Showing posts with label 8th Georgia Battalion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 8th Georgia Battalion. Show all posts

Friday, December 10, 2021

Macedonia Baptist Church Cemetery

Location:
Macedonia Road
Gilmer County, Georgia
N 34° 40.613   W084° 19.648
Find A Grave # 35120 

Date of Visit: December 2, 2021

Pvt
Franklin Benson Walker
Co C
39 Regt
Ga Inf
CSA
Oct 7 1841
Mar 11 1890


F.M. Mulinax
Nov 9 1842
May 19 1891
Inft Co H 5 Tenn Reg


Millis Killian McClure
Pvt Co D 6 Georgia Cav
Confederate States Army
Dec 20 1833   Apr 3 1912

Isaac Webster Rackley
1844-1918
Confederate Soldier Civil War
Wounded in Battle of 
Franklin Tenn Nov 1864


Issac enlisted in Company C of the 8th Georgia Battalion. In the battle of Franklin he was wounded in his left shoulder and captured by Union forces. On December 26 he was admitted to Number 1, USA General Hospital in Nashville. As a prisoner of war he would be sent to Camp Chase, Ohio and then to Point Lookout, Maryland. On June 5, 1865 he signed the Oath of Allegiance. 

Issac applied for a pension because of the disability caused by the gunshot wound. In the application it is said that the ball entered his left shoulder at the junction of his collar bone and breast bone, passing through the left shoulder coming out the backside of his left arm, passing thorough the should joint. Bones was said to have be shattered. The joint was rendered useless.  

  • Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Isaac Rackly, 8th Georgia Infantry Battalion, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, Deceber 10, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).
  • Ancestry.com. Georgia, U.S., Confederate Pension Applications, 1879-1960 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009.
Original data:Confederate Pension Applications, Georgia Confederate Pension Office, RG 58-1-1, Georgia Archives.


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