Wilkinson County Civil War

Wilkinson County Georgia Civil War
**34% of the 685 Volunteer Regiment Soldiers**
**from Wilkinson County died in the Civil War.**
UNITS AND ROSTERS VOLUNTEER: 3rd Regiment Infantry History (link) Company F,"Wilkinson Rifles" Company I, "Carswell Guards" 14th Regiment Georgia Infantry Company B, "Ramah Guards" 49th Regiment Georgia Infantry Company A, "Wilkinson Invincibles" "Deep in the Heart" Based on the true story of Wiley Nesmith and his wife Martha Ann of Wilkinson County, Georgia Civil War Letters of Francis Marion Smith 57th Regiment Georgia Infantry Company D, "Smith Guards" Company I, "Barkuloo Rifles" Company K, "Oconee Greys" 63rd Regiment Georgia Infantry Company D December 1889 Atlanta Constitution The Boy Soldier of the Confederacy STATE LINE/TROOPS: 2nd Regiment, Company F, "Georgia Rangers", Georgia State Line 2nd Regiment, Company H, 1st Brigade Georgia State Troops 2nd Regiment, Company G, 1st Brigade Georgia State Troops 2nd Regiment, Company B, Georgia State Troops 2nd Regiment, Company C, Georgia State Troops 6th Georgia Infantry,Company A, State Guards 8th Georgia Militia, Company D 8th Regiment, Wilkinson Volunteers (Company O, Carswell's Battalion, Local Defense Troops, Georgia). SEARCH MUSTER ROLLS AT GEORGIA ARCHIVES List of Ex-Confederate soldiers living in Wilkinson County, 1923 1864 MILITA CENSUS Wilkinson County 1864 Census for Re-organizing the Georgia Militia ON THE HOME FRONT See News 1861- 1865 Stoneman's Raid - August 1864 Sherman's Soldiers and McAdams Family - Gordon Yankees In Irwinton Ball's Ferry, Toomsboro Turkey Creek Soldiers Relief Association DEATHS/BURIALS Civil War Burials At Home Civil War Burials Away From Home Number of Deceased Union Soldiers whose remains were removed from Wilkinson County to Andersonville from Jan 1867 - Jan 1868 MISC. March 1, 1919 Augusta Chronicle MONITOR-MERRIMAC BATTLE SURVIVOR DIES Portsmout, Va., Feb. 28. Capt. Elsberry V. White, survivor of the Monitor-Merrimac battle in Hampton Roads during the Civil War, died at his home here today, aged 80 years. Capt. White was a member of the Confederate engineer corps and was assistant engineer of the Merrimac, then the ironclad Virginia, during the fight. He was born in Wilkinson county, Georgia. Confederate Amnesty Applicants Southern Claims Commission PENSIONS Pension List Application For Pension John Stuckey enlisted in January 1863 at Irwinton, Georgia in Co F, 2nd Ga. State ___. He served until the close of the war. His company was discharged at Columbus, Georgia in 1865. "The regiment was divided up before surrender." L. F. Etheredge,of Dodge County, Georgia, witnessed that John Stuckey served in the war in with him at Griswoldville, Georgia in February 1863 until he (Etheredge) was wounded in 1864." (Ga. Archives - Pensions) We cannot locate a pension for John Stuckey. Additional Comments: John Stuckey is buried in the Orphans Cemetery, Eastman, Georgia. There is a Confederate marker to the right of his gravestone. His wife, Amanda Butler Stuckey, is buried at Pleasant Plains Cemetery in Wilkinson County, Georgia. file contributed and copyrighted by R. Elizabeth Brewer 2004.