Location:
West Screven Street
Quitman, Brooks County, Georgia
30.78440 -83.56690
Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 37666
Date of Visit: June 29, 2014
Unknown Confederate Dead
During this last year of the war West Cemetery was used for the burial of 17 Confederate soldiers. Some are marked by Veteran Administration Confederate headstones and others are marked by what appears o be locally carved headstones.
2 Lieut
John S Hopson
Co D
17 Ga Inf
CSA
Chales Quarterman
Coast Guard BN
Ga Mil
CSA
2nd Lt
James B Finch
50 Ga Inf
CSA
Malcom Smith McIntosh
Co C 29 BN Ga Cav
Confederate States Army
Feb 14 1823 Oct 31 1877
Henry H Strickland
Co K
50 Ga Inf
CSA
1834 1875
Henry Gray Turner
Mar 20, 1839
June 8, 1904
Captain in Confederate Army
Member of Congress 1880-1890
Georgia Supreme Court Justice
July 1903-April 1904
Captain Turner served as the Captain of Company H, 23rd North Carolina Infantry. He was captured at Gettysburg in 1863. H was paroled and exchanged in 1864.
- Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7780787/henry-gray-turner: accessed 29 April 2023), memorial page for Henry Gray Turner (20 Mar 1839–9 Jun 1904), Find a Grave Memorial ID 7780787, citing West End Cemetery, Quitman, Brooks County, Georgia, USA; Maintained by Find a Grave.
William Baker Bennett
1827-1908
In 2014 he was marked with a Southern Cross of Honor. He is said to have enlisted in Confederate service. He was discharged and sent home due to disability.
- Folks Huxford, The History of Brooks County, (Quitman: Daughters of the American Revolution, 1948): 426. ancestry.com
Cap John G McCall L.L.D.
Jan 18, 1836 - Dec 3 1921
In 2014 his grave was marked with a Southern Cross of Honor. He volunteered for Confederate service a 1st Lieutenant off Company K of the 50th Georgia Infantry. He was severely wounded after the Battle of Antietam while engaged in holding a bridge. The wound to his face was som severe he was left on the field for dead. He was eventually nursed back to health and returned home to Brooks County.
- Folks Huxford, The History of Brooks County, (Quitman: Daughters of the American Revolution, 1948): 549. ancestry.com
Benjamin Waters Sinclair
1812-1878
In 2014 his grave was marked with the Southern Cross of Honor.
Huxford reports that Sinclair was too old for line duty, but he served on Governor Brown’s staff during the war.
- Folks Huxford, The History of Brooks County, (Quitman: Daughters of the American Revolution, 1948): 513. ancestry.com
