Birchwood Baptist Church

Location:

State Highway 60

Hamilton County, Tennessee

N 35° 21.755   W084° 59.523

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 24024

Date of Visit: January 17, 2017

Elijah Clingan

Pvt Co I 5 Tenn Cav

Confederate States Army

Oct 13 1825

Mar 8 1900

 

Lower Cemetery (Middle Cemetery)

Location:

State Highway 253

Hackleburg, Marion County, Alabama

N 34° 15.851   W087° 49.642

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 24099

Date of Visit: November 5, 2022

James R. Yielding

Pvt Co C   29 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Mar 23 1832       Jun 17 1922

William R. Whitehead

1822 1900

Served in Company B of the 5th Alabama Cavalry.

• Alabama, Texas and Virginia, U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Entry for W.R. Whitehead, 5th Alabama Calvary and 19th Alabama Infantry, retrieved from Ancestry.com, October 3, 2021,  (http://www.ancestry.com)

Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery

Location:

State Highway 172

Marion County, Alabama

N 34° 18.350   W087° 54.599

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 24700

Date of Visit: November 5, 2022

Henry Caldwell

Pvt Co L   2 SC Rifles

Confederate States Army

1816    1911

Lindsey Cemetery

Location:

County Road 53

Marion County, Alabama

N 34° 18.127   W087° 51.904

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 24024

Date of Visit: November 5, 2022

Winston Dilmus Stidham II

Co B.  5 Ala Cav

Confederate States Army

Jul 2 1838     Apr 8 1912

Blue Springs Cemetery

Blue Springs Cemetery

Location:

Main Street

Mosheim, Greene County, Tennessee

36.18995, -82.95802

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 822618

Date of Completion of Survey: December 4, 2022

This is a survey of Blue Springs Cemetery in Mosheim, Tennessee using the Find A Grave memorial page for the cemetery. The cemetery page contains 435 memorials and 92 % has been photographed. 

It is also known as Blue Springs Lutheran Church Cemetery and it was established in 1811. Fifteen Union veterans are also buried in this cemetery. Protocol used for conducting a Find A Grave Survey:

• There must be evidence of Confederate service in a picture on the memorial page (VA tombstone, inscription on a non-military tombstone, Confederate flag, Southern Cross of Honor).
• Confederate soldiers are automatically recorded if they are marked with a VA tombstone.\
• Service of those marked with a Confederate flag or Southern Cross of Honor is are recorded if their service records can be established. 
• Soldiers whose service is described in their Find a Grave memorial are recorded if the information given can be corroborated. 

Captain J.D. Bushong

Born

Dec 17, 1840

Died From Gun Shot

April 4, 1865

At Rest

Capt. Jackson Decatur Bushong

Co I 29th Tennessee Infantry CSA

Ambushed and Killed By Bush Wackers

Five Days Before the End of the Civil War

April 4th 1865 in Lost Mountain

John Hunt Morgan Camp 205

Captain Jack Dick Bushong enlisted as a private in Company I at Henderson’s on August 21, 1861. He would serve as Captain served as Captain of Company I in the 29th Tennessee Infantry. He was severely wounded at Stone River and again twice during the 1864 battles around Atlanta. He was killed in 1865 in Greene County at Lost Mountain. See the Phelps/Fup/Volp Family History website for the story of Captain Bushong’s death in 1865. 

• Phelps/Fup/Volp Family History https://www.phelpsfulpancestry.com/documents/Bushwhacked.pdf
• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Tennessee.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for J.D. Bushong,  29th Tennessee, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, December 2, 2022,  (http://www.fold3.com).

F.W. Cobble

Oct. 24, 1826

Dec.19, 1908

Fredrick Washington Cobble was marked by a Confederate flag. Cobble enlisted in Captain J.W. Jackson’s Greene company on October 4, 1862. This company eventually became Company C of the 61st Tennessee Mounted Infantry. In March of 1863 he was appointed 2nd Sergeant. On May 17, 1863 he was captured at Big Black Swamp during the Vicksburg Siege. He was sent to Fort Delaware where he would be paroled and exchanged. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Tennessee.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for F.W. Cobble,  61st Tennessee, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, December 2, 2022,  (http://www.fold3.com).

George A. Trobaugh

July 30, 1836 – July 19, 1902

His Wife

Hannah E. Trobaugh

George enlisted in Company C of the 61st Tennessee Mounted Infantry. In May of 1863 he was captured at Big Black Swamp and apparently sent north as a POW. In the summer he enlisted in Company A of the Union 8th Tennessee Cavalry in Indianapolis for three years. He served in several hospitals as a cook until the end of the war.   

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Tennessee.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for G.A. Trobaughe,  61st Tennessee, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, December 2, 2022,  (http://www.fold3.com).