Kelpin Family Cemetery

Location:

Chattahoochee Nature Center

Roswell, Fulton County, Georgia

34.0048773   - 84.3784779

Date of Visit: March 30, 2019

Private

Charles Kelpin

Roswell BN

Ga Cav

CSA

Jul 8, 1846

Feb 21, 1864

Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 21 March 2021), memorial page for Pvt Charles Kelpin (8 Jul 1846–21 Feb 1864), Find a Grave Memorial no. 38321550, citing Kelpin Family Cemetery, Roswell, Fulton County, Georgia, USA ; Maintained by Memories of You (contributor 46983035) .

Charles Kelpin and his family lived in Roswell which was then in Cobb County, Georgia (today it is in Fulton County). Charles was the second child, the first son born to William Kelpin, a carpenter and       farmer born c. 1820 in North Carolina, and Mary Kelpin, born c. 1828 in Virginia. Charles had one         older     sister, Georgia A. Kelpin (born c. 1845) and four younger siblings: Nancy (born c. 1848), Josephus (b.c. 1852), Aaron (b.c. 1853), and William jr. (b.c. 1859). In 1857 William Kelpin Sr. purchased the land surrounding the burial ground for use as a family farm.

When the Civil War broke out, Charles was a worker at the Roswell mill factories near Roswell Square. Because of that valuable wartime position, he was exempt from military duty but nevertheless chose to enlist with the Roswell Battalion (Company C) on August 11, 1863, a unit organized on June 28, 1863 originally intended for home defense in Northern Georgia against Union incursions. Charles died, age 17, in Augusta, Georgia before participating in any battles.

According to the Chattahoochee Nature Center, which now owns the land surrounding the old Kelpin burial ground, there may be up to six Kelpin family members buried in the immediate area of Charles' grave, although only three of the graves there are clearly marked as such. A relatively recently installed U.S. Veterans Confederate gravemarker marks the spot of Charles Kelpin's burial, replacing an older gravestone.

Mt. Ararat Cemetery

Location:

Bluff Valley Road

Clay County, Alabama

N 33° 09.602   W085° 50.219

FAG: 2183386

Date of Visit: February 19, 2021

John James Jones

Co I

14 Ala Inf

CSA

JM McCain

Co G

31 Ala Inf

CSA

Martin Luther Powell

Pvt. Co B. 14 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Jul 30 1837   Dec 10 1902

Pvt John T. Limbaugh

Co H

22 Ala Inf

CSA

Nov 3 1864

Private Limbaugh was captured near Atlanta on August 3, 1864. During the siege of Atlanta the 22nd Alabama was in Dea’s Brigade of Hindman’s Division of S.D. Lee’s Corp. On July 28 the division established a line that extended from Lick Skillet Road to Utoy Creek. Within a few hundred yards was the Union line. For the next four weeks daily skirmishing and sharpshooting and bombardment occurred between the two line. It is likely that Limbaugh was captured during some sort of action along this line. 

By August 11 he was in Nashville, Tennessee with others captured at Atlanta. He was transferred to a military prison in Louisville, Kentucky and then to Camp Chase in Ohio. He died at Camp Chase on November 3, 1864. He is buried Grave 400 in the Confederate Cemetery at Camp Chase. 

 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for A.Hill, 29th Georgia Infantry. Retrieved from at 3-Fold February 28,, 2021 (http://www.fold3.com).
• "United States Records of Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861-1865," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-G5M2-1CX?cc=1916234&wc=M8VF-PTG : 22 May 2014), OH, Camp Chase, Military Prison > Prisoner death & burial registers, 1863-1865, v. 66-68 > image 8 of 202; citing NARA microfilm publication M598 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (128 vol., Washington: Printing Office, 1880-1901), Ser.1 Vol. 33, Part 3, 769, Report No. 628, Major Gen. Patton Anderson, February 9, 1865. 

Mt. Pleasant UMC Graveyard

Location:

Georgia Highway 51

Banks County, Georgia

N 34° 21.805   W083° 26.605

FAG: 2183386

Date of Visit: October 24, 2017

John H. Barnes

Co A

24 Ga Inf

CSA

JL Gillespie

Co H

34 Ga Inf

CSA

John F. Garrison

Pvt Co G & B 29th Ga Inf

Confederate States Army

Sept 11, 1838   Jun 20, 1864

Garrison enlisted in Company B on February 28, 1862 in Franklin County, Georgia. Regimental returns in August, October, November, and December of 1862 shows him as absent, sick in hospital. There are no other records. 

He was wounded in action around Kennesaw Mountain. His wife Sarah Hill went to find him. He died shortly after she arrived in Atlanta. She brought him home to be buried in Mt. Pleasant. Legend is that an Union officer helped he gain passage back home with her dead husband. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for John F. Garrison, 29th Georgia Infantry. Retrieved from at 3-Fold February 28, 2021 (http://www.fold3.com).
• Abstract from The Banks County News, Wednesday, June 11, 2003, submitted by Jacqueline King, USGenWeb Archives, Banks County, Ga – Military Civil War, USGenWeb http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/banks/military/civilwar/garrison.txt

Alven P. Hill

Pvt Co A 40 Ga Inf

Confederate States Army

1832.  1862

Private A. Hill of Company A was admitted into General Hospital #16 in Richmond on December 9, 1862. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for A.Hill, 29th Georgia Infantry. Retrieved from at 3-Fold February 28,, 2021 (http://www.fold3.com).

The Garrison Brothers

Martin Garrison had five sons that died in the service of the Confederacy. William A. Garrison, Henry Fletcher Garrison and Christopher Martin Garrison were sons of Martin and Triphene Sheridan. Martin and Mary Elizabeth Bradley had two sons: Thomas Garrison and Clayton Garrison. 

Legend has it that when Martin learned of the death of a son he would take a wagon to get the dead son and bring he back to Banks County for burial at Mt. Pleasant. Christopher, Clayton, William, and Thomas were brought back and buried together within the confines of a rock enclosure in the cemetery. Incorporated into the walls of the enclosure were crudely carved markers for these four brothers. 

A fifth brother, Henry, died in Knoxville and is thought to be buried in a common grave at Bethel Cemetery in that town. 

In 2002 markers military markers were erected for all five brothers outside of the enclosure.

• Alan Embrick. "Ancestors of William H. (Billy) Garrison." (http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ga/county/banks/htmlpagesbanks/garrison.html) June 29, 2003
• Abstract from The Banks County News, Wednesday, June 11, 2003, submitted by Jacqueline King, USGenWeb Archives, Banks County, Ga – Military Civil War, USGenWeb http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/banks/military/civilwar/garrison.txt

William A. Garrison

Co G 16 Ga Inf

Confederate States Army

Oct 8 1825   May 26, 1863

William enlisted in Captain Thompson’s company of the 16th Georgia Infantry on May 12, 1862. In August William was admitted to Hospital Number 18 in Richmond, Virginia for typhoid. He survived this medical event and returned to duty. In December he received a very severe leg wound during the Battle of Fredericksburg. He died on January 3, 1863 in General Hospital in Richmond as a consequence of the severe compound fracture of his upper femur. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for William A. Garrison, 16 Georgia Infantry. Retrieved from at 3-Fold February 28, 2021 (http://www.fold3.com).

Christopher M Garrison

Pvt Co A 24 Ga Inf

Confederate States Army

Jan 2, 1842  Apr 12, 1863

Christopher enlisted in the Banks County Independent volunteers as a Private on August 24, 1861, at the age of 19 years.  He last appears on the rolls October 31, 1861.

Christopher’s death occurred during the time between the Battle of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville in 1863.

Genealogies at Ancestry.com mostly list his place of death as Banks or Franklin County, Georgia. One researcher stated that he was killed. 

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 28 February 2021), memorial page for PVT Christopher Martin Garrison (2 Jan 1842–12 Apr 1863), Find a Grave Memorial no. 39680654, citing Mount Pleasant Methodist Church Cemetery, Banks County, Georgia, USA ; Maintained by JFJN (contributor 46976255) .
• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Christopher M. Garrison, 24 Georgia Infantry. Retrieved from at 3-Fold February 28, 2021 (http://www.fold3.com).

• Stewart Sifakis, Compendium of the Confederate Armies: South Carolina and Georgia. (Westminster, Maryland: Heritage Books, 2007), 229.

Thomas Garrison 

Pvt Company A 24 Ga Inf

Confederate States Army

1846-1862

He enlisted in Company A of the 24th Georgia Infantry August of 1861. He died March 27, 1862. 

The regiment was a part of Cobb’s Brigade of McLaw’s Division during the Seven Days Battle/Peninsular Campaign. He died before this series of battles began. 

• Stewart Sifakis, Compendium of the Confederate Armies: South Carolina and Georgia. (Westminster, Maryland: Heritage Books, 2007), 243.
• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Thomas Garrison, 24 Georgia Infantry. Retrieved from at 3-Fold February 28, 2021 (http://www.fold3.com).

Clayton Garrison

Corp Co A 11 Ga Cav

Confederate States Army

Jun 2 1847   Apr 10 1865

Clayton enlisted at 16 years of age in the 30th Georgia Battalion of Calvary at Mossy Creek in White County in May of 1864. This unit became the 11th Georgia Calvary. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Clayton Garrison, 11th Georgia Calvary . Retrieved from at 3-Fold February 28, 2021 (http://www.fold3.com).

• Stewart Sifakis, Compendium of the Confederate Armies: South Carolina and Georgia. (Westminster, Maryland: Heritage Books, 2007), 159.

Henry F. Garrison

Co H.  34 Ga Vol Inf

Confederate State Army

1834   1862

Henry enlisted in Captain Dorough’s Banks County company on May 12, 1862. He died at Fairground’s Hospital in Knoxville, Tennessee on November 13, 1862. 

I found an uncited description of a hospital at the “…fairgrounds east of downtown in the Shieldstown community early in the war by CSA”.

It was said that Henry was interred in Knoxville at Bethel Cemetery. Burial records show a H.F. Garrison of Company H, 25th Georgia with November 13, 1862 date of death. The discrepancy could be attributed to a transcription error. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Henry F. Garrison, 34 Georgia Infantry. Retrieved from at 3-Fold October 24, 2017 (http://www.fold3.com).
• “Bethel Confederate Cemetery” Mabry-Hazen House, accessed March 1, 2021, http://www.mabryhazen.com/bethel-cemetery

Nails Creek Baptist Church Graveyard

Location:

Georgia Highway 51

Banks County, Georgia

N 34° 22.328   W083° 24.385

FAG: 35700

Date of Visit: October 24, 2017

Lemuel L. Ariail

Pvt Co B

1 Regt

Ga State Line

Confederate States Army

April 15, 1847

Jun 27, 1864

Lemuel was in Company of the 1st Georgia State Line, Galts’s Regiment.  He was sick with red measles on May 31, 1864.  He was sent home and died June 22, 1864

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 28 February 2021), memorial page for Pvt Lemuel Lawrence Ariail (15 Apr 1845–27 Jun 1864), Find a Grave Memorial no. 12162683, citing Nails Creek Baptist Church Cemetery, Jewelville, Banks County, Georgia, USA ; Maintained by Busy Graven (contributor 46932676) .

John Wilmot

Company G 34 Ga Inf

Confederate States army

1835  1862

Enlisted May 12, 1862 in Captain Jones Company in Franklin, Georgia. He died July 8, 1862. At this time the regiment was posted in Chattanooga. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for John Wilmont, 34 Georgia Infrantry. Retrieved from at 3-Fold February 28,, 2021 (http://www.fold3.com).
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• Stewart Sifakis, Compendium of the Confederate Armies: South Carolina and Georgia. (Westminster, Maryland: Heritage Books, 2007), 243.

Ezrey Pruitt

Co H

34 Ga Inf

CSA

John E. Strange

Sgt 24 Ga Inf

CSA

December 20, 1904

David McCaw McConnell

Co D

11 Ga Cav

CSA

Amaziah Francis Stevenson

Nov. 26 1826           May 14, 1863

Son of

John & Margaret Bowen Stevenson

Enlisted As Private Mar. 6, 1862

Co F  24th Reg. S.C. Vols

Infantry C.S.A.

Killed in Battle May 14 1863

At Jackson, Miss, Buried There

On May 14, 1862 the 24th South Carolina in W.H.T. Walker’s Division took up position around the farmhouse and hedge fence of O.T. Wright on the Clinton Road outside of Jackson. It was here that Amaziah likely fell. His wife, Mary A. Stevenson, made claim to his personal effects in 1863. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Amaziah Stevenson, 24th South Carolina Infantry. Retrieved from at 3-Fold February 28, 2021 (http://www.fold3.com).
• Stewart Sifakis, Compendium of the Confederate Armies: South Carolina and Georgia. (Westminster, Maryland: Heritage Books, 2007), 101.
• Chris Mackowski, “On the Battlefield, Among the Dead and Dying, We Get to Know Each Other Better” Emerging Civil War (blog), January 10, 2021, accessed February 28, 2021, https://emergingcivilwar.com/2021/01/10/on-the-battlefield-amond-the-dead-and-dying/

Corinth Church Graveyard

Location:

Corinth Road

Pickens County, Georgia

N34.43135       W084.28278

Date of Visit: October 4, 2013

John A. Satterfield 

Co N

38 Ga Inf

CSA

William C Redden

Co D

24 Ga Inf

CSA

James Whitten Dobson

Capt Co G 8 BN Ga Inf

Feb 16, 1828    Mar 26, 1862

Nathaniel Milesberry Dobson

Pvt Co G 8 Batt Ga Inf

Aug 2, 1825       Jun 22 1862

James Whitten Dobson and Nathaniel Milesberry Dobson were children of Neely Dobson Jr. and Zilpah Goss.  Both joined a local Pickens County company of volunteers. James was elected Captain on October 1, 1861.  This company became Company G, 8th Battalion of Georgia Infantry in early 1862. The regiment was stationed at Camp Black in Savannah Georgia. In March Captain Dobson died of pneumonia and was replaced by Lieutenant Benjamin Goss. On June 11 the regiment moved to Camp Beaulieu some 14 miles away. Camp Beaulieu was located at the 515 area Beaulieu Plantation on the Vernon River. Gun batteries were established here to protect various approaches to Savannah. On the 22nd of June, Private N.M. Dobson died of pneumonia while stationed here. 

Sources

Robert Walker Groves. "Beaulieu Plantation." The Georgia Historical Quarterly 37, no. 3 (1953): 200-09. Accessed February 16, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40577452.

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for James W. Dobson, 8th Georgia Battalion Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold February 16, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for N.M. Dobson, 8th Georgia Battalion Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold February 16, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Field & Staff, 8th Georgia Battalion Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold February 16, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).

Eugene Perry, The Neeley Dobson Family. Ancestry.com: accessed February 16, 2021. from: The National Archives, Entry for James W. Dobson, 8th Georgia Battalion Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold February 16, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).

"Public Member Tree," database, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 16 Apr 2021), "Perigo/Armstrong Family Tree" family tree by Julie Fost, profile and gallery for Neely Dobson Jr. (1797-1858). 

Robert Walker Groves. "Beaulieu Plantation." The Georgia Historical Quarterly 37, no. 3 (1953): 200-09. Accessed February 16, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40577452.

Sharp Top Baptist Church Graveyard

Location:

Grandview Road

Pickens County, Georgia

N 33° 29.545   W084° 23.012

Date of Visit: October 4, 2013

2nd Lt

Steven A Cox

Co E

23 Ga Inf

CSA

Horeb Baptist Church Graveyard

Location:

Powelltown Church Road

Hancock County, Georgia

N 33° 21.958   W082° 50.219

Date of Visit: November 21, 2020

John M Jones

Co I

9 Ga Inf CSA

Sgt

James H Beddo

Co D

5 Ga Inf

CSA

Mt. Vernon Baptist Church Graveyard

Location:

Kelly Bridge Road

Dawson County, Georgia

N 34° 23.032   W084° 13.063

Date of Visit: January 13 2021

J G Hudlow

Burtz Co

8 Ga Inf

CSA

Feb 19, 1822

Oct 12, 1877

John H. Covington

Co I

52 Ga Inf

CSA

Ananias Covington

Co D

40 Ga Inf

CSA

Sep 5, 1842

Aug 13, 1864

David Covington

Co D

40 Ga Inf

CSA

Jun 11, 1835

Aug 13, 1864

David and Ananias were brothers who enlisted at the same time in Calhoun, Georgia. They were both captured at Vicksburg and paroled to return home. They were listed as absent with out leave in Fall of 1863. They ultimate fate is still being researched. 

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Ananias Covington. Retrieved from at 3-Fold February 9, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for David Covington. Retrieved from at 3-Fold February 9, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).

A Note to Visitors

Long Swamp Baptist Church Graveyard

Location:

Long Swamp Church Road

Pickens County, Georgia

N 34° 27.600   W084° 21.202

Date of Visit: January 13 2021

John G. Coffey

Co A 

34 Ga Inf

CSA

Pickens N. Herendon

107th Reg Ga Mil

Mar 11 1834    Feb 27, 1903

The 107th Georgia Militia was a company sized group from Pickens County, Georgia in command of A.K. Rowland. 

Luke E. Tate, The History of Pickens  (Atlanta, Georgia WW Brown Publishing Company), p. 224, Ancestry, https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/22836/

Fitzsimmons Cemetery

Location:

Georgia Highway 53

Marble Hill, Pickens County, Georgia

N 34° 25.823   W084° 20.168

Date of Visit: January 13 2021

Patrick Washington Fitzsimmons

1841 – 16 Aug 1871

CSA 36th Inf Ga

Patrick enlisted in Captain Jacob L. Morgan’s company in Dalton, Georgia. This company became Company I of the 36th Georgia Infantry Regiment.  He was surrendered on July 4, 1863 in Vicksburg. He signed an oath to not take up arms as a parolee. After capture he admitted that he was loyal to the Union but was conscripted and forced to serve. He admitted to deserting prior to his capture. He apparently refused parole and was sent north and ended up in Camp Douglas POW camp in Chicago, Illinois. In May of 1865 he was discharged from Camp Douglas. 

Note: His father founded Long Swamp Marble Company in eastern Pickens County, Georgia. He and his father along with other of his family and a few unknown females and infants rest in a hill side overlooking the modern marble industry down in the narrow valley cut by the East Branch of Long Swamp Creek

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Patrick Washington Fitzsimmons. Retrieved from at 3-Fold January, 17, 2021 (http://www.fold3.com).