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

Abbeville Pioneer Cemetery

Location:

Columbia Road

Abbeville, Henry County, Alabama

N 31° 34.058   W085° 14.996

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 2289871

Date of Visit: July 13, 2013

William G Ward

Co E

60 Ala Inf

CSA

John Robert Lewis Grice

Pvt Wootens Co. 15 Bn Ga Cav

Confederate States Army

May 12 1830    Oct 1 1904

Irwin Gissendaner

Co D

39 Ala Inf

CSA

Captain 

Moses B Green

Co A

37 Ala Inf

CSA

1821     1891

Col James Lightfoot

James N Lightfoot

Aug 14 1839

Sept 18 1885

James Newell Lightfoot mustered into the service as 2nd Lieutenant of Company A of the 6th Alabama Infantry on May 16, 1861. In August he was promoted to 1st Lieutenant and by December he was Captain of Company A. At Seven Pines in May of 1862 he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and wounded during the action. At Antietam on September 17, 1862 he was wounded again.  In May of 1863 prior to the second invasion of the north Lightfoot became Colonel of the 6th Alabama. At Gettysburg during the first day of battle he was wounded and had to be removed from the field. Recovery placed him at the head of the regiment during the Wilderness campaign. On May 8, 1864 he was wounded in the left arm and at New Market on May 15 he received a wound to his right thigh. In February of 1865 a Board of Examiners declared Colonel Lightfoot disabled and retired him from the service. 

• “Lieutenant Colonel James Newell Lightfoot” Antietam on the Web, accessed July 26, 2022, https://antietam.aotw.org/officers.php?officer_id=911

• Brewer, Willis. 1962. Brief Historical Sketches of Military Organizations Raised In Alabama During the Civil War : reproduced from Willis Brewer's Alabama: her history, resources, war record, and public men, from 1540 to 1872 (1872) Montgomery, Alabama: Alabama Civil War Centennial Commission. https://archives.alabama.gov/referenc/alamilor/mil_org.html

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for James N. Lightfoot, 6th Alabama Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, July 24, 2022,  (http://www.fold3.com).

Elias J.J. 

Son of 

John J & Melissa 

Ward

Born

Jan. 31, 1844

Died

Oct 3 1864

Nobly he fell while

Fighting for liberty.

(Opposite side) 

Died on the field of battle

“Twas noble thus to died;

God smiles on valient

Soldiers – 

His record is on high

Elias is buried under a marble obelisk in the cemetery. 

Elias enlisted on Company G of the 15th Alabama Infantry Regiment on July 3, 1861 in Pike County, Alabama. In December of 1863 he was promoted to 1st Sergeant. 

On October 7, 1864 his regiment was involved in a heavy fight on the Darbytown Road in Henrico County, Virginia. Sergeant Ward  was wounded in the abdomen and he died the next day at General Hospital No. 9 in Richmond Virginia. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Elias J.J. Ward, 15th Alabama Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, July 24, 2022,  (http://www.fold3.com).

• The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (128 vol., Washington: Printing Office, 1880-1901), Ser.1 Vol. 42, Part I, 873, Report No. 358Diary of the First Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, of Operations August 1-October 18. 

Samuel Seaton

Son of

James & Annie

Lasseter Curry

Born in Sumpter Co GA

May 3 1832

Wounded Saturday

May 31 1862

On Battle of Seven Pines

Died Abbeville, Al

Aug 18, 1862

Curry enlisted on May 11, 1861 in Abbeville. He mustered into the Company A of the 6th Alabama Infantry  on May 16, 1861 in Montgomery. In Virginina Company A became Company B. At the Battle of Seven Pines in May of 1862 Curry received gunshot wound causing a compounded comminuted (bone broken in three or more pieces) fracture of this thigh. In this battle Curry was discharged with a certificate of disability in July and died at home in August. 

Before the war Shemuel was a practicing lawyer and was married to Matilda Ward. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Shemuel S. Curry, 6th Alabama Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, August 21 2022,  (http://www.fold3.com).

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/52828813/shemuel-seaton-curry: accessed 21 August 2022), memorial page for Shemuel Seaton Curry (5 Nov 1832–18 Aug 1862), Find a Grave Memorial ID 52828813, citing Old City Cemetery, Abbeville, Henry County, Alabama, USA; Maintained by Don Atwell (contributor 47043939).

Union Springs Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery

Location:

County Road 6

Brundidge, Pike County, Alabama

N 31° 41.274   W085° 53.252

FAG: 1131011

Date of Visit: February 19, 2021

Thomas Ezra Johnston

Pvt Co A Al Calvary

Confederate States 

Aug 14 1846    Feb 22 1925

David C. Galloway

Co H

46 Ala Inf

CSA

1845

1935

Anderson Mobley

Co F

15 Ala Inf

CSA

John D. Johnston

Pvt Co F 15 Regt Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Jan 17 1838          May 15, 1862

Private Johnston enlisted in Capotain Malones company on was admitted to Chimborazo Hospital Number 5 on September 12, 1862 with diarrhea and died four days later. One record has the date of death as the 15th of May and another has it as the 16th.  His father, Thomas Johnston of Coffee County appeared in Probate Court of Pike County to make a claim as to Thomas’ arrears of pay. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Thomas Johnson, 15th Alabama Infantry. Retrieved from at 3-Fold June 8, 20231 (http://www.fold3.com).

Flowers Brothers: Luke, William, and Silas Flowers were sons of John Calvin Flowers. All three boys were living with their mother Nancy on 1200 acres in 1860. 

• 1860 U.S. Census, Pike County, Alabama, Population Schedule, Census Place: Eastern Divsion, Post Office: Brundidge, p.58, dwelling 388, family 397, Nancy Flowers: digital images, Ancestry (http://ancestry.com:accessed 9 June 2021),  NARA Roll M653, Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration

Luke Isham Flowers

Pvt Co F 15 Ala Infantry

Confederate States Army

1843  1861

Isham enlisted in July of 1861. He died of pneumonia on November 26, 1861 in Centerville, Virginia. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Isham Flowers, 15th Alabama Infantry. Retrieved from at 3-Fold June 8, 20231 (http://www.fold3.com).

William Flowers

Co K 37 Ala Regt

Confederate States Army

Feb 28 1838   Aug 4 1864

William was captured at the surrender of Vicksburg in 1863.  He was paroled July 9 and at some point he rejoined his regiment.  He was in the line in June of 1864 in the defense of Atlanta. It is reported in a report of the Adjutant and Inspector Generals office that he was killed in battle on August 11, 1864. There was not a general engagement on this date. General Alexander P. Stewart reports that the division (the 37th was in Alpheus Brigade of Stewarts Division) was in line from the Marietta Road to west of Lick Skillet Road and nothing major happened except for constant skirmishing. Perhaps William was killed in the daily pot shots or daily probes that occur along a siege line. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for William W. Flowers, 37th Alabama Infantry. Retrieved from at 3-Fold June 9, 2021 (http://www.fold3.com).

• The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (128 vol., Washington: Printing Office, 1880-1901), Ser.1 Vol. 38, Part 3, 872, Report No. 685, Lt. Gen. Alexander P. Stewart, January 12, 1865. https://babel.hathitrust.org/

Hillabee Campground Methodist Church

Location:

Tallapoosa County Road 33/ Camp Ground Road

Tallapoosa County, Alabama

N 33° 02.973   W085° 54.272

FAG: 23434

Date of Visit: February 19, 2021

Thomas M Polk

Co B

38 Ala Inf

T Z Tate

Pvt Co I 8 Conf Cav

Confederate States Army

Mar 18 1839   May 27 1914

Bennett L. Stancil

Pvt Co A 12 Regt Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Jul 18 1842     Nov 12 1925

Andrew Champion

Co B

37 Ala Inf

CSA

George W Porter

2nd Serg. Co C  59 Regt Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

George W Pearson

Com Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Mar 1829    Feb 1876

Not sure of what “Com” means, but he enlisted in Company C of Hillard’s Legion.

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 26 March 2021), memorial page for George Washington Pearson (16 Mar 1829–16 Feb 1876), Find a Grave Memorial no. 85050681, citing Hillabee Campground Cemetery, Tallapoosa City, Tallapoosa County, Alabama, USA ; Maintained by Hutch (contributor 47312109) .

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for George Washington Pearson, Hillard’s Legion, Retrieved from at 3-Fold February 16, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).

Drewry F Hooton

Pvt Co A  59 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Oct 20 1824     Dec 26 1903

James Neighbors

Co C 47 Ala Inf

CSA

Corp

James W Holdridge

Co G

14 Ala Inf

CSA

Jul 31 1840

Apr 2 1868

William Rogers

3rd Corp Ala Militia

Confederate States Army

Feb 13 1811    Oct 27  1901

John M Bailey

Pvt Alabama Militia

Confederate States Army

Jan 15, 1809   Sept 18 1882

Edmund P Horton

3rd Serg

Ala Mtd Militia

Confederate States Army

Robert J McKemie

Pvt Co A  41 Ga Regt

Confederate States Army

AJ Reid

Born Mar 22, 1831 

Died Apr 2, 1914

Back:

Member of Confederate Army

Co G Wheelers Cav. 

In the 1907 enumeration of Clay County veterans Andrew Jackson Reid of Childersburg reported that he enlisted in 1862 in  Company C of the 6th Georgia Calvary regiment. This regiment was a part of Wheeler’s Calvary. 

• Ancestry.com. Alabama, U.S., Census of Confederate Soldiers, 1907, 1921 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA. Census or Enumeration of Confederate Soldiers Residing in Alabama, 1907-1908. Alabama Department of Archives & History, Montgomery, Alabama. Entry for Andrew Jackson Reid.

•  Stewart Sifakis, Compendium of the Confederate Armies: South Carolina and Georgia. (Westminster, Maryland: Heritage Books, 2007), 156.