Red Wine Cove Cemetery Find A Grave Survey

Location:

Redwine Cove Road SW

Whitfield County, Georgia

34.65030 -85.03170

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 36549

Date Completion of Survey: January 7, 2022

Protocol for conducting a Find A Grave Survey:

1. There must be evidence of Confederate service in a picture on the memorial page (VA tombstone, inscription on a non-military tombstone, Confederate flag, Southern Cross of Honor).
2. Confederate soldiers are automatically recorded if they are marked with a VA tombstone.
3. Service of those marked with a Confederate flag or Southern Cross of Honor is are recorded if their service records can be established. 
4. Soldiers whose service is described in their Find a Grave memorial are recorded if the information given can be corroborated. 

This is a survey of Redwine Cove Cemetery in Redwine Cove of Whitfield County, Georgia using the Find A Grave memorial page for the cemetery. The cemetery page contains 137 memorials of which 88% have been photographed. 

James N. Redwine

Co C

39 Georgia Inf

CSA

Jun 31 1840

Nov 15 1891

Isaac Gilbert 

Isaac Gilbert is thought to be buried in Redwine Cove Cemetery in an unmarked grave. He served in Company K of the 14th Georgia. He listed in 1862 and served until being captured at Petersburg. He was a prisoner of war at Point Lookout, Maryland. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Isaac Gilbert, 14th Georgia Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, July 27, 2023,  (http://www.fold3.com).
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/96321827/isaac-gilbert: accessed 27 July 2023), memorial page for Isaac Gilbert (5 Oct 1820–23 Dec 1887), Find a Grave Memorial ID 96321827, citing Redwine Cove Cemetery, Whitfield County, Georgia, USA; Maintained by Harlon (contributor 47533220).

Dogwood Valley Cemetery

Dogwood Valley Cemetery

Find A Grave Survey

Location:

West Addis Road

Tunnel Hill, Catoosa County, Georgia

34.82500 - 85.07720

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 33645

Date Completion of Survey:

Protocol for conducting a Find A Grave Survey:

1. There must be evidence of Confederate service in a picture on the memorial page (VA tombstone, inscription on a non-military tombstone, Confederate flag, Southern Cross of Honor).
2. Confederate soldiers are automatically recorded if they are marked with a VA tombstone.
3. Service of those marked with a Confederate flag or Southern Cross of Honor is are recorded if their service records can be established. 
4. Soldiers whose service is described in their Find a Grave memorial are recorded if the information given can be corroborated. 

This is a survey of Dogwood Valley Cemetery in Catoosa County using the Find A Grave memorial page for the cemetery. The cemetery page contains 862 memorials and 90 % have been photographed.  I think I visited this cemetery many years ago and left without finding any Confederate solider markers. 

W.H.C. Freeman

Aug 27, 1839

Apr 10, 1931

Co. C 39 GA

Hamilton Young

Born 1821

Died Jan 10, 1897

Hamilton Young served as a Captain of Company D in the 1st Georgia Infantry (State Guards).

• 1st Regiment Georgia State Guards, http://www.researchonline.net/gacw/unit210.htm

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Hamilton Young, 1st Georgia Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, March 12, 2023,  (http://www.fold3.com).

W.R. Russell

Born

Sept 24, 1830

Died

Oct. 21, 1894

William R Russell enlisted at Whitfield County, Georgia March1 19, 1862 in Company I of the 36th Georgia Volunteer Regiment. He rose in the ranks to 1st Lieutenant and was captured at Vicksburg, Mississippi on July 4, 1863. He was paroled and returned to duty. During the Atlanta Campaign he was accounted for as being in a hospital near Lovejoy Station.

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/107797773/william-robert-russell: accessed 12 March 2023), memorial page for William Robert Russell (24 Sep 1830–21 Oct 1894), Find a Grave Memorial ID 107797773, citing Dogwood Valley Cemetery, Catoosa County, Georgia, USA; Maintained by R Walters (contributor 47994390).

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for William R. Russell, 36th Georgia Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, March 12, 2023,  (http://www.fold3.com).

L.J. Deck

Sept 19 1824

May 4 1862

Leonard Jacob Deck besmear sa privaste in Compmany C of the 39th Georgia.  In 1862 Leonard died of measles. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for L.J. Deck,39th Georgia Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, March 12, 2023,  (http://www.fold3.com).
• Hodge, Gerald, Company C, 39th Regiment, Whitfield County, ”The Wells Guards”  USGEWeb,http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/whitfield/civilwar/rosters/c39.txt

Cove United Methodist Church Cemetery

Location:

State Road 341 (Cove Road)

Walker County, Alabama

N 34° 49.053   W085° 19.693

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 37332

Date of Visit: January 5, 2022

Pvt

Richard Morgan

Co E

6 Ga Cav

State Guards

CSA

William J Morgan

Co D

39 Ga Inf

CSA

William was the son of Richard Morgan and Mahana Wyatt. In 1915 the Commissioner of Pensions received the following from the Adjutant General McCain: The records show that William Morgan, private, Co D, 39th Georgia, Infantry, C.S.A. , enlisted March 4, 1862; that he was captured at Champion Hill May 16, 1863, and exchanged at City Point, Va, July 6, 1865, and that he deserted November 22, 1863. No later record of him has been found. 

He appears on registers of prisoners at Camp Morton in Indianan and Fort Delaware in Delaware before being exchanged. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for William J. Morgan, 39th Georgia Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, February 17, 2022,  (http://www.fold3.com).
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42858322/william-j-morgan : accessed 17 February 2022), memorial page for William J. Morgan (15 May 1843–11 Jan 1865), Find a Grave Memorial ID 42858322, citing Cove Cemetery, Walker County, Georgia, USA ; Maintained by Whitfield (contributor 47786265) .

Reuben E Massey

Pvt Co G 5 Ga Infantry

Confederate States Army

Reuben died October 2, 1862. According to the Commissioner of Pensions in 1915 Reuben did not appears on any rolls of the company. Company G of the 5th was raised in Schley County. There was a Reuben Massey in Cobb’s Legion, but he died in Arkansas in 1865.

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Reuben E. Massey, 5th Georgia Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, February 17, 2022,  (http://www.fold3.com).

Pvt

Archibald Bonds

Co E

6 Ga Cav

State Guards

CSA

Pvt

James M. Bonds

Co E

6 Ga Cav

State Guards

CSA

Pvt

J.W. Glenn

Co H

39 Ga Inf

1863

John W. Glenn and wife Eliza lived in a cabin on a hill near the Wilder Tower monument on the Chickamauga battlefield.  John left for with the 39th Georgia and died in a Mobile, Alabama hospital some time in 1863.  When battle began in September of 1863 along Chickamauga Creek Union General Rosecrans established his headquarters in the Widow Glenn’s cabin. She and son Avery found their way south to her fathers house near this church. The last night of the battle the cabin caught fire and burned to the ground. The widow Glenn never returned to her and John’s home place. She married W.B. Crumpton. Both are also buried here with John. 

• James Alfred Sartain, The History of Walker County, Georgia, (Dalton: The A.J. Showalter Company, 1932), 109. Ancestry.com: accessed February 17, 2022. 

In Memory of John Alexander

Son of JC and LW Hall

Born Dec 9 1841

Died April 21, 1862

A John A. Hall mustered into Company E of the 39th Georgia Infantry.  This J.A> Hall was paid at Camp McDowell on March 8, 1862. There are no other records. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for J.A. Hall, 39th Georgia Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, February 17, 2022,  (http://www.fold3.com).
• James Alfred Sartain, The History of Walker County, Georgia, (Dalton: The A.J. Showalter Company, 1932), 138. Ancestry.com: accessed February 17, 2022. 

Macedonia Baptist Church Cemetery

Location:

Macedonia Road

Gilmer County, Georgia

N 34° 40.613   W084° 19.648

Find A Grave # 35120 

Date of Visit: December 2, 2021

Pvt

Franklin Benson Walker

Co C

39 Regt

Ga Inf

CSA

Oct 7 1841

Mar 11 1890

F.M. Mulinax

Nov 9 1842

May 19 1891

Inft Co H 5 Tenn Reg

Millis Killian McClure

Pvt Co D 6 Georgia Cav

Confederate States Army

Dec 20 1833   Apr 3 1912

Isaac Webster Rackley

1844-1918

Confederate Soldier Civil War

Wounded in Battle of 

Franklin Tenn Nov 1864

Issac enlisted in Company C of the 8th Georgia Battalion. In the battle of Franklin he was wounded in his left shoulder and captured by Union forces. On December 26 he was admitted to Number 1, USA General Hospital in Nashville. As a prisoner of war he would be sent to Camp Chase, Ohio and then to Point Lookout, Maryland. On June 5, 1865 he signed the Oath of Allegiance. 

Issac applied for a pension because of the disability caused by the gunshot wound. In the application it is said that the ball entered his left shoulder at the junction of his collar bone and breast bone, passing through the left shoulder coming out the backside of his left arm, passing thorough the should joint. Bones was said to have be shattered. The joint was rendered useless.  

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Isaac Rackly, 8th Georgia Infantry Battalion, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, Deceber 10, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).
• Ancestry.com. Georgia, U.S., Confederate Pension Applications, 1879-1960 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009.

Original data:Confederate Pension Applications, Georgia Confederate Pension Office, RG 58-1-1, Georgia Archives.

Brown’s Gap Cemetery

Location:

US Highway 301

Dade County, Georgia

N 34° 50.574   W085° 33.597

Date of Visit: April 13, 2013

Wm Henry Daniel

Co D

39 Ga Inf

CSA

Nathaniel Gass

Co A

3 Confederate

Cav

Elias Craig (Non-military tombstone)

Born 1829

Died

Aug 22 1863

Elias was born in 1829 and died August 22, 1863. He was son of James and Annie Craig, also buried here. It appears he joined Company C of the 2nd Battalion of Alabama Infantry in 1862. This company became Company H of the 7th Alabama Calvary. This was later known as the 9th Alabama Calvary (Malone’s). During the summer of 1863 Malones regiment was in Wheeler’s Calvary, Army of Tennessee and in numerous operations and engagements. Record of Elias’ death has not been found. 

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) Montomery, 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 Elias Craig, Malones 9th Alabama Calvary, Retrieved from at 3-Fold November 16, 2020 (http://www.fold3.com).

Stewart Sifakis, Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Alabama (Westminster, Maryland: Heritage Books, 1992), 37.

Corinth Church of Christ

Location:

County Road 57

Winston County, Alabama

N 34° 06.688     W087° 19.160

Find A Grave # 22278

Date of Visit: November 6, 2011

Robert Alexander Hill

Pvt Co F 16 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Jul 8 1838.    Jun 17, 1923

Robert A. Hill

July 8, 1833

June 17, 1923

A soldier true to the south, a citizen loyal to his county and his fellow man.

Pvt

George W Hilton

Co D

39 Ga Inf

CSA

Jan 12 1835        

Mar 23, 1910

Eton Cemetery

Location:

Highway 411

Eton, Murray County, Georgia

N 34° 49.326     W084° 45.944

Find A Grave #813812

Date of Visit: June 4, 2013

In Memory of
John B. Keith

Cpl Co A

Confederate States Army

Oct 12, 1829.   Aug 31, 1864

Keith originally enlisted as a private in Company E, 10th Regiment Georgia State Troops December 16, 1861 and was detailed as a carpenter at Miller's Wharf  in Columbus, Georgia. Records indicate that he re-enlisted in as a private the Cohutta Rangers March 19, 1862 at Spring Place in Murray County. This company became Company A of the 39th Regiment Georgia Infantry. He was appointed 2nd Corporal April 12, 1862. Keith was captured and paroled at Vicksburg in July 1863. H was killed at Jonesboro, Georgia August 31, 1864 and was buried in the Patrick Cleburne Confederate Cemetery. 

• 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 February 17, 2018. (http://www.fold3.com)
• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 13 January 2019), memorial page for Corp John B. Keith (12 Oct 1829–31 Aug 1864), Find A Grave Memorial no. 32469931, citing Eton Cemetery, Eton, Murray County, Georgia, USA ; Maintained by Cindy (contributor 47985327) .
• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 13 January 2019), memorial page for John B. Keith (12 Oct 1829–31 Aug 1864), Find A Grave Memorial no. 65946424, citing Confederate Cemetery, Clayton County, Georgia, USA ; Maintained by Cindy (contributor 47985327) .
• Museum, Murray County. Murray County Museum - CIVIL WAR RECORDS. Accessed January 13, 2019. https://www.murraycountymuseum.com/cwr_06.html 

Jesse Jackson 1827-1909

Marked with Southern Cross of Honor