Sunday, April 20, 2014

Liberty Cemetery


Location:
US 411
St. Clair County, Alabama
Lat       33.692413
Long    -86.390282

Date of Visit: April 11,  2014


Oliver Hazard P. Venable Sr.
Co D  8 Ala Cav
Confederate States Army
Dec 23 1827   Aug 26 1913

William F Vandegrift
Born Dec 1 1844
Was Killed at the Battle of Resaca GA
May 15 1864
Member of Co G 32 & 58th Ala Regt CSA

William’s military record records a wound at Chickamauga in 1863.. There is no record of his death at Resaca.

Source: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama. Original data from: The National Archives, Retrieved from at 3-Fold April 11,2014 (http://www.fold3.com).

Allen P Mize
Co E 62 Ala Inf
Confederate States Army

In Memory of Thomas Ash
Sept 1 1839
May 14, 1862
Buried in Corinth, Miss.

Ash was appointed Second Lieutenant of Company C of the 18th Alabama Infantry on August 31, 1861. His record ends with his death in Corinth on May 14, 1862.

Source: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama. Original data from: The National Archives, Retrieved from at 3-Fold April 11,2014 (http://www.fold3.com).


Bethel Baptist Church


Location:
US 411
Moody, St. Clair County, Alabama
Lat       33.624012
Long    -86.452820

Date of Visit: April 11, 2014

Paul Meads
Clanton’s Btry. Ala. L. Arty
CSA


Hopewell Cemetery


Location:
US Highway 411
St Clair County, Alabama
Lat       33.887409
Long    -86.148239

Date of Visit: April 11, 2014


OM Samson
Co D 19th Ala CSA
POW
Rock Island, Ill.

He was captured at Missionary Ridge on November 25, 1863. He was transferred to Louisville, Kentucky and then to Rock Island Barracks in Illinois. Here he took the oath of allegiance to the United States in 1864.  Cemetery records indicate that he died in 1888.

Sources

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama. Original data from: The National Archives, Retrieved from at 3-Fold April 14, 2014 (http://www.fold3.com).

Find a Grave Memorial #96974418


Capt
JW Maddox
Co C 55 Ala Inf
CSA
Jul 21 1812
May 28 1876

John W Ford
Co G
1 Ala Cav
CSA

WH Thompson
Pvt Co D 51 Ala Cav
Confederate States Army
Dec 10 1840  Mar 12 1917

John Andrew Thompson
Serg  Co G 22 Ala Inf
Confederate States Army

Washington Green Thompson
Serg Co G 22 Ala Inf
Confederate States Army
Feb 20 1837  Oct 17 1917


Serg
William M Downs
Co K
38 Tenn Inf
CSA

Hillard D Bridges
Co A
47 Ala Inf
CSA
Oct 30 1838
Aug 12 1911

LD Edwards
Co I
17 Regt
Ala Inf
CSA
Aug 8 1827
Dec 24 1880

James P Dill
51 Ala Partisan Rangers CSA
Mar 4 1845   Jul 2 1904


WHH Riddle
Co D
51 Ala
Partisan
Rangers
CSA




Hickory Grove Cemetery


Location:
Winston County Road 255
Winston County, Alabama
Lat       34.291550
Long    -87.216606

Date of Visit: April 19, 2014

Pvt
John C Carpenter
Co E
8 Ala Cav
CSA
July 17 1847
Jun 25 1914

Center Cemetery


Location:
Lawrence County Road 249
Lawrence County, Alabama
Lat       34.341873
Long    -87.163605

Date of Visit: April 19, 2014

Hampton Tandy Hodges
Co C
5 Ala Regt
CSA

JW Hampton
Alabama
1st Lt Co L 28 Regt Ala Inf
Confederate States Army


Thursday, April 10, 2014

Chelsea Baptist Church


Location:
County Road 337
Chattooga County, Georgia
N 34° 31.442   W085° 26.267

Date of Visit: June 19, 2011

William Francis Henry
Pvt Co G  6 BN Ga Calvary
Confederate States Army
Jun 28 1846   Dec 28 1923

Pvt
William Harper Jr.
Co D
34 Ga Inf
CSA
1811
Feb 26 1890

Ami Cemetery


Location:
Jamestown Road
Menlo, Chattooga County, Georgia
N 34° 28.148    W085° 29.827

Date of Visit: June 19, 2011

John K Willingham
Co B
9 Batt
Ga Cav
CSA
1815
1887

Sgt
Alfred Day
Co H
48 Ala Inf
CSA

Joseph Grady Blaylock
Pvt Co E
11 Regt Ga Inf
Confederate States army
Mar 18 1832 
Dec 15 1914

The following ten graves were arranged two rows in one section of the cemetery.

2d Lieut
AJ Weaver
Co C 39 Ga Inf
CSA
Apr 15 1849
Dec 25 1917

2 Corp
William A Hammett
Co H 8 Regt
Ga Vol Inf
CSA
1828
1893

Pvt
John Calvin
Co K
3 Ga Cav
CSA
Aug 23 1838
Jul 25 1900

Pvt
J.N.N. Powers
Co G
6 Ga State Guards
CSA
Jan 1 1822
May 4 1895

Pvt Charles C Calvin
CSA
Apr 10 1843
Jan 31 1920
Co K 3 Ga Cav

Pvt
BT Tucker
Co K Ga Infantry
CSA
Sep 11 1841   Jan 17 1918

Pvt
William M Calvin
Co G
19 Ala Inf
CSA
Jul 26 1835
Jan 1 1917

Pvt
Willaim G Wofford
Co G
19 Ala Inf
CSA
Jun 3 1820
Feb 12 1914



Pvt
Frank M Deering
Co G
19 Ala Inf
CSA
Sep 1 1832
Mar 29 1920

Pvt
M C Boyd
Co B
1 Ga Inf
CSA
Feb 14 1836
Apr 4 1922




Perennial Springs Baptist Church


Location:
Perennial Springs Road
Chattooga County, Georgia
N 34° 27.100    W085° 25.313

Date of Visit: June 19, 2011

Pvt
Oliver
H Horn
Co H
39 Ga Inf
CSA

Pvt
Willaim P Scoggins
Co D
35 Ga Inf
CSA
Oct 19 1823
May 18 1903

Pvt
John R Dorsett
Co G
6 Bn Ga Cav
CSA
Jul 25 1815
Dec 17 1895

Pvt
Wyatt Johnson
Co G
6 Bn Ga Cav
Feb 7 1819
June 23 1877

Pvt
Andrew James Thomas
Co G
19 Ala Inf
CSA
1838
1903

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Remlap Methodist Church Cemetery


Location:
Remlap Drive
Remlap, Blount County, Alabama
Lat            33.818359
Long       -86.598969

Date of Visit: March 24, 2014

Richard F Campbell
Capt Co I 49 Ala Inf
Confederate States Army
1834

Corp
Ira J Higginbotham
Co C
29 Ala Inf
CSA
1842      1864

Note: Ira J Higginbotham was admitted to the Ross Hospital in Mobile, Alabama on November 26, 1863 with intmed fever. This term was used to describe Intermittent Fever. Intermittent fever was a recurring fever most likely related to malaria.
Sources
Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama. Original data from: The National Archives, Retrieved from at 3-Fold April 9, 2014 (http://www.fold3.com).

Common Civil War Medical Terms, retrieved from e-History Archive April 9, 2014. http://ehistory.osu.edu/uscw/features/medicine/cwsurgeon/commonterms.cfm


Shannon K Higginbotham
Pvt Co B Barbiere’s Bn
Ala Cavalry
Confederate States Army
1827    1895

Mathew Hamilton Higginbotham
Lieut  Co C  29 Ala Inf
Confederate States Army
1837     1908

Bethel Baptist Church


Location:
Franklin County Road 79
Franklin County, Alabama
Lat            34.316902
Long              -87.652542

Date of Visit: April 5, 2014

H W Stewart Sr
Pvt Co C  56 Ga Inf
Confederate States Army
Dec 24 1840   Sept 21 1913

IB Arnold
Confederate States Army
Jan 9 1836  May 12 1918

Note: Information found at Find-a-Grave (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=36780654) indicate that Mr. Arnold was not a soldier. It was determined that he aided in the war effort by work in salt petre mines.

Thomas L Johnson
Pvt Co H
31 Ala Inf
Confederate States Army

Steven Bass
Pvt Co D 29 Ala Inf
Confederate States Army
Jan 27 1825   Apr 19 1899

Thomas B Griggs
Corp Co I 10 Ga Inf
Confederate States Army
June 18 1831   Oct 19 1901



Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Yellow Creek Baptist Church


Location:
Cherokee County Highway 562
Winston County, Alabama
Lat            34.189625
Long       -85.746597

Date of Visit: April 7, 2014

Pvt
William D Glenn
Co B
4 Ala Cav
CSA
Apr 3, 1842
Nov 29 1873

Leander J Mackey
Co B 4 Ala Cav
Confederate States Army
Jul 10 1841   Jun 6 1936

A Note to Visitors