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)

Oak Grove Baptist Church - Hall County Georgia

Location:

Highway 129

Gainesville, Hall County, Georgia

N 34° 15.838              W083° 46.490

Date of Visits: 5/21/08

Elisha W Merritt

Co B

11 Ga Cav

CSA

May 4 1841

Sept 4 1938

Sappa Baptist Church

Location:

North Sappa Road

Eupora, Webster County, Mississippi

33.549232        -89.200943

Date of Visit: September 22, 2016

Alfred Garner Latham

Pvt Co K 1 Miss Cav Res

Confederate States Army

Mar 21 1846   Jan 8 1921

WA Henry

Co H

31 Miss Inf

CSA

Ira Malcom Williams

Pvt Co G 35 Miss Inf

Confederate States Army

Mar 22 1830   Jan 12 1906

Edwards Cemetery

Location:

Snow Waters Road

Gardendale, Jefferson County, Alabama

N 33° 41.667              W086° 48.685

Date of Visit: February 19, 2013

Single tombstone:

Sylvester F.H.

Son of John and Elizabeth Edwards

Aug 25 1845

Chickamauga CSA

Cemetery

Oct 4 1863

Opposite Side:

William Crabb

Son of John and Elizabeth Edwards

Aug 3 1841

CSA Cemetery

Miss

Aug 10 1862

Sylvester was a member of Company C of the 58^th Alabama Infantry. He was wounded severely in the abdomen at the Battle of Chickamauga. He apparently lived several days before death. There is no Confederate cemetery on the battlefield at Chickamauga. As he died two weeks after the battle he is likely buried near a hospital in the area. It is possible that he in an unmarked grave in the Marietta Confederate Cemetery.  According to Jim  a Chickamauga National Military Park historian after the war the Ladies Memorial Association of Marietta had the Confederate bodied removed from the battlefield and other areas to the new Marietta Cemetery.

William Crabb Edwards is harder to pin down. I have found one record that indicates that he served in Ragland’s Company G of the 17^th Alabama.  This has not been confirmed.

·      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)

·      Walker County Messenger, November15, 2016

·      Alabama Civil War Database, Alabama Department of Archives

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

Brown Family Cemetery

Location:

Woodlake Road

Gwinnett  County, Georgia

N 34° 08.856  W084° 01.695

Date of Visit: October 22, 2017

J.S. Duran

Co F

43 Ga Inf

CSA

JF Dollar

Co F

38 Tenn Inf

CSA