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56th Georgia Infantry
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Robert Hezekiah Mullinax - Private
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Contact Name: Gerald Lynn Mullinax
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Date Added: 12/23/2011

Company A
Needham G Benefield - Private
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=52336245
Contact Name: michael benefield
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Date Added: 1/22/2017

Company A
Thomas A Carnes - Private
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Contact Name: Jim Gilmer
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Date Added: 8/2/2010

Company A
James Alonzo Lindsey - Private
Entered service in April, 1862 at Carrollton, Ga and served until end of war in Johnson's army.
Contact Name: Everett Lindsey
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Date Added: 10/8/2011

Company A
Risdon Daniel Nichols - 3rd Corporal
I know precious little about my 3rd Great-Grandfather, Risdon Daniel Nichols or his ancestry. I know only that he was killed (or died of other causes) early in his military service in Kentucky in 1862. Since posting this originally, I have found out that he died of illness as a P.O.W. in Lexington, KY on Sept 12, 1862 and is buried in the Confederate Lot at the Lexington Cemetery. Not sure if there will be any more info or a way to find his location, if he is buried in a single grave.

He was married to Amanda Melvina Swinney in GA and had two children, Amanda Melvina and Edward Henry before he enlisted.

Amanda and the children moved to East Texas (Wood/Upshur Co.) after the war where there were other 'Swinney' kinfolk living.

Looking for ways to find out more about Risdon's individual military service history and possible grave location.
Contact Name: Mike Nichols
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Date Added: 6/14/2005

Company A
William H Paulk - Private
Enlisted 28 Apr 1862 at Campbelton, GA.
Contact Name: Herman Johnson
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Date Added: 10/1/2009

Company A
Levi Strickland - Private
Strickland Family from Douglasville, GA area.
Contact Name: Debra Witt
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Date Added: 12/30/2009

Company B
pugh van bueran byrdRank Unknown
may be listed as pew bird
Contact Name: emery coffey
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Date Added: 11/29/2010

Company B
Allen Gay - Private
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Contact Name: Sam Gay
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Date Added: 7/7/2011

Company B
Daniel Kernon - Private
Daniel Kernon was my ggg grandfather
Contact Name: Vicki Gore
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Date Added: 5/18/2009

Company B
James Y. (Wythe) Langley - Private
James Wythe Langley (b) abt 1830 in GA, married Eatha Malinda Shelnut on 21 Dec 1848 in Campbell County, GA. Enlisted 5th of May 1862 at Carrollton, in Carroll Co., GA. died 30 Dec 1864 at Camp Douglas in Chicago, IL as a Prisoner of War. He was buried at Chicago City Cemetery and was later moved to Oak Wood Cemetery about 20 miles south of Chicago in Cook County, IL.
Contact Name: Peggy Shaw
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Date Added: 1/27/2010

Company B
Tryon Patterson - Private
Patterson, Tryon- private May 5, 1862. Captured at Vicksburg, Miss. July 4, 1863. and paroled there July 8, 1863.
Captured near Nashville, Tenn. December 16, 1864. Sent to
Louisville, Ky. December 31,1864. Transferred to Camp
Chase, O. January 2,1865. and released there June
12,1865. (Born in Gwinnett County, Ga. in 1832.)
Contact Name: Donnie Brown
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Date Added: 6/26/2007

Company B
Lary Green Walden - Private
Entered service in 1861 part of Co. H, 29th Ga. Inf. Mustered out 1862 (end of contract), enlisted 1862 Co B, 56th in Carroll County, Ga. Served until end of war. Discharged at Altamaha River Station #7 1865. Died Florida 1928.
Contact Name: John Wehner
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Date Added: 8/26/2015

Company C
James Thomas Barnes - 1st Sergeant
Enlisted as a Private on 10 May 1862 at the age of 26.
Enlisted in Company C, 56th Infantry Regiment Georgia on 15 May 1862.
Promoted to Full 1st Sergeant (Estimated day of Promo) on 15 June 1864.
Surrendered on 26 April 1865 at Greensboro, NC.
Contact Name: Eric Stone
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Date Added: 5/22/2010

Company C
James Robert Copeland - Private
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Contact Name: Judy Rowell
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Date Added: 7/26/2010

Company C
James Anderson Gamble - Private
Died at Vicksburg
Contact Name: Brian Gamble
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Date Added: 4/18/2007

Company C
Cornelius W McGraw - Corporal
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Contact Name: Darrell McGraw
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Contact Homepage: mcgrawonline.us
Date Added: 6/11/2008

Company C
Wyley Skinner - Private
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Contact Name: Larry Skinner
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Date Added: 3/26/2009

Company D
David Jasper Huggins - Private
Nickname: DJ
Muster Date: 15 May 1862
Imprisonment Date: 4 Jul 1863
Imprisonment Place: Vicksburg, Mississippi
Notes: Paroled, (Vicksburg, MS) 8 Jul 1863
Contact Name: Jean Bryson
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Date Added: 7/7/2021

Company D
John Anderson Mattox - Private
John Anderson Mattox was born in Coweta Co.,Ga. I think that he re-enlisted three other times in the Civil War.He married ,Mary (Polly) Birdsong Huckaby of Coweta Co.,Ga. They moved to Ashland,Clay Co.,Alabama They walked behind the ox driven cart that held all they owned,from Carroll Co.,Georgia to Ashland,Al.They are buried at the Sardis Baptist Church Cemetery in Clay Co.,Al.He has been honored by the local DAR for his CSA status.
Contact Name: Lisa
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Date Added: 1/24/2012

Company D
Jesse M Moon - Private
1833-1899
Contact Name: George Hill
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Date Added: 4/15/2013

Company E
John F. Brown - Private
Died of typhoid fever
Contact Name: Roy C. Ellis
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Date Added: 12/16/2012

Company E
Andrew Jackson Kile - Private
A.J. was a married, small-scale farmer in eastern Clayton County, GA with five children when he enlisted. He died of complications from measles in a military hospital in Atlanta on 24 May 1864 after being forced to return to the ranks prematurely. He was convalescing at home on furlough when the Home Guard rounded him up and sent him back to his unit in north Georgia. His 7th and last child was born 4 days after he died, and did not survive infancy. His wife, a part-Indian woman named Nancy Green, suffered 15 years after the war as the single mother of 6 and an exploited sharecropper in south Clayton County before re-marrying and following several of her sons to Texas. Her second daughter was my great-grandmother.
Contact Name: Sam Mozley
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Date Added: 2/23/2010

Company E
William Jerry Lambert - Private
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Contact Name: James Lambert
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Date Added: 11/5/2018

Company E
Terrell Cicero Robinson - Private
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Contact Name: Pam Carroll
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Date Added: 10/9/2014

Company E
Thomas F Williamson - Private
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Contact Name: Christopher Wilkerson
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Date Added: 2/12/2011

Company F
Thomas J. Hansard - Corporal
My 2nd cousin Thomas J. Hansard (1840-1917) fought for Southern independence with Company F, 56th Georgia Infantry. His military record shows that he was captured at the fall of Vicksburg, Mississippi, on 4 July 1863, and was sent to military prison in Louisville, Kentucky. On 27 July 1864 he took the oath of allegiance to the USA and promised to live north of the Ohio River until the war ended. He and his wife Caroline Wright are buried in the Witherspoon Cemetery in Vandervoort, Arkansas.

Contact Name: Donna Schwieder
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Contact Homepage: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~southron/Hansford
Date Added: 6/8/2005

Company F
Henry Allen Whitley - Private
Enlisted Feb 1862 at Big Shanty Georgia, Captured July 4,1863 at Vicksburg Mississippi. returned to serve at Chickamauga in 1863, paroled at Guntersville Alabama in 1865. At age 71 in 1911 applied for pension in Blount County Alabama. Passed away in 1926 and buried in Lebanon Cemetary, Blount County Alabama.
He was my Great Grandfather and I am presently serving in Camp Victory Iraq
Contact Name: Rickey Allen Fowler
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Date Added: 12/27/2010

Company F
Mansel B. Wood - Private
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Contact Name: Patricia McMurray
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Date Added: 2/23/2012

Company G
John Henry Bailey - Private
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Contact Name: rwbailey1@alltel.net
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Date Added: 4/19/2008

Company G
William M. Day - Private
Private William Day enlisted in Company G, 56th Georgia Infantry on May 3, 1862 and surrendered at Vicksburg on July 4th, 1863. He died shortly after his return home after the surrender.
Contact Name: Mike Day
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Contact Homepage: http://www.southerndays.info
Date Added: 7/4/2011

Company G
Moses Wheat Lewis - Private
Cumming's Brigade @ Battle of Atlanta
2nd Georgia Infantry Regiment State Line
34th Georgia Infantry Regiment
36th Georgia (Glenn's) Infantry Regiment
39th Georgia Infantry Regiment
56th Georgia Infantry Regiment
Company G 56th Infantry Regiment Georgia Enlisted 3 May 1862 Private
injured at the Battle of Atlanta
Notes on:
56th Regiment, Georgia Infantry
Organized: May 15, 1862

Consolidated with the 36th Regiment (Glenn's-Boyles) in early 1865. On April 9, 1865, at Smithfield, North Carolina, it was consolidated with other regiments, part of the regiment formed the 39th Regiment, Consolidated and part formed the 42nd Regiment, Consolidated.

Engagements
Steele's Greenville Expedition, Mississippi (4/1/63 - 4/14/63)
Vicksburg Siege, Mississippi (5/63 - 7/63)
Vicksburg Campaign, Mississippi (5/63 - 7/63)
Chattanooga Siege, Tennessee (9/63 - 11/63)
Chattanooga, Tennessee (11/23/63 - 11/25/63)
Atlanta Campaign, Georgia (5/64 - 9/64)
New Hope Church, Georgia (5/25/64 - 6/4/64)
Atlanta Siege, Georgia (7/64 - 9/64)
Atlanta, Georgia (7/22/64)
Jonesboro, Georgia (8/31/64 - 9/1/64)
Nashville, Tennessee (12/15/64 - 12/16/64)
Carolinas Campaign (2/65 - 4/30/65)
Bentonville, North Carolina (3/19/65 - 3/21/65)
Contact Name: Jacob Walker
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Date Added: 9/11/2007

Company G
Marcus Lafayette Pool - Major
Pool, M. L.- Elected Captain of Co. K, 3rd Regiment Ga. State Troops October 8, 1861. Appears last on roll dated March 31, 1862. Elected Major of the 56th Regiment Ga. Inf. in 1862. Resigned August 20,1862.
Contact Name: Ken Martens
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Date Added: 12/4/2010

Company G
James A Shirley - Private
Shirley, James A.—Enlisted as a private in Co. I, 3d Regt. Ga.
State Troops Oct. 8, 1861. Roll dated Apr. 26, 1862, last on
file, shows him present. Mustered out Apr. 1862. Enlisted as
a private in Co. G, 56th Regt. Ga. Inf. June 12, 1862.
Contact Name: Gordon Shirley
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Date Added: 1/23/2015

Company G
John F Shirley - Private
Shirley, John F.—Enlisted as a private in Co. I, 3d Regt. Ga.
State Troops Oct. 8, 1862. Roll dated Apr. 7, 1862, last on file,
shows him present. Mustered out Apr. 1862. Enlisted as a
private in Co. G, 56th Regt. Ga. Inf. May 3, 1862. Received
pay Jan. 29, 1863. No later record.
Contact Name: Gordon Shirley
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Date Added: 1/23/2015

Company G
Lorenza Dow Shirley - Private
Shirley, Lorenza Dow—Private May 3, 1862.
Contact Name: Gordon Shirley
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Date Added: 1/23/2015

Company G
James Means South - Private
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Contact Name: John Simpson
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Date Added: 11/1/2014

Company G
Wesley StoneRank Unknown
Orig: He was from Cherokee County, AL

CSA 56th GA Inf during the war and was a POW for about a
week at the battle of Vicksburg, MS.
Contact Name: Joseph Beck
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Date Added: 10/20/2007

Company G
Thomas Jefferson Streetman - Corporal
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Contact Name: Chuck Griffiths
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Date Added: 7/17/2009

Company G
William Geter Streetman - Private
Father to TJ Streetman
Contact Name: Chuck Griffiths
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Date Added: 7/17/2009

Company H
Thomas Jasper Jones - Private
Thomas was born in Georgia in 1840. He was about 22 when he enrolled at Carrolton, Ga on 13 May 1862 for 3 years or the war. He has four CMR cards in his archival file. He was captured July 4 1863 when Vicksburg fell. He was paroled and like a good soldier joined his unit and continued to fight the invaders. He died in Arkansas in 1910. He is related to me by marriage to my 4th cousin.
Contact Name: Phillip Thomas
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Date Added: 10/1/2018

Company H
Uriah W WilliamsRank Unknown
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Contact Name: Reggie osborne
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Date Added: 7/31/2012

Company I
Robert M. Bryant - Private
My great-great-grandfather. Robert Bryant enlisted at Big Shanty, Georgia on 16 May, 1862 in Capt. J.M. Cobb's Company I. He was wounded at Baker's Creek, Mississippi, and was honorably discharged 5 May, 1865,
Contact Name: Rick Morgan
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Date Added: 12/15/2009

Company I
John Wesley Crews - Private
From Heard Co, died Aug 1870 LaGrange, GA married Charity Wilkes 1859
Contact Name: Jan
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Date Added: 8/31/2018

Company I
William J Doster - Private
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Contact Name: Stephen Moyers Woodard
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Contact Homepage: Givem Tha Cold Steel Boys
Date Added: 1/13/2011

Company I
Andrew Jackson McColister - Private
From Carroll County, Georgia
Contact Name: Wayne D McColister
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Date Added: 7/17/2018

Company I
William R Michael - Private
My GG Grandfather Willim R. Michael reportedly died 23 July 1862 possibly in Atlanta possibly of sickness. I would like to learn more. where is he buried?
Contact Name: Coy Michael
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Date Added: 11/13/2007

Company I
Thomas S. Morris - Private
My Great Grandfather
Contact Name: Bob Derrick
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Date Added: 5/17/2009

Company K
Benjamin Butler Cassell - Private
I don't know the days he served. He is buried in a veterans cemetery in Carrol Co. The spelling of the name in the parks service record is not kosher but he shows up there. I got the unit and rank from his tombstone.
Contact Name: Susan Nye Ferrell
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Date Added: 5/6/2008

Company K
David Thomas Cole - Private
The 56th Georgia infantry was organized on May 15th 1862. PVT. David Thomas Cole was part of the following engagements and captured 12-16-1864 at Nashville, TN. He arrived at Camp Chase in Ohio on Jan. 4,1865. He was admitted to the hospital on May 29, 1865 for pneumonia and died June 5, 1865 Engagements Steele's Greenville Expedition, Mississippi (4/1/63 - 4/14/63) Vicksburg Siege, Mississippi (5/63 - 7/63) Vicksburg Campaign, Mississippi (5/63 - 7/63) Chattanooga Siege, Tennessee (9/63 - 11/63) Chattanooga, Tennessee (11/23/63 - 11/25/63) Atlanta Campaign, Georgia (5/64 - 9/64) New Hope Church, Georgia (5/25/64 - 6/4/64) Atlanta Siege, Georgia (7/64 - 9/64) Atlanta, Georgia (7/22/64) Jonesboro, Georgia (8/31/64 - 9/1/64) Nashville, Tennessee (12/15/64 - 12/16/64) The war was over offically when he died. June 12, 1865 the remaining soldiers were released. He died one week before being released.





COLE, DAVID T
PVT INFANTRY
CONFEDERATE STATES
DATE OF DEATH: 06/05/1865
BURIED AT: SECTION 0 SITE 2028
CAMP CHASE CONFEDERATE CEMETERY
2900 SULLIVAN AVE COLUMBUS, OH 43204
(513) 262-2115
Contact Name: Will Cole
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Date Added: 2/3/2010

Company K
Thomas J Langley - Private
Thomas Langley was a member of Co K 56th Infantry and was a Private May 12, 1862.
Captured at Vicksburg, Miss. July 4, 1863, and paroled there July 8, 1863. Pension records show he contracted measles at Chattanooga, Tenn. in spring of 1862, and typhoid fever, resulting in chronic diarrhea, in 1863, which permanently
disabled him. (Born in Ga. Jan 21, 1833. Died in Heard County, Ga. Sept. 12, 1900.)

Contact Name: Patricia Paschal Denton
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Date Added: 11/26/2009

Company K
James M Paschal - Private
James Paschal, was a member of Co K 56th Infantry and was a private in 12 May 1862.
Born in Morgan County, Ga. 24 Dec 1828. He is mentioned in *Dr. G. W. Peddy's biography as becoming deathly sick with pneumonia, while his unit was in Kentucky, and he just barely survived. He served with his unit in the Kentucky Campaign and it later surrendered at the Battle of Vicksburg Ms. After being exchanged his unit participated in the Battle of Missionary Ridge and Chattanooga. He was in the battles north of, and including, the Battle of Atlanta. His unit, part of the Army of Tennessee, eventually surrendered on the 26th of April 1865 at Greensboro, NC. He is listed in the Ga. Roster of Soldiers and also the Georgia Pension Book.



Contact Name: Patricia Paschal Denton
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Date Added: 11/26/2009

Company K
marcus Lafeyett pool - Captain
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Contact Name: mike poole
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Date Added: 6/9/2012

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