Appling-Bacon-Pierce County GaArchives Military Records.....Moody, George W May 3, 1903
Civilwar 54th Georgia Regiment
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54th Georgia Infantry Reunion
228 Confederate Veteran May 1903.
INQUIRIES.
W. A. O'Neal, Commerce, Tex. I want to correspond with my comrades who fought and
suffered with me in the sixties, while contending for the principles that we then
knew were right. We who still live continue to know that those principles are
immortal. Though they went down in defeat, they still live and manifest themselves
in
many ways. I want to meet surviving members of my old company at New Orleans. Our
regiment, the Fifty Fourth Georgia Infantry, fought with that grand and knightly
soldier, Joseph E. Johnston, and the gallant and daring John B. Hood, from
Chattanooga, Tenn., up to the last day at Greensboro, N. C., where the bitter cup
was
passed and the fight was ended and our faces were again turned homeward. Our Capt.
N. B. Roberts and Lieut. G. E. Thomas were from Columbus, Ga., and better soldiers
or
braver men never lived. Lieut. Tom Granbery was idolized by the entire company. The
noble and brave Lieut. Sam McLeary fell at my side on July 18, 1864, at Kennesaw
Mountain, with a bullet through his brain. I sent his body to his wife in Harris
County, Ga. I would be glad to see her if she still lives, and also the faithful
negro servant, Lairy, who accompanied the body home. Also First Sergts. R. P.
("Pack") Hammond and J. J. Jones, who were wounded by my side at Lovejoy Station,
Ga., Sergt S. B. Harned, who was a native of the North, but as true to the South as
any of us, and Corporals Stribling, Slaughter, Webb, and the many brave, daring
private soldiers who stood shoulder to shoulder with me in all those trying scenes.
Such men as A. D. Aron, Jesse Bryan, J. A. Clegg, the Dawkins boys, Jim Ellison,
Jim
Hammock, W. A. Laws, John Mulkey, the Granbery and McDonald boys. My tent and
Blanket mates were J. B. Ogletree and W. S. Wade. God bless them if they still live,
for
their reward is great! I also recall Corp. Parker, George Tarvin, George Taylor,
John Thornton, the Williams boys, whose memory is as fresh to me as if it were
yesterday. Let those who still live whose names I have written meet me at New
Orleans
at Georgia headquarters, and let every one wear the letter of his company and
number
of his regiment on his hat or breast, so we may know each other and have a hallowed
reunion. I would be very glad to see Col. Charlton H. Way or Lieut. Col. Morgan
Rauls. Our adjutant, T. M. Brantley, was a handsome officer, and so was Capt.
George
W. Moody, who commanded Company B, and who greatly resembled the sainted Bishop and
General. Leonidas Polk. Let us meet and greet each other once more.


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