Emmaus Primitive Baptist Church

Location:

Emmaus Road

Hoganville, Troup County, Georgia

N 33° 09.540              W084° 52.032

Date of Visit: October 16, 2011

Wilson L Smith

Georgia

Pvt Co K 13 Regt Ga Inf

Confederate States Army

Nov 9 1830   Feb 11 1873

William N Sims

Georgia

Cpl Co B 13 Regt Ga Inf

Confederate States Army

James L. Sims

Georgia

Pvt Co B 13 Regt Ga Inf

Confederate States Army

Oct 10 1837  May 27 1897

James H. Phillips

Georgia

Pvt Co F 21 Regt Ga Inf

Confederate States Army

Feb 5 1835  July 13 1862

Twenty-two year old Phillips enlisted August 3, 1861. He died in a field hospital on July 13, 1863. He was wounded at Cold Harbor on June 27 and died of his wounds on July 13. 

·      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 12, 2017. (http://www.fold3.com)

·      Civil War Battles in Virginia 1862 , https://www.civilwaracademy.com/civil-war-battles-in-virginia-1862, accessed November 12, 2017

·      Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, Vol. 2, State Division of Confederate Pensions and Records. Retrieved November 12, 2017 from http://babel.hathitrust.org/.

Albert Phillips

Georgia

Sgt Co E 28 Regt Ga Inf

Confederate States Army

Nov 24, 1843   March 20 1864

Sergeant Phillips enlisted in 1861. His name appears on a roll of causalities from the Battle of Olustee in Florida dated April 21, 1864.  Causality lists compiled at the 28^th Georgia Volunteer Infantry website has Albert as being killed in this battle.

·      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 12, 2017. (http://www.fold3.com)

·      28^th Georgia Volunteer Infantry, www.28ga.org, accessed November 12, 2017

Killed at Ocoena Pond (Olustee) on Feburary 20, 1864. - Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, Vol. 3, State Division of Confederate Pensions and Records. Retrieved November 12, 2017 from http://babel.hathitrust.org/.

William T Beland

Georgia

Sgt Co E 28 Regt Ga Inf

Confederate States Army

July 12 1827   April 26 1863

Third Sergeant Beland enlisted in Griffin Georgia in 1861. He was admitted to the Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond Virginia on May 13, 1862 with Typhoid Fever.  He returned to duty in June. The June 1863 muster roll notes that he died at home April 26, 1863. There is no record of wounding at Fredericksburg and he was dead by the time of the Chancellorsville campaign. 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 12, 2017. (http://www.fold3.com)

Luther Cemetery

Location:

Highway 68

DeKalb County, Alabama

N 34° 16.185              W086° 03.281

Date of Visit: October 5, 2011

Robert D Garvin

Pvt Lee Btry Al Lt Arty

Confederate States Army

May 17 1834   Jan 5 1896

Adolphus H Glenn

Pvt  Co H  62 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Jan 8 1845   Jul 22 1899

Freeman Cemetery

Location:

Highway 69

DeKalb County, Alabama

N 34° 17.526              W085° 55.438

Date of Visit: October 8, 2011

Pvt

WH Freeman

Co G

49 Ala Inf

CSA

1843

1862

His record indicates that he died May 18, 1862. - Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama. Original data from: The National Archives, Retrieved from at 3-Fold November 11, 2017. (http://www.fold3.com)

According to Brewer’s History of Alabama units, the 49^th was organized at Nashville, in January 1862, and attached to the Kentucky brigade of Gen. Breckinridge. It took part in the battle of Shiloh. A few weeks later, the Forty-ninth was sent to Vicksburg, with Breckinridge's brigade.  The Union bombardment of Vicksburg begin on May 18. It would seem that that he  probably died in route to or in Vicksburg before hostilties and was possibility buried there.

Brief Historical Sketches of Military Organizations

Raised In Alabama During the Civil War, Reproduced from Willis Brewer's Alabama:

Her History, Resources War Record, and Public Men From 1540 to 1872, www. archives.alabama.com

Report of Brig. Gen. M.L. Smith, Official Record War of the Rebellion, Volume 15, page 6

Pvt

David C Freeman

Co B

3 Ala Cav

1839

1863

According to his Find a Grave Memorial this marker was added as a memorial to a soldier who drowned crossing the Tennessee River with Captain Wheeler. His actual burial site is unknown. Find A Grave Memorial #102679745, accessed November 11, 2017. Private Freeman does not appear in the records of the 3^rd Alabama Calvary, nor does a DeKalb County unit. There was a Company B of the 3^rd Confederate Calvary from DeKalb County. I cannot confirm if he served in this regiment.

Note: These brothers were sons of Elisha and Ann Freeman and their service records were almost as problematic as locating the family cemetery. It sits on a narrow shelve on the east face of Sand Mountain.  Traveling up or down the face on Highway 69 one has to be looking in the exact “right” location to see the tombstones in the winter. Forget it in the summer.  Finding a place to park is also pretty challenging.

Collins Cemetery

Location:

Highway 68

DeKalb County, Alabama

N 34° 16.017              W085° 51.810

Date of Visit: October 8, 2011

William E. Siniard

Pvt Co K

3 Conf Cav

Confederate States Army

Nov 15 1828   Dec 25 1893

John W Siniard

Pvt Co K

3 Conf Cav

Confederate State Army

July 23 1826  Dec 19 1892

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

Bethel Cemetery

Location:

County Road 370

Cherokee County, Alabama

N 34° 05.071              W085° 27.468

Date of Visit: October 5, 2011

Pvt

William F Adams

Co F

55 Ga Inf

CSA

Oct 28 1828

Nov 10 1890

Chasteen B Stone

CO E

Hardin's Bn Ala

Reserves

CSA

Pvt

James Q Ferguson

Co 

1 Ga Inf

CSA

Mar 8 1824    

Jun 12 1908

James E. Snead

Pvt Co H

48 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Oct 30 1836    Oct 1 1886

Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church

Location:

Highway 278

Cullman County, Alabama

N 34° 10.396              W087° 06.690

Date of Visit: October 8, 2011

Needhann N Benefield

Co H

1 Ga Regulars

CSA