Mills Family Cemetery

Location:

Haywood Valley Road

Chattanooga County, Georgia

34°30’25.9’ N  85° 10’ 50.2’ 

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 35379

Date of Visit: December 14, 2023

Hugh M Mills

Co F

6 Bn Ga Cav

CSA

1813

1872

Anderson Cemetery

Location:

Haywood Valley Road

Chattooga County, Georgia

34.48670, -85.18420

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 32517

Date of Visit: December 14, 2023

Corp

Stephen A. Anderson

Co C

23 Ga Inf

CSA

Dec 6 1841    Jan 28, 1916

Pvt

John L. Wright

Co F

6 BN Ga Cav

CSA

Oct 16 1811

Feb 8, 1877

Pvt Cador G. Wright

CI I

35 Ga Inf

CSA

Oct 21, 1838

Apr 28, 1868

Alpine Community Church

Alpine Community Church

Location:

State Road 337

Menlo, Chattooga County, Georgia

N 34° 27.691   W085° 29.031

Find A Grave Cemetery ID:2213087

Date of Visit: September 23, 2022

In memory of Adam Miller Rice

April 17, 1821 – Jun 10, 1864

In Confederate Service

Killed near Alpine, Georgia

Erected 1979 by his Grandchildren

Margaret Rice in 1896 stated that her deceased husband Adam M. Rice was a private in Captain Millsap’s Company of Alabama Cavalry. This company was a part of Davenport’s Battalion. 

• Ancestry.com. Alabama, U.S., Civil War Soldiers, 1860-1865 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Original data: Civil War Soldiers. Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama.

In Memory of

John W Cline

Pvt Co F 10 Tenne Inf

Civil War

1842

John W. Cline of Sullivan’s Branch, Cheatham County, Tennessee was a member of the Union 10th Tennessee. 

There are 23 cenotaphs located in the new section of this cemetery. These VA Confederate headstones were put up for those soldiers buried in the Alpine Cemetery that did not have a military marker. 

Pvt

William G. Agnew

Co B

9 Ga Inf

CSA

Sept 18, 1837

May 12 1863

William enlisted in Summerville June 12, 1861 as a member of the Chattooga Volunteers company. He served as an ordinance teamster in early 1863. He died of disease in Petersburg, Virginia on May 12, 1863. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for W.G. Agnew, 9th Georgia Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, October 5, 2022,  (http://www.fold3.com).

Leroy Davis Agnew

Co E

6 Ga Cav

CSA

Jul 14 1846  Sep 4, 1917

AL Barry

Co E

6 Ga Ca

CSA

Sep 8 1833    Apr 25, 1889

2nd Serg

Alfred L Alexander

Co K  Ga Inf

CSA

Apr 28, 1842   Sept 17, 1906

Pvt William Beavers

Co E

6 Ga Cav

CSA

Mar 28 1845     Jan 11 1877

Serg

CC Boyle

Co G

6 Ga State Guards

CSA

Aug 9 1824

May 27 1890

Amariah Hassell

Co E

6 Ga Cav

Aug 22 1810

Jul 13 1895

2nd Lieut

James D King

CSA

Co H

39 Ga Inf

Jul 28 1830

Jan 10 1915

Lieutenant King entered the service as a private in May of 1862. He served until March of 1864 when he resigned as he had been elected the Chattooga County Receiver of Taxes in January. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for J.M.D. King, 39th Georgia Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, October 18, 2022,  (http://www.fold3.com).

Pvt

Christopher C Knox

Co B

9 Ga Inf

CSA

Apr 9 1822   Jun 17, 1897

Serg

Basil Lamar Knox

Co B

9 Ga Inf

CSA

Jan 7 1842

Feb 29 1908

Pvt

LM Herndon

Co C

60 Ga Inf

CSA

Sept 15 1826

Aug 26 1909

John Montgomery

Co H

39 Ga Inf

CSA

Mar 24 1842

Apr 29 1862

John Montgomery enlisted in the service on March 4, 1862. He was killed or wounded on April 29, 1862 at Bridgeport. There is a record of  John Montgomery dying at the Newson Hospital in Chattanooga, Tennessee on May 2 1862 and of his father claiming his effects. In Bridgeport there a marker for John Montgomery II whose was killed April 29, 1862 in Battle of Bridgeport. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for John M. Montgomery, 39th Georgia Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, October 5, 2022,  (http://www.fold3.com).
• “Bridgeport” The Historical Marker Database, https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=83788
• Henderson, Lilian, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia 1861-1865, Volume 4, Longino & Porteer, Hapeville, 1960, page 323

John H Hutchins

Co E

Ga Cav

CSA

Jan 29 1832   Jun 19 1880

J.H. Hutchins was a private in Company E of the 6th Georgia Calvary. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for J.H. Hutchins, 6th Georgia Calvary, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, October 19, 2022,  (http://www.fold3.com).

Pvt

J Loyd Neal

Co B 9 Ga Inf

CSA

Mar 30 1842    Nov 13 1912

Pvt

Isaac S Smith

Co E 6 Ga Inf

CSA

June 26 1820    Sept 20 1897

There was an Isaac Smith in Company E of the 6th Georgia Calvary. He enlisted in Summerville. There is not a record of Isaac Smith in the 6th Georgia Infantry. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Isaac Smith, 6th Georgia Calvary, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, October 19, 2022,  (http://www.fold3.com).

Pvt

Isaac Gilbert

Co D 34 Ga Inf

CSA

Oct 8 1824

Jun 15 1905

1st Lieut

Thomas J Knox

Co B

9 Ga Inf

CSA

Feb 21 1831

Aug 8 1882

2D Lieut

Joseph M Wyatt

Co E

6 Ga Cav

CSA

Feb 21 1831

Aug 8 1882

James R. Wyatt

Co E 

6 Ga Cav

CSA

Jul 8 1839    

Sep 24 1902

Pvt

Virgil F Wyatt

Co E  

6 Ga Cav

CSA

Jul 25 1845

Jun 8 1900

Pvt

James A Neal

Co B

9 Ga Inf

CSA

1837

1881

James Aldophus Neal was a private in Company B of the 9th Georgia Infantry. On October 18, 1861 he was admitted to Chimborazo Hospital #2 in Richmond, Virginia with Typhoid Fever. James died on the 5th of November. 

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/41733603/james-adophus-neal: accessed 30 October 2022), memorial page for Dr James Adophus Neal (1837–5 Nov 1861), Find a Grave Memorial ID 41733603, citing Alpine Community Church Cemetery, Menlo, Chattooga County, Georgia, USA; Maintained by Patti Lee (contributor 46799858) .
• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for J.A. Neal, 9th  Georgia Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, October 30, 2022,  (http://www.fold3.com).

Pvt

William M Smith

Co K 21 Ga Inf

CSA

1846

1911

Pvt

WJ Jennings

Co C

54 Ga Inf

CSA

1842

1921

Berryton Cemetery

Location:

Back Berryton Road

Chattooga County, Georgia

N 34° 27.427   W085° 23.090

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 32741

Date of Visit: September 23, 2022

James G Watkins

Co I

25 Ala Inf

CSA

Alexander Cemetery

Location:

West Spring Creek Road

Trion, Chattooga County, Georgia

N 32° 17.931   W085° 09.967

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 2376643

Date of Visit: September 23, 2022

Henry Nelson Alexander

Pvt Co C  60 Ga Infantry

Confederate States army

May 3 1845   Mar 30 1915

James H. Tyler

1848-1926

Marked with a Confederate Flag. His Find A Grave Memorial states that he served in Captain Shumate’s Company, Major Hargrove’s Battalion, Wofford’s, Brigade.  

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61470606/james-h-tyler: accessed 01 October 2022), memorial page for James H Tyler (31 Jan 1848–12 Jul 1926), Find a Grave Memorial ID 61470606, citing Alexander Cemetery, Trion, Chattooga County, Georgia, USA; Maintained by Lynn Turner (contributor 47129961) .

Lawrence Cemetery

Location:

State Road 337 (Menlo-LaFayette Road)

Menlo, Chattooga County, Georgia

34.4925003 -85.4738998

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 34934

Date of Visit: March 26, 2022

This cemetery is in a large pasture west of the highway. I could not secure permission to cross the fence line. This is a Find A Grave Survey.

There are 23 memorials on the Find a Grave memorial page. It has been 78 % photographed. 

John Milton Lawrence Cenotaph

In Memory of 

John Milton,

Eldest Son of 

Martin A. & Nancy E.

Lawrence,

Born Mar 29, 1837,

Lost in the War Between 

the States, 1861-1865

"This marble minstrels voiceless stone in deathless song shall tell, When many a vanished year has flown, the story where he fell."

John enlisted in Company E of the 37th Georgia Infantry on May 20, 1863 at Danielsville, Georgia. He spent time in to the Ocmulgee Hospital in Macon during September and October of 1863 with dropsy. On October 28, 1864 he was captured in Decatur, Alabama during Hoods push to attack the Union rear in Nashville. He was sent north to a Louisville, Kentucky and then to the military prison at Camp Douglas, Illinois. John M. Lawrence died at Camp Douglas on February 4, 1865 of pneumonia and was buried in grave #683, Block 2, Chicago City Cemetery.

John's father, mother, and two younger brothers are buried in the cemetery.  The brothers died in 1862. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for J.M. Lawrence, 37th Georgia Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, March 26, 2020,  (http://www.fold3.com).

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/90831593/john-milton-lawrence : accessed 20 May 2022), memorial page for John Milton Lawrence (28 Mar 1837–unknown), Find a Grave Memorial ID 90831593, citing Lawrence Cemetery, Menlo, Chattooga County, Georgia, USA ; Maintained by Nelda Reynolds (contributor 46942781) .

• Stewart Sifakis, Compendium of the Confederate Armies: South Carolina and Georgia. (Westminster, Maryland: Heritage Books, 2007), 247..

Mt. Olive Church and Cemetery

Location:
Ga Highway 157
Chattooga County, Georgia
N 33° 34.835   W085° 26.738

Date of Visit: March 26, 2020
Pvt
William T. Brown
Co L
39 NC Inf
CSA
1848         
1931

William A. Grayson 
Co C
52 Ga Inf 
CSA

Old Johnson Cemetery

Location:

Bolling Road

Summerville, Chattooga County, Georgia

N 34° 27.629     W085° 21.380

Date of Visit: September 1, 2018

Pvt

Bayless Atkins

Co E

24 Ga Inf

CSA

Jan 18, 1840

Apr 18, 1914

Pvt

Jasper Newton Hicks

Co A

56 Ga Inf

CSA

1835

1925

Macedonia Church Cemetery

Location:

Highway 337

Tedoga, Chattooga County, Georgia

N 34° 33.935   W085°  23.282

Date of Visit: June 19, 2011

Pvt. Charles G Sitton

Co H 39 Ga Inf

CSA

Dec 30, 1844

June 26, 1930

Serg

Asa D Lumpkin

Co H 39 Ga Inf

CSA

Jul 27 1843

Aug 27 1913

Pvt

James McCamy

Co E

60 Ga Inf

CSA

Oct 24 1842

Jan 12 912

Colonel

Joseph T. McConnell

39 Ga Inf

CSA

1829

Nov 30 1863

Col.J.T. McConnell was killed at Missionary Ridge on November 24, 1863. He rode out in front of his regiment seeking the best placement of the regiment. He was shot in the head and killed. – No. 245 Report of Brig. Gen. Cumming, OR Vol. 31 Part II

He was elected Colonel of the 39^th on March 2, 1862. It is reported that he died of his wounds on December 1, 1863. This would be in line with his tombstone inscription.  - 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 6, 2014 (http://www.fold3.com)

James H Gilreath

Lieut Co G  11 Ga Cavalry

Confederate States Army

Jul 20 1827  Nov 1 1905

Captain

George W Blackwell

Co D

34 Regt

Ga Inf

CSA

1828

1865

Captain Blackwell was elected 1^st Lieutenant of Company H 8^th Georgia Infantry December 3 1861. He mustered out of the service May 1862. On May 14 he was elected Captain of Company D of the 34^th Georgia. He was killed by bushwhackers on the way home on April 20, 1865. - Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, Vol. 3, State Division of Confederate Pensions and Records. Retrieved June 6, 2014 from http://babel.hathitrust.org/.

Andrew J Bryant

Copr Co B  1 Ga Cavalry

Confederate States Army

William C Underwood

Co D

34 Ga Inf

CSA

Mar 11 1838

Feb 24 1877

Corp Andrew J. Neal

Co D

34 Ga Inf

CSA

Mar 4 1836    Oct 30 1913

1^st Serg

James H Wade

Co B

28 Tenn Inf

CSA

Feb 16 1842

Nov 20 1874

Serg

Americus Jennings

Co I 37 Ga Inf

CSA

Jul 19 1821 

Feb 9 1886

Pvt

Fredrick R.L Thomas

Co H

3 Ga Cav

CSA

Aug 5 1839

Apr 24 1906

Pvt

George W Neal

Co H

39 Ga Inf

1829

1864

George W Neal was captured at Vicksburg on Juky 4, 1863. He was parolled by Captain Pullen of the 20^th Illionisis. Neal appears on a roll on April 30, 1864. There are no other records. - 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 7, 2014 (http://www.fold3.com); Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, Vol. 4, State Division of Confederate Pensions and Records. Retrieved June 7, 2014 from http://babel.hathitrust.org/.

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

Perennial Springs Baptist Church

Location:

Perennial Springs Road

Chattooga County, Georgia

N 34° 27.100    W085° 25.313

Date of Visit: June 19, 2011

Pvt

Oliver

H Horn

Co H

39 Ga Inf

CSA

Pvt

Willaim P Scoggins

Co D

35 Ga Inf

CSA

Oct 19 1823

May 18 1903

Pvt

John R Dorsett

Co G

6 Bn Ga Cav

CSA

Jul 25 1815

Dec 17 1895

Pvt

Wyatt Johnson

Co G

6 Bn Ga Cav

Feb 7 1819

June 23 1877

Pvt

Andrew James Thomas

Co G

19 Ala Inf

CSA

1838

1903

South Carolina Campground CemeteryCha

Location:

Highway 100

Chattooga County, Georgia

N 34° 23.053              W085° 21.856

Date of Visit: October 7, 2012

William Marion White

Pvt Co H 30 Ga Inf

Confederate States Army

Aug 10 1836   Jan 8 1902

Pvt

Amos A Strang

Co G

6 BN Ga Cav 

CSA

Mar 8 1833

Sept 30 1906

Corp

Jesse C Hanson

Co C

40 Ga Inf

CSA

Jan 14 1832

Apr 20 1883

Eli Monroe Stephenson

Pvt Co A Beall’s Bn Cav

Ga State Troops

Confederate States Army

Dec 16 1847  Sep 14 1933

DW Kellett

Corp  Co G

SC State Trps

Confederate States Army

1818   1901

North Harrison White

Pvt Co J

35 Ga Inf

CSA

Feb 18 1841

May 23, 1864

North Harrison White enlisted in Company I on September 25, 1861. He was reported in January and February of 1862 as a patient in a hospital in Dufries, Virginia. In March and April he was reported sick in Richmond. White was killed at Jericho Ford, Virginia.

Sources:

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 January 29, 2014 (http://www.fold3.com)

Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, State Division of Confederate Pensions and Records. Retrieved January 29, 2014 from http://babel.hathitrust.org/.

Charles W Crumley

Pvt Co H  39 Ga Inf

Confederate States Army

Nov 29 1843   Apr 8 1925

Pvt. John Milton Curry

Co F

6 BN Ga Cav

CSA

1812

Jan 4 1865

John Milton Curry enlisted in Company F on August 1, 1863. He was enlisted by a Colonel Culberson in Chattooga County, Georgia. He was paid 48.80 for the use of his horse. Nothing else was found about him. There are records of a John Curry being captured and paroled after the date of death.

Sources: 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 January 29, 2014 (http://www.fold3.com/image/29580457)