Corinth Church Graveyard

Location:

Corinth Road

Pickens County, Georgia

N34.43135       W084.28278

Date of Visit: October 4, 2013

John A. Satterfield 

Co N

38 Ga Inf

CSA

William C Redden

Co D

24 Ga Inf

CSA

James Whitten Dobson

Capt Co G 8 BN Ga Inf

Feb 16, 1828    Mar 26, 1862

Nathaniel Milesberry Dobson

Pvt Co G 8 Batt Ga Inf

Aug 2, 1825       Jun 22 1862

James Whitten Dobson and Nathaniel Milesberry Dobson were children of Neely Dobson Jr. and Zilpah Goss.  Both joined a local Pickens County company of volunteers. James was elected Captain on October 1, 1861.  This company became Company G, 8th Battalion of Georgia Infantry in early 1862. The regiment was stationed at Camp Black in Savannah Georgia. In March Captain Dobson died of pneumonia and was replaced by Lieutenant Benjamin Goss. On June 11 the regiment moved to Camp Beaulieu some 14 miles away. Camp Beaulieu was located at the 515 area Beaulieu Plantation on the Vernon River. Gun batteries were established here to protect various approaches to Savannah. On the 22nd of June, Private N.M. Dobson died of pneumonia while stationed here. 

Sources

Robert Walker Groves. "Beaulieu Plantation." The Georgia Historical Quarterly 37, no. 3 (1953): 200-09. Accessed February 16, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40577452.

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for James W. Dobson, 8th Georgia Battalion Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold February 16, 2021,  (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 for N.M. Dobson, 8th Georgia Battalion Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold February 16, 2021,  (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 for Field & Staff, 8th Georgia Battalion Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold February 16, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).

Eugene Perry, The Neeley Dobson Family. Ancestry.com: accessed February 16, 2021. from: The National Archives, Entry for James W. Dobson, 8th Georgia Battalion Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold February 16, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).

"Public Member Tree," database, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 16 Apr 2021), "Perigo/Armstrong Family Tree" family tree by Julie Fost, profile and gallery for Neely Dobson Jr. (1797-1858). 

Robert Walker Groves. "Beaulieu Plantation." The Georgia Historical Quarterly 37, no. 3 (1953): 200-09. Accessed February 16, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40577452.