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It will be difficult to get the world to understand the odds against which we fought.

– R. E. Lee

Roll of Honor

Our Confederate Ancestors

Thomas H. Byrd                               20th Tennessee Infantry

                                                                Enlisted in Roane County TN

                                                                Present but not engaged at Camp Wildcat KY

                                                                Fought at Fishing Creek, Shiloh, Port Hudson, & 

                                                                   Murfreesboro

                                                                Discharged due to injuries received at

                                                                   Murfreesboro

 

Pvt. John Campbell                        Company B, 10th Kentucky Mounted Rifles

                                                                Enlisted Aug. 29, 1862 at Whitesburg KY

                                                                Discharged Jan. 1, 1863

 

Pvt. William Chadwell                  Company G, 1st Tennessee Infantry, ANV

                                                                Enlisted Mar. 2, 1864 about age 18

Captured in the Wilderness May 6,1864

Elmira Prison NY until May 29, 1865

 

Jasper S. Colley                               Enlisted in Co. A, 29th VA Inf. July 10, 1861

                                                                1st Lt., Company B, 2nd VA State Line

                                                                1st Lt., Co. E, 21st Virginia Cavalry Dec. 15, 1862

                                                                Enlisted as Pvt., Co. C, 10th KY Cavalry (May's)

                                                                  Jan. 15, 1863

                                                                Enlisted in the 45th VA Inf. Bttn. April 1863

                                                                Paroled at Charleston WV April 17, 1865

 

Andrew Jackson Hamilton        Enlisted Oct. 15, 1862, Licking Station KY in

                                                                   Colvin's Company F, 5th Kentucky Infantry

                                                                Transferred by consolidation to Company D,

   November 18, 1862

                                                                Died July 17, 1864 at Camp Morton IN military 

   prison at age 21

 

John May Hamilton                       Enlisted Sept. 9, 1862 Beaver Hill KY in

   Company K, 5th Kentucky Infantry

Served as 1st Sgt. October 1-20, 1862

Tranferred to Morgan's cavalry

 

Pvt. John W. Hensley                    Enlisted in the Fannin Young Rifles, Co. E,

  11th Georgia Infantry July 3, 1861 for the war

Seven Days – Appears on a report of casualties

  for June 28- July 1, 1862 – hand wound

II Manassas VA Aug. 30, 1862–wounded in arm

  necessitating amputation

CS Hospital Culpeper VA September 27, 1862

Discharged, disability at Richmond VA in 1863

 

James Hopkins                                 Company E, 58th Virginia Infantry

Shenandoah Valley Campaign 1862

 (Winchester, Harrisonburg, Cross Keys,

 Port Republic);

With Early at Chancellorsville – wounded;

Hospital in Richmond;

Finished the war as a recruiting officer

 

Pvt. James Miller                            Company B, 10th Kentucky Mounted Rifles

                                                                Enlisted Sept. 9, 1862 at Whitesburg KY

                                                                Captured at Gladesville VA July 7, 1863

 

Capt. Thomas Mobley                   Enlisted as Cpl. Company D, 5th Kentucky

   Infantry October 19, 1861

                                                                Promoted to 2nd Lt., Company K Jan. 17, 1862

                                                                1st Lt., Company K

                                                                Captain, Company K October 1-20, 1862

 

 

2nd Lt. James Berry Walker        Company A, 2nd Georgia Infantry, ANV

                                                                Enlisted as Pvt. June 20, 1861 at Camp Semmes

                                                                Sick at Chimborazo hospital at Richmond VA

                                                                  several times 1861-1862

                                                                Records indicate he was present April & August

                                                                  1862; July 2, 1863; June 30-Dec. 31, 1864

                                                                Military hospital at Danville VA April 4, 1865

 

Pvt. Daniel P. Wells                        Company G, 5th Kentucky Infantry

Enlisted Oct. 21, 1861 at West Liberty, served 

  with the 5th in the Kentucky-Virginia-

  Tennessee area, then with the Orphan Brigade

  through the remainder of the war

 

Pvt. William Westbrook               Enlisted in Company I, 43rd Georgia Infantry

  May 6, 1862

Captured at Vicksburg MS July 4, 1863

  Paroled July 6

                                                                Served in East Tennessee & Mississippi

 

Cpl. William Wilkins                      Co. B, 16th Georgia Cavalry Battn. (State Guards)

Enlisted as Cpl. when the 6 month unit formed 

  July 16, 1863, just before his 14th birthday

Mustered out with the unit Feb. 4, 1864.


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