Asa Lewis was a young Barren County, Kentucky farmboy. Asa joined Company E, 6th Kentucky of the "Orphan Brigade" of the Confederate Army, Lewis received no training, but was simply handed a rifle and told he was a soldier. Lewis served with distiction in the American Civil War and was promoted to corporal. On December 26, 1862, General Braxton Bragg had the young Asa Lewis executed for desertion after he went home to make arrangements for the financial needs of his starving mother and sisters, his one year enlistment had expired.
Asa Lewis was buried in the Murfreesboro City Cemetery. The bodies in that cemetery were moved after the war and the exact site of his grave has been lost but in 1996, the Glasgow Cemetery allowed a tombstone to be erected "in memory of" the young Barren Countian.
Asa Lewis was buried in the Murfreesboro City Cemetery. The bodies in that cemetery were moved after the war and the exact site of his grave has been lost but in 1996, the Glasgow Cemetery allowed a tombstone to be erected "in memory of" the young Barren Countian.
Asa Lewis was a young Barren County, Kentucky farmboy. Asa joined Company E, 6th Kentucky of the "Orphan Brigade" of the Confederate Army, Lewis received no training, but was simply handed a rifle and told he was a soldier. Lewis served with distiction in the American Civil War and was promoted to corporal. On December 26, 1862, General Braxton Bragg had the young Asa Lewis executed for desertion after he went home to make arrangements for the financial needs of his starving mother and sisters, his one year enlistment had expired.
Asa Lewis was buried in the Murfreesboro City Cemetery. The bodies in that cemetery were moved after the war and the exact site of his grave has been lost but in 1996, the Glasgow Cemetery allowed a tombstone to be erected "in memory of" the young Barren Countian.
Asa Lewis was buried in the Murfreesboro City Cemetery. The bodies in that cemetery were moved after the war and the exact site of his grave has been lost but in 1996, the Glasgow Cemetery allowed a tombstone to be erected "in memory of" the young Barren Countian.
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