Location:Georgia Highway 22Hancock County, GeorgiaN 33° 21.133 W082° 55.768Find-A Grave # 2169058Date of Visit: November 21, 2020Henry T. MitchellCo E7 Ga CavCSAJames A, son of Thomas and Cassandra SummerBorn Jany 7, 1844Died August 16, 1864Aged 20 years, 7 months and 9 daysJames enlisted in Company D of the 4th Georgia Reserves in Atlanta in May of 1864. From May until December this unit was on station at Andersonville military prison. James died on August 16, 1864. There is conflict information about his place of death. His Find-a-Grave biography states that he died at Andersonville. However, he place of death is recorded as Powelton, Georgia on his service cards. Powelton is a community about 8 miles northeast of the graveyard.• 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 December 15, 2020. (http://www.fold3.com)• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 15 December 2020), memorial page for James Abner Summers (7 Jan 1844–16 Aug 1864), Find a Grave Memorial no. 20108031, citing Smyrna United Methodist Church Cemetery, Hancock County, Georgia, USA ; Maintained by Find a Grave (contributor 8) .• Stewart Sifakis, Compendium of the Confederate Armies: South Carolina and Georgia. (Westminster, Maryland: Heritage Books, 2007), 190.
