William H. Buchanan, Co. G, 4th Georgia Cavalry, is listed among the 262 soldiers buried in unmarked graves at Soldiers Square in Rose Hill Cemetery in Macon, Georgia. Buchanan's interment date is given as July 15, 1864 in the Rose Hill Cemetery Interment Book, 1840-1871. This would place his date of death at about July 14, 1864 and would suggest he died in one of the military hospitals here in Macon. I have copies of the lists of burials published in the Macon Messenger, May 2, 1866 and in the Georgia Weekly Telegraph, May 7, 1866, as supplied to the papers by the Macon Ladies Memorial Association. It was noted that William Henry Buchanan died of typhoid and his interment date was July 15.
William Henry Buchanan was born in 1843 to Duncan Bohannon/Buchanan and Jincy Gay. He mustered in to Co. G., Old Atlantic and Gulf Guards in Blackshear at Shiloh Church on September 29, 1861 for a period of 6 months and mustered out on March 31, 1862.
After mustering in again, William's record is documented through June of 1864, at which time his military record ends and there is no further information noted. There was no discharge date given, no death date, no pension application filed later in life - nothing!! After more than 20 years of research I was finally able to find that he was buried on July 15, 1864 in Macon, Ga. at Rose Hill Cemetery in the Confederate Soldier's Section. His is one of the more than 250 unmarked graves at Rose Hill.
The only reference to his wife is found on a document from the Georgia Adjutant and Inspector General's Office, Commissary General Department Families Supplied With Salt, 1862-1864, Vol. 1". In the Widow's of Deceased Soldiers from Pierce County is listed as Annie Buchanan. There has been no further data on his wife that I have been able to find and his military records contain no mention of family.
William H.Buchanan had extensive family in and around Blackshear, Pierce Co., Georgia. His wife, Annie, gave birth to their daughter, Annie Belle, in February of 1865. Annie died either during or shortly after the birth of their child; there is also no further documentation on her or their marriage. My G.Grandmother, Annie Belle was raised by her Buchanan family. In the 1880 Pierce Co., Census - she is found living in the William R. Mallon household. William R. Mallon's wife was Janie BUCHANAN Mallon. Janie was William H. Buchanan's sister.
Annie Belle lived with the Mallon family until her own marriage to Walter Lafayette Cason in 1885 at the age of 20.
