Hopper Family Cemetery

Location:

US Highway 411

Gordon County, Georgia

N34 31.322 W084 42.503

FAG: 2449118

Date of Visit: May 26, 2021

In Memory of 

John Angel

Hopper

Died A CSA War

Capt. In Yazoo, Miss

Born 1825

Died 1863

John Angel Hooper was commissioned as Captain of Company E 8th Battalion of Infantry on September 23, 1861.  Company E was raised in Gordon Coyunty, Georgia and was known as Freeman’s Volunteers. Captain Hopper and the company served coastal defense duty until being sent west in May of 1863. He died of fever in Yazoo during the movement to relieve Vicksburg on June 11, 1863.  He is thought to have been buried somewhere in Mississippi. See his Find a Grave Memorial page for more details. 

• Find a Grave, database and images (www.findagrave.com/memorial/49493910/john-angel-hopper : accessed 27 May 2021), memorial page for Capt John Angel Hopper (1825–11 Jun 1863), Find a Grave Memorial ID 49493910, citing Hopper Family Cemetery, Ranger, Gordon County, Georgia, USA ; Maintained by Kathy Gatlin (contributor 46822976) .

• Lulie Pitts, History of Gordon County, Georgia, (Calhoun: The Press of Calhoun Times, 1934), 138.

Corinth Church Graveyard

Location:

Corinth Road

Pickens County, Georgia

N34.43135       W084.28278

Date of Visit: October 4, 2013

John A. Satterfield 

Co N

38 Ga Inf

CSA

William C Redden

Co D

24 Ga Inf

CSA

James Whitten Dobson

Capt Co G 8 BN Ga Inf

Feb 16, 1828    Mar 26, 1862

Nathaniel Milesberry Dobson

Pvt Co G 8 Batt Ga Inf

Aug 2, 1825       Jun 22 1862

James Whitten Dobson and Nathaniel Milesberry Dobson were children of Neely Dobson Jr. and Zilpah Goss.  Both joined a local Pickens County company of volunteers. James was elected Captain on October 1, 1861.  This company became Company G, 8th Battalion of Georgia Infantry in early 1862. The regiment was stationed at Camp Black in Savannah Georgia. In March Captain Dobson died of pneumonia and was replaced by Lieutenant Benjamin Goss. On June 11 the regiment moved to Camp Beaulieu some 14 miles away. Camp Beaulieu was located at the 515 area Beaulieu Plantation on the Vernon River. Gun batteries were established here to protect various approaches to Savannah. On the 22nd of June, Private N.M. Dobson died of pneumonia while stationed here. 

Sources

Robert Walker Groves. "Beaulieu Plantation." The Georgia Historical Quarterly 37, no. 3 (1953): 200-09. Accessed February 16, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40577452.

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for James W. Dobson, 8th Georgia Battalion Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold February 16, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for N.M. Dobson, 8th Georgia Battalion Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold February 16, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Field & Staff, 8th Georgia Battalion Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold February 16, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).

Eugene Perry, The Neeley Dobson Family. Ancestry.com: accessed February 16, 2021. from: The National Archives, Entry for James W. Dobson, 8th Georgia Battalion Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold February 16, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).

"Public Member Tree," database, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 16 Apr 2021), "Perigo/Armstrong Family Tree" family tree by Julie Fost, profile and gallery for Neely Dobson Jr. (1797-1858). 

Robert Walker Groves. "Beaulieu Plantation." The Georgia Historical Quarterly 37, no. 3 (1953): 200-09. Accessed February 16, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40577452.

Harmony Cemetery

Location:

Harmony Church Road

Calhoun, Gordon County, Georgia

34.507500     -84.916702

Date of Visit: June 16, 2018

B. R. Bray

Co C

63 Ga Inf

CSA

1842 - 1916

Capt

William Holsonbeck

Co C

8 Bn Ga Inf

April 10 1829

Dec 17 1884

Captain Holsonbeck was captured near Atlanta July 28, 1864. He was a prisoner of war at Johnson Island, Ohio. He was released on his oath in accordance with General Order 109 on June 14, 1865. - 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 June 17,2018. (http://www.fold3.com)

Sugar Valley United Methodist Church

Location:

Old Rome-Dalton Road

Gordon County, Georgia

N 34° 33.075              W085° 01.714

Date of Visit: April 6, 2017

Robert Wood

Co K

14 Regt

Ga Inf

CSA

Mar 22 1821

Oct 26 1900

4^th Corp

John C Baugh

Co F 8 Batt

Ga Inf

CSA

1807     1875

Oak Hill Cemetery (In part)

Location:

Cartersville, Bartow County, Georgia

Date of Visit: May 30, 2010

John L Satterfield

Pvt Co I 23 Regt Ga Inf

Confederate States Army

1834   1864

Enlisted at Camp McDonald in 1861. He is reported at various muster rolls as sick in Gordon County, Georgia. He was discharged due to disability in 1862. - 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 21,  2014 (http://www.fold3.com)

Larkin B Satterfield

3 Lieut  Murray Rangers

Mounted Militia

Murray Co Georgia

1806   1889

S. Jasper Satterfield

Pvt Co A  8 Batt’n Ga Inf

Confederate States army

1844 1864

Enlisted in Calhoun, Georgia on October 3, 1861. He died May 20, 1864. No cause of death was given. - 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 21, 2014 (http://www.fold3.com)

James N Vaughan

Capt  18 Ga Inf

Confederate States Army

Oct 15 1822   Oct 18 1871

Lafayette City Cemetery

Location:
Shaw Street
Lafayette, Walker County, Georgia
N 34° 42.451  W085° 16.686

Date of Visit: May 27, 2011


15 Unknown CSA Soldiers

William C Lewis
Co H
14 Tenn Cav
CSA

W.G. Cowley and W.E. Gibson
Co C 16th Confederate Cav.

John D Taylor
6 Reg Ga Vol
CSA

JF Wardlaw
Co C
60 Ga Inf
CSA

Ord Sgt
E L Culberson
Co I
60 Ga Inf
CSA
Dec 9 1839
Aug 25 1933

2 Lt
Thomas J Foster
Co K
39 Ga Inf
CSA

George W Gentry
Georgia
Pvt Co G
11 Regt Ga Inf
Confederate States Army
1841-1914

John E Shuford
Co A
14 NC State Troops CSA

Serg
Russell M Cassady
Co G
9 Ga Inf
CSA

A.M. Higgins
Co H
2 Ga Inf
CSA

Stuart Murphree
8th Battalion Ga
CSA

Nathan Campbell Napier
December 22 1834  January 21 1902
Captain Company K 6th Georgia
Calvary CSA

Joseph P Phipps
Co I
60 Ga Inf
CSA
May 17 1844

Hamilton G Moore
Corp  9 Ga Inf
Confederate states Army
May 8 1837
Feb 21 1923

Harmon L Center
Co G
9 Ga Inf
CSA


The graves of the following men were marked by Confederate flags:
J. H. Webb
Dr. G.S. Cochran
Capt J.C. Wardlaw
Rev. Marqus Edwards
J.A. Clements
Rev. Wm T Russell
B.J. Trail
James Andrew Park
W.B. Dickerson
H.B. Johnston

Wofford’s Crossroads Baptist Church Cemetery

Location:
White, Bartow County, Georgia
N 34° 16.367  W084° 45.326

Date of Visits: February 12, 2011


1st Lieut
James W Wofford
Co I
40 Ga Inf
CSA
1831
1864

James A White
Pvt Co A  8 Bn Ga Inf
Confederate States Army
Oct 22 1832  Feb 3 1925

Spencer B Yancy
Sgt  Co L  36 Regt Ga Inf
Confederate States Army
Dec 1 1834  Jul 9 1909

Mus
James R Rich
Co H
18 Ga Inf
CSA

James Spencer McEver
Co A
8 Ga Batt
Confederate States Army
1833  1919

Cedar Creek Baptist Church

Location:

Foster’s Mill Road

Floyd County, Georgia

N 34° 10.110   W085° 20.493

Date of Visit: December 30, 2010

Pvt

Lysander Sam Huckaby

Co G

1 Ga Cav

CSA

Jan 1845

Sep 1925

Corp

H W Fuqua

Co A

8 Bn Ga Inf

CSA

Hugh Blair McGee

Pvt Co D  65 Ga Infantry

Confederate States Army

1840  1892

East Damascus Cemetery

Location:

East Damascus Road

Gordon County, Georgia

N 34° 28.856              W084° 39.584

Date of Visit:  December 11, 2010

William T Coggins

Cpl  Co E  40 Ga Inf

Confederate State Army

Dec 24 1842  Mar 19 1903

Pvt James Cochran

Co E 8Bn

Ga Inf

CSA

June 13 1846  Mar 19  1921

East Armurchee Baptist Church

Location:

East Armurchee Road

Walker County, Georgia

N 34° 37.597 W085° 07.834

Date of Visit: October 19, 2010

1st Sgt

B F Elsberry

Co L

4 Ga Cav

CSA

Serg

David Tallant Keith

Co F

8 Bn

Ga Inf

CSA

1833

1865

In Memory

Oak Grove Cemetery

Location:

Oak Grove Road

Gordon County, Georgia

N 34° 23.644 W084° 59.934

Date of Visits: 5/31/2009

Pvt Milan A Gunn

Co A 8 Bn Ga Inf CSA

Apr 28, 1828

May 24 1900

John G Poole

Co I 59 Ga Inf

CSA