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. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Thomas W. Wingo, 43rd Georgia Infantry,  Retrieved from at 3-Fold, October 3, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).
• National Park Service, Confederate Internments, Vicksburg National Military Park, accessed May 31, 2023, https://www.nps.gov/vick/learn/historyculture/confederate-interments-w.htm

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.

Walnut Cemetery

Location:

1^st Street

Unadilla, Dooly County, Georgia

Lat            32.258808

Long              -83.732666

Date of Visit: June 25, 2014

William J Mercer

Co I

18 Ga Inf

James Leggitt

Died July 15, 1862

Age 29 years

Sergeant, Company 1, 10^th Georgia Battalion of Infantry - Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia. Original data from: The National Archives, Retrieved from at 3-Fold August 24, 2014 (http://www.fold3.com)

Obituary: Overby, Obituaries Published by The Christian Index, 1822-1879, p. 137. 12 Aug. 1862 - Died at his father's residence, in Macon Co., on the 15th of July, 1862, brother James Leggitt, aged about 30 years. He, like many of his patriotic comrades rushed to the rescue of his native land...became a victim of typhoid fever. For the past few years he labored under chronic disease of his liver, yet he bore up manfully against the afflictions of life, and endeavored to discharge the duties of life, ... as a citizen, soldier and christian. He became a member of the Babtist Church in 1858, and having given early promisee of christian qualifications , was ordained deacon of the Baptist Church at Beulah in 1860. He was an affectionate son, a devoted husband, a generous friend, and when the powers of life were ebbing fast, and the ashy hue of death sat upon his pallid brow, he turned his dimmed eyes upon his disconsolate wife and parents, and remarked that his hopes were bright, and that he was going to a happier chime. This giving evidence that though the dull claws of mortality were hanging heavily upon him; yet his immortal spirit was fast approaching that haven of eternal rest where the bright sunlight of God's Smile illumines each humble christian life. – Roy Leggitt’s Personal Ancestry, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/