Baileytown Cemetery

Location:

Cemetery Road

Cullman County, Alabama

N 34° 14.661   W086° 40.585

FAG: 21365

Date of Visit: August 4, 2013

In Memory Of

Joseph

Caleb

Oliver

July 12

1840

Oct 16

1897

Served 

In Civil War

& Wounded

Joseph was a private in Company F, 3rd Alabama Infantry. He enlisted in Chambers County, Alabama in 1862. He was captured on July 3, 1863 and spent the remainder of the war in Federal POW prisons. 

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55671830/joseph-caleb-oliver : accessed 10 October 2021), memorial page for Joseph Caleb Oliver (12 Jul 1840–16 Oct 1897), Find a Grave Memorial ID 55671830, citing Baileyton Cemetery, Baileyton, Cullman County, Alabama, USA ; Maintained by Jan Oliver (contributor 47319575) .

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Joseph Caleb Oliver, 3rd Alabama Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, October 10, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).

Pleasant Hill Cemetery

Location:

Old Hamilton Road

Monroe County, Mississippi

N 33° 49.922   W088° 23.241

FAG: 62071

Date of Visit: July 20, 2013

Z..F. Savage

Co L

43 Miss Inf

CSA

Reuben Sanders

Co B

3 BN Miss Inf

CSA

W.A. Simmons

Co G

26 Miss Inf

CSA

Foster-Jester-Huddleston Cemetery

Location:

Foster Road

Butts County, Georgia County

N 34° 16.685   W087° 49.465

FAG: 34006

Date of Visit: December 2, 2012

James H. Jester

Son of Abner & Angelina Jester

Was born

July 13 1839

Departed this life

July 13, 1862

Aged 23 years

He was a soldier in the Confederate Army and died (remaining text is below ground level)

James was a Sergeant in Company D of the 31st Georgia. This regiment was organized in Cusseta, Georgia in 1861 and served in Savannah. James joined Company D in Savannah in October 1861. In July of 1862 the regiment was brigaded under General Lawton in Virginia. Sergeant Jester was admitted to the University Hospital in Charlottesville, Virginia. On July 14 he died of febrile typhoides (typhoid fever).

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for James H. Jester, 31st Georgia Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, October 4, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).
• “Battle Unit Details: 31st Alabama” National Park Service, accessed October 4, 2021, https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-battle-units-detail.htm?battleUnitCode=CGA0031RI

Antioch Cemetery

Location:

County Road 20

Blount County, Alabama

N 33° 56.707   W086° 23.983

FAG: 1995274

Date of Visit: September 15, 2012

John Wadsworth 

Alabama

Pvt Co F 42 Regt Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Jun 10 1845    Dec 22 1929

John C Reneau

Alabama

Pvt Co I  49 Regt Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

April 21 1836  April 3 1910

Solomon Cornelieus

Sgt  Co I 49 Regt Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

1836   1910

Elijah Morton

Pvt. Co I 49th Regt Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

1836    1898

Sidney F Fulenwider

Pvt Co I    19 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Dec 29 1832    Mar 6 1906

E.A. Thornhill

Pvt Co I. 16 Regt Ga Inf

Confederate States Army

Feb 15 1843   Nov 30 1908

Thomas Cornelius

Pvt  Co I 49th Regt Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

1838     1909

William E Reneau

2D Lt 12 Tenn Calvary

Confederate States Army

1838   1865

William Edward Reneau appears to have transferred from a Mississippi regiment in 1862 to the 1st Tennessee Calvary which became the 12th Tennessee Cavalry, known as Green’s Calvary, in 1863. William was appointed 2nd Lieutenant in Company F on February 13, 1863.  Lieutenant Reneau on the staff of R.V. Richardson in Forrest’s Calvary as Assistant Inspector General. He was still doing business of the regiment as late as Jun of 1864 when he wrote a letter to a Colonel Johnson. His date of death is not clear. It has been reported that he died in the Battle of Shelbyville in 1863 and his military marker’s year of death is 1865. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for William E. Reneau, 17th Mississippi Infantry and 12th Tennessee Calvary, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, October 3, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).
• Sterling, Robin Blount County Confederate Soldiers Volume 3: Miscellaneous (Lula Publishers, 2013), 354. 

Liberty Cemetery

Location:

Alabama Avenue

Oneonta, Blount County, Alabama

N 33° 57.064   W086° 27.789

FAG: 23968

Date of Visit: September 15, 2012

James M. Carnes

Pvt Co A 12 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Feb 28, 1826   Jun 10, 1907

John T. Maynor

Co B

20 Ala Inf

CSA

Joseph B. Peddy

Co B 20 Regt Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

1827   1880

Wiley J Walker

Co B

12 Ala Cav

CSA

Pleasant Hill Methodist Church Cemetery

Location:

State Highway 273

Cherokee County, Alabama

N34 19.499 W085 38.427

FAG: 25548

Date of Visit: September 13, 2012

Issac N. Tumlin

Pvt Co B Phillips Legion

Confederate State Army

Aug 15 1837     Feb 4 1919

William H Johnson

Co I

35 Ga Inf

CSA

Randolph Partlow

Serg  Co C  40 Ga Inf

Confederate State Army

1832       1889

Anderson Lewis

Pvt Co B  55 Ala Inf

Confederate State Army

May 25 1841       Sep 23 1920

Lansford A Miller

Pvt Co B  27 Ala Inf

Confederate State Army

Jan 12 1829      Nov 8 1920

J W Trigg

Pvt Co B.  55 Ala Vols

Confederate State Army

Apr 12 1830     Apr 25 1888

Ebenezer Leath

Pvt Co G 19 Ala Inf

Confederate State Army

1839       1913

Lieutenant 

Edward H Emerson

Co B

55 Regt

Ala Inf

CSA

Oct 1834

Jan 1906

1st Sgt P.L. McCall

Co B  5th Ala. Inf.

May 17, 1838

Oct 26, 1898

James P Webb

Pvt Co C 7 Ala Inf

Confederate State Army

1840    1865

A Private James P. Webb enlisted in Company C of the 7th Alabama Infantry  in Center, Alabama on March 29, 1861. By 1863 James P. Webb was in Company H of the 19th Alabama and was wounded in the battle at Murfreesboro and also at Chickamauga. His widows pension application states that he was wounded somewhere in Kentucky and at Murfreesboro. She states that he was killed near Atlanta in 1865 and in another document she states that it as was near Atlanta in 1864, which is more likely than 1865. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for James P. Webb, 7th Alabama Infantry and 19th Alabama Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, October 3, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).
• Alabama, Texas and Virginia, U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Entry for James P. Webb, 7th Alabama Infantry and 19th Alabama Infantry, retrieved from Ancestry.com, October 3, 2021,  (http://www.ancestry.com)

Union Grove United Methodist Church Graveyard

Location:

County Road 45

Rock Run, Cherokee County, Alabama

N34 00.902 W085 29.752

FAG: 26819

Date of Visit: September 29, 2021

Isaac Norton

Co E 47 Ala Regt

Confederate States army

Sept 8 1832       May 2 1911

There are two military markers for on Isaacs grave. A flat footmarker shows him in the 47th Alabama.  A classic vertical and pointed headstone is inscribed 14th Alabama. His records indicate service in the 47th Alabama.

Isaac was wounded in the left arm in the 2nd Battle of  Manassas in August of 1862. For the next year he was carried on the company musters rolls as in the hospital. In August of 1863 he was noted as being detailed as a nurse in a Lynchburg, Virginia hospital. Issac apparent deserted while at Morristown, Tennessee in January, but returned to duty in the summer of 1864 and surrender with Lee at Appomattox on April 9, 1865. 

See his Find a Grave memorial for pictures. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Isaac M. Norton, 47th Alabama Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, September 29, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13754408/isaac-marion-norton : accessed 29 September 2021), memorial page for Isaac Marion Norton (8 Sep 1832–2 May 1911), Find a Grave Memorial ID 13754408, citing Union Grove Cemetery, Rock Run, Cherokee County, Alabama, USA ; Maintained by Melody (contributor 46891027) .

Shiloh Cemetery

Location:

Old Highway 78

Kansas, Walker County, Alabama

N 33 54.568. W087 34.372

FAG: 26228

Date of Visit: January 27, 2013

J.D. Terrell

Born in Cherokee Co. Ga

Sept 25 1840

Died 

Nov 13 1925

U.C.V

John Davis Terrell was born and raised in Cherokee County, Georgia. He joined Company C of Philips Legion in 1862. He surrendered and was paroled at Hillsboro, North Carolina in 1865. John was enumerated in the 1907 Census of Confederate Soldiers living in Pocahontas, Alabama. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for J.D. Terrell, Phillips Legion Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, August 27, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).
• Alabama Census of Confederate Soldiers, 1907 and 1921, Alabama Department of Archives & History; Montgomery, Alabama; Roll: Multiple Regiments (Walker County #64); Roll Number: 22. [database on-line]. Ancestry.com

Sardis Presbyterian Cemetery (2021 Update)

Location:

N 34º 15.940 W 085 º 22.707

Hwy 20

Coosa, Floyd County, Georgia

Date Visited: 10/27/2008

See my Yondering Blog from 2008 for the story of the death of the Bale brothers:

http://greggreen2.blogspot.com/2008/12/confederate-soliders.html

A.F. Bale, 

Maj. 6th Regt. Geo. Cav.

Born

Near Goshen, Ala. 

July 29, 1839

Killed 

Near Dandridge, Tenn. 

Dec. 24, 1863

C.R. Bale, 

Lt. Co. H 6th Regt. Geo. Cav.

Born 

Near Goshen, Ala. 

July 25, 1837

Killed 

Near Resaca, Geo. 

May 13, 1864

Cave Springs Cemetery Update

Cave Springs Cemetery Update

Location:

US Hwy 411

Floyd County, Georgia

N 34° 07.056   W085° 19.679

Date of Visit: 2/23/09

Update: 

William B. Diamond

Co. E 

8th Regt Ga Inf CSA

1840-1861

William appears on a muster roll in May of 1861. A regimental return in June reports him sick in Winchester.  He died of disease in July and was buried in the Confederate Cemetery (Line 4, Lot158) in Lynchburg, Virginian. 

• Historical Data Systems, comp. U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009 entry for William B. Diamond, accessed September 2, 2021
• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.   Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for William B. Diamond, 8th Georgia Infantry, retrieved from at 3-Fold, September 2, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).

New Hope Baptist Church Cemetery

Location:

County Road 61 (New Hope Cemetery Road)

Winfield, Marion County, Alabama

N33. 58.844  W087 49.241

FAG: 24936

Date of Visit: July 31, 2021

Newman C. Williams has a non military headstone with the following inscription in this cemetery. : 

N.C. Williams

Born Aug 15 1836

Died Mar 5 1915

CG Vol 1861-1865

It is believed that this is NC Williams on ann 1862 muster roll of Company A, 5th Alabama Cavalry. He enlisted in Moulton with a horse worth 210 dollars. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Newman C. Williams, 5th Alabama Calvary, retrieved from at 3-Fold, August 2, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51925195/newman-c-williams : accessed 02 September 2021), memorial page for Newman C. Williams (15 Aug 1836–5 Mar 1915), Find a Grave Memorial ID 51925195, citing New Hope Baptist Church Cemetery, Winfield, Marion County, Alabama, USA ; Maintained by rebekahpaw (contributor 47146422) .