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 58th
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 17th 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
