Private Lyons, a Veteran of the Civil War Multi-Cache
Private Lyons, a Veteran of the Civil War
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John H. Lyons served as a Private in the 1st Tennessee Cavalry Regiment, Company E, Confederate States of America.
This regiment was organized August 8, 1861 at Knoxville, with men from Union and Knox Counties. Captains John Robertson, E. Hurst, John I. Jarnagin, D. C. Smart. It used the 3rd Tennessee Cavalry Battalion as its nucleus. This company was active in the Vicksburg Campaign and was captured July, 1863. By exchange, it was attached to Waul's Texas Legion, then returned to the regiment. It surrendered with the Army of Tennessee.
See http://www.tngenweb.org/civilwar/csacav/csa1carter.html for more detail about these Confederate forces.
The final container is a camouflaged pill bottle and can be found by using the information on the marker found at the posted coordinates to solve for the final coordinates.
N 34° 25.ABC W 085° 44.XYZ
A equals the numeric value of the third letter on the third line of text
B equals the value of the third digit of the birth year
C equals the value of the fourth digit of the death year
X equals the numeric value of the sixth letter on the second line of text minus one
Y equals zero
Z equals the numeric value of the eighth letter on the second line of text plus two
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