BIBB COUNTY, GA - Military Civil War Co. D 10th Battalion Whittle Guards Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Dennis B. Miller dnmiller@bellsouth.net Table of Contents page: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/bibb.htm Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm I am researching a history of the 10th Battalion Georgia Volunteer Infantry CSA http://www.geocities.com/the10thgeorgia/ Reenacting with the 10th Battalion, Georgia Infantry The 10th Battalion was organized at Griffin, Ga, March 17, 1862, of companies mainly from Macon, Worth, Sumter and Bibb Counties. There were also men from counties surrounding each of the aforementioned counties. A 5th company was formed in July '62. In 1862, the Battalion guarded prisoners held at Camp Oglethorpe in Macon from May to December. They also guarded military installations within the city of Macon. They were sent to Virginia in December 1862 and attached to G.T. Anderson's Brigade through April '63. They did not guard any prisoners other than those at Macon. They participated in the Suffolk Campaign of Apr '63 and were later unattached from any brigade and posted at Franklin, Va, for 8 months from August '63 to Apr '64. They did not serve in N. Carolina except for patrols from Franklin. In April '64, the Battalion was attached to A.R. Wright's Brigade and participated in the campaign from the Wilderness to Petersburg from May to June '64. Maj. John E. Rylander was killed at Cold Harbor. Capt. James D. Frederick of Co A, was promoted in his place. They were at Deep Bottom Aug 16, '64 and Weldon R.R. Aug 21, '64 and remained on the lines at Petersburg until the withdrawal Apr 2, '65. Maj. Frederick was wounded at Deep Bottom and the command of the Battalion eventually fell to Capt. Caleb Hill of Co A. Their last battle was at Farmville Apr 7, '65. Source: The Macon Daily Telegraph, page 1, published April 2, 1862. It is an early muster roll of the "Whittle Guards" Company D, 10th Battalion Georgia Volunteer Infantry. This company was raised in the Rutland District of Bibb County and was named in honor of Lewis N. Whittle. It was officially organized March 4, 1862. Muster Roll of Whittle Guards *denotes additional notes below OFFICERS Dr. W.L. Jones, Captain John. H. Woodward, 1st Lieutenant Wm Reese Busbee, 2nd Lieutenant Thos Jeptha Gibson, 2nd Brev. Lieutenant Henry Bass Treadwell, Chaplain of Bat. Young D. Johnson, 1st Sergeant Wm. W. Russell, 2nd Sergeant George W. Hartley 3rd Sergeant John W. Jackson , 4th Sergeant Richard Wiggins, 5th Sergean John Knox Polk Grace 1st Corporal Sargett Rigdon Thomas , 2nd Corporal Anderson Cunningham 3rd Corportal Wm Hunnicutt, 4th Corporal PRIVATES James W. Aultman Lewis Barefield John Allen Bartlett Joseph A. Brantley Wm T. Brantley Edmund C. Collum Philip Causey Thos Cunningham Jaosper Champion Wm G. Cribb Thomas Cribb Hart W. Campbell Thos Coughlin James Davidson Joseph Marion Drawhorn David E. Fullbright Hosea Grooms Wm Giblert Seaborn A. Gray Needham C. Hastey J.George W. Hodge W.E. Hollingsworth Franklin Hollingsworth Wm. Hasty Jefferson C. Hamlin Wm A. Hutchings Jackson A.Hambrick James Hays Floyd Jones Charles E. Jones John L. Kitchens Wiley Moncrief Joel Mizzles Pinckney Masters Wm B. Nowell John J. Nelson David Owens Wm Petty Thos Potter Wm Procter Reuben A. Rainey Charles W. Rainey Robert J. Rainey Seaborn L. Ricks Wm C. Simmons Monroe Smith John S. Slocumb Eli Summerlin Abel Sullivan Franklin L. Sykes Stephen Tucker John A. Tharpe Calvin Thomas Bertran Ticereau (Tissereau) George Taylor Rufus Veal John H. Waller A. Jackson Ward James Wiggins John P. Waldrop David Wilson Dawson Weaver George Williams David Weaver George W. Yates ============= All the men who served in this company between March 4, 1862 and April 9, 1865. (the list above came from the Macon Telegraph and is not complete) I am currently researching a history of this battalion and would like to hear from any descendents of these men about their service. Dennis B. Miller COMPANY D, "WHITTLE GUARDS," 10TH GA INFANTRY BATTALION Willaim L. Jones - Capt. John H. Woodward - Lt. William Reese Busbee - Lt., Capt. Thomas Jeptha Gibson - Lt., Capt. Thomas Warren Amason - Lt. Young Johnson - 1st Sgt. William W. Russell - 2d Sgt. George W. Hartley - 3d Sgt. John W. Jackson - 4th Sgt. Richard Wiggins - 5th Sgt. William Jefferson Moseley - 1st Cpl., Sgt-Maj. James Knox Polk Grace - 1st Cpl. Sargett Rigdon Thomas - 2d Cpl. Anderson Cunningham - 3d Cpl. William H. Hunnicutt - 4th Cpl. James W. Aultman William Aultman Lewis Barfield Irvin Blanton Bartlett John Allen Bartlett Samuel Benson Jesse L. Bowman John L. Bowman Joseph A. Brantley William T. Brantley J. W. Brown Hart W. Campbell Henry Cannon Philip Causey Andrew Jackson Chambliss Zachariah D. Chambliss Isaac Champion Jasper Champion Joseph Champion James A. Clements Edward C. Collom James Cook Thomas W. Coughlin Richard C. Cribb Thomas Cribb William G. Cribb James Cunningham John Cunningham Thomas C. Cunningham William Cunningham Columbus R. Curry Henry R. Curry McKinney P. Curry Wiley N. Curry James Davidson John F. Davis Benjamin Dawton Thomas J. Dollar Joseph Marion Draughon William H. Faulk John Fielder - Cpl. Owen Fulford David E. Fulbright - Musician Benjamin P. Gilbert - Sgt. William Gilbert - 1st Sgt. Abraham Golding Edwin Riley Goolsby Seaborn A. Gray Hosea Grooms James F. Hall Jackson A. Hambrick James Leonard Hamlin Jefferson Clark Hamlin (note: My guess for J. C. Hamlin is Jefferson Clark Hamlin born Feb 1837. His father, Robert was in the 1860 Bibb County Census.) John Floyd Hamlin J. H. Harris Needham C. Hasty William Hasty James Hayes James W. Hill J. George Washington Hodge Franklin D. Hollingsworth R. Thomas Hollingsworth William E. Hollingsworth William A. Hutchins Aaron Johnson Hiram Johnson J. W. Johnson Olin Johnson R. Johnson Charles E. Jones Floyd Jones John T. Jordan William A. Jordan - Cpl. John L. Kitchens James Lewis Hamilton Littleton Pinkney Masters Joel Mizzles Richard S. Melton Wiley A. Moncrief James M. Moseley Jackson Mullins John Mullins Henry Jonathon Neal - Sgt. John J. Nelson William B. Nowell John Ousley David Owens Augustus G. Oxford John A. Parker William J. Parker - 1st Sgt. Henry D. Pender Lafayette Pender - Sgt. William Petty Craven R. Peyton Thomas W. Potter William Proctor Charles W. Rainey Reuben C. Rainey Robert Jefferson Rainey Thomas W. Rainey William Herrington Rainey - Sgt. Andrew Jackson Rape Seaborn L. Ricks T. A. Rodgers William P. Scott Young Shelley William C. Simmons John S. Slocumb James A. Monroe Smith William Crawford Smith Robert Lee Stewart John Story Abel Sullivan William Sullivan John H. Summerford Eli Summerlin Franklin L. Sykes George Taylor John A. Tharpe Calvin Thomas Luther J. Thomas Bertran Tissereau - Musician Henry Bass Treadwell - Chaplain Stephan Tucker William H. Tucker William Thomas VanZant Rufus Veal John P. Waldron Walter J. Walker John H. Waller Andrew Jackson Ward William Warricks Robert D. Watson William H. Watson David Weaver Dawson Weaver James Wiggins George Williams John J. Willingham David W. Wilson David Wood J. W. Woodruff George Wooten Beverly R. Yates George W. Yates James E. Yates John T. Yates ============ NOTES: Jennifer Braswell- Notes about Lewis N.Whittle: Born 1818 in Mecklenburg Co. VA. Father was from Ireland part of his line is descended from Pocahontas.In 1880 census for Bibb County, he is listed as age 62. he is a lawyer, and his son and family lives with him as well. His wife was Sarah M.Powers of Va. (she apparently died before 1880 census.) Source:Butler's History of Macon and Central Georgia. 1. assistant engineer involved in design and building of Monroe Railroad. 2. President of the Monroe Railroad and Banking Company...1839. 3. appointed to a committee to report on public opinion about a railroad issue involving the consolidation of the Macon and Western Railroad, and the Central Railroad. 4. elected to serve on the first Board of Directors of the Brunswick Railroad Company. 5. offered a resolution authorizing the subscription by the city Council of Macon to a new railroad project...there only 12 dissenting votes. 6. participated in flag presentation in celebration at the 12th anniversary of the Macon and Western Railroad as it was out of debt and prospering. 7. served on committee to organize a militia for Georgia in anticipation of coming strife with the North. 8. served on the Board of Trustees for the Academy in Macon...built in 1834. 9. served on the board of Trustees for the Alexander Free School. (after the Civil War) 10. helped purchased property for Appleton Church Home. 11. served as an initial trustee for Georgia Academy for the Blind. ================== Richard W. Iobst's book Civil War Macon. "Lewis Neale Whittle - Lewis Neale Whittle was born on 15 May 1818, in Norfolk, Virginia. As a youth he became a surveyor, and was employed by railroads in Virginia and Georgia. He married Sarah M. Powers of Monroe County, Georgia, studied law, and came to Macon to be admitted to the Bar. He had a prosperous career, served two terms in the Georgia State Legislature, was a senior warden and leader in Christ Episcopal Church on Walnut Street in Macon, and was a director of both the Macon and Western and Macon and Brunswick Railroads. During the war he served as an aide to Georgia Governor Joseph E. Brown. Some of his greatest contributions came in the field of education, serving on the boards of the Georgia Academy for the blind; the Bibb County Board of Education; the Macon Free School; and the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. He was the first president of the Georgia Bar Association in 1883 the same year in which he died. Whittle School in Macon was named after him."