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.

Overton Cemetery

Location:

Oak Grove Road

Gordon County, Georgia

34.45666 -84.97386

FAG: 2449118

Date of Visit: March 17, 2018

Sgt

John C Overton

Co E

51 Regt

Ala Cav

May 10, 1847

Jan 28 1918

Mount Zion Baptist Church

Location:

Mt. Zion Road

Gordon County, Georgia

34.6055990. -84.9174280

Find a Grave Cemetery ID # 2176453

Date of Visit: May 24, 2019

Daniel Chitwood

CSA Co A 23 Regt Ga Infantry

Nov 19 1843   May 13 1892

Note: Daniel is one of three Chitwood brothers that served in the Confederate Army.

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)

Abbott Cemetery

Abbott Cemetery

Location:

Highway 53

Calhoun, Gordon County, Georgia

N 34° 28.033  W084° 54.790

Date of Visit: January 21, 2018

Robert Ambrose Abbott was a member of Company K of the 3rd Georgia Calvary. he enlisted in the army with a horse valued at 200 dollars in 1862. He died at Camp Randolph in Calhoun....not far from his home. 

 

Armstead Ambrose Abbott enlisted in the Confederate Army on May 7, 1862. He was a member of the Calhoun Blues, Company D, 40th Georgia Infantry Regiment. A.A. Abbott was captured at Champion Hill on May 17, 1863 and was a prisoner of war at Fort Delaware. At some point prior to 1864 he was paroled. He rejoined the army and was captured again at Atlanta on August 13, 1864. He spent time at as a POW at Louisville, Kentucky, Camp Chase, Ohio, and Point Lookout, Maryland. Here he took the oath of allegiance and was released on June 22, 1865.

Sources:

• Jacob Abbott Find Grave Memorial# 35643928
• Robert Ambrose Abbott Find a Grave Memorial # 159554608
• Muster Roll of Company D 40th Georgia Regiment,      http://www.generalbartonandstovall.com
• Gordon County Placenames, http://gordoncountyplacenames.wordpress.com
• 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 22, 2018. (http://www.fold3.com)

Note: More about the brothers was posted at Notes From the Field (https://greenweeksblog.wordpress.com/2018/01/25/abbott-cemetery/)

Curtis Cemetery

Location:

Curtis Cemetery Road

Calhoun, Gordon County, Georgia

N 34° 28.499              W084° 54.993

Date of Visit: January 20, 2018

 Pvt

Jackson William

Wiley Co I

63rd Georgia Inf

CSA

Rock Island Ill

Buried 

Rock Island

Confederate Cemetery

Grave 16201

Private Wiley was captured June 5, 1864 near Dallas, Georgia. At this time the 63rd Georgia was a part of Hardee's Corp organized on Lost Mountain. This was a part of Johnston's Lost Mountain to Pine Mountain to Brush Mountain line in front of Kennesaw Mountain.

After capture Private Wiley was transferred to Louisville, Kentucky and on June 16th was sent to Rock Island Barracks in Rock Island, Illinois. He died on pneumonia on November 27, 1864. He is buried in Section A Grave 1621. 

Private Wiley is one of 1905 Confederate soldiers buried in the Confederate Cemetery. These soldiers died of small pox, pneumonia, and unsanitary living conditions.

·      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 February 17, 2018. (http://www.fold3.com)

·      National Cemetery Administration, US Department of Veteran Affairs, https://www.cem.va.gov/

·      Rock Island Confederate Cemetery, www.nps.gov

·      Kennesaw Mountain, Earl Hess, 2013

·      Organization of the Army of Tennessee, OR Volume 38, Part III, page 648

Pleasant Grove Baptist Church and the 2019 Update of William Jefferson Bunch

Pleasant Grove Baptist Church

Update of William Jefferson Bunch

Location:

US Highway 52

Ryo, Gordon County, Georgia

N 34° 27.038   W084° 40.340

Date of Visit: December 27, 2009

Date of Publication: December 30, 2009

Date of Revisit: November 5, 2019

Pvt

William J Bunch

Co F  1 Ga Cav

CSA

1835

Jan 27, 1863

Private Bunch enlisted on March 22, 1862 at Fairmount, Georgia. A month after the Battle of Stone River his regiment is wintering at Kingston in Roane County, Tennessee. It is a hard winter. He died on January 27, 1863.

• 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 5, 2019. (http://www.fold3.com)
• Michael Bowers Cavender, The First Georgia Cavalry in the Civil War: a History and Roster (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2016), p.57, Google E-Book downloaded November 5, 2019

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

Cooper Cemetery

Location:

Cooper Road

Gordon County, GA

N 34° 26.548  W084° 52.460

Date of Visit: May 22, 2011

William E. Jones

Co I

23 Ga Inf

C.S.A.

Feb 4 1831   Nov 1 1913

Mt. Pleasant United Methodist Church

Mt. Pleasant United Methodist Church Cemetery 

Location: Hwy 156 (Redbud Road) 

Gordon County, Georgia 

N 34° 31.951 W085° 50.151 Date of Visits: 

5/30/09 

Serg. Robert N. Baxter 

Co. E 18th GA Vol. Inf 

CSA 

June 10, 1837 – Nov 18, 1863