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John Waller Head (Sumner County, Tennessee, attorney, AG, politician, colonel 30th TN Inf CSA )

b. 1822-11-02 d. 1874-11-09

Sumner County, Tennessee, attorney, politician, and soldier. Sumner County, Tennessee, native. Married to Evelyn Brooks Head. Father of Henryetta Head, Charles R. Head, Laclins Head, Fannie Head, John W. Head, Jr., and Robert A. Head. Attorney in Sumner County in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in Sumner County in 1850. Member of the Tennessee State Senate from 1855 to 1857. Reporter for the Tennessee State Supreme Court from 1858 to 1862. Attorney general for the state of Tennessee from 1859 to 1862. Attorney in Sumner County in 1860. Owned six enslaved persons in Sumner County in 1860. Served in the 30th Tennessee Volunteer Infantry Regiment (C.S.A.) as colonel from October 22, 1861, to September 29, 1862. Prisoner of war exchanged at Fort Donelson in September 1862.

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Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Sumner County, District 5, p. 168A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Tennessee, Sumner County, District 5, p. 8.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Sumner County, District 5, p. 203.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Tennessee, Sumner County, District 5, p. 10.

Bruce S. Allerdice, Confederate Colonels: A Biographical Register, Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 190.

"Bristol News, 1874-11-17," Library of Congress: Chronicling America, accessed January 16, 2020, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85026955/1874-11-17/ed-1/seq-1/.

"John Waller Head (1822-1874)," Find A Grave, Memorial #84484790, accessed January 16, 2020, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84484790.

Citation

Head, John Waller. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32212177 (November 12, 2026).

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