Baker County Georgia Baker Fire Eaters Co H 6th GA Inf File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by lindy.hard@ccconnection.com Lindy Lee Hard Table of Contents page: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/baker.htm Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm When you read the second article [muster roll,] you will see that it is clearly the muster roll for Baker Co Fire Eaters, Co H 6th GA Inf and not the Co H 51st GA Inf (out of Randolph Co GA) --The title was probably corrected in the succeeding articles, but the issues are missing. Calhoun County Courier (newspaper, published at Leary, Calhoun Co, Ga.) 13 Feb 1885, pg 4 [Indistinct type] The “Baker Fire Eaters.” We commenae [sic] the publication this week of the Muster Roll of the above named company. It is minute as regards the fate of its members, which makes it all the more interesting. This company left Baker county on the 27th of April 1861, to begin service in the Virginia army. Capt. Colquitt was at their head, but at Atlanta was promoted to a Colonelcy and by valient service, afterwards reached the distinction of brigadier general and his old company became part of his brigade. Wm. F. Plane was the second Captain of the company, and being killed at Sharpsburg, Capt. Ben J Russell, now of Baker county, was elected to fill the vacancy occasioned by his death. After the ravages of 32 pitched battles, of sickness, imprisonment and trials incident to those four dreadful years, and the flight of 20 years since, with its results there are left but few survivors of this brave band. Going over the roll we find the survivors are as follows: A. H. Colquitt Atlanta Ga, United States senator, B. J. Russell of Baker county, practicing law, B. F. Hudspeth, Clerk of the Court, Baker county, B. L. Hearn, traveling man for Cincinnatti Buggy Co., Cairo Ga., T. H. Caskie, farming near Hardup, in Baker county., J. H. Cook, salesman with John Kelly the noted dry goods merchant, Atlanta Ga., T. W. Hammond Leary’s live liveryman., J. W. Harrell and G. W. D_ase [Dease?] Colquitt Ga., Irby Harrison, engaged as an inspector of fertilizers by the State at Savannah Ga., J. S. McMurria, Willis Jones, W. C. Odom, Newton Ga., D. D. Smith, Hardup Ga., Chas. Collins, G. W. Williford, M. J. D. Culpepper and Jenther? Bailey Camilla Ga., Silvester K_ _ _ _, G. Boykin, Colquitt Ga., E. O. Nelmes, Pelham Ga., W. L. Sperlin Milford, Ga., and W. J. Jeffries Baker county, post office address Leary, Ga. At Albany they were presented with a flag, and accorded a grand reception by the citizens of that place. The flag which they received was made by Mrs. Plane, the wife of Capt. Plane, who is still living in Atlanta. The presentation address was delivered by Capt. Hobbs. The flag is now the property of Senator Colquitt, and attests by its tatters, the stories of leaden hail the company was in. Eight of the company proved recicant? And became deserters. Let the mantle of charity be drawn around them. We have been persuaded into the publication of these old papers from the fact that they touch upon a theme which is at time interesting. Many an old soldier will find in them food for reflection; sweet memories will be revived, and old comrades that have been forgotten will be remembered. Twenty years have succeeded in assuaging the bitterness engendered by those four years of deadly conflict, and we are sure the publication of these old papers will do no harm. We stand today, notwithstanding the trials and insults that we have endured, at the hands of Northern renegaders ready to lend our ___ to the perpetuation of the restored Union. The bones of our dead heroes have whitened and ___ upon ever battle-field, our homes sacked, our cities destroyed, but we have sacrificed our intention as patriots and honorable men to support ___ Union. We will do it. Let the sloody(?) shirt be waved; let radical renegades who never saw a battle field insult the names of our leaders and heroes, we will hold the cause lost honorable, and assert our right to think so. 13 Feb 1885, p5 (same issue as above article) Muster Roll of company H 51st [sic] Georgia Regt. [Acually, According to the accompanying article on page 4, this is the Muster Roll for Baker County Fire Eaters, [aka Co H 6th Ga Regt] Alfred H. Colquitt, 1st Capt., promoted to Colonel at Atlanta; afterwards to Brig. General, twice Governor of Georgia, and now U. S. Senator. James Baggs, 1st Lieut. And resigned. B. J. Russell, 2nd Lieut. B. F. Hudspeth, 3rd , , Wm. F. Plane, 2nd Capt. Elected at Atlanta Ga., May 1861. W. W. Keyton, 2nd 3rd Lieut, promoted at Yorktown Va. July 1861. B. J. Russell, 3rd 1st Lieut. Elected Nov. 1861. G. Boykin, 2nd 2nd Lieut. Elected Feb. 1862 J. C. Floyd 3rd 3rd Lieut. Elected Feb. 10th 1862 B. J. Russell 3rd Capt. Promoted at Sharpsburg, Md. Sept 17th 1862. G. Boykin 2nd 1st Lieut, promoted Sept. 17th 1862. W. W. Jordan 3rd 2nd Lieut elected Dec. 6th 1862, resigned Feb 1st 1864. T. W. Hammond 4th 3rd Lt. Elected Dec. 6th 1862. J. C. Floyd, 1st Sergt, appointed at Atlanta, Ga. By Capt. Colquitt W. W. Keyton, 2nd Sergt. Appointed at Atlanta, Ga. By Capt. Colquitt. G. Boykin, 3rd Sergt., appointed at Atlanta Ga. , By Capt Colquitt. J. W. Solomons. 4th Sergt. Appointed at Atlanta Ga., by Capt. Colquitt. I. H. Harrison, 1st Corpl. Appointed at Atlanta Ga., by Capt. Colquitt. J. T. Jester, 2nd Corpl. Appointed at Atlanta, Ga. By Capt. Colquitt. J. R. Douglass, 3rd Corpl. Appointed at Atlanta Ga. By Capt. Colquitt. J. H. Cook, 4th Corpl. Appointed at Atlanta Ga, by Capt. Colquitt. Privates. 2 William Adams, died at Richmond Va. Aug. 1862 3 J. F. Adams, wounded at Sharpsburg Md, Sept. 17th 1862 4 John Adams, transferred by promotion, swapped for C H H Sheffield. 5 C H Adams, swapped for in place of Bolton 6 F M Adams, killed at Sharpsburg Sept 17, 1862 7 E G W Allen, ordly, Gen Colquitt. 8 J E Allen, dishonorably discharged Yorkstown, Va. 9 W S Adderton, swapped for W H Johnson, 10th Ga Batt. 10 Ben Bailey, wounded at Sharpsburg, Md Sept 17th 1862. 11 J H Bailey, wounded Malvern Hill Va and Olustee Fla. 12 Robert Bailey, wounded at Sharpsburg Md, afterwards discharged 13 C E Bennett, died Yorktown Va Oct 1861 14 A H Brown, killed Drury’s Bluff Va May 30th 1863 15 W L Brown wounded at Malvern Hill July 1st 1862 16 J L Brown, deserted at Yorktown Va and Sessionville S C. 17 S L Ba­_ks [Banks?], wounded Mechanicville Va June 27th 1862 18 J W Bozeman, deserted while at Yorktown Va. 19 W A L Batts, discharged by substitute J W Bolan 20 W H Bolton, never wounded 21 J W Bolton, substitute for W A L Batts and then swapped for John Adams. 22 Allen Bullard, recruit May 3rd 1862, discharged by substitute A Pickernge. 23 Warren Beck, died at Richmond Va. Aug 1862 24 A Y Bush, died at Yorktown Va Feb. 1862 25 T H Caskie, wounded Wilmington, N C and taken prisoner April, 186_ 26 A H Collier assassinated at Richmond Va. 27 A W Cook, taken prisoner on Weldon R. R. 28 P Craby deserted at Richmond Va. 29 Samuel M Cox, transferred to band of regt. 30 Seaborn Cowart, discharged for inability to perform service 31 R D Cowart, killed by grape-shot at Sharpsburg Md. 32 Lewis Cowart, discharged in Nov 1862. 33 R D Carter, discharged taking his son home to Ga. in Nov. 1862 34 James Carter, died at Yorktown. 35 B F Collins, recruit May 3rd 1862 36 C B Collins, wounded at Sharpsburg Md, Sept. 18th 1862 and Olustee Fla. 37 M J D Culpepper, recruit 1860. 38 Mitchel Culpepper, recruit died at Richmond Va. July 1862. 39 J M Dease, never wounded. 40 G W Dease, swapped S G Ivey for him 51st Ga regt. 41 John Dease, died at Richmond Va. Aug 1862. 42 Charles Ethridge, wounded in Ft. Sumpter Nov. 1863. 43 Abner Faircloth, discharged on account of failing eyesight. 44 J W Gross, killed at Seven Pines Va., May 1st 1862 45 G W Grant, taken prisioner Md. 46 J A Gaddy, died at or near Richmond Va., Aug. 1862. 47 E H Hammond, recruit joined at Gumers St, Va, April 1st 1863 and killed at Petersburg. 48 S C Hardy, killed at Drury’s Bluff Va. Aug 3rd 1864. 49 B L Hearn, lost leg at Drury’s Bluff, Va. 50 B A Hinson, never wounded. 51 H B Herrington, wounded at Sharpsburg Md, Sept. 17th 1862. 52 William Huff, wounded at Sharpsburg, Md, Sept. 17th 1862. 53 Cader Hobbs, killed before Richmond accidentally. [TO BE CONTINUTED] Note: Next issue available is 17 Apr 1885 ======================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other presentation. 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