Georgia Highway 51
Banks County, Georgia
N 34° 21.805 W083° 26.605
FAG: 2183386
Date of Visit: October 24, 2017
John H. Barnes
Co A
24 Ga Inf
CSA
JL Gillespie
Co H
34 Ga Inf
CSA
John F. Garrison
Pvt Co G & B 29th Ga Inf
Confederate States Army
Sept 11, 1838 Jun 20, 1864
Garrison enlisted in Company B on February 28, 1862 in Franklin County, Georgia. Regimental returns in August, October, November, and December of 1862 shows him as absent, sick in hospital. There are no other records.
He was wounded in action around Kennesaw Mountain. His wife Sarah Hill went to find him. He died shortly after she arrived in Atlanta. She brought him home to be buried in Mt. Pleasant. Legend is that an Union officer helped he gain passage back home with her dead husband.
- Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia. Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for John F. Garrison, 29th Georgia Infantry. Retrieved from at 3-Fold February 28, 2021 (http://www.fold3.com).
- Abstract from The Banks County News, Wednesday, June 11, 2003, submitted by Jacqueline King, USGenWeb Archives, Banks County, Ga – Military Civil War, USGenWeb http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/banks/military/civilwar/garrison.txt
Alven P. Hill
Pvt Co A 40 Ga Inf
Confederate States Army
1832. 1862
Private A. Hill of Company A was admitted into General Hospital #16 in Richmond on December 9, 1862.
- Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia. Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for A.Hill, 29th Georgia Infantry. Retrieved from at 3-Fold February 28,, 2021 (http://www.fold3.com).
The Garrison Brothers
Martin Garrison had five sons that died in the service of the Confederacy. William A. Garrison, Henry Fletcher Garrison and Christopher Martin Garrison were sons of Martin and Triphene Sheridan. Martin and Mary Elizabeth Bradley had two sons: Thomas Garrison and Clayton Garrison.
Legend has it that when Martin learned of the death of a son he would take a wagon to get the dead son and bring he back to Banks County for burial at Mt. Pleasant. Christopher, Clayton, William, and Thomas were brought back and buried together within the confines of a rock enclosure in the cemetery. Incorporated into the walls of the enclosure were crudely carved markers for these four brothers.
A fifth brother, Henry, died in Knoxville and is thought to be buried in a common grave at Bethel Cemetery in that town.
In 2002 markers military markers were erected for all five brothers outside of the enclosure.
- Alan Embrick. "Ancestors of William H. (Billy) Garrison." (http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ga/county/banks/htmlpagesbanks/garrison.html) June 29, 2003
- Abstract from The Banks County News, Wednesday, June 11, 2003, submitted by Jacqueline King, USGenWeb Archives, Banks County, Ga – Military Civil War, USGenWeb http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/banks/military/civilwar/garrison.txt
William A. Garrison
Co G 16 Ga Inf
Confederate States Army
Oct 8 1825 May 26, 1863
William enlisted in Captain Thompson’s company of the 16th Georgia Infantry on May 12, 1862. In August William was admitted to Hospital Number 18 in Richmond, Virginia for typhoid. He survived this medical event and returned to duty. In December he received a very severe leg wound during the Battle of Fredericksburg. He died on January 3, 1863 in General Hospital in Richmond as a consequence of the severe compound fracture of his upper femur.
- Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia. Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for William A. Garrison, 16 Georgia Infantry. Retrieved from at 3-Fold February 28, 2021 (http://www.fold3.com).
Christopher M Garrison
Pvt Co A 24 Ga Inf
Confederate States Army
Jan 2, 1842 Apr 12, 1863
Christopher enlisted in the Banks County Independent volunteers as a Private on August 24, 1861, at the age of 19 years. He last appears on the rolls October 31, 1861.
Christopher’s death occurred during the time between the Battle of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville in 1863.
Genealogies at Ancestry.com mostly list his place of death as Banks or Franklin County, Georgia. One researcher stated that he was killed.
- Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 28 February 2021), memorial page for PVT Christopher Martin Garrison (2 Jan 1842–12 Apr 1863), Find a Grave Memorial no. 39680654, citing Mount Pleasant Methodist Church Cemetery, Banks County, Georgia, USA ; Maintained by JFJN (contributor 46976255) .
- Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia. Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Christopher M. Garrison, 24 Georgia Infantry. Retrieved from at 3-Fold February 28, 2021 (http://www.fold3.com).
- Stewart Sifakis, Compendium of the Confederate Armies: South Carolina and Georgia. (Westminster, Maryland: Heritage Books, 2007), 229.
Thomas Garrison
Pvt Company A 24 Ga Inf
Confederate States Army
1846-1862
He enlisted in Company A of the 24th Georgia Infantry August of 1861. He died March 27, 1862.
The regiment was a part of Cobb’s Brigade of McLaw’s Division during the Seven Days Battle/Peninsular Campaign. He died before this series of battles began.
- Stewart Sifakis, Compendium of the Confederate Armies: South Carolina and Georgia. (Westminster, Maryland: Heritage Books, 2007), 243.
- Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia. Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Thomas Garrison, 24 Georgia Infantry. Retrieved from at 3-Fold February 28, 2021 (http://www.fold3.com).
Clayton Garrison
Corp Co A 11 Ga Cav
Confederate States Army
Jun 2 1847 Apr 10 1865
Clayton enlisted at 16 years of age in the 30th Georgia Battalion of Calvary at Mossy Creek in White County in May of 1864. This unit became the 11th Georgia Calvary.
- Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia. Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Clayton Garrison, 11th Georgia Calvary . Retrieved from at 3-Fold February 28, 2021 (http://www.fold3.com).
- Stewart Sifakis, Compendium of the Confederate Armies: South Carolina and Georgia. (Westminster, Maryland: Heritage Books, 2007), 159.
Henry F. Garrison
Co H. 34 Ga Vol Inf
Confederate State Army
1834 1862
Henry enlisted in Captain Dorough’s Banks County company on May 12, 1862. He died at Fairground’s Hospital in Knoxville, Tennessee on November 13, 1862.
I found an uncited description of a hospital at the “…fairgrounds east of downtown in the Shieldstown community early in the war by CSA”.
It was said that Henry was interred in Knoxville at Bethel Cemetery. Burial records show a H.F. Garrison of Company H, 25th Georgia with November 13, 1862 date of death. The discrepancy could be attributed to a transcription error.
- Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia. Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Henry F. Garrison, 34 Georgia Infantry. Retrieved from at 3-Fold October 24, 2017 (http://www.fold3.com).
- “Bethel Confederate Cemetery” Mabry-Hazen House, accessed March 1, 2021, http://www.mabryhazen.com/bethel-cemetery
