Spanish American War Wilkinson County, GA

SPANISH AMERICAN WAR

The Third Georgia Volunteer Infantry was the only one to go to Cuba
as a distinctively Georgia organization.
Company I - Augusta, Milledgeville, and Richmond, Baldwin, Wilkinson, Hancock and Warren Counties
(Capt. J. H. Stevens, when organized)

Wilkinson County Spanish American Soldiers
Henry B. Adkins 9/3/1876 - 9/2/1964, Co. I, Ga Inf, musician buried Irwinton Masonic John Pink Bloodworth Co. D, 3rd Inf U.S.V.; buried Snow Hill, 21 Jun 1877 -15 Sept 1937 James Fred Brannon, Walker County Clark Brown, Co. I, 3rd Ga. Volunteer Infantry (pension record) William T. Clark, enlisted Savannah, Co. K, 2 Ga Inf, private Julian B. Green, living in Dublin, Co D 1 Ga Inf Eugene G. Finney Pvt Co D 1 Ga Inf USV James J. Hall Pvt Co C 2 Ga Inf USV John P. Harrington, living in Macon, Co D 1 Ga Inf Edward W. Helton Co. L. 2 Ga Inf., buried Myrtle Springs Cemetery James A. Mayo Pvt Co I Ga Inf USV John W Sanders, living in Macon, Co E 1 Ga Inf James G. Shinholser, living in Macon, Co D 1 Ga Inf Walter N. Todd Pvt Co F 1 Ga Inf USV Thomas E. Walden, living in Macon, Co I, 1 Ga Inf James F. Whitaker, living in Macon, Co E, 1 Ga Inf William W. Winslett Co. B 3rd U.S. Vol. Inf., buried Walnut Creek Cemetery

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ABOUT
    The Spanish American War (Library of Congress)
    The Spanish American War Centennial Website
    African Americans in the Spanish-American War
    African American Soldiers From The Spanish American War To 1917
    9th Cavalry
    Brief History of the 10th Cavalry
    Fort McPherson Georgia
     Major Micah J. Jenkins Camp of the Sons of Spanish American War Veterans
    Spanish American War Service Cards for Georgia

BOOKS
A Roster of Spanish American War Soldiers From Georgia. Thaxton, Carlton J., et. al., eds.Americus: Thaxton Co., 1984.

     Uncle Sam's Little Wars: The Spanish-American War, Philippine Insurrection, and Boxer Rebellion, 1898-1902 by J.         Phillip Langellier
     Spanish-American War : The Story and Photographs by Donald M. Goldstein, et al
    The Spanish War: An American Epic--1898 by G.J.A. O'Toole

CEMETERIES
Wilkinson County Cemeteries

RECORDS
     Military Records at the Georgia Archives
     Military Records at the National Archives
     Pension Records

FORUMS
Spanish American War Forum

Pension Records -
Veterans Administration (Record Group 15)
Printed Sources
Records Relating to Pension and Bounty Land Claims, 1773–1942
page 307
With the exception of certain limited series, the Civil War and Spanish American War pension applications are filed together. These records consist of approved and disapproved pension applications based on service chiefly in these two wars filed between 1861 and 1934, and covering both Army and Navy service after 1910. Pension applications of widows and dependents consist of approved and disapproved applications. Naval files consist of approved and disapproved pension applications of Navy veterans submitted between the years 1861 and 1910. Case files of pension applications of widows and dependents consist of approved and disapproved claims. There are microfilm indexes (2,811 rolls) to most of these case files, and a card index of names or remarried widows.

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