Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Kennesaw City Cemetery

Location:

Cemetery Street

Cobb County, Georgia

N 34 01.219.  W084 36.931

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 34830


Date of Visit: July 9, 2017


William P. Stanley

1844-1918

CSA

18th Ga Reg Co A


See Find A Grave Memorial 60392093 for details of Stanley’s Confederate service. 

Thomas Wm Wingo

Pvt Co E 43 Ga Inf

CSA

1834     July 9, 1863

             Vicksburg


Thomas William Wingo enlisted in the Confederate Army in Cumming, Georgia in 1862.  At some point he served as a musician in the regimental band. At Vicksburg he apparently was wounded and died. He is buried in Soldier’s Rest section of Cedar Hill the actual circumstances of Williams death is not clear. Cemetery in Vicksburg. His date of death is five days after the surrender of Vicksburg, so actual circumstances of Thomas’ death is not clear. 


J.T. Chalker

May 3, 1844

Apr 12, 1906



Jacob Taylor Chalker enlisted at Beaulieu near Savannah on March 2, 1863. He served in Company H of the 54th Georgia infantry.  It is reported that he was wounded in the right arm at Kennesaw Mountain on June 18, 1864. The circumstances of this wounding is not clear. The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain occurred about nine days after the 18th. It is likely that Chalker was wounded in the action at Latimer Farm (near present day Marietta Country Club) where Walker’s Division including Mercer’s Brigade and the 54th was in the line of battle next to French’s division when three Union divisions pushed attacked. Johnson was forced to move his troops toward Kennesaw Mountain. 

  • Confederate Pension and Record Department. Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia 1861-1865. 7 vols. Hapeville: Longino & Porter, 1955-58. Data Systems, comp. U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009.
  • William R. Scaife, The Campaign for Atlanta (Kennesaw, Georgia: Kennesaw Mountain Historical Association: Heritage Books, 2007), 190.



Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Union Chapel UMC Cemetery


Location:

Buttermilk Road

Walker  County, Alabama

33.816242   -87.182022

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 26803


Date of Visit: April 11, 2014


Pvt

John Calvin Akins

Co H

56 Ala Cav

Partisan 

Rangers

CSA

Apr 25 1832

Mar 22 1922



Joseph William Gardner

Pvt Co I 4 Fla Inf

Confederate States Army

Jan 4 1837   Jun 11 1920


Pvt

Caleb John Green

Co E

57 Ga Inf

Jun 1843

Dec 1924


Pvt

William W Wilson

Co F

37 Ala Regt

CSA

Dec 1832

Nov 1903



Pvt

Jefferson Lovell

Co D

Ga Vols

CSA

1832

1862


This marker is a cenotaph. He served in Company D of the Infantry Battalion of Phillips’s Legion. He was admitted to General Hospital Number 16 in Richmond in late December and died of pneumonia on January 8, 1863. It is believed that he was buried in Confederate Section of Hollywood Cemetery.

  • Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Jefferson Lovell, Phillips Legion, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, May 23, 2023, (http://www.fold3.com).
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33707176/jefferson-lovell: accessed 23 May 2023), memorial page for Jefferson Lovell (29 Apr 1832–8 Jan 1863), Find a Grave Memorial ID 33707176, citing Union Chapel Cemetery, Union Chapel, Walker County, Alabama, USA; Maintained by Gerbig (contributor 47270759).



John M Felkins

Pvt Co C 38 Alabama Regt

Confederate States Army

Dec 21 1832

Jul15 1887


Nathaniel Black

Pvt Co F 28 Regt 6 Cal

Confederate Staates Army

Nov 27 1846    May 8 1843


Note: Nathaniel does not appear on rolls of the 28th Alabama Infantry or the 6th Alabama Calvary.


Jackson Eli Hyche

Pvt Co G  26 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Jun 8 1848    Mar 31 1928


William H Riddlesperger

Pvt

Co D Ga Vols CSA

1830

1878


William served in Company D of the Infantry Battalion of Phillip’s Legion.

  • Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for W.H. Riddlesperger, Phillips Legion, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, May 29, 2023, (http://www.fold3.com).

John Fletcher Jones

Co B

35 Regt

Ala Inf

CSA

1836

1919


Pvt

James M Price

Co F

26 Miss Inf

CSA

Feb18 1844

Nov 29 1932


Pvt

John O Turner

Co G

3 Ga Inf

CSA

Jan 9 1845

Oct 12 1925


Nathan B Langley

Co G

8 Ga Cav

CSA








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