Location:
US Highway 411
Gordon County, Georgia
N34 31.322 W084 42.503
FAG: 2449118
Date of Visit: May 26, 2021
In Memory of
John Angel
Hopper
Died A CSA War
Capt. In Yazoo, Miss
Born 1825
Died 1863
John Angel Hooper was commissioned as Captain of Company E 8th Battalion of Infantry on September 23, 1861. Company E was raised in Gordon Coyunty, Georgia and was known as Freeman’s Volunteers. Captain Hopper and the company served coastal defense duty until being sent west in May of 1863. He died of fever in Yazoo during the movement to relieve Vicksburg on June 11, 1863. He is thought to have been buried somewhere in Mississippi. See his Find a Grave Memorial page for more details.
- Find a Grave, database and images (www.findagrave.com/memorial/49493910/john-angel-hopper : accessed 27 May 2021), memorial page for Capt John Angel Hopper (1825–11 Jun 1863), Find a Grave Memorial ID 49493910, citing Hopper Family Cemetery, Ranger, Gordon County, Georgia, USA ; Maintained by Kathy Gatlin (contributor 46822976) .
- Lulie Pitts, History of Gordon County, Georgia, (Calhoun: The Press of Calhoun Times, 1934), 138.
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