Ragan Chapel UMC Cemetery

Location:

Ragan Chapel Road/Alabama Highway 77

Calhoun County, Alabama

33.7510986  -86.0460968

FAG: 2131078

Date of Visit: July 25, 2015

Jonathan Whiteside

Pvt Co F 9 Regt

58 Ala Infantry

Confederate States Army

Mar 21 1823      July 10 1863

Modern Tombstone

Whiteside

Martha C. Teague

Oct. 6, 1829 – July 16, 1908

J. Leander  C.S.A.

Mar 21, 1823 – July 10, 1863

Buried – Chattanooga, Tenn.

Jonathan died July 10, 1863 of typhoid fever at Academy Hospital in Chattanooga. The 58th Alabama was in Clayton’s Brigade during the Tullahoma Campaign and took part in the Hoover’s Gap engagement. In July Bragg retreated toward Chattanooga. During this time hospitals were established in Chattanooga. Jonathan’s name was not been found in Silverdale Confederate Cemetery or in the Chattanooga Confederate Cemetery. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Jonathan Whitesides, 58th Alaba Infantry Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, August 1, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15876025/martha-cunningham-whiteside : accessed 27 August 2021), memorial page for Martha Cunningham Teague Whiteside (6 Oct 1829–16 Jul 1908), Find a Grave Memorial ID 15876025, citing Ragan Chapel Cemetery, Francis, Calhoun County, Alabama, USA ; Maintained by mulder (contributor 46825092) .
• Brewer, Willis. Brief Historical Sketches of Military Organizations Raised in Alabama during the Civil War: Reproduced from Willis Brewers Alabama: Her History, Resources, War Record, and Public Men, from 1540 to 1872. University, Al.: Alabama Civil War Centennial Commission, 1962. (Online at Alabama State Department of Archives and History), https://archives.alabama.gov/referenc/alamilor/mil_org.html.

Fellowship Cemetery

Location:

County Road 47

Bullock County, Alabama

N32.10479. W085.51526

FAG: 

Date of Visit: July 25, 2015

John A. McLeod

Co B

33 Ala Inf

CSA

Samuel J Feagin

Alabama

Pvt Co B. 15 Reg Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Ledger Stone

Samuel Jefferson Feagin

Born Bullock Co Ala

1841

Mortally Wounded at Cold Harbor

July 3, 1862

Died in Field Hospital

July 19 1862

His last words was

Tell mother I did my duty and died for my country

Samuel’s mother was Almira Cole Feagin, wife of James Madison Feagin.  Samuel enlisted July 3, 1861 in Captain Isaac B. Feagin’s company. This was his uncle Isaac Bell Feagin’s company. At Cold Harbor the regiment lost 34 out of 412 men. However, this battle occurred on June 3rd when Grant attacked Confederates west of the Old Cold Harbor crossroads.  Samuel's records show the July 3 wounding and July15th death.  

• Brewer, Willis. Brief Historical Sketches of Military Organizations Raised in Alabama during the Civil War: Reproduced from Willis Brewers Alabama: Her History, Resources, War Record, and Public Men, from 1540 to 1872. University, Al.: Alabama Civil War Centennial Commission, 1962. (Online at Alabama State Department of Archives and History), https://archives.alabama.gov/referenc/alamilor/mil_org.html
• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Samuel J. Bryan, 15th Alaba Infantry Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, August 27, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).

Louisville United Methodist Church

Location:

Planar Mill Road

Louisville, Barbour County, Alabama

N31.77940  W085.55727

FAG: 2305086

Date of Visit: July 25, 2015

Richard Abner Pickett

Pvt Co D 63 Ala Regt

Confederate States Army

Mar 18 1845        Feb 16 1926

Alexander McRae

Co G

57 Ala Inf

CSA

Captain

James Lang

Co D 59 Ala Inf

CSA

Worthy J. Grubbs

1st Lieut Co B

4 Ala Cavalry

Confederate States Army

Jan 1 1820      Aug 24, 1890

James Colbert Bryan

Major – Battle’s Brigade – CSA

June 4, 1861 Corinth, Miss

Apr. 9, 1865 Appomattox, Va

Born Tarboro, N.C. Dec.27, 1831

Died January 15, 1895

Interred Wewahitckka, Fla. 

James Bryan enlisted in the Columbia Blues which was to become Company A of the 6th Alabama Infantry.  He was commissioned a second Lieutenant and appears to have served the regiment in a Commissary capacity. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for JJames Colbert Bryan, 6th Alabama Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, August 27, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62858952/james-colbert-bryan : accessed 27 August 2021), memorial page for James Colbert “Bert” Bryan (27 Dec 1831–15 Jan 1895), Find a Grave Memorial ID 62858952, citing Jehu Cemetery, Wewahitchka, Gulf County, Florida, USA ; Maintained by Ray Peeler (contributor 47295080) .

Zion Missionary Baptist Cemetery

Location:

Alabama Highway 253

Winfield, Marion County, Alabama

33.9500008 -87.8324966

FAG: 27237

Date of Visit: July 31, 2021

Pvt

Jasper C. Markham

Co A 5 Ala Cav

CSA

Sept 24, 1844

Jul 22 1924

Abraham Alviane Shirey

Pvt Co A 

5 Ala Cav

Confederate States Army

Aug 5 1834    Apr 18 1914

Thomas J Berryhill

Co 5 Ala Cav

Confederate States Army

Jan 27 1840     Dec 24 1928

Liberty Cemetery

Location:

County Road 72

Marion County, Alabama

N 33° 57.696   W087° 43.338

FAG: 23974

Date of Visit: July 31, 2021

James F. Harbin

Aug 30, 1836

Sept 26, 1903

James T. Hardin has a non-military headstone. His grave was marked with a Confederate flag on July 31, 2021. 

His wife Margaret E. Harbin applied for a military pension in 1904. She stated that he served in Company D of the 14th Regiment on the pension application. This is Company D of the 14th Georgia Infantry Regiment. James and Margaret moved from Cherokee County, Georgia to Marion County between 1870 and 1880. 

James enlisted in Company D in Calhoun, Georgia on August 27, 1862. In January of 1863 a medical examining board in Lynchburg, Virginia declared James incapable of performing the duties of a soldier due to a double inguinal hernia. They stated that he had been unfit for duty sixty days out of the past two months. 

• Ancestry.com. Alabama, Texas and Virginia, U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Citing Alabama Department of Archives and History; Montgomery, Alabama; Confederate Pension Applications, 1880-1940; Collection #: Microfilm in the Research Room; Roll Description: Hannah, A. H. - Hardwick, Wm. Henry
• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for James F. Harbin, 14th Georgia Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, August 7, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).
• 1870 U.S. Census, Cherokee County, Georgia population schedule, Bells, 817th District, p. 181 (stamped), dwelling 228, family 228, James Harbin, digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com: 7 August 2021); citing NARA microfilm publication M593, roll 143.
• 1880 U.S. Census, population schedule, Monroe County, Mississippi, Beat #10, ED 244, p.287 (stamped), family 3; dwelling 3, James F. Harbin; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : 7 August 2021); citing NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 23.

Thomas J. Beasley

1937 -1920

Thomas J. Beasley has a non-military headstone. His grave was marked with a Confederate flag on July 31, 2021. 

In 1913 the State of Alabama Pension Bureau notified Thomas that he did not appear on any rolls of the 4th Alabama Calvary. In 1914 E.F. Tucker signed an affidavit stating that Thomas Beasley was a member of Company K of the 4th Alabama Calvary for two years. In 1915 and 1916 Thomas received U.S. Confederate pension payments. 

• Ancestry.com. Alabama, U.S., Confederate Pension and Service Records, 1862-1947 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.  Original data: Alabama Confederate Pension Applications and Service Records, 1865-1940. Montgomery, Alabama: Alabama Department of Archives and History. 

• Ancestry.com. Alabama, Texas and Virginia, U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Citing Alabama Department of Archives and History; Montgomery, Alabama; Confederate Pension Applications, 1880-1940; Collection #: Microfilm in the Research Room; Roll Description: Beasley, F.B. – Bell, F.M.