Showing posts with label 24th South Carolina. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 24th South Carolina. Show all posts

Sunday, February 28, 2021

Nails Creek Baptist Church Graveyard

Location:
Georgia Highway 51
Banks County, Georgia
N 34° 22.328   W083° 24.385
FAG: 35700

Date of Visit: October 24, 2017


Lemuel L. Ariail
Pvt Co B
1 Regt
Ga State Line
Confederate States Army
April 15, 1847
Jun 27, 1864

Lemuel was in Company of the 1st Georgia State Line, Galts’s Regiment.  He was sick with red measles on May 31, 1864.  He was sent home and died June 22, 1864

  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 28 February 2021), memorial page for Pvt Lemuel Lawrence Ariail (15 Apr 1845–27 Jun 1864), Find a Grave Memorial no. 12162683, citing Nails Creek Baptist Church Cemetery, Jewelville, Banks County, Georgia, USA ; Maintained by Busy Graven (contributor 46932676) .


John Wilmot
Company G 34 Ga Inf
Confederate States army
1835  1862

Enlisted May 12, 1862 in Captain Jones Company in Franklin, Georgia. He died July 8, 1862. At this time the regiment was posted in Chattanooga. 

  • Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for John Wilmont, 34 Georgia Infrantry. 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), 243.

Ezrey Pruitt
Co H
34 Ga Inf
CSA

John E. Strange
Sgt 24 Ga Inf
CSA
December 20, 1904

David McCaw McConnell
Co D
11 Ga Cav
CSA

Amaziah Francis Stevenson
Nov. 26 1826           May 14, 1863
Son of
John & Margaret Bowen Stevenson
Enlisted As Private Mar. 6, 1862
Co F  24th Reg. S.C. Vols
Infantry C.S.A.
Killed in Battle May 14 1863
At Jackson, Miss, Buried There


On May 14, 1862 the 24th South Carolina in W.H.T. Walker’s Division took up position around the farmhouse and hedge fence of O.T. Wright on the Clinton Road outside of Jackson. It was here that Amaziah likely fell. His wife, Mary A. Stevenson, made claim to his personal effects in 1863. 

  • Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Amaziah Stevenson, 24th South Carolina 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), 101.
  • Chris Mackowski, “On the Battlefield, Among the Dead and Dying, We Get to Know Each Other Better” Emerging Civil War (blog), January 10, 2021, accessed February 28, 2021, https://emergingcivilwar.com/2021/01/10/on-the-battlefield-amond-the-dead-and-dying/






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