Location:
Silver Hill Road
Stone Mountain, DeKalb County, Georgia
N 33° 48.786 W084° 10.248
FAG Cemetery #158505
Date of Visit: January 12, 2014
Historical Marker: GHM 044-42A GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1956
Unknown Confederate Dead
Here sleep, known but to God, approximately one hundred and fifty Confederate solders, most of whom died from disease, or wounds in the Confederate hospitals that were located near this spot. Some where killed in a skirmish with Federal raiders near here on July 19, 1864.
Although Federal troops raided and burned part of this city, Confederate hospitals were not molested. Brave and gallant Confederate women rendered valuable aid in caring for soldiers in Confederate hospitals here and elsewhere. 044-42A
Serg
George P. Bradley
CO H
8 Ga Inf
State Guards
CSA
Jan 2 1823
Aug 20, 1872
Pvt
Benjamin Thomas Ivie
CO G
Cobbs Legion
Ga Inf
CSA
Sgt
WFA Dickerson
Co D
38 Regt
Ga Inf
CSA
Jul 25 1840
Jun 30 1926
Wilburn R Wells
Feb 22 1833
Jul 12 1906
2nd Lieutenant of Co. K
2nd Regt Ga Reserve Inf
CSA
Sgt
Phil B McCurdy
Co D
38 Ga Inf
CSA
J.L. Sawyer
Oct 21 1847
Jan 19 916
Co B 7th Ga
Pvt Thomas J. Thomas
Co D
38 Regt
Ga Inf
CSA
May 17 1836
June 19 1891
Rufus P. Ferguson
PFC Co A 42 Ga Regt Ga Inf
Confederate States Army
Nov 1843 May 1925
E.F. Camp
Co H
2 Ga Cav
CSA
1836 – 1925
Milton A. Herndon
Co G
43 Ga Inf
CSA
NN Humphrey
Pvt 2 Regt Ga Res Cav CSA
May 8 1848. March 30 1914
Corp
James AJ Duren
Co h
2 Regt
Ga Cav
CSA July 14 1830
Mar 31 1909
Presley Lanier
Born 1820 38 Ga CSA
Killed at Spotsylvania CH
May 12, 1864
Presley enlisted in 1861 Murphy’s Guards of Wrights Legion. This company became Company D of the 38th Georgia. He was captured at Fredericksburg and paroled for exchange change. He was killed in action at Spotsylvania Court House in Virginia on May 12, 1864.
His grave site is unknown and his name isn't recorded among the confederate dead buried in the Spotsylvania Confederate Cemetery.
After the war, his wife Nancy raised the couple's six dependent children and applied for and received a state pension for her husband's service. An inscription honoring Presley Lanier is carved on the back of Nancy Lanier's grave stone at Stone Mountain Cemetery, DeKalb Co., GA.
- Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia. Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Presley Lanear, Retrieved from at 3-Fold May 8, 2020 (http://www.fold3.com).
· "Public Member Tree," database, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 8 May 2020), "Baum-Mullennix Family Tree" family tree by MullennixFamily, Note for Presley Lanear (b. 1820 d. 1864).
