Appling Grays Company I, 27th GA
Appling Rangers Company F, 47th GA
Appling Volunteers
Company B & Satilla Rifles Company K, 54th GA
Clinch's 4th Cavalry
The following is a list of Appling
County Infantrymen that died during the War Between the States. The
list is compiled from the “Rosters of Confederate Soldiers of
Georgia" – Lillian Henderson
This is a memorial to all those Appling
County citizens that gave the ultimate sacrifice – their lives!
Company
F, 47th Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry “Appling Rangers”
(Company F 11th Battalion)
John M. Sellers -
Died of disease in Cassville, Georgia Oct. 18, 1863
William Sellers - Died of disease Date unknown
Austin W. Blount - Died of disease June 25, 1862
Benjamin F. Bullard - Died of disease in Atlanta, Georgia Oct. 20,
1863
Wesley P. Bullard - Died of disease May 19, 1863
Thomas Crapps - Died of disease in Savannah, Georgia Oct. 8, 1862
Samuel Deen - Killed in action at Johns Island, South Carolina July
10, 1864
Martin M. Deen - Killed in action at Johns Island, South Carolina
July 10, 1864
John E. Googe - Killed in
action at Johns Island, South Carolina July 10, 1864
John Green - Killed in action at Johns Island, South Carolina July
10, 1864
Thomas J. Hall - Killed in action at Honey Hill, South Carolina
Nov. 30, 1864
Philip Herndon - Died of disease at Camp Williams, Georgia Aug 16,
1864
David Hester or Hesters - Died of disease at Rock Island, Ill.
Prison Dec. 20, 1863
James Holton - Died of disease at Altamaha Bridge, Georgia Nov. 10,
1862
Archibald Johnson - Died of disease in Savannah, Georgia Nov. 30,
1864
John W. Johnson - Killed in action at Morris Island, South Carolina
1864
Richard G. Long - Killed in action at Chickamauga, Georgia Sept. 19,
1864 (Transferred to Co. “A” 1st Battalion)
Watson Leggett - Died of disease in Savannah, Georgia Nov. 1, 1863
Archibald McClelland - Died of disease in Greensboro, Georgia May
23, 1864
Willis Miles - Died of disease in South Carolina Date unknown
Rueben C. Nail - Died of unknown causes April 19, 1862
William Ray - Died of disease in Atlanta, Georgia Oct. 17, 1863
George Rentz - Died of unknown causes in Macon, Georgia 1863 or 1864
Clinton Sapp - Wounded at Honey Hill, South Carolina Nov. 30, 1864
Died of wounds in Savannah, Georgia Jan. 18, 1865
Elijah Sapp - Died of disease at Camp Williams, Georgia Aug. 3, 1862
Thomas W. Shumans - Captured Nov. 25, 1864 at Missionary Ridge,
Tenn. Died of disease at Rock Island, Ill. Prison Dec. 27, 1863
Dennis Smith - Wounded at Honey Hill, South Carolina. Nov. 30, 1864
Died of wounds in Charleston, S.C. Dec. 18, 1864
George W. Spell - Died of disease in Richmond, Virginia June 14,
1862
Asberry R. Taylor - Died of disease in Lauderdale Springs,
Mississippi Sept. 24, 1863
Benjamin Taylor - Killed in action at Bentonville, N.C. April 18,
1865
Berry S. Taylor - Died of disease in Thomaston, Georgia Aug. 6, 1864
Elisha Taylor - Killed in action at Bentonville, N.C. April 18, 1865
Jesse S. Taylor - Died of disease in Atlanta, Georgia Nov. 8, 1863
Aaron B. Varn - Died of disease in Atlanta, Georgia Dec. 14, 1863
Daniel R. Varn - Died of disease Nov. 1, 1862
William G. Wiley - Died of unknown causes Dec. 12, 1863
John Williams - Wounded at James Island, South Carolina June 10,
1862 Died of wounds in Baxley, Georgia Nov. 10, 1862
Ellis Woodson - Wounded and
captured at Savannah, Georgia Dec. 22, 1864 Died of Wounds Jan. 9,
1865
David Yawn - Died of disease
1862
Calvin Yawn - Died of unknown causes in Savannah, Georgia June 2,
1863
Company B,
54th Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry – “Appling Volunteers”
Lafayette Philips - Died of
unknown causes May 15, 1862
Abraham Eason - Died of disease Feb. 23, 1864
William H. Eason - Died of injury in Savannah, Georgia Oct. 6, 1862
Stephen Carter - Died of disease in Savannah, Georgia Sept. 22,
1863
William Hughes - Died of disease in Atlanta, Georgia July 25, 1864
George W. Middleton - Died of disease in Atlanta, Georgia Jan. 6,
1864
Middleton Miles - Killed in action at Kennesaw Mt., Georgia June
27, 1864
James L. Moody - Died of unknown causes June 16, 1862
Isham Strickland - Died of disease at Camp Chase Prision in Ohio Feb
14, 1865
Arthur Turner - Died of disease in Richmond, Virginia Oct. 1, 1864
Company K,
54th Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry – “Satilla Rifles”
J. T. Mann - Killed in action
at Vining Station, Georgia July 4, 1864
Henry Bennett - Died of disease in Savannah, Georgia Dec. 22 1863 or
1864
John W. Bennett - Died of disease in Atlanta, Georgia May 28, 1864
W. H. Cooper - Died of unknown causes in Richmond, Virginia Nov. 16,
1864
Elijah Dickson - Died of unknown causes Aug. 16, 1863
John Dickson - Killed in action at Jonesboro, Georgia Aug. 31, 1864
Joel C. Griffis - Killed in Action at Atlanta, Georgia July 22, 1864
E. S. Knight - Killed in action at Atlanta, Georgia July 22, 1864
I.R. Knight - Killed in action at Atlanta, Georgia July 22, 1864
H.B. Lynn - Died of unknown causes in Savannah, Georgia Sept. 20,
1862
William Moody - Killed in action at Chickamauga, Georgia Sept. 19,
1863 (Had transferred to Company “C”, 1st Battalion)
Jasper Patterson - Died of unknown causes at James Island, South
Carolina 1863
H. P. Roberson - Died of disease, 1864
W. H. Roberson - Died of disease, 1864
Company I
27th Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry, “Appling Grays”
Elisha Aldridge - Died of
disease in Richmond, Virginia July 11, 1862
Jackson Cooner - Killed in action at Seven Pines, Virginia May 31,
1862
Jefferson Cooner - Died of disease at Camp Pickens, Virginia Feb. 8,
1862
John Cooner - Killed in action at Ocean Pond, Florida Feb. 20, 1864
Thomas Howell Courson - Died of disease in Richmond, Virginia May
15, 1862
Joseph A. Crapps - Killed in action at Bentonville, North Carolina
March 19, 1865
Isham Crosby - Died of disease at Manassas, Virginia Dec. 3, 1861
Jacob Crosby - Died of disease at Richmond, Virginia April 20, 1862
William Custer or Kutler - Died at Camp Douglas, Illinois Prison
Date Unknown
James E. Davis - Died at Richmond, Virginia of unknown causes June
5, 1862
John J. Dilbon - Died at Yorktown, Virginia of unknown causes May
22, 1862
C. M. Douglas - Died of unknown causes at Charleston, South Carolina
Jan. 18, 1864
William Eason - Died of unknown causes at Richmond, Virginia Dec.
21, 1861
J. Fields - Died of unknown causes at Richmond, Virginia May 14,
1862
D. C. Hagan or Hagin - Died of unknown causes at Richmond, Virginia
May, 1863
Alfred S. Hall - Died of unknown causes April 1, 1863
David Jack Hester or J. D. Hesters - Died of unknown causes at
Richmond, Virginia Nov. 22, 1861
David Hester or Hesters - Captured at Missionary Ridge, Tennessee
Nov. 25, 1863 Died of disease at Rock Island, Illinois Prison Dec.
20, 1863
Francis M. Hester or Hesters - Killed in action at Sharpsburg,
Maryland Sept. 17, 1862
John Hughes - Died of disease at Raleigh, North Carolina Nov. 21,
1861
Benjamin F. Hutto - Died of disease in Richmond, Virginia Sept. 5,
1864
Alexander W. Johnson - Killed
in action at Sharpsburg, Maryland Sept. 17, 1862
Levi Johnson - Killed in action at Sharpsburg, Maryland Sept. 17,
1862
Frank Jones - Died of unknown causes at Richmond, Virginia Feb. 1862
Joseph Jones - Died of unknown causes at Raleigh, North Carolina
Dec. 1861
Peter Kemp - Died of disease at Richmond, Virginia Aug. 1, 1862
Osgood A. Lee - Killed in
action at Seven Pines, Virginia May 31, 1862
Adolph Lessure - Killed in action at Sharpsburg, Maryland Sept. 17,
1862
D. M. Livingston - wounded at Petersburg, Virginia June 20, 1864
Died of wounds in Richmond, VA June 27, 1864
Patrick Lynn - Died of disease at Manassas, Virginia Nov. 2, 1861
William Lynn - Died of unknown causes in Virginia Apr. 1862
William Martin - Died of disease at Raleigh, North Carolina Nov. 12,
1861
James McGauley or McGalley - Killed in action at Cold Harbor,
Virginia June 27, 1862
William H. Nelson - Killed in action at Petersburg, Virginia 1864
G. W. L. Nix - Died of disease at Manassas, Virginia Dec. 26, 1861
Daniel J. Philips - Died of unknown causes at Charleston, South
Carolina Jan. 8, 1864
Franklin Quinn - Killed in action at Seven Pines, Virginia May 31,
1862
Jacob Rentz - Died of disease at Richmond, Virginia . Nov. 25, 1861
Buford Sapp - Killed in action at Weldon Railroad, Virginia Aug.
18, 1864
William Smith - Killed in action at Seven Pines, Virginia May 31,
1862
William Storey - Killed in action at Petersburg, Virginia June 9,
1864
Jacob T. Thompson - Killed in action at Seven Pines, Virginia May
31, 1862
Moses Tomberlin - Died of disease at Culpepper, Virginia Nov. 25,
1861
David J. Tuten - Died of disease at Richmond, Virginia Nov. 27,
1861
George Vanes - Killed in action at The Wilderness, Virginia May 6,
1864
Co. B and Co.. K (the
Satilla Rifles) were formed and became a part of the 1st Brigade,
Georgia State Troops in October 1861. Co. B was originally
designated as Co. K, 2nd Regiment and the Satilla Rifles were
designated as Co. A, 1st Regiment. In April of 1862 both companies
were mustered out of the Georgia State Troops and became part of the
newly formed 54th Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry.
Company B elected George W. Moody as Captain, Lafayette N. Phillips
- 1st Lieutenant, James L. Moody - 2nd Lieutenant and John Jackson
Roberson - Jr. 2nd Lieutenant. Company K elected George W. Eason as
Captain, James H. Hannon - 1st Lieutenant, Richard Bennett - 2nd
Lieutenant and Green B. Ritch - Jr. 2nd Lieutenant.
The 54th Georgia was deployed in the coastal defense around the
Savannah - Charleston area. They were involved in numerous conflicts
in that area including the siege of Battery Wagner on Morris Island,
South Carolina. In 1864 the 54th Georgia became a part of Mercer's
Brigade and was reassigned to the Army of Tennessee in Dalton
Georgia as Sherman was beginning his campaign in Georgia. They were
engaged at Dalton, Rocky Face, Resaca, Adairsville, Cassville, New
Hope Church, Kennesaw Mountain, Peachtree Creek, the battle of
Atlanta and the battle of Jonesboro. Under General John B. Hood, the
54th left Georgia to engage in the Tennessee Campaign. They were
engaged at Franklin, Tennessee. They were deployed to Mississippi
and finally back to North Carolina where they were reunited with
General Joseph E. Johnston's troops and fought in the battle of
Bentonville.
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The "Appling Rangers were
formed March 4, 1862 as Company F, 11th Battalion, Georgia Volunteer
Infantry. On May 12, 1862 the 11th Battalion was merged into the
47th Georgia Volunteer Infantry. James H. Latimer was elected as
Captain of the Company on March 4, 1862. When he resigned on October
26, 1863 he was replaced as Captain by Joseph G. Dedge.
Originally deployed in the Charleston, South Carolina area they were
engaged on James Island, Morris Island and Proctor's Point in South
Carolina and were then assigned in Savannah in late 1862. In the
Spring of 1863 the 47th Georgia was transferred to Mississippi and
participated in the siege of Jackson, Mississippi and were engaged
in Marion, Mississippi. In the summer of 1863 the "Rangers" were
assigned to General Stovall's and J. T. Jackson's Brigades with the
Army of Tennessee. They fought with the Army of Tennessee at
Chickamauga, Chattanooga Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge. They
participated in the Atlanta Campaign and were engaged at Dalton,
Resaca, Oostanaula, Cassville, New Hope Church, Kennesaw Mountain,
Peachtree Creek and Atlanta.
The 47th Regiment was then employed in the defense of Charleston.
The Appling Rangers were active in fights at, James Island, Johns
Island, Coosawatchie, Waynesboro and Honey Hill. The 47th Georgia
was then transferred to G. P. Harrison's command and participated in
the Defense of Savannah. When Hardee pulled out from Savannah, the
Appling Rangers were consolidated with the 46th Georgia and Bonaud's
Battalion under General Johnston and were involved in the Campaign
in South Carolina and North Carolina. They were in battles at
Tulafinny, Rivers Bridge, Pocataligo, Averysboro, Sautee,
Bentonville and Greensboro. On April 26, 1865 they surrendered with
General Joseph E. Johnston at Goldsboro, North Carolina.
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The Appling Grays were organized on July 6, 1861 as a volunteer
company at Holmesville, Georgia. The first officers were Captain
Osgood A. Lee, 1st lieutenant Alfred S. Hall, 2nd lieutenant
Lawrence W. Clay and 2nd lieutenant Dr. Zedekiah W. Little.
The Appling Grays practiced their drills in preparation for
being sent into war at an old camp meeting ground known as
Campground. It was located near Bishop Creek about three miles
South of the present town of Graham.
It has been told that they were so anxious to go into action
that instead of waiting to be supplied with uniforms by the
government that they hired a tailor to come and cut out the
uniforms and the wives, sisters and sweethearts sewed their
uniforms while they drilled.
The company departed Appling County on August 27, 1861 for
instruction at Camp Stevens in Griffin, Georgia. There it was
organized as Company "I" of the 27th Regiment in the Georgia
Volunteer Infantry. This Regiment was composed of men from
Henry, Pike, Bibb, Jackson, Taylor,
Talbot, Appling, Quitman and Clay counties. It shipped out to
Richmond Virginia in October of 1861 and totaled 428 men in
1862. It was assigned to General Winfield Scott
Featherston's Brigade. It was later
commanded by General Gabriel Rains,
and after September 1, 1862 by General Alfred Holt Colquitt and
was part of Colquitt's Brigade along with the 6th Georgia. The
regiment was in D. H. Hill's division and later in Jackson's
corps.
The regiment was prominent on many battlefields in the Virginia
theater as a part of the Army of
Northern Virginia. It was engaged in battles at Yorktown,
Williamsburg, and Seven Pines (Fair Oaks). At Seven Pines the
Grays distinguished themselves in action and were part of the
two regiments that overran the enemy lines thus forcing them to
retreat in defeat. In this action the Grays' Captain Osgood A.
Lee was killed while leading his company. Elisha Duncan Graham
was elected Captain in his place. They were at Mechanicsville,
Beaver Dam Creek, Gaines Mill, Cold Harbor,
Chickahominy, Glendale, Frazier's Farm, Charles City
Cross Roads, New Market Cross Roads, Willis Church, White Oak
Swamp and Malvern Hill in the Seven Days battle around Richmond.
They also fought in Maryland in September 1862. They helped hold
Turner's Gap at the battle of South Mountain. Three days later
they were in the thick of the battle at Sharpsburg (Antietum),
where they were in the "cornfield", at Hagerstown Pike and
helped to hold out on Hill's left flank at "Bloody Lane". The
Grays were lightly engaged at Fredericksburg in December, 1862
The 27th had been in D. H. Hill's Division until he was
reassigned to North Carolina in May of 1863 when they became
part of Robert Rhodes' Division. In May of 1863 Colquitt's
Brigade was in the Battle of Chancellorsville where it sustained
31 causalities. As a unit of Jackson's Corps, Colquitt's Brigade
took the lead in the great flank march that surprised and routed
half of Hooker's Army. Very Shortly after that battle, Lee
transferred the depleted Brigade to Hill in North Carolina. They
served in defense of the Georgia, Florida and Carolina coast
including being stationed on the beach in front of Battery
Wagner after the assault on by Union forces. The Appling Grays
and the 27th Georgia were instrumental in the Confederate
Victory at the Battle of Olustee (Ocean Pond), Florida February
20, 1864.
The 27th Georgia returned to Virginia for the 1864
Spring campaign with General Lee.
They fought in the following battles:
Drewry's Bluff, Spotsylvania, 2nd
Cold Harbor. During the siege of Petersburg the Appling Grays
helped to hold Colquitt's Salient and were at the battle of the
Crater. They were involved in holding Richmond in late 1864 and
were active in the battles at Weldon Railroad and Fort Harrison.
They Grays were then in battles at Fort Fisher, Wilmington,
Kinston, Averysboro and Sugarloaf in
North Carolina. In 1865 the 27th Georgia fought under General
Joseph E. Johnston and the Army of Tennessee at Bentonville in
North Carolina and surrendered with him at Greensboro, North
Carolina on April 26, 1865
The 4th Georgia Cavalry Regiment was formed in January 1863 with
the 3rd Georgia Cavalry Battalion as it's foundation. The 3rd
Cavalry Battalion consisted of six companies The men that served in
were from Appling, Camden, Charlton, Clinch, Coffee, Glynn, Pierce,
Wayne and Ware counties. The commanders of the regiment were Colonel
Duncan L. Clinch, Lt. Colonel John L. Harris and Major Jesse C.
McDonald. The primary duty of the regiment was the defense of the
Georgia coast from the Altamaha river south to the St. Marys river.
In February 1864 Clinch's cavalry was sent to Olustee Station,
Florida along with Colquitt's Brigade and the Chatham Artillery to
assist in the defense of that area.. They were engaged in the
battles at Olustee and Cedar Creek in northern Florida. In the
summer of 1864 the regiment was assigned to M. W. Hannon's command
and skirmished in Alabama, North Georgia and were later active in
the defense of Savannah and in the Carolina campaign. in Dece mber
1864 a company of dismounted 4th Cavalry was involved in the "Battle
of the Trestle" (the "Battle of Doctortown" near the Appling-Wayne
County line. Clinch's 4th Cavalry which included 200 officers and
men surrendered with the Army of Tennessee in March 1865.
Records are sketchy on the Georgia Cavalry units therefore making it
difficult to reconstruct the regiment's rosters. Although Appling
countians appear in both Company A and Company I early in the war,
it appears that they transferred to Company K later on in the
conflict. There is also mention of Captain John Mayers' Appling
County Cavalry garrisoned in Holmesville which could have been a
part of the 4th Cavalry.
Appling Countians |
Name |
Rank |
Company |
Where Enlisted |
Abbot, J.H |
|
A |
Waynesville |
Bullard, James |
Pvt. |
F |
Camp Harris (Screven) |
Carter, Paul |
Pvt. |
I |
Doctortown |
Clark, Jno.J |
|
K |
Waynesville |
Courson, John, J. |
|
I |
|
Dilbon, Thomas J. |
|
F |
Screven |
Edenfield, George |
Pvt. |
K |
|
Faircloth, Wm. |
|
I |
|
Gardner, John |
|
A |
Waynesville |
Graham, Middleton |
Lt. |
A & K |
|
Graham, William Wallace |
|
A & K |
|
Gray, Issac |
|
|
|
Griffis, Jacob |
|
A |
|
Griffis, Daniel K. |
|
A & K |
|
Hall, Lewis |
|
K |
|
Hall, Lewis B. |
|
A & K |
Waynesville |
Hall, Henry C. |
|
C |
Blackshear |
Herrington, Thomas |
|
K |
|
Hutto, William |
|
E |
|
Lightsey, Alfred |
|
K |
|
Long, D. J. |
|
D(Artillery) |
|
Manning, J.W. |
|
K |
|
Mayers, John |
Capt. |
|
|
McDonald, Jerry |
|
|
|
Mobley, Biggers |
|
|
|
Moody, John |
|
K |
|
Spell, Matthew |
|
|
|
Stephens, Isham |
Pvt. |
K |
|
Taylor, James M. F. |
|
D (Artillery) |
|
Tillman, James H. |
Pvt. |
K |
|
Tillman, John |
Pvt. |
K |
|
Williams, Geo. W. |
|
K |
|
Youmans, Perry |
|
K |
|
Youmans, Charles S. |
|
|
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