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Richard M. Edwards
Richard Mitchell Edwards (December 31, 1822 – January 19, 1907) was an American attorney, politician and soldier who served one term in the Tennessee House of Representatives (1861–1862). A Southern Unionist, he represented Bradley County at the East Tennessee Convention in 1861, and served as colonel of the 4th Tennessee Cavalry of the Union Army during the Civil War. He ran unsuccessfully for governor on the Greenback Party ticket in 1878 and 1880.
==Early life==
Edwards was born near Philadelphia, Tennessee, in what was then Roane County, but is now part of Loudon County. He may have been orphaned at a young age, and was raised by his uncle, Dr. Pleasant James Riley Edwards. In 1836, he moved with his uncle to Cleveland, Tennessee, where his uncle became a prominent physician, and would eventually be elected mayor.〔Stewart Lillard, "Introduction," ''Down the Tennessee: The Mexican War Reminisciences of an East Tennessee Volunteer'' (Loftin and Company, 1997), pp. vii-viii.〕 The younger Edwards would later recall spending much of his childhood "fishing, hunting and playing with the Indian boys of the Ocoee district," and remembered the departure of his Cherokee friends on the Trail of Tears as one of the "saddest" days of his life.〔"(Billarp's Weekly Letter )," ''Camden (TN) Chronicle'', 12 November 1897, p. 2.〕 In the early 1840s, Edwards attended Cleveland's Oak Grove Academy.〔
In November 1847, during the Mexican-American War, Edwards enlisted in Company I of the 5th Tennessee Volunteer Infantry, and was elected the company's corporal. After traveling downriver via flatboat to New Orleans, he arrived with his company in Veracruz in January 1848. In February, he took part in skirmishes in the Orizaba area, and helped escort General William G. Belknap from Veracruz to the National Bridge (en route to Mexico City). In April 1848, he was appointed hospital steward at Veracruz by Dr. Barclay McGhee, a prominent Monroe County physician who was serving as a military surgeon. He later wrote that he helped alleviate an outbreak of yellow fever by using a water cure that his uncle had taught him. He was discharged in July 1848.〔Richard M. Edwards, Stewart Lillard (ed.), ''Down the Tennessee: The Mexican War Reminisciences of an East Tennessee Volunteer'' (Loftin and Company, 1997; originally published in the ''Knoxville Tribune'', 1895).〕
After the war, Edwards studied law under Samuel A. Smith, and was admitted to the bar. He married Mary Lucinda Craigmiles in 1851,〔"(Married )," ''Athens Post'', 21 November 1851, p. 3.〕 and commenced the practice of law in Cleveland, initially specializing in "legal affairs for soldiers."〔''(Athens Post )'', 23 August 1850, p. 3.〕 A Democrat, he supported Andrew Johnson for governor in 1853, and was appointed vice president of the state's Democratic Party convention in April of that year.〔"(Democratic State Convention )," ''Nashville Union'', 28 April 1853, p. 2.〕 After Johnson won the election, he appointed Edwards to the Board of Directors of the East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad.〔"(Board of Directors )," ''Loudon Free Press'', 31 January 1854, p. 2.〕
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