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.

Freeman Cemetery

Location:

Highway 69

DeKalb County, Alabama

N 34° 17.526              W085° 55.438

Date of Visit: October 8, 2011

Pvt

WH Freeman

Co G

49 Ala Inf

CSA

1843

1862

His record indicates that he died May 18, 1862. - Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama. Original data from: The National Archives, Retrieved from at 3-Fold November 11, 2017. (http://www.fold3.com)

According to Brewer’s History of Alabama units, the 49^th was organized at Nashville, in January 1862, and attached to the Kentucky brigade of Gen. Breckinridge. It took part in the battle of Shiloh. A few weeks later, the Forty-ninth was sent to Vicksburg, with Breckinridge's brigade.  The Union bombardment of Vicksburg begin on May 18. It would seem that that he  probably died in route to or in Vicksburg before hostilties and was possibility buried there.

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, www. archives.alabama.com

Report of Brig. Gen. M.L. Smith, Official Record War of the Rebellion, Volume 15, page 6

Pvt

David C Freeman

Co B

3 Ala Cav

1839

1863

According to his Find a Grave Memorial this marker was added as a memorial to a soldier who drowned crossing the Tennessee River with Captain Wheeler. His actual burial site is unknown. Find A Grave Memorial #102679745, accessed November 11, 2017. Private Freeman does not appear in the records of the 3^rd Alabama Calvary, nor does a DeKalb County unit. There was a Company B of the 3^rd Confederate Calvary from DeKalb County. I cannot confirm if he served in this regiment.

Note: These brothers were sons of Elisha and Ann Freeman and their service records were almost as problematic as locating the family cemetery. It sits on a narrow shelve on the east face of Sand Mountain.  Traveling up or down the face on Highway 69 one has to be looking in the exact “right” location to see the tombstones in the winter. Forget it in the summer.  Finding a place to park is also pretty challenging.

Missionary Grove Cemetery

Location:

County Road 1141

Cullman County, Alabama

N 34° 13.033              W086° 55.553

Date of Visit: October 8, 2011

James A Parker

US Army

Confederate States Army

1839   1918

William Canant

Pvt Co L

3 Confederate Cav

Confederate States Army

Feb 17 1843

Apr 20 1921

Leeth Cemetery

Location:

Sand Valley Road

Etowah County, Alabama

N 34° 08.457              W086° 03.016

Date of Visit: January 15, 2012

BT Leeth

Co K

3 Conf Cav

1832

1905

Black Creek Baptist Church

Location:

Black Creek Road

Etowah County, Alabama

N 34° 10.764   W085° 52.801

Date of Visit: December 19, 2011

Pvt

Samuel H Foster

Co D

Ga Infantry

CSA

1822

1905

William H Logan

1st Serg Co C 28 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Oct 8 1842    Mar 12 1903

Asa Gray

Pvt Co C   3 Conf Cav

Confederate States Army

William Gray

Pvt Co I  3 Ala Cav

Confederate States Army

John M Blackwell

Co G

1 Ala Cav

In Memory of

Pvt

Jacob J Kenner

Co C

49 Ala Inf

CSA

1831

1867

Rocky Mount Cemetery

Location:

DeKalb County 530

DeKalb County, Alabama

N 34° 14.075              W085° 52.747

Date of Visits: August 14, 2011

Pvt

Francis P Patterson

Co E

12 Ala Inf

CSA

MB Cunningham

Pvt Co I  3 Conf Cav

Confederate States Army

Sep 30 1846   Mar 21 1939

Pvt

Stephen L Patterson

Co C

51 Ala Cav

CSA

1834

1864

Note: A Stephen L Patterson of Company C of the 51^st Alabama Partisan Rangers died  and was buried at Finn’s Point National Cemetery in Salem, New Jersey. This solider died October 3, 1863. Source: Confederate Military Men, Their Units and Where They Are Buried, Statewide, Alabama

Surname Pace – Payton  http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/statewide/cemetery/csa_pa.txt, accessed December 14, 2013

Pvt

Ben Reed

Co R

31 Ala Inf

CSA

1801

1865

Sgt

John G Reed

Co G

49 Ala Inf

CSA

Dec 3 1842

Mar 6 1862

Capt

Benjamin Boone

Co K

41 Tenn Inf

CSA

Mar 2 1830

Jan 26 1864

Note: Find a Grave Memorial #7354008 states that Captain Boone died while on the way home and was buried in Dekalb County, Alabama. In January of 1864 the 41^st Tennessee was in winter quarters in the Dalton, Georgia vicinity.

Harris Chapel Cemetery

Location:

Hogjaw Valley Road

Jackson County, Alabama

N 34° 57.487              W085° 39.990

Date of Visit: April 13, 2013

Pvt

Docker Hiram Gibson

Co H  21^st Ga Vols

CSA

Apr 30 1845  Sep 13 1898

In Memory of

Pvt John Gibson

Co H

21 Ga Inf

CSA

1840

1862

Gibson, John -- Private - July 2, 1861. Died near Lynchburg, Virginia August 1862. Buried there in Confederate Cemetery. No.5, 3rd Line, Lot 177-either Ford's or Crumpton's. - Company H, 21st Regiment Dade County "Silver Grays"

or "Yance Invincibles",

http://www.ranger95.com/civil_war/georgia/infantry/rosters/21st_inf_regt_rost_h.html

Pvt

Jefferson L Gentry

Co C

49 Ala Inf

CSA

Apr 11 1845

Feb 2 1917

In Memory of Pvt

Ananis A Gentry

Co C

49 Ala Inf

CSA

1864

Pvt

Albert Gallaton Gentry

Co C

49 Ala Inf

CSA

1840

1862

Pvt

Robert Lyle Hembree

Co G

3 Conf Cav

CSA

Dec 18 1825

Apr 26 1892

In memory of Pvt

Andrew J Hembree

Co K

4 Ala Inf

CSA

1843

1863

Corp

W.R. Brown Co E

55 Ala  Inf

CSA

Jul 22 1822   Jul 12 1903

16 Unknown Confederate Soldiers killed in the Battle of Ladd’s Farm February 3-4, 1865.

1 Unknown Confederate solider killed Ringgold Gap, Georgia November 27, 1863. 

Gravel Hill Cemetery

Location:

US Highway 11

Collbran, DeKalb County, Alabama

N 34°  22.659              W085°  46.784

Date of Visit: January 16, 2012

DS Killian

Serg

Co I

3 Conf Cav

Confederate States Army

Sep 29 1835

July 27 1889

In Memory of

Pvt William C Brandon

Co E

12 Ala Inf

CSA

1835

1862

Corp

Phillip

A Brandon

Co E

12 Ala Inf

CSA

1835

1915

Buried

Chicago, Ill

Ira F Dobbs

Pvt Co K  54 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Feb 14 1830   Sep 30 1918

James Davis

Pvt  Co K  3 Conf Cavalry

Confederate States Army

Aug 5 1829   Jan 31  1885

Pvt

Harris G Bruce

Co C

49 Ala Inf

CSA

1837  1865

Corp

J Bailey Bruce

Co C  49 Ala Inf

CSA

1844

1862

Capt

Samuel J Bruce

Co C  49 Ala Inf

CSA

1835

1864

HE Killian

Pvt  Co B  3 Conf Cav

Confederate States Army

1840   1916

Bethany Cemetery

Location:

Highway 11

Reece City, Etowah County, Alabama

N 34° 04.389                W086° 02.045

Date of Visit: October 2, 2011

Pvt

David Gilliland

Co B

48 Ala Inf

CSA

1818

1900

Pvt

Mercer E Gilliland

Co B

48 Ala Inf

CSA

1847

1912

Lieut

John H Sheppard

Co B

48 Ala Inf

1830

1872

Lieut

William E Clay

Co C

5 Ala Vol

CSA

Oct 14 1839   Nov 11 1902

Pvt

Jesse Millirons

Co E

13 Ga Inf

CSA

1810

1877

Robert Green Purcell

Co C

3 Cav

CSA

Abraham B Purcell

Co C

3 Conf Cav

CSA

Thomas S Reese

Maj  Co I

3 Conf  Cav

Civil War

May 12  1835   Nov 8  1894

Mineral Springs UMC

Location:
Airport Road
Dalton, Whitfield County, Georgia
N 34° 43.860  W084° 53.192

Date of Visit:  November 28, 2010

WA Britton
Co E
4 Ga Cav
CSA

Henry C Fincher
Co F
3 Conf Cav
CSA

Foster Cemetery Whitfield Co. Georgia

Foster Cemetery

Location:

Highway 201

Tunnel Hill, Whitfield County, GA

N 34° 51.276 W085° 2.532

Date of Visit: June 20, 2010

Corp

William Burnett

Co. C

3 Conf Cav

CSA

Absolom Foster

4th Serg Co D

1 Ga Inf St GDS

Confederate States Army

Sept 6 1806 Mar 16 1891

Henry Bowman

Co D

1 Ga Inf St GDS

Confederate States Army

Dec 15 1804 Nov 15 1875

Melvin J Smith

Co D

1 Ga Inf St GDS

Confederate States Army

1810 1885

James B Snell

Pvt Co B 35 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

1821 1864