Pleasant Grove Cemetery

Location:

Polk County 630

Ft. Meade, Polk County, Florida

N 27° 44.938    W081° 45.897

Date of Visit: June 7, 2011

Thomas Hilliard

Co A

2 Fla Cav

Cpl

Edward J Hilliard

Co K

8 Fla Inf

CSA

James M Manley

4 Corp Co K 8 Fla Inf

Confederate States Army

Apr 20 1837  Feb 26 1905

BH King

Co G

5 Ga Cav

Wm W Willingham

Born Jan 25 1842

Died June 6 1910

Southern Cross of Honor

I think this man may served in Company K of the 8^th Florida Infantry. Company K was made up of men from Hillsborough County.  Polk County was formed from Hillsborough and Brevard. William Willingham enlisted in the CSA at Fort Brook near Tampa in 1862. He was wounded at Gettysburg and remained absent without leave.

Source: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Florida. Original data from: The National Archives, Retrieved from at 3-Fold February 12, 2014 (http://www.fold3.com).

Oak Lawn Cemetery

Location:

Highway 49

Fort Valley, Peach County, Georgia

N 34° 57.487              W085° 39.990

Date of Visit: March 16, 2013

Captain

John Houser

1 Ga Inf

CSA

Capt

Samuel Bradford Brown

Co K 32 Va Inf

Stephen Lafayette Wilson

Co A

8 Regt Ga Militia

CSA

Jan 30 1823  Oct 16 1909

Major

Jesse C McDonal

4 Ga Cav

CSA

John T Hartley

Co C

2 Bn Ga Inf

CSA

Henry P Everett

Co L

57 Ga Inf

CSA

Sgt

Benjamin W Sanford

Co E  57 Ga Inbf

CSA

Pvt W.M. Thompson

1842-1863

Co E 3 Ga Inf CSA

Note:

Thompson, William M.----- private April 26, 1861. Captured, Gettysburg, Pa. July 2, 1863. No later record.

Muster Roll of Company E, 3rd Regiment Georgia Volunteer infantry Army Northern Virginia C.S.A.  Houston County, Georgia ("Governor's Guard"),  excerpted from Roster of Confederate Soldiers of Georgia 1861 – 1865, compiled by Lillian Henderson, ca 1900, http://www.3gvi.org/ga3rostere.html

1^st Liet

Thomas J Gurr

Co B

51 Ga Inf

CSA

Jan 27 1838   Dec 4 1884

W.B Thweatt

Co H

45 Ga Inf

CSA

Captain

John Hamilton

Co E

3 Ga Inf

1st Lieut

Wm J Anderson

Co E

57 Ga Inf

CSA

John Bruce Finley

Co A

1 Ga Inf

CSA

Brig General

Charles D Anderson

3 Brig Ga Mil

CSA

Anderson was a respected merchant in Fort Valley of Houston County, Georgia before the War. He was elected Captain of the Beauregard Volunteers. This company was raised from the men of Fort Valley. The company was organized into the 6^th Georgia Infantry Regiment. At Antietam Anderson was wounded, taken prisoner, and sent to Fort Delaware. Upon release he was promoted to Major of the regiement. At Chancellorsville he was wounded. After the battle he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. In fall of 1863 Anderson was elected the Georgia State Legislature. He served a term in the State Legislature and then returned to light duty in order to fully recuperate from his wounds. In 1864 he was called back to Atlanta by Georgia Governor Brown to aid in the defense of the city. He resigned from the Confederate Army and ultimately was given command of the 3^rd Brigade of Georgia Militia as Brigadier General.  Within a few days Anderson is back in the CSA when Governor Brown turns over the militia to General Johnston.

Digested from The War-History
of Company "C"
(Beauregard Volunteers)

 Sixth Georgia Regiment,
(infantry) With A Graphic Account of Each Member. Wendell D. Croom, Esq’r.,
Of Houston County Georgia, and Published by the Survivors of the Company, Fort Valley, Georgia, 1879.

http://www.perryhistoricalsociety.org/genealogy/family_lines/croom/crooms-war_history.html

Samuel E Austin

Co E

57 Ga Inf

CW Shepard

Co D

5 Regt Ga Cav

CSA

July 31 1847

Dec 15 1906

Robert L Braswell

Co E

57 Ga Inf

CSA

Capt

Isham H Branham

Co E

57 Ga Inf

CSA

John R Matthews

Co E

57 Ga Inf

CSA

1 Lieut

Wm J Anderson

Co E

57 Ga Inf