company A, Thirty-first Tennessee infantry. The regiment was assigned to Stewart's brigade, and when it was reorganized, some nine months later, he was elected colonel. He took part in the twenty-one days' bombardment at Fort Pillow; was with Bragg in Kentucky, his regiment losing heavily at the battle of Perryville; distinguished himself at Murfreesboro; was assigned by General Forrest to the command of the district of West Tennessee and Southwest Kentucky, with headquarters at Jackson; was engaged later in nearly all the military operations in Middle and West Tennessee; and was still later promoted and placed in command of all the troops in Central Alabama. After the war, he lived for several years at St. Louis and New Orleans, but finally returned to Weakley county and took up his residence at Dresden. During the administration of President Cleveland he was connected with the United States internal revenue service. Colonel Tansil was married, in 1867, to Miss Jackie, daughter of Dr. P. B. Bell, and to this union have been born the following children: Sadie, now Mrs. Perkins; Mamie, Thomas E., Hayden and J. D. Tansil.

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