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The following (taken from Mrs. Kitty Davis' Scrapbook) is The Muster Roll of the "MARSHALL RANGERS" - Company A., Fourth Tenn. Cavalry, Harrison's Brigade, Wharton's Division, Wheeler's Corps, CSA as it left Nashville for Virginia, July 18th, 1861. The Company was sworn into service June 18th, 1861, at the Fair Grounds in Nashville, by James G. Pickett:

Commissioned Officers:
D. W. Alexander, Captain
W. H. McLean, 1st Lieutenant [William Harvey McLean]
W. C. Green, 2nd Lieutenant
R. O. McLean, 3rd Lieutenant [Rice O. McLean]

Non Commissioned Officers:
S. J. Allen, 1st (Orderly) Sergeant
John W. Champ, 2nd Sergeant
M. M. Swaim, 3rd Sergeant
R. E. Cocke, 4th & Sergeant
Ed. J. Neil, 5th Sergeant
A. R. McLean, 1st Corporal [unknown McLean]
et al

[p. 9] The Fourth Tennessee Cavalry did not assume regimental form until General Bragg had returned from his Kentucky campaign, in the fall of 1862. It was made up of detachments that had served under different commanders since the beginning of the war. At its organization Baxter Smith was made Colonel ; Paul F. Anderson, Lieutenant Colonel ; W. Scott Bledsoe, Major; J. A. Minnis, Adjutant; W. A. Rushing, Sergeant Major; Marcellus Grissim, Quartermaster, with R. O. McLean, Bob Corder, and John Price his assistants ; …The commissioned officers of the companies were Company A. — Captain, D. W. Alexander; First Lieutenant, Rice McLean; Second Lieutenant, J. N. Orr; Third Lieutenant, Charles Beard. Recruited in Marshall County, Tenn.

[p.50] At an early hour on Sunday morning, September 20, the skirmishers from both armies faced each other along the banks of the Chickamauga….[p.52] Our loss was considerable. The line of attack for a mile or more was well defined with the killed and wounded, and where a stand was made they lay thick upon the ground. This was our first experience with the seven-shooting Spencer rifle. We armed two of our companies from the captures. We do not think the enemy's loss in killed or wounded exceeded our own. However, we captured several hundred prisoners on the field. Among the killed was Capt. J. J. Partin, of Company L. Lieutenants [p. 53] Barbee, Corbett, Preston, Scruggs, and McLean were among the wounded. The regiment's loss in killed and wounded was forty-five, the details of which from the company officers accompanies this report.

[p. 53] After the capture of Crawfish Springs, permit me to say that I never found my regiment in better fighting trim. From the highest ranking officer to the humblest private they seemed to vie with each other in the performance of a soldier's duty. Where all demeaned themselves with such soldierly fidelity it would be invidious to make individual mention, but I must be permitted to mention the following: Surgeon W. T. Delaney, who was often in the thickest of the battle caring for the dead and wounded, and his assistant. Dr. T. A. Allen. Captain Grissim, Quartermaster, and Capt. R. O. McLean, Commissary, both rendered efficient service upon the field and in attending to the wants of the men. I would like to mention acts of individual courage of men and officers, but [p. 54] time forbids. A grateful country will remember them and embalm their names as heroes worthy of honor and distinction.

I am respectfully, Paul F. Anderson,
Lieutenant Colonel Commanding Fourth Tennessee Cavalry.
Fourth Tennessee Cavalry Regiment.
Company A.

[p. 156] Wounded (partial list). — Capt. D. W. Alexander, at Murfreesboro, Tenn.; First Lieut. A. R. McLean, at Tunnel Hill and Chickamauga, Ga. ; Lon Fagan, at Fort Donelson, Tenn., 1863 ; Polk Hutton, at Murfreesboro, Tenn. ; Jo Yarbrough, at Franklin, Tenn., 1862; Charlie Ransom, at Murfreesboro, Tenn. ; Sam Waller, at Murfreesboro, Tenn. ; W. R Wynn, at Murfreesboro, Tenn. ; George Slaughter, at Perryville, Ky. ; John R. Mallard, at Buckhead Church, Ga., 1864; James Arnold, at Resaca, Ga., 1864; Billy Wilson, at Tunnel Hill, Ga. ; Tom Fagan, at Fort Donelson, Tenn., 1863; Ben Nevels, at Fort Donelson, Tenn. ; P. A. Lyons, at Griswoldville, Ga., 1864.

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I hereby acknowledge the assistance I have had from Comrade Capt. R. O. McLean for a report of casualties of his old company. He made a visit to Marshall County to confer with the few surviving comrades before submitting the list. He was a citizen of Marshall County when his company was first organized, in 1861. He was then elected a lieutenant, when the company was sent to West Virginia, and he [page 157] served through the campaign Gen. R. E. Lee made in that section. The company returned to Tennessee in 1862. When the company was reorganized, he did not offer himself as a candidate ; and when it was attached to and formed part of the Fourth Tennessee Cavalry Regiment, in 1862, he was made assistant to the quartermaster, Capt. Marcellus Grssim. When Grissim was killed, McLean supplied his place as quartermaster, surrendering as such at Greensboro, N. C, in 1865. He is now a well-known and active business man in Nashville, where he resides.