Civil War Soldiers in

 Whitfield County

 

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R Harrison Nations, who lived in Whitfield County, GA.  He enlisted Co I, 12th Regiment Louisiana Volunteer Infantry.  Both legs were amputated

due to injuries during the War.  After the War, he returned to Whitfield County to live.  His pension is here.  Courtesy:  Vanishing Georgia,

 Georgia Archives, Office of Secretary of State
 

During the Civil War, Whitfield County helped to raise the following units:

2nd Regiment, Georgia Infantry, Company H, Georgia Volunteers

26th Regiment, Georgia Infantry (Glenn), Company B, C, G, H, I

34th Regiment, Georgia Infantry, Company A, Fitgerald Rifles

36th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers, Company B

36th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers,  Company G

36th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers, Company H

36th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers, Company I

39th Georgia Volunteer Infantry Regiment

39th Regiment, Georgia Infantry, Company C, Wells Guards

60th Regiment, Georgia Infantry, Company B, Fannin Guards

60th Regiment, Georgia Infantry, Company C, Walker Independents

60th Regiment, Georgia Infantry, Company D, Whitfield Volunteers

60th Regiment, Georgia Infantry, Company E, Bartows

60th Regiment Georgia Infantry, Company F, Gilmer Volunteers

1st Regiment Georgia State Guards, "Tunnel Hill Guards" (Home Guard Unit)

Dalton Machine Guards (Home Guard Unit)

State Line Guards, Company I, "Galt Volunteers"

868th Militia, Whitfield County GA

872nd Militia, Whitfield County, GA

W&A Railroad Muster list

1864 Georgia Militia census

New York Herald Map of Tunnel Hill

Article from the "Southern Banner" May 18, 1864

Drawing from Library of Congress of Snowball Fight,, Dalton GA 1864, by Alfred Waud (1828-1891)

link to story:  http://americancivilwar.50megs.com/stories04.html

 

Union Fort in Whitfield County GA according to Field Notes,

occupied by Sherman's Atlanta Campaign, 1864.

Courtesy:  Vanishing Georgia, Georgia Archives, Office of Secretary of State

 

Soldiers in the Civil War:

Jeremiah Ables

William J Acree (his pension and widows pension)

William P Adair (pension)

Thornton Adams

Thomas Adkins

Joseph Arthur

James R Bailey

Jordan Bailey

Jasper N Barnett

Martin Y Boyd

William A Britton

John W Brooker

W. D. Bussey

Henry C. Callahan

G M Cannon, pension

John O Cleveland

Barney Coker, pension

Charles L Dupree

B W Echols, pension

William H Finley, pension

Benjamin F Foster, pension

J A Freeman, pension

David Ganus, pension

Berry Gazaway

Jesse A Glenn, military and pension

James J Groves, military and pension

Augustus C Gunz

John J H Hall, widow Martha C Hall pension

Ervin R. Helton

Hilliard G Helton

Thomas B Jolly

Jos P Kelly, pension

S F Kincanon

J A Lewallen, pension

William J. McDaniel

William R McDougal

Reuben Harrison Nations (pension)

Thomas Jefferson Peeples, pension

David Pelfrey, pension

Joshua Roach, pension

Wm L Roach, pension

Samuel Hollingsworth Robins

Elias Smith

John W Stocks

Dickinson Taliaferro

Camp Joseph E Johnston Camp 34, United Confederate Veterans, Dalton, 1909 see here

 

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