In Memoriam and Honour of our proud Southern Ancestors

Corporal Robert B. Moss
Great,Great Grandfather of Keith Hines

He was a Corporal and served with the 9th Tennessee Cavalry.
He rode with John Hunt Morgan and he was wounded.

Isaac McVey
Great,Great Grandfather of Jeff McVey

He served with the 11th Georgia Infantry Regiment, Company D "Gilmer Boys", Army of Northern Virginia CSA
Killed in action at the Battle of the Wilderness, May 6, 1864.


Robert Daniel Fielder
Great,Great Grandfather of Brenda Fielder- Davis

He served with Company E, 37th Virginia Infantry.
He was captured at Spotsylvania Courthouse on May 12, 1864
He was held as a POW at Elmira Prison, New York.
He was released under an oath of allegiance on June 19, 1865.
He died in Adair, Oklahoma 1921.


Captain John James Halstead
Great,Great,Great Uncle of Josh Edds.

He was born November 27, 1837 and was a farm laborer in Fayette County, as shown on the 1860 Census.
He enlisted in 1861 in Kanawha County, Virginia in Company C of the 22nd Virginia Infantry as a Private.
He also served with Hounshell's Battalion, Virginia Cavalry.
It is believed that he was wounded and captured at Carnifex Ferry, Virginia on September 19, 1861 and was detained at POW Camp Chase, Ohio. He was exchanged on March 10, 1863.
He later served as Captain of Company A, Thurmond's Partisan Rangers(Cavalry).
He was paroled on April 26, 1865 at Lewisburg, West Virginia at the age of 24,5'10" tall, with light hair and blue eyes.
He lived and died after the war in Crosslane, West Virginia in Nicholas County West Virginia doing many things such as becoming a Sheriff, a Merchant and a Real Estate Dealer.
He died in April of 1931.


Private Mordica Halstead
Great,Great,Great Uncle of Josh Edds.

He served with the 22nd Virginia Infantry.
He was Killed In Action at the Battle of White Sulpher Springs, West Virginia, 1863.


Private James E. Edds
Great,Great, Grandfather of Josh Edds.

He served with Company A of the 14th Virginia Cavalry.


LT.Colonel Robert C. Parks
Great,Great,Great Grandfather of Brenda Fielder Davis.

He served under General Stand Watie, with the 1st Mounted Cherokee Volunteers.
He was killed by a fellow officer in April of 1864.
His burial site is Unknown.


Corporal Thomas John White
Great,Great,Great Grandfather of Chad White

He was born September 23, 1830 in Habersham County, Georgia.
He served as a Corporal with the 65th Regiment, Company C, Georgia Infantry, "Dixie Rangers".
He was wounded at the Battle of New Hope Church,New Hope, Georgia on May 23, 1864 and was given a 60 day furlough by the hospital surgeon in Forysth, Georgia on September 15, 1864.
He was shot through the right nipple and cutting away one or more of his ribs. He never returned to the war.
He died in Lumpkin County on September 19, 1892. More than 300 people attended his funeral.
He is buried at TownCreek Baptist Church on the White/Lumpkin County Line.
My grandfather Thomas John White had five other brothers that were in the war as well as his father.
Also in the same unit was his brother Joabert and Josiah White. Both were captured. Joabert died in prison in Rock Island, Ill. Josiah was sent to Morton, Ind. prison and paroled out May 23, 1865. He died in Lumpkin County on May 24, 1917 and is buried at Cornith Church. Joabert is buried at Rock Island #1238 grave.


Joabert White
Ancestor of Chad White

He served with the 65th Regiment, Company C, Georgia Infantry, "Dixie Rangers".
He was captured and sent to Rock Island, Ill., where he died and was buried in plot #1238.


Josiah White
Ancestor of Chad White

He served with the 65th Regiment, Company C, Georgia Infantry, "Dixie Rangers".
He was captured and sent to a Morton, Ind. prison
He was later paroled on May 23, 1865.
He died in Lumpkin County, Georgia on May 24, 1917 and is buried at Corinth Church.


Thomas Smart
Great,Great,Great Uncle of ......

He enlisted at Carroll County, Arkansas in 1861 along with father William Smart and brother-in-law John Weast.
He served gallantly with John Rowland's Company, Company D, as part of Nicholas' Regiment; Jackman's Brigade, Shelby's Division, Marmaduke's Cavalry Missouri until his parole in May of 1865.


William Smart
Great,Great,Great Grandfather of ......

His unit is unknown
He enlisted in 1861 at Carroll County, Arkansas along with his son and son-in-law.


George Washington Lewis, Sr.
Great,Great, Great Grandfather of ......

He served with the 7th Tennessee Regiment, "Boys of Wilson County", Army of Northern Virginia.
After the war ended he served in the 2nd and 3rd Oklahoma Legislature from Beckham County in 1910.
He died at the Confederate Home in Ardmore, Oklahoma in 1925 and is buried next to his wife at Sunnyvale, Texas, Dallas County.


Newton W.Cockreham
Great,Great,Great Grandfather of ......

He was born in Tippah County, Mississippi.
He served with the 24th Arkansas until it was consolidated with the 19th Arkansas in the Army of the Trans-Mississippi.
He is buried along with his wife at Parks Cemetery in Scott County, Arkansas.


Wilbur Fisk Monroe
Great,Great,Great Grandfather of ......

He was born in Forsyth County, Georgia.
He served gallantly with the 43rd Georgia Infantry, Army of the Tennessee until 1865.
He was a bass drummer for his unit.
He is buried along side his wife in the Monroe Cemetery, Scott's County, Arkansas.


John Weast
Great,Great,Great Uncle of ......

He enlisted in Carroll County, Arkansas in 1861 along with his father-in-law and brother-in-law.
He lost a leg at the Battle of Pea Ridge and was captured and taken to Camp Douglas.
When he was released he had to walk back to Arkansas on one leg.


Private Joseph Patrick Hill
Great,Great,Grandfather of Pamela Aldridge Yelverton

He served with the North Carolina Troops, Company A, 3rd Regiment.
He lived in Greene County, North Carolina, where he enlisted at the age of twenty-one on April 23, 1861.
He was wounded at Gettysburg on July 2, 1863 and was also captured.
He was exchanged at City Point on August 20, 1863.
Paroled at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.


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