Mt. Zion Cemetery #2

Location:

Great Valley Parkway

White, Bartow, Georgia

34.2860985 -84.7863998

FAG# 35634

Date of Visit: March 10, 2018

Wyly A. Gaines

1839-1962

Wyly was the son of Richard and Mary Jane Gaines. He enlisted in Captain J.F. Leak’s Company of Morrison’s Regiment at Camp Morrison in Bartow County on May 1, 1862. This organization became Company G, 1st Georgia Calvary. He died at home on July 17, 1862. 

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry Wyly Gaines, Retrieved from at 3-Fold December 30, 2020 (http://www.fold3.com).

Efford E. Gaines 

1837-1887

Efford was also a child of Richard and Mary Jane Gaines. He enlisted in Captain Saxon’s Company at Cassville on August 4, 1863. This mounted infantry company was mustered in for the defense Georgia west of the Chattahoochee. It subsequently became known as Company D of the 10th Battalion of Calvary, Georgia State Guards. It appears that this company was stationed at Cassville and mustered out of the service in February of 1864. 

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry Efford E. Gaines, Retrieved from at 3-Fold December 30, 2020 (http://www.fold3.com).

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry Company D,  10th Battalion Georgia Cav (State Guards). Retrieved from at 3-Fold December 30, 2020 (http://www.fold3.com).

Stewart Sifakis, Compendium of the Confederate Armies: South Carolina and Georgia. (Westminster, Maryland: Heritage Books, 2007), 158.

Smyrna UMC Graveyard

Location:

Georgia Highway 22

Hancock County, Georgia

N 33° 21.133   W082° 55.768

Find-A Grave # 2169058

Date of Visit: November 21, 2020

Henry T. Mitchell

Co E

7 Ga Cav

CSA

James A, son of Thomas and Cassandra Summer

Born Jany 7, 1844

Died August 16, 1864

Aged 20 years, 7 months and 9 days

James enlisted in Company D of the 4th Georgia Reserves in Atlanta in May of 1864. From May until December this unit was on station at Andersonville military prison. James died on August 16, 1864. There is conflict information about his place of death.  His Find-a-Grave biography states that he died at Andersonville. However, he place of death is recorded as Powelton, Georgia on his service cards. Powelton is a community about 8 miles northeast of the graveyard. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia. Original data from: The National Archives, Retrieved from at 3-Fold December 15, 2020. (http://www.fold3.com)

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 15 December 2020), memorial page for James Abner Summers (7 Jan 1844–16 Aug 1864), Find a Grave Memorial no. 20108031, citing Smyrna United Methodist Church Cemetery, Hancock County, Georgia, USA ; Maintained by Find a Grave (contributor 8) .

• Stewart Sifakis, Compendium of the Confederate Armies: South Carolina and Georgia. (Westminster, Maryland: Heritage Books, 2007), 190.

White Plains Baptist Church Graveyard

Location:

Main Street

White Plains, Greene County, Georgia

N 33° 28.328   W083° 02.088

FAG# 496062

Date of Visit: November 21, 2020

Corp

William Hitchcock

Co C

49 Ga Inf

CSA

Dawson H. Moore

Co I

8 Ga Inf

CSA

Alonzo Howell

Co A

Phillips Legion 

CSA

Henry Mapp

Co A

Phillips Legion

CSA

Sgt

J.F. Copeland

Co I

8 Ga Inf

CSA

Marcellus A. Simmons

Co E

15 Ga Inf

Boiling Springs Baptist Church Graveyard

Location:

Boiling Springs Church Road

Treutlen County, Georgia

N 32° 25.190   W082° 28.004

FAG# 496062

Date of Visit: November 20, 2020

Mark Phillips

Pvt Co B 22 Ga Calvary

Confederate States Army

July 31, 1837    July 27, 1906

Wilder Phillips

Pvt Capt Moring’s Co.

Ga State Troops

Confederate States Army

Jun 23 1831   Apr 27, 1896

Captain J.J. Moring commanded a local defense company stationed in Swainsboro in 1863. 

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Moring’s Company (Emanuel Troops), Retrieved from at 3-Fold February 17, 2020 (http://www.fold3.com).

Brinson Cemetery

Location:

Brinson Cemetery Road

Treutlen County, Georgia

N 32° 27.539   W082° 25.885

Date of Visit: November 20, 2020

JL Brinson

1 Serg. Co C  21Bn Ga Cav

Confederate States Army

July 21, 1848.    Nov 4, 1914

Harmony Baptist Church

Location:

US 221

Treutlen County, Georgia

N 32° 23.620   W082° 33.937

Date of Visit: November 20, 2020

Phillip Daniel Logan

Feb 5, 1835

Oct 11, 1912

CSA

Co H 28th Ga Vol Inf

March 20, 1862    Apr 26, 1865

Calvin Gay

Pvt Co E 5 Ga Calvary

Confederate States Army

May 3 1837    Jan 22 1915

George D. Hughes

Pvt Co H  5 Ga Reserves

Confederate States Army

Mar 20,1844   May 12 1915

Pvt

Wiley G Braddock

Co A

48 Ga Inf

CSA

1835

1911

John D Stanford

CO H

22 Ga Inf

CSA

Pvt SW Dickerson

Co D

25 Ga Inf

CSA

Jun 5 1839 

Jan 1864

Stephen D. Dickerson enlisted in Company D of the 25th Georgia at Causton’s Bluff between Tybee and Savannah on October 7, 1862. According to his service record he was captured by the Federal troops at Ringgold on November 28, 1863.  The 25th was brigaded with several other Georgia regiments under Claudius Wilson in Walker’s Division and was assigned a position on the crest of Missionary Ridge near Tunnel Hill on the north end of the ridge. On the evening of the 24th Dickerson’s regiment would have been in retreat with the rest of the Army of Tennessee south from Chattanooga toward Ringgold and Dalton. Over the next four days the Union Army pushed Johnston south with Cleburne stopping the Union advance in Ringgold Gap on the 27th. General Grant reports the capture of over 6000 Confederates. Stephen must have been one of those. 

By January he was in or near Nashville as he was admitted to Military Hospital Number 1 on January 4, 1864 with inflammation of the lungs, also diagnosed as double pneumonia.  Stephen died January 7 and was buried in City Cemetery in grave 5999. On the Record of Death and Interment it is noted that he was twenty-five years old and had a wife in “…Swaynesboro, Emanuel Co. Ga.”

Sources: 

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia. Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for S.W. Dickerson, 25th Georgia Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold December 9, 2020 (http://www.fold3.com).

Stewart Sifakis, Compendium of the Confederate Armies: South Carolina and Georgia (Westminster, Maryland: Heritage Books, 2007), 203.

The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (128 vol., Washington: Printing Office, 1880-1901), Ser.1 Vol. 31, Part 2, 745, Report of Maj. Gen. Patrick R. Cleburne, hereafter cited Official Records. 

Official Record (128 vol., Washington: Printing Office, 1880-1901), Ser.1 Vol. 31, Part 2, 27, Report of Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, December 7, 1863.