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
