CASS/BARTOW COUNTY, GA - MILITARY 1838 Capt. Berry W Gideon ***************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm *********************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Marilyn Houser mahouser706@comcast.net CASS (now BARTOW) COUNTY MILITARY ROSTER Cass County was created 1832 from Cherokee County; a part of Murrary County was added 1834. A part of Cass county was set off to Gordon County in 1850. The name of Cass County was changed to BARTOW COUNTY in 1861. The county seat is Cartersville, Ga. The following is a list of the payroll of Capt. Berry W Gideon's Company of Mounted Volunteers organized under the act of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, assented to the 26 day of December 1837 for the protection of the Cherokee and Creek Indians from the 15th of Jan. 1838 to June 1838 and ordered into service of the State by Colonel Samuel Stewart by order of the Governor of the State of Georgia: Berry W Gideon, Capt James M Hamilton, 1st Lt William Pearson, 2nd Lt Johon H Miller, 1st Sgt Joseph T Hamilton, 2nd Sgt William B Lowry, 3rd Sgt Jonathan Long, 4th Sgt Lemuel Howard, 1st Cpl Lorenzo D Jones, 2nd Cpl M F Gathright, 3rd Cpl Patrick Moore, 4th Cpl W Terry, Ensign Barton, Daniel Bolt, William Cantrell, William I Casey, Bainbridge Danaway, William Dodd, Christopher Dunagan, Franklin A Dunagan, Hiram Dunagan, William Hassell , William D Huchison, John H Jackson, Joseph Wilson Jones , James F Leander, H Gillis Lowry , James Lowry, Carter Lowry, Green Massey, Anderson McElroy, John Morrow, Nicholds Leander Murkeson , Duncan Owens, Anderson Perkins, Elijah Person, Bailus Pinson, Elijah Pinson, Isaac Pogue , Reuben M Ponder, John Quarles, David Ray, Samuel I Simpson , William Stokes, Joseph H Tate, Isaac Terry, William Turner, William Watson, James N Watson, John Wilson ,William H Wilson, Nicholds John Wood, Joseph Youngblood, Gideon Y Source: Book : They Were Here vol #5