“COLONEL FIELDING HURST AND THE HURST NATION”: Fielding Hurst historical marker
Gary Blankinship, “COLONEL FIELDING HURST AND THE HURST NATION” - The West Tennessee Historical Society Papers; 1980; Page 1
At Bethel Springs, Tennesse, on U.S. Highway 45 stands a historical marker which reads:
In this section lived numerous members of the Hurst Family, who were staunch Unionist in a predominantly Confederate area. It’s best known member was Col. Fielding Hurst, commanding the 6th Tennessee Cavalry, an irregular Union group which skirmished and scouted for various Federal commanders in the area. (1)
Traveling a few miles southward on various backroads, one can find the community of Purdy, years ago the county seat of McNairy County but now sparsely populated, where Fielding Hurst once made his home. (2) Even though the Civil War had been fought almost a hundred years prior to the placement of the marker, feeling against Hurst was still so intense in his hometown of Purdy that citizens refused to allow the highway marker to be placed there. Instead it was erected at nearby Bethel Springs. (3)
(1) Tennessee Historical Commission, Tennessee Historical Markers, fourth ed. (Nashville: Tennessee Historical Commission, 1958), 141.
(2) In 1890 the seat of government was moved to Selmer because Purdy failed to be a point on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. J. Louis Adams, “Old Purdy,” West Tennesse Historical Society Papers 6 (1952), 11-12.
(3) Robert M. McBride, “The Confederate Sins of Major Cheairs,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly 23 (June 1964)
Filed under: Hurst Family, Civil War, Civil War in Tennessee, Col. Fielding Hurst, Purdy, Bethel Springs, TN, Hurst Nation
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