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54th Georgia Infantry
Company A
David Allen - Private
He was born Kingsbury, NY, 1 Dec 1809 to Seth Allen & Lucy (King) Allen, Married Emeline Prudence Parker 20 Nov 1839, in Syracuse, NY. They moved to Bibb Co., Georgia in 1839 and had 6 daughters. He enlisted as Private, 13 Jun 1863, died 2 Aug 1864. He is my GGG Uncle.
Contact Name: William Allen
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Date Added: 1/20/2008

Company A
Joseph F Follendore - Private
Joseph was born in Germany He enlisted in Capt T.W. Brantley's Co A Ga Vols in April of 1862. This along with other units became Co A 54th Ga Infantry. Assigned to Dept of Georgia, South Carolina & Florida. In later part of the war it was attached to the Army of Tennessee.
He mustered 22 Nov 1862 at Macon Ga. His first battle was at Grimball's Landing on James Island, Charleston. Atlanta Campaign 1864, New Hope Church, Kennesaw Mountain, Peachtree Creek, Atlanta siege, Jonesboro, Ga, Franklin Tenn, Nashville, Carolina Campaign, Bentonville. 20 Feb. 1865 finds in the Floyds House & Ocmulgee Hospital in Macon Ga with a bad back from lifting seige artillery and a double Inguinal Hernia. He is attached to Smith's and Cleburn's Division. He is granted a sick furlough in late Feb 1865. We are related by a distant marriage.
Contact Name: phillip thomas
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Date Added: 5/4/2020

Company A
John Herrington - Private
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Contact Name: James Herrington
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Date Added: 5/26/2007

Company A
Moses J Tucker - Private
Enlisted as a private Co C, 1st Independent Battalion GA State Troops on 17 oct 1861. Mustered out Apr 1862. He next enlisted as a private on 3 May 1862 at Macon, GA in Co A 54th GA Infantry.
Contact Name: Herman Johnson
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Date Added: 11/28/2008

Company A
Stephen Tucker - Private
Enlisted on 12 Mar 1863 at Macon.
Contact Name: Herman Johnson
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Date Added: 1/16/2009

Company A
Yelvington Thaxton Urquhart - Asst Surgeon
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Contact Name: perry bennett
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Date Added: 9/12/2009

Company B
Joseph Deen - Private
Enlisted into Co.'B', wounded on train wreck carrying troops from Tenn. to Columbus, Ga., left thigh crushed.
Contact Name: Randy Peacock
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Date Added: 11/14/2005

Company B
Thomas Deen - Private
Enlisted 4/28/1862 into Co. 'B', no futher record listed.
Contact Name: Randy Peacock
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Date Added: 11/14/2005

Company B
Henry Clay Harris - Private
Originally enlisted as a Private in Company B, 4th Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters. The 4th Batt'n SS was consolidated into the 54th infantry in 1865. Clay remained in Company B after the consolidation.
Contact Name: Vance Harris
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Contact Homepage: www.theharrislegacy.com
Date Added: 5/5/2007

Company B
George HERNDON - Private
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Contact Name: Cheri Rodgers Amarna
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Date Added: 1/2/2012

Company B
George W Moody - Captain
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Contact Name: Shane Forrester
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Date Added: 10/7/2008

Company B
Isham C Ogden - Corporal
From Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System Search. Also, CSA Georgia Records, Vol. 5, pg. 309.
Contact Name: Glenn Ogden
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Date Added: 6/1/2009

Company B
Issac Ogden - Private
From Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System Search. Also, CSA Georgia Records, Vol. 5, pg. 309.
Contact Name: Glenn Ogden
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Date Added: 6/1/2009

Company B
John R. Ogden - Private
From Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System Search. Also, CSA Georgia Records, Vol. 5, pg. 309.
Contact Name: Glenn Ogden
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Date Added: 6/1/2009

Company C
B. R. Graham - Private
Enlisted in Co. G, 54th Georgia. Transfered to Co. C on September 1, 1862. Wounded at Resaca, Ga. on May 16, 1864. Suffered a crushed foot in a railroad accident in Mississippi on January 1, 1865.
Contact Name: Wyatt Parker
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Date Added: 4/23/2008

Company C
Henry Houston Hall - Corporal
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Contact Name: James Slack
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Date Added: 4/1/2014

Company C
Riley A Herrington - Private
Trying to add as much info as I can about my gr gr grandfather
and his brothers.12 brothers,10 of them fought the yankee,s
3 died in battle[2 on the same day in the 2nd battle of winchester,...]6 were pow,s
Contact Name: James Herrington
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Date Added: 5/26/2007

Company C
Thomas Lamb - Private
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Date Added: 2/12/2008

Company C
Loudy Layfield - Private
Died 9 Jan 1877
Contact Name: Mark Anderson
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Date Added: 12/20/2009

Company C
Christopher Columbus Morgan - Private
Enlisted as a Private on 06 May 1862 in Company C, 54th Infantry Regiment Georgia. Killed Company C, 54th Infantry Regiment Georgia on 22 July 1864 in Atlanta, GA
Contact Name: Paul Sallee
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Date Added: 9/6/2008

Company C
Jesse Cleveland Morgan - Private
Private May 6,1862. Wounded and permanently disabled near Atlanta, Ga., July 22,1864. At home on wounded furlough close of war.
Contact Name: Paul Sallee
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Date Added: 9/6/2008

Company C
Michael C. Peavy - Private
Michael was wounded in his right arm, necessitating amputation at Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia June 1864.
Contact Name: Stephanie Lincecum
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Date Added: 7/23/2005

Company D
Andrew J. Becton - Private
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Contact Name: Jimmy E. Dailey Jr.
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Date Added: 7/27/2007

Company D
Jasper Bragg - 4th Sergeant
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Contact Name: Wesley Bragg
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Date Added: 4/9/2012

Company D
David M Brinson - Private
This is my husbands great, great grandfathers, brother.
Contact Name: Betti O'Brian
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Date Added: 2/9/2010

Company D
Charles Thomas Jefferson Claxton - Private
Charles T. J. Claxton is my great (x4) grandfather. He lived from July 25, 1844 to Sept 28, 1906. He is the son of Zachariah W. Claxton and Lincelia Bush Claxton. Grandson of Henry Claxton.
Contact Name: Walter Wahle
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Date Added: 3/5/2024

Company D
Samuel Calhoun Madison Monroe Dickey - Private
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Contact Name: David Dickey
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Date Added: 9/4/2008

Company E
Solomon Griffin - 3rd Corporal
Enlisted on 6 May 1862 at Savannah, GA.
Contact Name: Herman Johnson
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Date Added: 12/15/2008

Company E
William H Griffin - Private
Enlisted 6 May 1862 in Savannah, GA.
Contact Name: Herman Johnson
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Date Added: 10/1/2009

Company E
John Mark Hancock - Private
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Contact Name: Jerry Hancock
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Date Added: 7/6/2011

Company E
Daniel J Handcock - Private
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Contact Name: Eric Petersen
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Date Added: 7/28/2012

Company E
James Jackson Lee - Private
None. I am Cousins of this Man
Contact Name: Zachary Burnett
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Date Added: 6/1/2016

Company E
James J. Luke - Private
Enlisted on 6 May 1862 at Savannah, GA.
Contact Name: Herman Johnson
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Date Added: 12/19/2008

Company E
William H. Luke - Private
Enlisted on 6 May 1862 at Savannah, GA.
Contact Name: Herman Johnson
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Date Added: 12/19/2008

Company E
Hiram Tucker - Private
Enlisted in Co E 54th GA Infantry listed as Private 6 May 1862 at Savannah, GA, transferred to Co A 1st GA regulars Jan 1864.
Contact Name: Herman Johnson
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Date Added: 11/28/2008

Company E
John Tucker - Private
Enlisted on 6 May 1862 at Savannah, GA.
Contact Name: Herman Johnson
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Date Added: 11/28/2008

Company E
Moses J Tucker - Private
Enlisted on 6 May 1862 at Savannah, GA.
Contact Name: Herman Johnson
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Date Added: 11/28/2008

Company F
William Henry Gaskins - Private
Enlisted on 6 May 1862, Savannah, GA.
Contact Name: Herman Johnson
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Date Added: 11/29/2008

Company F
James R Griffin - Private
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Contact Name: Seth Skinner
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Date Added: 10/3/2012

Company F
James Samuel Spear - Private
Born August 3rd, 1843 in Muscogee County, GA
Joined the Police Guard, Oct. 3rd, 1861 under command of Captain Curry.

Joined Captain Bussell's Company. Private - May 12, 1862. Diagnosed with Typhoid fever July 4th, 1862 returned home until September 21st, 1862, armed in camp Sept. 22nd, 1862.

Transferred from Company H to Company F, January 1, 1863.
Company F, 'Savannah Cadets', men from Chatham County. The company of Savannah Cadets was organized 17 May 1861 , as a company of boys, most of whom were sixteen years of age. On 13 May 1862, the company was mustered into the Confederate Army and served the Confederacy as a defensive company on the coast around Savannah. Then in May 1863 they joined the Army of Tennessee at Dalton, GA. under captain W. T. Chisholm,

Captured at Kennesaw
Mountain, Georgia June 18, 1864.

Released at Camp Morton, Indiana May 22, 1865. - 11 Months as POW
Arrived Home - Columbus, GA. May 31st, 1865.
Contact Name: Morris Smith
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Contact Homepage: www.morrissmitheng.com
Date Added: 7/14/2010

Company G
Abram Moses SlatonRank Unknown
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Contact Name: Al Slayton
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Date Added: 2/22/2011

Company H
John Henry Land - Private
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Contact Name: Chuck McMichael
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Date Added: 4/10/2012

Company H
Amos P Norris - Private
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Contact Name: James norris
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Date Added: 11/5/2011

Company H
Adam Crall RODGERS - Private
See Samuel Craig Rodgers. Adam was his brother.
Contact Name: Cheri Amarna
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Date Added: 7/28/2011

Company H
James McCurdy RODGERS - Private
James joined up with his three brothers, Samuel, Adam, and Robert. He became sick and was treated at the Camp Bethesda hospital near Savannah, Georgia hospital, Georgia on 29 FEB 1864. Bethesda Orphan Home was converted into a military hospital for the Confederate Soldiers. He survived and lived until 1908.
Contact Name: Cheri Amarna
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Date Added: 7/29/2011

Company H
Robert Hill RODGERS - Private
Robert enlisted with his brothers on January 21, 1864 after they had been fighting for almost 2 years . He was present for the roll for February 29, 1864. He also survived the war and live until 1907.
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Date Added: 7/29/2011

Company H
Samuel Craig Rodgers - Private
Samuel was born in 1836 in South Carolina. He enlisted as a Private on 12 May 1862 in Company H 'Russell's Guards', 54th Infantry Regiment Georgia on 16 May 1862. Surrendered Company H, 54th Infantry Regiment Georgia on 26 Apr 1865 at Greensboro, NC. He enlisted with four of his brothers. All survived the war. Two of his brothers-in-law also served in the Georgia 20th Regiment.
54th Infantry Regiment, organized at Savannah, Georgia, during the summer of 1862, contained men recruited in the counties of Lamar, Appling, Harris, Muscogee, Bartow, Chatham, and Barrow. The unit moved to the Charleston area and was involved in numerous conflicts including the fight at Battery Wagner. Later it was assigned to Mercer's and J.A. Smith's Brigade, Army of Tennessee. The 54th participated in the Atlanta Campaign, Hood's Tennessee operations, and the Battle of Bentonville. During the Atlanta Campaign, July 20 to September 1, it reported 93 casualties and in December, 1864, totaled 168 effectives. The regiment surrendered on April 26, 1865. Colonel Charlton H. Way, Lieutenant Colonel Morgan Rawls, and Major William H. Mann were in command.
Contact Name: Cheri Amarna
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Date Added: 12/3/2008

Company H
William Matthew RODGERS - 1st Corporal
William joined the 54th on May 12, 1862 along with his brothers Samuel, Adam, and James. A fourth brother, Robert, joined with them in 1864. His pension records show he surrendered at Greensboro, North Carolina April 26, 1865. He died in 1919 in Muscogee County, GA
Contact Name: Cheri Amarna
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Date Added: 7/29/2011

Company H
James Samuel Spear - Private
Private - May 12, 1862. Transferred
to Company F, January 1, 1863.
Company F, 'Savannah Cadets', men from Chatham County. The company of Savannah Cadets was organized 17 May 1861 , as a company of boys, most of whom were sixteen years of age. On 13 May 1862, the company was mustered into the Confederate Army and served the Confederacy as a defensive company on the coast around Savannah. Then in May 1863 they joined the Army of Tennessee at Dalton, GA. under captain W. T. Chisholm,

Captured at Kennesaw
Mountain, Georgia June 18, 1864.

Released at Camp Morton,
Indiana May 22, 1865. - 11 Months as POW
Arrived Home - Columbus, GA. May 31st, 1865.

Contact Name: Morris Smith
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Contact Homepage: www.morrissmitheng.com
Date Added: 3/21/2010

Company I
Lewis W Rahn - Private
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Contact Name: Steve Thomas
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Date Added: 8/18/2007

Company I
Lacy William Simmons - Private
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Contact Name: Susan Rodgers
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Date Added: 8/24/2008

Company K
Elijah Dickson - Private
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Contact Name: Robert T. Dixon
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Date Added: 3/3/2012

Company K
Elisha Dickson - Private
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Contact Name: Robert T. Dixon
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Date Added: 3/3/2012

Company K
john henry sapp - Private
John Henry was my Mothers grandfather
Contact Name: bobby crews
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Date Added: 6/12/2013

Company K
Isham Tyre - Private
Direct lineal descendnet of 8 Confederate soldiers.
Contact Name: Odeen L. Tyre
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Date Added: 3/18/2010

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