Blountsville Cemetery

AKA Blountsville First United Methodist Cemetery

Location:

Church Street

Blountsville, Blount County, Alabama

N34° 04.839   W086° 35.338

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 433813

Date of Visit: April 27, 2017

Pickney A. Westbrook

Pvt Co E 47 Ala Inf

Confederate Staates Army

July 24 1834   Mar 21, 1906

Robert D Duncan

Pvt Dews Ala Co

Confederate States Army

Jun 24, 1833  Dec 25 1872

William W. Born

Co D

9 Ga Arty

CSA

Absolom W. Duncan

Pvt  Dews Company 

Confederate States Army

May 5 1840   Aug 19 1864

Duncan enlisted  in Captains Dew's Company in September of 1861 in Bloiuntsville, Alabama. This company became Company B of the 29th Alabama Infantry. Between 1862 and April of 1864 the saw duty in in the panhandle of Florida and in Mobile. In April the 29th joined the Army of Tennessee in Resaca, Georgia and took part in the Atlanta Campaign. The 29th took heavy losses at Resaca, Kennasaw, and while in the line around Atlanta. He died on August 22, 1864. There is no record of the cause of his death. 

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for A.W. Duncan, 29th Alabama Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, March 25, 2024,  (http://www.fold3.com)
• Brewer, Willis. 1872. Alabama: Her History, Resources War Record, and Public Men From 1540 to 1872. Montgomery, Alabama: Barrett & Brown. https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=QogshH4pd50C&pg=GBS.PP4.

Thomas F. Duncan

Co C. 19 Ala Inf

Confederate States Army

Oct 17 1831  May 27,1865

Thomas enlisted at Mt. Pinson in 1861. He was captured at Chicamauga in 1863 and sent to Camp Douglas in Chicago, Illinois. In March of 1865 he was forwarded to City Point, Virginia on March 14, 1865 for exchange. He was admitted to a hospital at Camp Lee in Richmond after being exchanged. Family trees put his place of death as Blountsville.

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Thomas F. Duncan, 19th Alabama Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, March 25, 2024,  (http://www.fold3.com)
• Finch, Peggy Dean, "Dean-Finch-Blair-Sapp-Stephens-Grigsby-McCarty-Blackwood-Bolding Family Tree," Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed March 25, 2024),.Family profile for Thomas F. Duncan  (1831-1865)

Capt

William Graves

Graves Co

Ala Cav

May 13, 1865

Graves, William, (Captain), born 10 Mar 1818 near Blountsville; served Captain of Grave's Company of Alabama Cavalry. Entered the army in 1862 at Blountsville in the Barbierie Battalion. Just after the surrender, he was shot and killed by "Tories" of Blount County 3 May 1865 and was buried in the First Methodist Church Cemetery at Blountsville. William married Martha Pullen 27 Nov 1839, Blount County Children included: Milton T., Nancy, Marcus D.L., Mary J., Monroe, Susan, Lena, and William D. Graves.

• Fosdyck, James C., "John Dunklin Sullivan, AlGenWeb - Blount Aounty, Accessed March 25, 2024. https://algenweb.org/blount/CivilWar/jdsullivan.html

Greer Family Cemetery

Location:

Juliette Road

Forsyth, Monroe County, Georgia

33° 3.26946'N   83° 53.376'W

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 2509089

Date of Visit: March 12, 2016

Leonard Forsyth Greer

Born

May 10, 1828

Died

Dec 14, 1896

Served in Company K, 53rd Georgia Infantry. He was wounded at the Battle of Sharpesburg. He would return to duty and serve until being captured at the end of the war. 

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/115751463/leonard_forsyth-greer: accessed March 22, 2024), memorial page for Dr Leonard Forsyth Greer (10 May 1828–14 Dec 1896), Find a Grave Memorial ID 115751463, citing Greer Family Cemetery, Forsyth, Monroe County, Georgia, USA; Maintained by Rich Dohm (contributor 47091329).

Love Joy Freewill Baptist Church Cemetery

Location:

Love Joy Road

Beaverton, Lamar County, Alabama

N 33° 53.732   W087° 59.436

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 24091 

Date of Visit: January 9, 2017

Moses Fletcher Gosa

Pvt Co H 4 Ala Cav

Confederate States Army

Jan 7, 1839   Nov 24 1914

Moses entered into the service of the 4th Alabama Calvary in Chickasaw, Alabama in 1862. This was likely Roddy's or Russell's Calvary. In the fall he was captured at Holly Springs. At some point he was paroled and in March of 1863 he re-listed in the 4th Mississippi Calvary. He was captured and paroled in Selma in 1865. 

His Find a Grave memorial states:

Moses applied for a Civil War - Union pension and was denied same as no such unit existed.Moses later applied for a Civil War - Confederate pension and was accepted on statements from others - there is no record of him serving in the Confederate Army.

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/24798840/moses_fletcher-gosa: accessed March 9, 2024), memorial page for Moses Fletcher Gosa (1 Jan 1833–29 Nov 1914), Find a Grave Memorial ID 24798840, citing Love Joy Cemetery, Beaverton, Lamar County, Alabama, USA; Maintained by Bryan Winter (contributor 46975843).

• Alabama Department of Archives & History; Montgomery, Alabama; Alabama Census of Confederate Soldiers, 1907 and 1921; Roll: Multiple Regiments (Lamar County #38); Roll Number: 202. Entry for Moses Fletcher Gosa, retrieved from Ancestry.com, March 9, 2024,. (http://www.ancestry.com)

Wilkes Cemetery

Location:

State Highway 199 (Old River Road)

Laurens County, Georgia

N32° 24.927

W082° 44.879

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 2388719

Date of Visit: November 20, 2020

William H. Branch (1837-1865)

William was a child of Charity Hagen and David Branch. He served in Company A of Phillips Legion. He was wounded at Antietam and lost his right arm below the elbow. William's grave is marked by a concrete/cement tombstone that is highly weathered and hard to read. 

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/66750971/william_h-branch: accessed February 26, 2024), memorial page for William H “Bill” Branch (17 Oct 1837–14 Aug 1865), Find a Grave Memorial ID 66750971, citing Wilkes Cemetery, East Dublin, Laurens County, Georgia, USA; Maintained by Dorothy George Taylor (contributor 47062173).

Union Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery

Location:

Jasper-Warrior Road

Partridge, Jefferson County, Alabama

N33° 45.821    W086° 55.895

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 2160588

Date of Visit: May 19, 2017

William H. McCraig

Co D

5 Ala Inf

CSA

James E. Camp

Co C

12 Ala Cav

CSA

Mar 16 1844

Jan 25 1922

John R. Roberts

1816-1911

Veteran C.S.A.

Mt. Olive #2 Cemetery

(AKA Moore Cemetery #65)

Old National Road

Pinehurst, Dooley County, Georgia

32° 13.30626' N

83° 47.75484'N

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 2332114

Date of Visit: June 29, 2014

William W. Woodward

Co B

27 Ga Inf

CSA

May 12 1846

Oct 30 1871

Longshore Cemetery

Location:

County Road 101

DeKalb County, Alabama

34° 16' 46.59'' N    85° 45'39.09''W 

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 24086

Date of Visit: February 18, 2013

In Memory 

Young W. Longshore

Pvt Co A 35 Ga Regt

Confederate States Army

1841     1861

Young W. Longshore mustered into service in Buchanan in Harrison County, Georgia on August 12, 1861. On December 21, 1861 he died in Fredricksburg, Virginia. Cause of his death could not be determined. This marker may be a cenotaph. In 2014 a research erect a Find a Grave memorial to Longshore the Barton Street Cemetery in Fredericksburg. However, his name is not on the plaque dedicated to 51 Confederate buried October of 1861 and March of 1862. Four men of the 35th Georgia are named on the plaque.

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/126589172/young-w-longshore: accessed 23 January 2024), memorial page for Young W Longshore (unknown–21 Dec 1861), Find a Grave Memorial ID 126589172, citing Barton Street Cemetery, Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg City, Virginia, USA; Maintained by Birdgirl (contributor 47240809).

• Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia.  Original data from: The National Archives, Entry for Young W. Longshore, 35th Georgia Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold, January 23, 2024,  (http://www.fold3.com).

Emanuel L. Holman

Pvt Co K 41 Ga Inf

Confederate States Army

Sept 13 1842      Feb 22 1918

Mills Family Cemetery

Location:

Haywood Valley Road

Chattanooga County, Georgia

34°30’25.9’ N  85° 10’ 50.2’ 

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 35379

Date of Visit: December 14, 2023

Hugh M Mills

Co F

6 Bn Ga Cav

CSA

1813

1872

Anderson Cemetery

Location:

Haywood Valley Road

Chattooga County, Georgia

34.48670, -85.18420

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 32517

Date of Visit: December 14, 2023

Corp

Stephen A. Anderson

Co C

23 Ga Inf

CSA

Dec 6 1841    Jan 28, 1916

Pvt

John L. Wright

Co F

6 BN Ga Cav

CSA

Oct 16 1811

Feb 8, 1877

Pvt Cador G. Wright

CI I

35 Ga Inf

CSA

Oct 21, 1838

Apr 28, 1868

Dewey Baptist Church Cemetery

Location:

Spring Place Road

Bartow County, Georgia

N34.33798° W84.78939°

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 2302859

Date of Visit: November 25, 2023

T.J. Hendrix       1846-1911

He served in Company Company I, 1st Georgia Calvary from 1863 to surrender in 1865. 

Georgia, U.S., Confederate Pension Applications, 1879-1960 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009. Entry for Thomas J. Hendricks. Original data: Confederate Pension Applications, Georgia Confederate Pension Office, RG 58-1-1, Georgia Archives.

Henry McCreary   1794-1861

Henry was the Confederate postmaster at Gum Springs. 

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72267671/henry-mccreary: accessed 25 December 2023), memorial page for Henry McCreary (1794–1861), Find a Grave Memorial ID 72267671, citing Dewey Baptist Church Cemetery, Cartersville, Bartow County, Georgia, USA; Maintained by Whitfield (contributor 47786265).                                                                                    

The following three are marked by locally manufactured iron “CV” Crosses of Honor.  I have not been able to determine their unit of service. 

1. Thomas Jefferson Bell 1843-1924

2. Lewis Henderson “of Lees Army”

3. John David Kirk 1843 - 1938

Waleska Baptist Church Cemetery

Location:

Bartow Street

Waleska, Cherokee County, Georgia

N 34.31391° W 84.55812°

Find A Grave Cemetery ID: 2140241

Date of Visit: November 25, 2023

Corp

Emanuel Hufstetler 

Co E

Cherokee Legion

CSA

Feb 28 1818

Sept 6 1907