Shiloh United Methodist Church

Location:

Cherokee Street NW

Kennesaw, Cobb County, Georgia

N 34° 02.944  W084° 35.742

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 2158767

Date of Visit: July 9, 2017

Washington G. Thomas

Co E

39 NC Inf

Francis Boring

Co A

18 Ga Inf

CSA

Masonic Symbol

Born 1830

Died 1899

Serg

James W Brown

Co C

41 Ga Inf

CSA

J. H. Baldwin

1839 1894

The grave of Henry Baldwin was marked with a Southern Cross of Honor in 2017.  He was a member of Company C of the 41st Georgia Infantry. 

He was discharged from service in 1864 for health reasons.

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for J.H. Baldwin, 41st Georgia Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, June 6, 2023,  (http://www.fold3.com)
• Widows Pension for Sarah Baldwin. U.S., Confederate Pension Applications, 1879-1960 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009.Original data:Confederate Pension Applications, Georgia Confederate Pension Office, RG 58-1-1, Georgia Archives.

Kennesaw City Cemetery

Location:

Cemetery Street

Cobb County, Georgia

N 34 01.219.  W084 36.931

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 34830

Date of Visit: July 9, 2017

William P. Stanley

1844-1918

CSA

18th Ga Reg Co A

See Find A Grave Memorial 60392093 for details of Stanley’s Confederate service. 

Thomas Wm Wingo

Pvt Co E 43 Ga Inf

CSA

1834     July 9, 1863

             Vicksburg

Thomas William Wingo enlisted in the Confederate Army in Cumming, Georgia in 1862.  At some point he served as a musician in the regimental band. At Vicksburg he apparently was wounded and died. He is buried in Soldier’s Rest section of Cedar Hill the actual circumstances of Williams death is not clear. Cemetery in Vicksburg. His date of death is five days after the surrender of Vicksburg, so actual circumstances of Thomas’ death is not clear. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Thomas W. Wingo, 43rd Georgia Infantry,  Retrieved from at 3-Fold, October 3, 2021,  (http://www.fold3.com).
• National Park Service, Confederate Internments, Vicksburg National Military Park, accessed May 31, 2023, https://www.nps.gov/vick/learn/historyculture/confederate-interments-w.htm

J.T. Chalker

May 3, 1844

Apr 12, 1906

Jacob Taylor Chalker enlisted at Beaulieu near Savannah on March 2, 1863. He served in Company H of the 54th Georgia infantry.  It is reported that he was wounded in the right arm at Kennesaw Mountain on June 18, 1864. The circumstances of this wounding is not clear. The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain occurred about nine days after the 18th. It is likely that Chalker was wounded in the action at Latimer Farm (near present day Marietta Country Club) where Walker’s Division including Mercer’s Brigade and the 54th was in the line of battle next to French’s division when three Union divisions pushed attacked. Johnson was forced to move his troops toward Kennesaw Mountain. 

• Confederate Pension and Record Department. Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia 1861-1865. 7 vols. Hapeville: Longino & Porter, 1955-58. Data Systems, comp. U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009.
• William R. Scaife, The Campaign for Atlanta (Kennesaw, Georgia: Kennesaw Mountain Historical Association: Heritage Books, 2007), 190.

Union Chapel UMC Cemetery

Location:

Buttermilk Road

Walker  County, Alabama

33.816242   -87.182022

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 26803

Date of Visit: April 11, 2014

Pvt

John Calvin Akins

Co H

56 Ala Cav

Partisan 

Rangers

CSA

Apr 25 1832

Mar 22 1922

Joseph William Gardner

Pvt Co I 4 Fla Inf

Confederate States Army

Jan 4 1837   Jun 11 1920

Pvt

Caleb John Green

Co E

57 Ga Inf

Jun 1843

Dec 1924

Pvt

William W Wilson

Co F

37 Ala Regt

CSA

Dec 1832

Nov 1903

Pvt

Jefferson Lovell

Co D

Ga Vols

CSA

1832

1862

This marker is a cenotaph. He served in Company D of the Infantry Battalion of Phillips’s Legion. He was admitted to General Hospital Number 16 in Richmond in late December and died of pneumonia on January 8, 1863. It is believed that he was buried in Confederate Section of Hollywood Cemetery.

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Jefferson Lovell, Phillips Legion, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, May 23, 2023, (http://www.fold3.com).
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33707176/jefferson-lovell: accessed 23 May 2023), memorial page for Jefferson Lovell (29 Apr 1832–8 Jan 1863), Find a Grave Memorial ID 33707176, citing Union Chapel Cemetery, Union Chapel, Walker County, Alabama, USA; Maintained by Gerbig (contributor 47270759).

John M Felkins

Pvt Co C 38 Alabama Regt

Confederate States Army

Dec 21 1832

Jul15 1887

Nathaniel Black

Pvt Co F 28 Regt 6 Cal

Confederate Staates Army

Nov 27 1846    May 8 1843

Note: Nathaniel does not appear on rolls of the 28th Alabama Infantry or the 6th Alabama Calvary.

Jackson Eli Hyche

Pvt Co G  26 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Jun 8 1848    Mar 31 1928

William H Riddlesperger

Pvt

Co D Ga Vols CSA

1830

1878

William served in Company D of the Infantry Battalion of Phillip’s Legion.

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for W.H. Riddlesperger, Phillips Legion, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, May 29, 2023, (http://www.fold3.com).

John Fletcher Jones

Co B

35 Regt

Ala Inf

CSA

1836

1919

Pvt

James M Price

Co F

26 Miss Inf

CSA

Feb18 1844

Nov 29 1932

Pvt

John O Turner

Co G

3 Ga Inf

CSA

Jan 9 1845

Oct 12 1925

Nathan B Langley

Co G

8 Ga Cav

CSA

West End Cemetery

Location:

West Screven Street

Quitman, Brooks County, Georgia

30.78440 -83.56690

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 37666

Date of Visit: June 29, 2014

Unknown Confederate Dead

During this last year of the war West Cemetery was used for the burial of 17 Confederate soldiers. Some are marked by Veteran Administration Confederate headstones and others are marked by what appears o be locally carved headstones. 

2 Lieut

John S Hopson

Co D

17 Ga Inf

CSA

Chales Quarterman

Coast Guard BN

Ga Mil

CSA

2nd Lt

James B Finch

50 Ga Inf

CSA

Malcom Smith McIntosh

Co C  29 BN Ga Cav

Confederate States Army

Feb 14 1823     Oct 31 1877

Henry H Strickland

Co K

50 Ga Inf

CSA

1834   1875

Henry Gray Turner

Mar 20, 1839

June 8, 1904

Captain in Confederate Army

Member of Congress 1880-1890

Georgia Supreme Court Justice

July 1903-April 1904

Captain Turner served as the Captain of Company H, 23rd North Carolina Infantry. He was captured at Gettysburg in 1863. H was paroled and exchanged in 1864. 

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7780787/henry-gray-turner: accessed 29 April 2023), memorial page for Henry Gray Turner (20 Mar 1839–9 Jun 1904), Find a Grave Memorial ID 7780787, citing West End Cemetery, Quitman, Brooks County, Georgia, USA; Maintained by Find a Grave.

William Baker Bennett

1827-1908

In 2014 he was marked with a Southern Cross of Honor. He is said to have enlisted in Confederate service. He was discharged and sent home due to disability.

• Folks Huxford, The History of Brooks County, (Quitman: Daughters of the American Revolution, 1948): 426. ancestry.com

Cap John G McCall L.L.D.

Jan 18, 1836 - Dec 3 1921

In 2014 his grave was marked with a Southern Cross of Honor. He volunteered for Confederate service a 1st Lieutenant off Company K of the 50th Georgia Infantry. He was severely wounded after the Battle of Antietam while engaged in holding a bridge. The wound to his face was som severe he was left on the field for dead. He was eventually nursed back to health and returned home to Brooks County. 

• Folks Huxford, The History of Brooks County, (Quitman: Daughters of the American Revolution, 1948): 549. ancestry.com

Benjamin Waters Sinclair 

1812-1878

In 2014 his grave was marked with the Southern Cross of Honor. 

Huxford reports that Sinclair was too old for line duty, but he served on Governor Brown’s staff during the war.

• Folks Huxford, The History of Brooks County, (Quitman: Daughters of the American Revolution, 1948): 513. ancestry.com