Abbeville Pioneer Cemetery

Location:

Columbia Road

Abbeville, Henry County, Alabama

N 31° 34.058   W085° 14.996

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 2289871

Date of Visit: July 13, 2013

William G Ward

Co E

60 Ala Inf

CSA

John Robert Lewis Grice

Pvt Wootens Co. 15 Bn Ga Cav

Confederate States Army

May 12 1830    Oct 1 1904

Irwin Gissendaner

Co D

39 Ala Inf

CSA

Captain 

Moses B Green

Co A

37 Ala Inf

CSA

1821     1891

Col James Lightfoot

James N Lightfoot

Aug 14 1839

Sept 18 1885

James Newell Lightfoot mustered into the service as 2nd Lieutenant of Company A of the 6th Alabama Infantry on May 16, 1861. In August he was promoted to 1st Lieutenant and by December he was Captain of Company A. At Seven Pines in May of 1862 he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and wounded during the action. At Antietam on September 17, 1862 he was wounded again.  In May of 1863 prior to the second invasion of the north Lightfoot became Colonel of the 6th Alabama. At Gettysburg during the first day of battle he was wounded and had to be removed from the field. Recovery placed him at the head of the regiment during the Wilderness campaign. On May 8, 1864 he was wounded in the left arm and at New Market on May 15 he received a wound to his right thigh. In February of 1865 a Board of Examiners declared Colonel Lightfoot disabled and retired him from the service. 

• “Lieutenant Colonel James Newell Lightfoot” Antietam on the Web, accessed July 26, 2022, https://antietam.aotw.org/officers.php?officer_id=911

• Brewer, Willis. 1962. 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 (1872) Montgomery, Alabama: Alabama Civil War Centennial Commission. https://archives.alabama.gov/referenc/alamilor/mil_org.html

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for James N. Lightfoot, 6th Alabama Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, July 24, 2022,  (http://www.fold3.com).

Elias J.J. 

Son of 

John J & Melissa 

Ward

Born

Jan. 31, 1844

Died

Oct 3 1864

Nobly he fell while

Fighting for liberty.

(Opposite side) 

Died on the field of battle

“Twas noble thus to died;

God smiles on valient

Soldiers – 

His record is on high

Elias is buried under a marble obelisk in the cemetery. 

Elias enlisted on Company G of the 15th Alabama Infantry Regiment on July 3, 1861 in Pike County, Alabama. In December of 1863 he was promoted to 1st Sergeant. 

On October 7, 1864 his regiment was involved in a heavy fight on the Darbytown Road in Henrico County, Virginia. Sergeant Ward  was wounded in the abdomen and he died the next day at General Hospital No. 9 in Richmond Virginia. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Elias J.J. Ward, 15th Alabama Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, July 24, 2022,  (http://www.fold3.com).

• 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. 42, Part I, 873, Report No. 358Diary of the First Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, of Operations August 1-October 18. 

Samuel Seaton

Son of

James & Annie

Lasseter Curry

Born in Sumpter Co GA

May 3 1832

Wounded Saturday

May 31 1862

On Battle of Seven Pines

Died Abbeville, Al

Aug 18, 1862

Curry enlisted on May 11, 1861 in Abbeville. He mustered into the Company A of the 6th Alabama Infantry  on May 16, 1861 in Montgomery. In Virginina Company A became Company B. At the Battle of Seven Pines in May of 1862 Curry received gunshot wound causing a compounded comminuted (bone broken in three or more pieces) fracture of this thigh. In this battle Curry was discharged with a certificate of disability in July and died at home in August. 

Before the war Shemuel was a practicing lawyer and was married to Matilda Ward. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Shemuel S. Curry, 6th Alabama Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, August 21 2022,  (http://www.fold3.com).

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/52828813/shemuel-seaton-curry: accessed 21 August 2022), memorial page for Shemuel Seaton Curry (5 Nov 1832–18 Aug 1862), Find a Grave Memorial ID 52828813, citing Old City Cemetery, Abbeville, Henry County, Alabama, USA; Maintained by Don Atwell (contributor 47043939).

Wear Family Cemetery

Location:

Old Springville Road

Jefferson County, Alabama

N 33° 42.578   W086° 35.154

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 2225727

Date of Visit: August 13, 2022

David H Wear

Mar 30 1848

Oct 9 1918

Omelia C Wear

May 27 1845

Apr 13 1904

David is marked with a new Confederate flag. David and his wife Omelia received a Confederate pension for his service. He enlisted in 1865 and served for six weeks in Company A 7th Alabama Cavalry. 

• Alabama, Texas and Virginia, U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Entry for David H Wear, 7th Alabama Cavalry, retrieved from Ancestry.com, August 21, 2022,  (http://www.ancestry.com)

Andrew B. 

Wear

Born

Apr. 19, 1833

Died

Jan. 26, 1916

Andrew is marked with a Confederate flag. I believe that this is Corporal A.B. Ware of Company C, 58th Alabama Infantry. He enlisted in Jefferson County, Alabama in 1861. He was wounded severely in the leg at Chickamauga in 1863. His name appears on a roll of prisoners of war surrendered at Citronelle in 1865. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Andrew B. Wear, 58th Alabama Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, August 21, 2022,  (http://www.fold3.com).

Red Hill Cemetery

Location:

Tapawingo Road

Pinson, Jefferson County, Alabama

N33 42.141  W086 40.291

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 2134425

Date of Visit: August 13, 2022

2nd Corp

James H. Anderson

Co C

9 Ala Inf

CSA

1838

1883

Valley Head Cemetery

Location:

State Highway 117

DeKalb County, Alabama

34.57690, -85.62170

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 1862069

Date of Visit: April 13, 2013

EP Nicholson

Corp Co F 1 Ark Mtd Rifles

Confederate States Army

1839    1909

Aaron Center Dean

Co C  62 Ala Regt

Confederate States Army

1835   1915

Lieut

Hugh David Wilson

Co I

12 Ky Cav

CSA

1844  1917

Zachary T Davenport

Pvt Co A Davenport’s 

Ala Cal

Confederate States Army

1845    1922

Davenport’s obituary is posted on his Find a Grave memorial:

"Z. T. Davenport was born near Valley Head, Ala., November 17, 1845, and died January 6, 1922. Early in 1863 he enlisted in the service of his country and was a member of Company A, 1st Alabama Battalion Cavalry, in which he served faithfully to the end of the struggle. He was in the battle of Selma, Ala., under General Forrest, which was fought after the surrender at Appomattox.

"He was married to Miss Amanda Alman, December 14,, 1871. To this union were born two children, a son and daughter. The daughter, Mrs. Jesse Barnard, is still living.

"In 1883 Comrade Davenport joined the M. E. Church, South. He and the writer because attached to each other when small boys and had been lifelong friends. He was a man of veracity, industry, economy -- true to his family, true to his Church, and true to his country. He was always cheerful and spread sunshine wherever he went. He was a member of Camp Estes No. 1659, U. C. V., was a regular in his attendance, and was always the life of the occasion. For several months prior to his death he was a great sufferer, but he bore it all patiently and died peacefully and triumphantly.

He leaves a daughter, two grandsons, several brothers, and a host of friends to mourn his loss.

"Clothed in his Confederate uniform, he was laid to rest in the Valley Head Cemetery, there to await the resurrection morn."

Obituary by J. M. Price, Adjutant Camp Estes No. 1659, Fort Payne, Ala., published in The Confederate Veteran Magazine, Vol. 30, 1922.

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/58418111/zachary-taylor-davenport: accessed 24 July 2022), memorial page for Zachary Taylor Davenport (17 Nov 1845–6 Jan 1922), Find a Grave Memorial ID 58418111, citing Valley Head Cemetery, Valley Head, DeKalb County, Alabama, USA; Maintained by sassytazzy (contributor 46808807).

David Dean

Co A

1st Ala Cav

CSA

Dean’s application for government tombstone is labeled in red ink with “Capt Davenport’s 1st Ala Cav Bn”. 

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15568771/david-dean: accessed 24 July 2022), memorial page for David Dean (26 Jun 1836–2 Dec 1908), Find a Grave Memorial ID 15568771, citing Valley Head Cemetery, Valley Head, DeKalb County, Alabama, USA; Maintained by Evening Blues (contributor 46587085).

Pvt John G Whited

Co H

21 Ga Inf

CSA

1825

1862

Whited entered service in DeKalb County in Marcy of 1862. He died in June of diseases of disease in Stanardsville, Virginia. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for John Whited, 21st Georgia Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, July 24, 2022,  (http://www.fold3.com).

• Georgia State Division of Confederate Pensions and Records, and Lillian Henderson. Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865. Vol. 2(Hapeville, Ga.: Longina & Porter, 1959), 918. Retrieved July 24, 2022 from http://babel.hathitrust.org/.

Head Springs Cemetery

Location:

US Highway 11

DeKalb County, Alabama

34.63360, -85.61330

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 23331

Date of Visit: April 13, 2013

Moses C. Hengar

Corp Co F  7 Ala Cav

Confederate States Army

CW Patty

Corput’s Co 

Ga Lt Arty

Pvt

Richard Mahaffey

Co F

Malones

Ala Cav

CSA

1836

1863

The following is posted on Mahaffey’s Find a Grave memorial:

July 6, 1863 Richard Mahaffey died of Pycemia of Vaccination. Effects of deceased sodier ($43.50) turned over to Quartermaster, C.S.A. 1963 (Conf. Arch. Chap.10, File No. 21, pg.405). Name appeared on a list of sodiers killed in battle, or who died of wounds or disease, Certificate number 1679, "remarks" Q.M.R. (Conf. Arch., Chap. 10, File No. 2, pg.169). Measles and small pox killed many many soldiers, and the military vaccinated soldiers and civilians in mass in an effort to forstall an epidemic. Richard died from pyacemia, which is blood poisoning or general septicemia, resulting from the absorption of septic matter into the circulation. An ulcer developed from a measles vaccination. Vaccination material, live virus, was obtained from a blister on an individual with an active case of measles. If the amount given was too great, or if the sample taken was septic, the recipient could easily contract measles as well as blood poisoning. Richard developed an ulcer at the point of the vaccination, then measles, and, finally, blood poisoning according to the records. Imagine how he must have suffered for those 8 days in a hot, un-air conditioned hospital in the month of July at Tunnel Hill, Georgia! When I visited the site of the Tunnel Hill hospitals and the Tunnel during the annual reinactment, we saw photographs of the actual hospitals. "There were so many hospitals at the Tunnel Hill location," one observer said that "it looked like a city." "The Tunnel Hill location was an excellent site for the hospitals, because there was abundant fresh water from a spring on the site, the railroad provided easy transport of patients, and the mountain on the North side of the hospital provided protection from the enemy." The following from the Tunnel Hill Historical Foundation, the Daily Citizen. The Tunnel Hill Historical Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of historic sites in and around Tunnel Hill, GA. 138th Anniversary Reenactment, September 7-8, 2002, beginning on page 34. "... from the battlefields of Chickamauga, Ringold and the cemetery at Tunnel Hill. The following note was made on the lists that were kept as the soldiers remains were disinterred. 'They were buried at Tunnel Hill in the Citizens' Graveyard, about one mile from the village on the Cleveland wagon road. Thirteen of these were in the east part of the Graveyard commencing at the South end. Thirty-five were put in the cars for shipment from Ringgold last Wednesday and we suppose reached their destination before this. Ninety were placed in the cars at Tunnel Friday evening and will go forward Monday next.' The first three removals began in May 1867; the second, October, 1867 and the final removal concluded July 28, 1869. The firm of Scott & Lyle of Dalton was paid $1,427.70 for the removal and shipment of 1126 Confederate remains. They were received at the Confederate Memorial Cemetery in Marietta, GA, for re-burial and still rest there today. As a December 1999, sixty-seven names of soldiers removed from Tunnel Hill have been identified. Their names were gathered from several sources and are listed below" (Beginning with Alabama) Number 9. was - Mahaffey, Richard d: July 6, 1863 Pvt. Co. F 9th Ala Cav This information about the Tunnel Hill location, medical information, and military unit information was given to me by Marvin Sowder, a local historian at Tunnel Hill, Georgia.

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15568401/richard-mahaffey: accessed 24 July 2022), memorial page for Richard Mahaffey (1836–1863), Find a Grave Memorial ID 15568401, citing Head Springs Cemetery, Valley Head, DeKalb County, Alabama, USA; Maintained by Evening Blues (contributor 46587085).

Bankhead Cemetery

Location:

County Road 642

Mentone, DeKalb County, Alabama

34.55970  -85.55580

FAG:21389

Date of Visit: May 29, 2015

Serg

Elijah S Hardwick

Co H

48 Ala Inf

CSA

1831

1897

Scott Cemetery

Location:

Scott Cemetery Road

Saragossa, Walker County, Alabama

33.883595  -87.413467

FAG: 26120

Date of Visit: April 18, 2015

John Francis Thomas

Pvt Co H  20 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Dec 12 1825

April 19 1907

Dorsey Creek Missionary Church Cemetery

Location:

State Highway 69

Bremen, Cullman County, Alabama

33.977291  - 86.982079

FAG: 22531

Date of Visit: August 18, 2015

William H H Wise

Co K

3 Ala Cav

CSA

1841

1879

Father

JA Childers

Co D

1 Ala Inf

CSA

1844 - 1905

Manasco Cemetery

Location:

Supreme Road

Townley, Walker  County, Alabama

33.818954.  -87.424713

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 24184

Date of Visit: April 18, 2015

James K Polk Manasco

2nd Lieut Co G 56 Ala Cav

Civil War

Feb 27 1845   June 7 1923

Jeremiah Manasco

1 Lieut

Co A 27 Regt Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Jan 16 1832

May 1 1862

MD

 

Jeremiah was a son of John Manasco and Lucinda Luster of Walker County, Alabama. He enlisted in the Confederate Army on September 25, 1861 and was elected 1st Lieutenant by Captain Weeden’s Walker County Company. In the company October it was organized into the 22nd Alabama Infantry regiment. The 22nd Alabama was in the line of battle both days in April of 1862 at Shiloh. According to several sources Jeremiah was wounded in the left arm. The wound was so bad that it was necessary to amputate his arm. He was sent home where he died on May 1, 1862. 

Several sources stated that Jeremiah was serving as a medical aide to General Albert Sydney Johnston at the time of his death. There is no description of Jeremiah’s wounding reports from the 22nd Alabama found in the Official Record of the War of Rebellion and he does not appear in Johnston’s staff. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama. Original data from: The National Archives, Retrieved from at October 31, 2019. (http://www.fold3.com)
• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 31 October 2019), memorial page for Dr Jeremiah Manasco (16 Jan 1832–1 May 1862), Find A Grave Memorial no. 36762080, citing Manasco Cemetery, Townley, Walker County, Alabama, USA ; Maintained by ~A MS Bama Son~® (contributor 46971531) .
• Manasco, Karen, Genealogy.com’s Manasco Forum, August 26, 2004, https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/manasco/207/
• National Park Service, Soldier and Sailor’s Database, 22nd Alabama Infantry, https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-battle-units-detail.htm?battleUnitCode=CAL0022RI , accessed October 30, 2019. 

Lebanon Baptist Church Cemetery

Location:

County Road 55

Falkville, Morgan County, Alabama

34.370857  -86.969462

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 2140862

Date of Visit: March 19, 2015

James A Kilpatrick

Pvt Co I 5 Ala Cav

Confederate States Army

Jun 4 1836.  Dec 18 1926

Henry Quattlebaum

Co C

Hardie’s Cav

Ala Vols

CSA

April 15 1847

March 29 1926

McKendree Cemetery

Location:

County Road 55

Falkville, Morgan County, Alabama

34.370178  -87.022619

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 24357

Date of Visit: March 19, 2015

William H Gibson

Pvt Co I 5 Ala Cav

Confederate States Army

Jul 16 1840  Nov 23 1901