Location:
Bluff Valley Road
Clay County, Alabama
N 33° 09.602 W085° 50.219
FAG: 2183386
Date of Visit: February 19, 2021
John James Jones
Co I
14 Ala Inf
CSA
JM McCain
Co G
31 Ala Inf
CSA
Martin Luther Powell
Pvt. Co B. 14 Ala Inf
Confederate States Army
Jul 30 1837 Dec 10 1902
Pvt John T. Limbaugh
Co H
22 Ala Inf
CSA
Nov 3 1864
Private Limbaugh was captured near Atlanta on August 3, 1864. During the siege of Atlanta the 22nd Alabama was in Dea’s Brigade of Hindman’s Division of S.D. Lee’s Corp. On July 28 the division established a line that extended from Lick Skillet Road to Utoy Creek. Within a few hundred yards was the Union line. For the next four weeks daily skirmishing and sharpshooting and bombardment occurred between the two line. It is likely that Limbaugh was captured during some sort of action along this line.
By August 11 he was in Nashville, Tennessee with others captured at Atlanta. He was transferred to a military prison in Louisville, Kentucky and then to Camp Chase in Ohio. He died at Camp Chase on November 3, 1864. He is buried Grave 400 in the Confederate Cemetery at Camp Chase.
- Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia. Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for A.Hill, 29th Georgia Infantry. Retrieved from at 3-Fold February 28,, 2021 (http://www.fold3.com).
- "United States Records of Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861-1865," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-G5M2-1CX?cc=1916234&wc=M8VF-PTG : 22 May 2014), OH, Camp Chase, Military Prison > Prisoner death & burial registers, 1863-1865, v. 66-68 > image 8 of 202; citing NARA microfilm publication M598 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
- The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (128 vol., Washington: Printing Office, 1880-1901), Ser.1 Vol. 33, Part 3, 769, Report No. 628, Major Gen. Patton Anderson, February 9, 1865.
