Thursday, July 27, 2023

Red Wine Cove Cemetery Find A Grave Survey

Location:

Redwine Cove Road SW

Whitfield County, Georgia

34.65030 -85.03170

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 36549

Date Completion of Survey: January 7, 2022



Protocol for conducting a Find A Grave Survey:

  1. There must be evidence of Confederate service in a picture on the memorial page (VA tombstone, inscription on a non-military tombstone, Confederate flag, Southern Cross of Honor).
  2. Confederate soldiers are automatically recorded if they are marked with a VA tombstone.
  3. Service of those marked with a Confederate flag or Southern Cross of Honor is are recorded if their service records can be established. 
  4. Soldiers whose service is described in their Find a Grave memorial are recorded if the information given can be corroborated. 


This is a survey of Redwine Cove Cemetery in Redwine Cove of Whitfield County, Georgia using the Find A Grave memorial page for the cemetery. The cemetery page contains 137 memorials of which 88% have been photographed. 



James N. Redwine

Co C

39 Georgia Inf

CSA

Jun 31 1840

Nov 15 1891




Isaac Gilbert 

Isaac Gilbert is thought to be buried in Redwine Cove Cemetery in an unmarked grave. He served in Company K of the 14th Georgia. He listed in 1862 and served until being captured at Petersburg. He was a prisoner of war at Point Lookout, Maryland. 


  • Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Isaac Gilbert, 14th Georgia Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, July 27, 2023,  (http://www.fold3.com).
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/96321827/isaac-gilbert: accessed 27 July 2023), memorial page for Isaac Gilbert (5 Oct 1820–23 Dec 1887), Find a Grave Memorial ID 96321827, citing Redwine Cove Cemetery, Whitfield County, Georgia, USA; Maintained by Harlon (contributor 47533220).

Sunday, July 23, 2023

Antioch Cemetery Find A Grave Survey

Location: 2931 Roswell Road

Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia

33.97805 -84.46700

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 232549

Date Completion of Survey: July 23, 2023



Protocol for conducting a Find A Grave Survey:


  1. There must be evidence of Confederate service in a picture on the memorial page (VA tombstone, inscription on a non-military tombstone, Confederate flag, Southern Cross of Honor).
  2. Confederate soldiers are automatically recorded if they are marked with a VA tombstone.
  3. Service of those marked with a Confederate flag or Southern Cross of Honor is are recorded if their service records can be established. 
  4. Soldiers whose service is described in their Find a Grave memorial are recorded if the information given can be corroborated. 


This is a survey of Antioch Cemetery in Marietta, Georgia using the Find A Grave memorial page for the cemetery. The cemetery page contains 122 memorials and 89 % have been photographed. 


Pvt Alvin S Coker

Co M

Phillips LN

CSA

Mar 21 1835

Feb 12 1919


W.M. Nix

Apri. 10, 1840

Nov. 5, 1924


William Nix is marked with a Southern Cross of Honor. His pension record indicates that he joined Company A of the Roswell Battalion in 1863 and served until the end of the war. This was a local defense cavalry unit. 


  • Georgia, U.S., Confederate Pension Applications, 1879-1960 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009. Entry for W.N. Nix, Roswell Battalion, retrieved from Ancestry.com, www. ancestry.com July 22, 2023. Citing original data: Confederate Pension Applications, Georgia Confederate Pension Office, RG 58-1-1, Georgia Archives.







Thursday, July 20, 2023

Shiloh Cemetery


Location:

Ashville Road

Leeds, Jefferson County, Alabama

33.55031 -86.541171

Find A Grave Cemetery ID:26245


Date of Visit: July 9, 2023


M. Speers Jones

2nd Serg Co C 18 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army



Robert M Jones

Private Co C 18 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

CA 1835  POW Mar 15 1864

Buried Confederate Cemetery

Rock Island Illinois


Private Ones was captured at Missionary Ridge on November 25, 1863. He was transported to Louisville, Kentucky and then Rock Island in December. He contracted variola (smallpox0 and died. He was buried south of the prison barracks in grave 823 


  • Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Robert M. Jones, 18th Alabama Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, July 20, 2023,  (http://www.fold3.com).



Samuel C. Spruiell

Serg Co D 8 Ala Cav

Confederate States Army


John Oliver

Capt 18 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army


JM Moody

Pvt Co C  18 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army


Wilburn K Little

Pvt Co C 18 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army


George Cason Jones

Capt Co C 51 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Apr 2 1844     May 2 1911


Andrew J Little

Pvt Co C. 18 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army


James M Scott

Pvt Co C 18 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army




Monday, July 3, 2023

Antioch Cemetery

Location:

Georgia Highway 92

Paulding County, Georgia

33.941289 -84.738773

Find A Grave Cemetery ID:32537

Date of Visit: April 26, 2015



B M Camp

Co E

9 BN Ga Arty

CSA


Henry L C Fuller

Co H 19 Ga Inf

Confederate States Army

1841     1862


Private Fuller died in General Hospital in Lynchburg,Virginia on March 3, 1862 of rubelola (measles). There is a record of his burial on March 6, this would indicate he was buried in Virginia. However, there are two memorials to him in Antioch. 

  • Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for H.L.C. Fuller, 19th Georgia  Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, July 3, 2023,  (http://www.fold3.com).


Sunday, July 2, 2023

Concord Cemetery

Location:

Duncan Road

Quitman, Brooks County, Georgia

30.826506  -83.530594

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 33372


Date of Visit:June 29, 2014


Jackson Flowers 

10 BN Ga Inf

CSA


Andrew Treadaway

Pvt Co F 6 Regt Ga Inf

Confederate States Army

Sept 7 1844  Jan 20 1921 



John D Belcher

Co B

13 Ga Inf

CSA

Jan 15 1838

Apr 26 1921

Tuesday, June 6, 2023

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.





Wednesday, May 31, 2023

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. 


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.



Tuesday, May 30, 2023

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








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