George Acreman enlisted with the 17th Alabama Regiment in 1861. Died July 1864, possibly at Battle of Peachtree Creek in Georgia.

wonded 3 times surrendered in 1865

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I am researching to find out when my great, great, great grandfather (Franklin L. Walker)date of death. He survived the C.W. and his daughter (my great, great grandmother) was born in 1871. I know his was buried in Crenshaw County, AL in Mothershed cemetery.

William enlisted Oct 1, 1862 in Clarke County. According to unit history (The Seventeenth Alabama Infantry, by I. E. Thompson)he was hospitalized in Mobile September 1, 1863 with 'remitt fever,' February 3, 1864 with 'pleuritis,' March and September with 'acute diarrhea' and in November with colitus.' Prisoner of War records state he was captured April 26, 1865 at Greenville, Alabama and paroled, same location, on or about May 6, 1865. His wife Elizabeth Ann L. (Friddle) Jones applied and received a pension (#26985). William died February 1879.

Enlisted as a Private in Company B, 17th Alabama Infantry, Army of Tennessee on Feb 23, 1863 at Greenville, Butler County Alabama. Wounded at the Battle of Resaca, Georgia on May 14, 1864, He was discharged from service on May 7, 1865. Filed for pension in Lowndes County Alabama in 1907.

KIA at Resaca, GA May 1864

James was about 16 years old when he joined. There are few details other than that on his gravestone and two cards in his file. He is on a Register of discharged soldiers. He was discharged on 5 Dec. 1861. It could have been because he was to young or that he had been wounded.

Great Great Grandfather,
27 Aug 1840
2 Feb 1935

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Applied for Confederate pension 4/8/1902. File # 9212, approved Sept. application on File. 3rd Lieutenant
Company C 17th Alabama Regiment. Moved to Texas about 1869.
born November 12, 1830 in Greenville, Alabama; died April 18,
1905 in Port Arthur, Texas.

1844-1862

Died from wounds received from Battle of Shiloh.

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John G Cooper lived to nearly 101. He married a widow with two children in Randolph Co, AL after the war. They had seven more children, moved to Lincoln Co, TN, on to Boone Co, AR, through Indian Territory (Oklahoma), down to Navarro Co, TX then back up to Comanche, Stephens Co, OK. On the occasion of his 100th birthday in 1930, he walked 3 miles into Comanche, to Main st, threw his hat up in the air and let out a 'Rebel Yell.' He also was celebrated on the front page of the newspaper, had a big luncheon birthday party with the Kiwanis Club and ?supposedly went up in an airplane that day. I have great photos of these events.

George has no record in the national archive that I could find. His service is based on a Confederate pension that his wife Sarah Rebecca Huddleston received. He died 4 Aug 1863 and is buried in an unmarked grave at the Confederate Rest Hospital in Mobile Alabama. Rebecca Huddleston is my 3rd cousin 4 x removed.
Bloods thin but still kin.

David was born May 1826 in Troup Co. Georgia according to his pension file. Enlisted at Mobile, Ala 12 Aug 1861 and mustered out at Rock Island prison in Aug 1865. He has 5 cards in his archival file which provide little information. He lived to be 101, dying in 1927. He had four gunshot wounds and showed his wartime scars when he met with his fellow compatriots in arms. He is my 3rd cousin 4 x removed on my Pankey line.

Wounded, captured, was at Rock Island prison at end of war

FRANK WAS A PVT. IN COMPANY E, 17TH ALABAMA INFANTRY, (COMPANY E WAS COMPOSED OF MEN FROM PIKE COUNTY). HE ENLISTED IN SEPTEMBER 1861 AND WAS PAROLED AT TALLADEGA, ALABAMA IN 1865. HE LOST AN ARM SOMETIME DURING THE WAR (PROBABLY HIS RIGHT ARM, AS HIS SIGNATURE ON HIS PENSION PAPERS APPEARS TO BE WRITTEN VERY AWKWARDLY, LEFT HANDED). HE WAS PROBABLY WOUNDED EITHER AT SHILOH (1862) OR IN THE ATLANTA CAMPAIGN (1864) BETWEEN RESACA AND JONESBORO, GEORGIA AS THE 17TH WAS MOST HEAVILY ENGAGED IN THESE BATTLES. (LOSING 125 AND 586 KILLED AND WOUNDED, RESPECTIVELY AT SHILOH AND IN GEORGIA. THESE CASUALTIES WERE OUT OF A REGIMENT OF APPROXIMATELY 1,000 MEN, A RATE OF OVER 70% FOR THESE TWO CAMPAIGNS ALONE.)

DURING GENERAL HOOD'S DISASTEROUS CAMPAIGN INTO TENNESSEE IN THE FALL AND WINTER OF 1864 THE 17TH WAS ENGAGED IN THE SLAUGHTER AT FRANKLIN (LOSING 19 OF 21 OFFICERS) AND THE ROUTE OF HOOD'S ARMY AT NASHVILLE. THEY WERE ENGAGED FOR ONE LAST FIGHT AT BENTONVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, BEFORE THE REMNANT THAT WAS LEFT SURRENDERED AND WERE PAROLED BY GENERAL SHERMAN ON APRIL 8, 1865 AT GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA.

AS FRANK WAS PAROLED AT TALLEDEGA AND NOT GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA, HE MUST HAVE EITHER BEEN STILL RECOVERING FROM HIS WOUNDS, OR SERVING WITH A UNIT OTHER THAN THE 17TH.

1839-1862 Died of sickness while on furlough in Randolph Co., Alabama.

1837-5 July 1862 Died in General Hospital in Macon, Mississippi.

2 July 1831-15 Jan 1862 Died in hospital, Pensacola, Florida.

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Elisha Suggs,was born March 1, 1840.He died in Clay Co.,Al., and is also buried at the Sardis Baptist Church Cemetery in Clay Co.,Alabama,June 1,1887.He married Sarah McCain,daughter of Riley McCain and Susanna Farris.Elisha has been honored by the local DAR for CSA.

My g.g.grandfather,1861-1864.wounded at battle of Franklin.

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John was born 23 June 1823 in Duplin County North Carolina. He has 3 cards in his archival file. He was enlisted by Capt. O'Brian on 9 Oct 1863 at Mobile Ala. One source gives his date of enlistment as 10 Feb 1862. He was stationed at Pensacola Fla until 1864 when he was sent to Tennessee with a consolidated Regiment. He saw action at Shiloh, Farmington, Sent to Mobile where he drilled as Heavy Artillery. Then sent to Georgia, fought at Dalton, Nww Hope, Lost Mountain, Nashville, Carolina Campaign and Bentonville. His Regiment surrendered at Goldsboro, NC in April 1865. He died 24 Oct 1918 at Pigeon Creek, Butler Co. Ala. He was the husband of my 1st cousin 4 x removed Damaris Mercer.

Joseph was born in Thomaston, Upson Co. Ga. 23 Aug 1825. That is where he was on the 1860 census. Within the year he had moved to Alabama. He has 6 cards in his archival file. He was enlisted 10 Feb 1863 at Greenville, Ala. by Lieut. Crenshaw. [ Slaughter's Brigade] Co. F was nicknamed [ Winter Greys] commanded by Capt. Andrew L O'Brian. He married twice. 1st to Margaret Elizabeth Gufford in Georgia. She died there. He married 2nd Sarah Antoinette Smith in Alabama. On 29 July 1863 finds him sick in camp at Mobile. He is given a 25-day sick leave and provided transportation to his home In Greenville, Butler Co. Ala. He applies for a 15-day extension which was granted. Upon his return to his Co., he is paid Communtations / rations of $33.33 cents. He then serves until the end of the war. He was not captured or wounded during the many battles of the Atlanta and Carolina Campaigns. His last battle was at Bentonville, SC. His command surrendered at Greensboro, NC 1 May 1865. He is buried in the Sardis Cem. Greenville, Butler County, Alabama.

He's listed as J. Len Lee. After the war he sometimes called himself Jackson Lee.

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Joseph was born 5 April 1835 in Alabama. He has 8 cards in his archival file. He enlisted at Montgomery 17 April 1861 enlisted by Capt. Wagner. On 4 Jan 1862 he is given a 20-day sick furlough, noted he is still sick in Butler County. In Aug 1863 he is on extra duty as driver for the Battery. I believe this was when they were stationed at Mobile after the disastrous Kentucky Campaign when some of the regiment were trained on Heavy Cannon guarding Mobile Bay. On 15 Nov 1864 his is a patient at the Stonewall Hospital in Montgomery. His regiment was in the Kentucky, Atlanta and some in the Carolina Campaign. He died 21 April 1906 and is buried at Fairview Cem. Hagans port, Franklin County, Texas. He applied for a pension, and it was approved 13 Aug 1904 # 16412

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Green Lee Horn is my great-great grandfather on my grandmother's side of the family. He was born in 1826 and died in 1908 and is buried in Horn's Memorial Cemetery in Clay County Alabama.

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KIA Battle of Ezra Church 28 Jul 1864

born 01-16-1835, died 02-10-1936, enlisted 08-08-1861, discharged 04-26-1865, buried in Refuge Cem., George, Cty., Ms.

Source: AL Civil War Muster Rolls, 1861-1865, Roll #194

Listed as 'E.F. Jenerett'

Buired in Beulah Cemetery, Pike county, Alabama

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Thomas was born in Laurens District South Carolina in 1819. He has two cards in his archival file and a bonus paid receipt showing that he was paid his $50 signing bonus when he was at Camp Cantey, Mobile, Ala. He enlisted at Greenville, Ala. 24 Oct 1863 by Lieut. Barton for the war. He is described as having dark hair and complexion, grey eyes and 5 ft 7 inches tall. He was 45 years old. He saw action in the Nashville- Franklin Campaign, Atlanta Campaign. He returned home sick or wounded and died a few days later at home at Pigeon Creek, Butler Co. Ala. 11 Feb 1865. His unit surrendered a few months later at Greensboro, NC April 1865. He is buried at Mount Zion UMC Cem. Honoraville, Crenshaw Co. Ala. His wife applied for a pension 13 Sept 1899 and never received one as she died 13 Sep 1912.

Samuel was born 15 Sept. 1831 in Riddleville, Washington Co. Georgia. He died it is believed in 1863 in his home in Pigeon Creek, Butler Co. Alabama. He enlisted 4 Feb 1863 at Greenville, Alabama in Co K 17th Ala. Infantry. He has two cards in his archival file. His Regiment prior to his enlistment had suffered heavy losses at the battles of Shiloh and Farmington, Miss. The survivors were in bad shape with much sickness in its ranks, so much so they were left at Mobile, Ala. to recover. The able bodied were assigned to the Heavy Artillery at that place. At this time no record other than a family history account of his dying at his home and buried in an unmarked grave in the Bedgood Family cemetery in his hometown.. It is believed he was sick in camp at Mobile and either died there or at his home on sick furlough. We are related by a distant marriage thru my 3rd cousin 5 x removed.

John enlisted the same day as his brother-in-Law Charles Elias Whidden at Mobile 7 Sept 1862. He has 11 cards in his archival file. He is shown as being 24 y/o on the 1860 census living in Precinct #6 in Butler County Ala. The PO is at Friendship. He was enlisted by Lt. Col. Holcombe for the war. He fought at Shiloh, Oostenaula Bridge, Resaca, Atlanta Campaign, Franklin and was captured at Nashville on 15 Dec 1864 and sent to prison at Camp Douglas, Chicago. Illinois. He was discharged 19 June 1865. His unit surrendered at Greensboro, NC April 1865. He died 12 Oct 1918 in Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana. He is buried beside his wife Martha Ann Melvina Turner in the Mercer Family Cem. in Luling, Caldwell Co. Texas. He was my 1st cousin 4 x removed

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Willis enlisted in Mobil in April of 1863. Was captured at Egypt Station, MS following the retreat from the Battle of Nashville. He was sent to the prison in Alton, IL, later sent to Point Lookout, MD where he was exchanged.

Charles was born in 1830 in Darlington District, South Carolina. In the 1860 census he is 27 y/o living at Butler Springs, Butler Co. Ala.
He has four cards in his archival file. He enlisted 7 Sept 1862 by Lt Col. Edward P Holcombe at Mobile, Ala. His older brother Noah was in the same Company. He spent some time in Pensacola, Fla then was moved west. Battles Shiloh, Nashville, Farmington, Resaca, Farmington, Dalton, Peach Tree and Ezra Church outside Atlanta. He died on the 29th of July 1864 in the fighting around Ezra Church which began on the 28th. His family has a picture of him in a gilded frame poplar at that time. He was married to my distant cousin Martha Jane Mercer. She remarried Joseph Andrew "Joe" Black and died in Sonora, Sutton Co. Texas and died 21 Feb 1905.

Benjamin was born in Florida 3 June 1834. He has 9 cards in his archival file. He enlisted at Mobile, Ala. 7 Sept 1862 for the war. Enlisted by Lt. Col. Holcombe. His unit spent some time in Pensacola Fla. and returned to Mobile where they drilled on Heavy Artillery. Participated in the Atlanta Campaign, Battles of Cassville, New Hope, Kennesaw, Lost Mountain, Resaca, Franklin, Nashville and Bentonville, SC. He died 19 Mar 1921 in Shreveport, Caddo Parish, La. Husband of my 1st cousin removed x 4 Elizabeth Cook Mercer. They are buried in the Eppes Cem. in Shreveport.