Wilkes Cemetery

Location:

State Highway 199 (Old River Road)

Laurens County, Georgia

N32° 24.927

W082° 44.879

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 2388719

Date of Visit: November 20, 2020

William H. Branch (1837-1865)

William was a child of Charity Hagen and David Branch. He served in Company A of Phillips Legion. He was wounded at Antietam and lost his right arm below the elbow. William's grave is marked by a concrete/cement tombstone that is highly weathered and hard to read. 

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/66750971/william_h-branch: accessed February 26, 2024), memorial page for William H “Bill” Branch (17 Oct 1837–14 Aug 1865), Find a Grave Memorial ID 66750971, citing Wilkes Cemetery, East Dublin, Laurens County, Georgia, USA; Maintained by Dorothy George Taylor (contributor 47062173).

Union Chapel UMC Cemetery

Location:

Buttermilk Road

Walker  County, Alabama

33.816242   -87.182022

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 26803

Date of Visit: April 11, 2014

Pvt

John Calvin Akins

Co H

56 Ala Cav

Partisan 

Rangers

CSA

Apr 25 1832

Mar 22 1922

Joseph William Gardner

Pvt Co I 4 Fla Inf

Confederate States Army

Jan 4 1837   Jun 11 1920

Pvt

Caleb John Green

Co E

57 Ga Inf

Jun 1843

Dec 1924

Pvt

William W Wilson

Co F

37 Ala Regt

CSA

Dec 1832

Nov 1903

Pvt

Jefferson Lovell

Co D

Ga Vols

CSA

1832

1862

This marker is a cenotaph. He served in Company D of the Infantry Battalion of Phillips’s Legion. He was admitted to General Hospital Number 16 in Richmond in late December and died of pneumonia on January 8, 1863. It is believed that he was buried in Confederate Section of Hollywood Cemetery.

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Jefferson Lovell, Phillips Legion, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, May 23, 2023, (http://www.fold3.com).
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33707176/jefferson-lovell: accessed 23 May 2023), memorial page for Jefferson Lovell (29 Apr 1832–8 Jan 1863), Find a Grave Memorial ID 33707176, citing Union Chapel Cemetery, Union Chapel, Walker County, Alabama, USA; Maintained by Gerbig (contributor 47270759).

John M Felkins

Pvt Co C 38 Alabama Regt

Confederate States Army

Dec 21 1832

Jul15 1887

Nathaniel Black

Pvt Co F 28 Regt 6 Cal

Confederate Staates Army

Nov 27 1846    May 8 1843

Note: Nathaniel does not appear on rolls of the 28th Alabama Infantry or the 6th Alabama Calvary.

Jackson Eli Hyche

Pvt Co G  26 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Jun 8 1848    Mar 31 1928

William H Riddlesperger

Pvt

Co D Ga Vols CSA

1830

1878

William served in Company D of the Infantry Battalion of Phillip’s Legion.

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for W.H. Riddlesperger, Phillips Legion, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, May 29, 2023, (http://www.fold3.com).

John Fletcher Jones

Co B

35 Regt

Ala Inf

CSA

1836

1919

Pvt

James M Price

Co F

26 Miss Inf

CSA

Feb18 1844

Nov 29 1932

Pvt

John O Turner

Co G

3 Ga Inf

CSA

Jan 9 1845

Oct 12 1925

Nathan B Langley

Co G

8 Ga Cav

CSA

Whitesburg Cemetery

Location:

US Highway 27

Whitesburg, Carroll County, Georgia

N 33° 30.038   W084° 55.089

Find a Grave: 37729

Date of Visit: November 9, 2013

3rd Sergeant

Moses Denham Watkins

Co A

21 Regt

Ca Vol Inf

Amry of Northern Virginia

CSA

Mar 8 1845     Aug 8 1899

Pvt

James E Meek

Co F

Phillips Legion

Calvary

CSA

Nov 11 1832     Dec 22 1899

Henry J Smith

Pvt Co I. 42 Ga Inf

Confederate States Army

1846      1916

George T Forbes

Co A

24 Ga Inf

CSA

1 Lt

Richard E. Thurman

Co C

56 Ga Inf

CSA

J.S. Moore

Cav Bn

Phillips Legion

CSA

Pvt

James T. Mullenax

Co C 26 Ga Vol

CSA

Jan 9 1819

Feb 17 1906

Francis M Richards

Co E

11 Ark Inf

CSA

Charles Christian Wager

C.C. Wager

Serg Co K  Fannin’s Ga Res

Confederate States Army

1815      1901

Charles Christian Wager was born in 1815 at Bade-Wurttemberg, Germany. He came to the United  States in 1847 and served in the War with Mexico. In 1864 he enlisted in a militia unit commanded by James H. Fannin. 

Sources: 

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57069081/charles-christian-wager : accessed 26 October 2021), memorial page for Charles Christian Wager (24 Dec 1815–8 Aug 1901), Find a Grave Memorial ID 57069081, citing Whitesburg Cemetery, Whitesburg, Carroll County, Georgia, USA ; Maintained by Ed & Sue Anderson (contributor 46739770) .

• “B.F. Wager Dies; Brother of J.J. and G.W. Wager” The Cleburne News, May 6, 1937, p. 1, https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87787036/obituary-for-b-f-wager-aged-78/

• "Public Member Tree," database, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 26 October 2021), "Kathy Adkins Family Tree" family tree by Kathy Adkins (kl_adkins), profile for Charles Christian Waagers (Dec. 24, 1815-Sept. 1 1901).   

Pleasant Hill Methodist Church Cemetery

Location:

State Highway 273

Cherokee County, Alabama

N34 19.499 W085 38.427

FAG: 25548

Date of Visit: September 13, 2012

Issac N. Tumlin

Pvt Co B Phillips Legion

Confederate State Army

Aug 15 1837     Feb 4 1919

William H Johnson

Co I

35 Ga Inf

CSA

Randolph Partlow

Serg  Co C  40 Ga Inf

Confederate State Army

1832       1889

Anderson Lewis

Pvt Co B  55 Ala Inf

Confederate State Army

May 25 1841       Sep 23 1920

Lansford A Miller

Pvt Co B  27 Ala Inf

Confederate State Army

Jan 12 1829      Nov 8 1920

J W Trigg

Pvt Co B.  55 Ala Vols

Confederate State Army

Apr 12 1830     Apr 25 1888

Ebenezer Leath

Pvt Co G 19 Ala Inf

Confederate State Army

1839       1913

Lieutenant 

Edward H Emerson

Co B

55 Regt

Ala Inf

CSA

Oct 1834

Jan 1906

1st Sgt P.L. McCall

Co B  5th Ala. Inf.

May 17, 1838

Oct 26, 1898

James P Webb

Pvt Co C 7 Ala Inf

Confederate State Army

1840    1865

A Private James P. Webb enlisted in Company C of the 7th Alabama Infantry  in Center, Alabama on March 29, 1861. By 1863 James P. Webb was in Company H of the 19th Alabama and was wounded in the battle at Murfreesboro and also at Chickamauga. His widows pension application states that he was wounded somewhere in Kentucky and at Murfreesboro. She states that he was killed near Atlanta in 1865 and in another document she states that it as was near Atlanta in 1864, which is more likely than 1865. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for James P. Webb, 7th Alabama Infantry and 19th Alabama Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, October 3, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).
• Alabama, Texas and Virginia, U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Entry for James P. Webb, 7th Alabama Infantry and 19th Alabama Infantry, retrieved from Ancestry.com, October 3, 2021,  (http://www.ancestry.com)

Shiloh Cemetery

Location:

Old Highway 78

Kansas, Walker County, Alabama

N 33 54.568. W087 34.372

FAG: 26228

Date of Visit: January 27, 2013

J.D. Terrell

Born in Cherokee Co. Ga

Sept 25 1840

Died 

Nov 13 1925

U.C.V

John Davis Terrell was born and raised in Cherokee County, Georgia. He joined Company C of Philips Legion in 1862. He surrendered and was paroled at Hillsboro, North Carolina in 1865. John was enumerated in the 1907 Census of Confederate Soldiers living in Pocahontas, Alabama. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for J.D. Terrell, Phillips Legion Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, August 27, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).
• Alabama Census of Confederate Soldiers, 1907 and 1921, Alabama Department of Archives & History; Montgomery, Alabama; Roll: Multiple Regiments (Walker County #64); Roll Number: 22. [database on-line]. Ancestry.com