BANKS COUNTY, GA - Military Civil War Garrison - Cochran - Kelly Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: "Jacqueline King" Table of Contents page: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/banks.htm Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm Soldier Stories *Five sons of Martin T. GARRISON answered the call to join the armed forces of the Confederacy. All five were either killed or died during the was. When Mr. Garrison would get word that a son had leen killed, he would go by horse and wagon to retrieve the body and return it to Mt. Pleasant for burial. Christopher, Clayton, Thomas and William are all buried at Mt. Pleasant and a rock wall encircled the four graves. The fifth son died in a hospital in Knoxville, Tenn., and is buried in Bethel Cemetery. He was honored by the UDC on Confederate Memorial Day, 2003, in Banks County. *Jedediah GARRISON, a Revolutionary War patriot, who was one of the organizers of Mt. Pleasant United Methodist Church, is buried in the cemetery at Mt. Pleasant and is the ancestor of the GARRISON soldiers who are also buried there. *John A. KELLY was the regiment blacksmith and courier. After the Battle of Kennesaw, he went home to plant crops. He lived to be 101 years old. *John F. GARRISON and W. Terrell COCHRAN were childhood sweethearts of Sara HILL. She eventually married John GARRISON, who went to the war and was wounded at the Battle of Kennesaw. When Sara heard this, she went by mule and wagon to find him. She found him in the rail yards in Atlanta (as in the scene from "Gone With The Wind") and told him she was going to freshen up and would be back for him. When she returned he was dead. She obtained a casket and tried to get passage home on the train, but to no avail. A Yankee officer overheard her and secured passage for her, her dead husband and the mule and wagon. They had to go by way of Jonesboro and up to Athens, and then she could get home from there. She buried John in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery. Later she married W. Terrell COCHRAN, who also went to war. He survived and came home to Sara. When he died , she had him buried in the same plot as her first husband, with a space between them for her. However, she was visiting her daughter in Atlanta when she died and is buried in the Westview Cemetery, Section 17, Lot 456. source: abstract from The Banks County News,Wednesday, June 11, 2003