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

Saturday, January 1, 2022

Carmel Cemetery

Location:
County Road 587
Spring Garden, Cherokee County, County, Alabama
N 33° 57.597   W085° 34.532
FAG: 21978

Date of Visit: September 27, 2021




Note: There were over 25 graves marked by new Confederate battle flags. Each of these men are being researched in order to determine the unit they served with. Many of these men have death dates that indicate they likely died in service of the Confederacy.

Jesse E. McCain
1845-1899
Pvt Co A
Hillard’s Legion
CSA

John Craig
November 13 1836
Oct 26 1927
Co I 19 Ala CSA

Jackson B Whorton
Co C
1 Ga 
CSA

G.L. Dobbs
Pvt Co I 8 Ga Inf
Confederate States Army
Sep 19 1838     Jun 5 1918

Pvt
James M. Akins
Co I
19 Ala Inf
CSA
1826     1870

Pvt William A Akins
Co I
19 Ala Inf
CSA
1832       
1880


Pvt Archibald N Atkins
Co I
19 Ala Inf
CSA
1840
1907

Pvt 
John T. Atkins, Jr. 
Co I
19 Ala Inf
CSA
1836
1890

Pvt Newton C Akins
Co I
19 Ala Inf
CSA
1839
1861

Pvt Milton E Akins
Co I
19 Ala Inf
CSA
1843
1899

Pvt John Davis Akins
Co I
19 Ala Inf
CSA
1836
1920

Serg
William E Akins
Co I
19 Ala Inf
CSA
1825
1862

John Calvin Stewart
Co I
19 Ala Inf
CSA


John Glover Mitchell
Co D. 7 Regt
SC Cav
CSA
Jul 19 1821
Mar 15 1898


E.J. Stephens
Co G
40 Ga Inf
CSA
Oct 13, 1845       Aug 2 1931

For autobiographical biography see his memorial at Find-A Grave. 

  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14077910/elijah-john-stephens : accessed 01 January 2022), memorial page for Elijah John Stephens (13 Oct 1845–26 Aug 1931), Find a Grave Memorial ID 14077910, citing Carmel Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Spring Garden, Cherokee County, Alabama, USA ; Maintained by William Gorman (contributor 47658044) .

David F.
Smith
Died 
February 8, 1864
Private Co. K
4th Alabama 
Regiment
Calvary

According to his Find A Grave memorial he died of typhoid fever in 1864. 

  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87238661/david-f-smith : accessed 01 January 2022), memorial page for David F. Smith (unknown–8 Feb 1864), Find a Grave Memorial ID 87238661, citing Carmel Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Spring Garden, Cherokee County, Alabama, USA ; Maintained by DWA (contributor 47598545) .




Thursday, September 2, 2021

Cave Springs Cemetery Update

Cave Springs Cemetery Update
Location:
US Hwy 411
Floyd County, Georgia
N 34° 07.056   W085° 19.679

Date of Visit: 2/23/09

Update: 

William B. Diamond
Co. E 
8th Regt Ga Inf CSA
1840-1861

William appears on a muster roll in May of 1861. A regimental return in June reports him sick in Winchester.  He died of disease in July and was buried in the Confederate Cemetery (Line 4, Lot158) in Lynchburg, Virginian. 
  • Historical Data Systems, comp. U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009 entry for William B. Diamond, accessed September 2, 2021
  • Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.   Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for William B. Diamond, 8th Georgia Infantry, retrieved from at 3-Fold, September 2, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).

Friday, May 8, 2020

Stone Mountain City Cemetery

Location:
Silver Hill Road
Stone Mountain, DeKalb County, Georgia
N 33° 48.786     W084° 10.248
FAG Cemetery #158505
Date of Visit: January 12, 2014

Historical Marker: GHM 044-42A GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1956

Unknown Confederate Dead
Here sleep, known but to God, approximately one hundred and fifty Confederate solders, most of whom died from disease, or wounds in the Confederate hospitals that were located near this spot. Some where killed in a skirmish with Federal raiders near here on July 19, 1864.
Although Federal troops raided and burned part of this city, Confederate hospitals were not molested. Brave and gallant Confederate women rendered valuable aid in caring for soldiers in Confederate hospitals here and elsewhere. 044-42A


Serg
George P. Bradley
CO H
8 Ga Inf
State Guards
CSA
Jan 2 1823
Aug 20, 1872

Pvt
Benjamin Thomas Ivie
CO G
Cobbs Legion
Ga Inf
CSA

Sgt
WFA Dickerson
Co D
38 Regt
Ga Inf
CSA
Jul 25 1840
Jun 30 1926




Wilburn R Wells
Feb 22 1833
Jul 12 1906
2nd Lieutenant of Co. K
2nd Regt Ga Reserve Inf
CSA

Sgt
Phil B McCurdy
Co D
38 Ga Inf
CSA

J.L. Sawyer
Oct 21 1847
Jan 19 916
Co B 7th Ga

Pvt Thomas J. Thomas
Co D
38 Regt
Ga Inf
CSA
May 17 1836
June 19 1891

Rufus P. Ferguson
PFC Co A 42 Ga Regt Ga Inf
Confederate States Army
Nov 1843   May 1925

E.F. Camp
Co H
2 Ga Cav
CSA
1836 – 1925

Milton A. Herndon
Co G
43 Ga Inf
CSA


NN Humphrey
Pvt 2 Regt Ga Res Cav CSA
May 8 1848.  March 30 1914


Corp
James AJ Duren
Co h
2 Regt
Ga Cav
CSA July 14 1830
Mar 31 1909

Presley Lanier
Born 1820 38 Ga CSA
Killed at Spotsylvania CH
May 12, 1864

Presley enlisted in 1861 Murphy’s Guards of Wrights Legion. This company became  Company D of the 38th Georgia. He was captured at Fredericksburg and paroled for exchange change. He was killed in action at Spotsylvania Court House in Virginia on May 12, 1864.

His grave site is unknown and his name isn't recorded among the confederate dead buried in the Spotsylvania Confederate Cemetery.

After the war, his wife Nancy raised the couple's six dependent children and applied for and received a state pension for her husband's service. An inscription honoring Presley Lanier is carved on the back of Nancy Lanier's grave stone at Stone Mountain Cemetery, DeKalb Co., GA.



  • Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia. Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Presley Lanear, Retrieved from at 3-Fold May 8, 2020 (http://www.fold3.com).


·       "Public Member Tree," database, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 8 May 2020), "Baum-Mullennix Family Tree" family tree by MullennixFamily, Note for Presley Lanear (b. 1820 d. 1864).  








Saturday, December 9, 2017

Allen-Lee Memorial Church

Location:
Highway 54
Lone Oak, Meriwether County, Georgia
N 33° 10.521              W084° 52.032

Date of Visit: October 16, 2011

Historical Marker: Old Prospect Methodist Church  (099-07)

Note: The Culpepper Brothers at this cemetery are well documented at the Culpepper Family Tree at Culpepper Family Tree, http://www.culpepperconnections.com/ss/p32435.htm



Wesley Sewell
Pvt  Co E  64 Ga Regt
Confederate States Army
Feb 20 1864

No military records can be found for Sewell. On Ancestry he is said to have died February 20, 1864. The family tree does not cite a source for this event.

·      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 November 18, 2017. (http://www.fold3.com)
·      Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, Vol. 6, State Division of Confederate Pensions and Records. Retrieved November 17, 2017 from http://babel.hathitrust.org/.
·      Avant, Sewell, Hines, Young Family Tree, acestry.com, accessed November 18, 2017

John R. Sewell
Pvt Co B 2 Ga Vol Inf
Confederate States Army
June 2 1864

John R. Sewell enlisted at Grantville in Coweta County, Georgia on July 12, 1861. He was wounded at Garnett’s Farm or Malvern Hill in 1862. He spent time in General Hospital #13 in Richmond, Virginia. He returned to duty on September 2, 1862.  Sick again in May he was in Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond for several days with debility (weakness or feebleness). He listed as killed in action casualty in Bennings Brigade on June 20, 1864. This would be during the siege of Petersburg. His date of death given on his tombstone would match up with the Battle of Cold Harbor

·      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 9, 2017. (http://www.fold3.com)




William J Culpepper
Serg  Co C  17 Texas Cav
Confederate States Army
Dec 23 1837  April 4 1864

William Jefferson Culpepper military record is for service in Company F of the 17th Texas Calvary. He was killed in the Battle of Mansfield, Louisiana He was killed in a cavalry charge.  In an earlier charge he was knocked down by a ball to the chest that was stopped by his Bible. He is thought to be buried on the battlefield.

·      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 November 18, 2017. (http://www.fold3.com)
·      Culpepper Family Tree, http://www.culpepperconnections.com/ss/p32435.htm



John W Culpepper
Georgia
Pvt Co D  8 Regt Ga Inf
Confederate States Army
July 8, 1835    August 16 1864

John Wesley Culpepper enlisted in Meriwether County Georgia on May 18, 1861. He was elected 2nd Lieutenant of Company D on January 126, 1862. His records suggest that at some point he was commanding the company with his Lieutenant rank. He was killed at the Battle of  Mill in Henrico County, Virginian on August 16, 1864. He died in the arms of his brother Simeon. Simeon buried him near the battlefield.

·      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 November 18, 2017. (http://www.fold3.com)
·      Culpepper Family Treee, http://www.culpepperconnections.com/ss/p32435.htm


Simeon F Culpepper
Georgia
Sgt  Co D  8 Regt Ga Inf
Confederate States Army
Oct 11 1842    June 22 1929


Thomas Joel Culpepper
Pvt 2 Ga State GDS
Confederate States Army
Jun 5 1847    Sep 20 1920


Noah Smith Culpepper
Georgia
Captain Co G  7 Regt Ga Inf
Confederate States Army
May 17 1840   Apr 25 1929


Cash Willingham Jr.
Pvt Co K   55 Ga Regt
Confederate States Army
Sep 1 1843    June 28 1862

William Parker Sewell
Pvt Co K 55 Regt Ga Inf
Confederate States Army
August 21, 1841   Oct 19, 1918

Henry A White
Co K
55 Ga INf
CSA

Jacob Albright
Co B
2 Ga Inf
CSA

William Morgan Fling
Georgia
Sgt Co E 1 Regt Ga Res
Confederate States Army
March 4 1847  Sept 2 1906

John M Powerledge
Co D 8 Ga Regt
Confederate States Army
1843      1867

Thomas Joel Culpepper
Pvt 2 Ga State GDS
Confederate States Army
Jun 5 1847    Sep 20 1920


Noah Smith Culpepper
Georgia
Captain Co G  7 Regt Ga Inf
Confederate States Army
May 17 1840   Apr 25 1929

James D Culpepper
Georgia
Pvt Co B  1 Regt Ga Cav
Confederate States Army
March 26 1834    Nov 1 1903

JJ Hunt
Co H
4 Ga Cav
CSA

Samuel D Ellis
Georgia
Pvt Co B  1 Regt Ga Cav
Confederate States Army
March 16 1834   March 8 1893


JS Willingham
Georgia
Pvt Co B  1 Regt Cav
Confederate States Army
Feb 13 1845    Dec 15 1932


















Thursday, April 10, 2014

Ami Cemetery


Location:
Jamestown Road
Menlo, Chattooga County, Georgia
N 34° 28.148    W085° 29.827

Date of Visit: June 19, 2011

John K Willingham
Co B
9 Batt
Ga Cav
CSA
1815
1887

Sgt
Alfred Day
Co H
48 Ala Inf
CSA

Joseph Grady Blaylock
Pvt Co E
11 Regt Ga Inf
Confederate States army
Mar 18 1832 
Dec 15 1914

The following ten graves were arranged two rows in one section of the cemetery.

2d Lieut
AJ Weaver
Co C 39 Ga Inf
CSA
Apr 15 1849
Dec 25 1917

2 Corp
William A Hammett
Co H 8 Regt
Ga Vol Inf
CSA
1828
1893

Pvt
John Calvin
Co K
3 Ga Cav
CSA
Aug 23 1838
Jul 25 1900

Pvt
J.N.N. Powers
Co G
6 Ga State Guards
CSA
Jan 1 1822
May 4 1895

Pvt Charles C Calvin
CSA
Apr 10 1843
Jan 31 1920
Co K 3 Ga Cav

Pvt
BT Tucker
Co K Ga Infantry
CSA
Sep 11 1841   Jan 17 1918

Pvt
William M Calvin
Co G
19 Ala Inf
CSA
Jul 26 1835
Jan 1 1917

Pvt
Willaim G Wofford
Co G
19 Ala Inf
CSA
Jun 3 1820
Feb 12 1914



Pvt
Frank M Deering
Co G
19 Ala Inf
CSA
Sep 1 1832
Mar 29 1920

Pvt
M C Boyd
Co B
1 Ga Inf
CSA
Feb 14 1836
Apr 4 1922




Sunday, January 12, 2014

Pleasant Grove Baptist Church


Location:
Highway 17
Lavonia, Franklin County, Georgia
N 34° 24. 864              W083° 06.218

Date of Visit: August 1, 2012

Leander Hughes
Pvt Co C  11 Ga Cav
Confederate States Army
Oct 5 1823    Jun 19 1904


J Tllman Tribble
Co B
8 Ga Inf
CSA

Thomas J Bartlett
Pvt Co K 2 Ga Vol Inf
Confederate States Army
1847   June 12, 1888

Sunday, December 29, 2013

Rock Springs UMC - Walker County, Georgia


Location:
Highway 95
Rock Springs, Walker County, Georgia
N 34° 48.968              W085° 14.167

Date of Visits: May 27, 2011

Samuel W. Smith
Co D
1 Ga Inf
CSA
Feb 4 1841 
May 31 1871

James Weaver
Pvt Co E
59 Tenn Mtd Inf
Confederate States Army
July 17 1843   1929

Actg Asst Surgeon
James S Glenn
1 Ga Regt
CSA
1833
1915

James Robert Jones
Co G
8 Ga Inf
CSA

William Anderson Weaver
1st Lieut Co K 39 Ga Infantry
Confederate States Army

T.P. Norman
Co C
40 Ga Inf
CSA

David C Payne
Co D
3 Conf Engrs
CSA



The following men are marked with iron Southern Crosses of Honor:
W.F. Bowman
J.H. Bird
William Shields
James Turner
John D Stargell
Thomas L Tarpy
George S Smith
Josiah M Henry
Calvin H Davis
Samuel Ezell
James Madison Wellborn
B.N. Pursley
James Knox Forrester
T.B. Arnold
J.T. Coffman
E.V. Bird
W. H. Smith
Ree Jones
James Madison Hill
J.W. Barnes

Saturday, August 17, 2013

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

1st 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 6th 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 3rd 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








Saturday, April 21, 2012

Blue Pond Cemetery



Location:
Kearce Road
Floyd County, Georgia
N 34° 16.401   W085° 03.348

Date of Visit: February 21, 2012


Benjamin F Lanhan
Pvt
Co I Ga State Gds
Confederate States Army
1843    1887

Elias G Carnes
Co H
8 Ga Inf
CSA


Friday, February 25, 2011

Trinity United Methodist Church

Location:
Old Peachtree Road
Duluth, Gwinnett County, Georgia
N 34° 00.100   W084° 04.752

Date of Visit: February 19, 2011


J P Davis
Co F
16 Ga Inf
CSA

J W Langley
Co E
8 Ga Inf
CSA
Aug 31 1846
July 3 1833

CP Brannon
2 Ga Cav
CSA

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Hermitage Cemetery

Location:
Intersection of Old Calhoun Road and Calhoun Road
Shannon, Floyd County, Georgia
N 34° 19.876  W085° 04.594

Date of Visit: November 24, 2010

Tombstone:

R P Watters
Co A 8th Ga

Plaque:

Richard P. Watters

Georgia 8th Infantry Regiment
Co “A” Rome Light Guards
April 6, 1837 – Sept 24, 1862
Wounded Sept. 17, 1862 at the battle of
Antietam, Sharpsburg, MD. Died of his wounds and is buried in the
Confederate section of the Elmwood
Cemetery, Shepherdstown, West Virginia.
A new headstone replaced this original
headstone, June 2001.

Monday, November 1, 2010

Pleasant Hill United Methodist Church

Location:
West Armurchee Road
Walker County, Georgia
N 34° 37.070 W085° 11.722

Date of Visit: October 19, 2010

Abraham Harrison Neal
Pvt Co F
8 Ga Inf
Confederate States Army
Dec 8 1840 Jul 31 1914

Reece Bowen Neal
Capt Co H 23 Ga Inf
Army of Northern Virginian
Confederate States Army
Jun 12 1831 Mar 15 1904

James M Coulter
Co I
60 Ga Inf
CSA
Jun 6 1819 May 17 1925

A Note to Visitors