Location:
Cemetery Street
Cobb County, Georgia
N 34 01.219. W084 36.931
Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 34830
Date of Visit: July 9, 2017
William P. Stanley
1844-1918
CSA
18th Ga Reg Co A
See Find A Grave Memorial 60392093 for details of Stanley’s Confederate service.
Thomas Wm Wingo
Pvt Co E 43 Ga Inf
CSA
1834 July 9, 1863
Vicksburg
Thomas William Wingo enlisted in the Confederate Army in Cumming, Georgia in 1862. At some point he served as a musician in the regimental band. At Vicksburg he apparently was wounded and died. He is buried in Soldier’s Rest section of Cedar Hill the actual circumstances of Williams death is not clear. Cemetery in Vicksburg. His date of death is five days after the surrender of Vicksburg, so actual circumstances of Thomas’ death is not clear.
- Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia. Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Thomas W. Wingo, 43rd Georgia Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, October 3, 2021, (http://www.fold3.com).
- National Park Service, Confederate Internments, Vicksburg National Military Park, accessed May 31, 2023, https://www.nps.gov/vick/learn/historyculture/confederate-interments-w.htm
J.T. Chalker
May 3, 1844
Apr 12, 1906
Jacob Taylor Chalker enlisted at Beaulieu near Savannah on March 2, 1863. He served in Company H of the 54th Georgia infantry. It is reported that he was wounded in the right arm at Kennesaw Mountain on June 18, 1864. The circumstances of this wounding is not clear. The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain occurred about nine days after the 18th. It is likely that Chalker was wounded in the action at Latimer Farm (near present day Marietta Country Club) where Walker’s Division including Mercer’s Brigade and the 54th was in the line of battle next to French’s division when three Union divisions pushed attacked. Johnson was forced to move his troops toward Kennesaw Mountain.
- Confederate Pension and Record Department. Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia 1861-1865. 7 vols. Hapeville: Longino & Porter, 1955-58. Data Systems, comp. U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009.
- William R. Scaife, The Campaign for Atlanta (Kennesaw, Georgia: Kennesaw Mountain Historical Association: Heritage Books, 2007), 190.
