Georgia: CAMPBELL AND COWETA COUNTIES: Muster Roll, Company A, 56th Regiment ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store this file permanently for free access. This file was contributed by: Carolyn L. Harper Johnson clhjohnson@aol.com ==================================================================== MUSTER ROLL OF COMPANY A, 56th REGIMENT GEORGIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY ARMY OF TENNESSEE C. S. A. CAMPBELL AND COWETA COUNTIES, GEORGIA Brewster, James Pendleton-Enlisted as a private in Co. A 1st Regiment Ga. Inf. (Ramsey's), June 1, 1861 . Mustered out at Augusta, Ga. March 18, 1862 . Elected Captain of Co. A, 56th Regiment Ga. Inf. April 25, 1862 ; Major (to rank from August 10, 1862 ), August 20, 1862 . Captured at Vicksburg, Miss. July 4, 1863 , and paroled July 8, 1863 . Wounded in leg, necessitating amputation above knee, at Kennesaw Mountain, Ga. June 1864 . Report dated Atlanta, Ga. August 20, 1864 , shows him absent, wounded. (Born in Ga. January 1, 1840.) Cochran, Berry W.- 1st Lieutenant April 25, 1862 . Elected Captain August 20, 1862 . Captured at Vicksburg, Miss. July 4, 1863 , and paroled there July 8, 1863 . Severely wounded in both legs and captured at Missionary Ridge, Tenn. November 25, 1863 . Sent to U.S.A. General Hospital at Nashville, Tenn., transferred to Camp Chase, O., and forwarded to Fort Delaware, Del. March 27, 1864 . Exchanged at Boulware & Cox's Wharves, James River, Va., October 15, 1864 . Pension records show he was unable to return to command. Polk, Charles M.- 2d Lieutenant April 25, 1862 . Elected 1st Lieutenant August 20, 1862 . Captured at Vicksburg, Miss. July 4, 1863 , and paroled there July 8, 1863 . No later record. Cantrell, Oscar A.- Enlisted as a private in Co. A, 1st Regiment Ga. Inf. (Ramsey's), June 1, 1861 . Mustered out at Augusta, Ga. March 18, 1862 . Elected Jr. 2d Lieutenant of Co. A, 56th Regiment Ga. Inf. April 25, 1862 ; 1st Lieutenant. Captured at Nashville, Tenn. December 16, 1864 . Released at Johnson's Island O. June 16, 1865 . Abercrombie, William S.-1st Sergeant April 25, 1862 . Died of disease at Fairburn, Ga. June 12, 1862 . Tanner, William A.- 2d Sergeant April 25, 1862 . Camp, Benjamin F.- 3d Sergeant April 25, 1862 . Rogers, Alexander-4th Sergeant April 25, 1862 . Thornton, Edwin Roscoe-5th Sergeant April 28, 1862 . Captured at Vicksburg, Miss. July 4, 1863 . Paroled there July 8, 1863 . Admitted to Wayside Hospital at Meridian, Miss. January 22, 1865 . Surrendered at Greensboro, N. C. April 26, 1865 . Died in Atlanta, Ga. May 29, 1880. Brewster, Blake Dempsey-Enlisted as a private in Co. A, 1st Regiment Ga. Inf. (Ramsey's,) March 18, 1861 . Mustered out at Augusta, Ga. March 18, 1862 . Appointed 1st Corporal of Co. A, 56th Regiment Ga. Inf. April 25, 1862 ; 4th Sergeant. Captured at Vicksburg, Miss. July 4, 1863 , and paroled July 8, 1863 . Captured at Nashville, Tenn. December 16, 1864 . Released at Camp Chase, O. June 12,1865 . (Born in Campbell County, Ga. August 4, 1842. Died January 17, 1929.) Taylor, David S. 2d Corporal April 25, 1862 . Nichols, Risdon D.- 3d Corporal April 25, 1862 . Died at Lexington, Ky. Abercrombie, James R.- private 1862 . Discharged in 1862 . Alexander, James R.- private April 25, 1862 . Allen, James- private April 25, 1862 . Died at Lexington, Ky. Buried there. Ballard, Benjamin F.- private April 25, 1862 . Ballard, Levi-Enlisted as a private in Arkansas Militia. Mustered out. Enlisted as a private in Co. A, 56th Regiment Ga. Inf. April 28,1862 . Appointed Commissary Sergeant. Captured at Vicksburg, Miss. July 4,1863 , and paroled there July 8, 1863 . Surrendered, Greensboro, N. C. April 26, 1865 . (Born at Anniestown, Gwinnett County, Ga., November 22,1833. Died in Campbell County, Ga. in 1921.) Banks, William M.- private April 25, 1862 . Bennefield, Needham G. (or Benefield)- private April 25, 1862 . Black, Robert H.- private April 25, 1862 . Died in Jackson, Miss. hospital in 1863 . Black, William R. H.- private April 25, 1862 . Died in a Kentucky hospital September 1862 . Boyd, Williarn Leander Elihu- private in 1863 . Surrendered at Greensboro, N. C. April 26, 1865 . Died at Newnan, Ga. in 1891. Brewster, Daniel Ferguson-Enlisted as a private in Co. A, 1st Regiment Ga. Inf. (Ramsey's,) June 1, 1861 . Mustered out at Augusta, Ga. March 18, 1862 . Enlisted as a private in Co. A, 56th Regiment Ga. Inf. April 25, 1862 . Appointed Sergeant Major. Captured at Vicksburg, Miss. July 4, 1863 , and paroled July 8,1863 . Appointed Acting A. D. C. September 24, 1864 , and serving as such November 20, 1864 . No later record. (Born in Ga. December 17, 1831.) Brewster, P. H.- Pension records show he enlisted as a private December 1863 , and surrendered at Greensboro, N. C. April 26,1865 . Born in Ga. Brock, Joel, Sr.- private April 25, 1862 . Captured at Missionary Ridge, Tenn. November 25, 1863 . Released at Rock Island, Ill. June 22,1865 . (Born in Ga. July 18,1833.) Carnes, Thomas- private 1863 . Surrendered, Greensboro, N.C. April 26, 1865 . (Born in Ga. in 1845.) Casey, Daniel Jasper- private March 1864 . Pension application filed by Angeline Carey in Douglas County, Ga. in 1891, says "Never seen after he went into battle near Kingston, Ga. May 31, 1864 . Never heard from or seen after war." Cleckler, George W.- private April 25, 1862 . Cleckler, Henry A.- private April 25, 1862 . Captured, date and place not given. Died at Camp Chase, O. Grave No. 1852, Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery. Cleckler, William J.- private April 25, 1862 . Clinton, Christopher C.- private April 25, 1862 . Captured at Vicksburg, Miss. July 4,1863 . Paroled July 8, 1863 . Pension records show feet were frozen near Knoxville, Tenn. December 1864 . Developed blood poison, which resulted in permanent disability. Surrendered at Greensboro, N. C. April 26, 1865 . (Born in Ga. June 27, 1832.) Clinton, Wiley A.- private April 25, 1862 . Captured at Marietta, Ga. July 9, l.864. Released at Camp Douglas, Ill. May 13, 1865 . Coggin, James M.- private April 25,1862 . Captured, date and place not given. Died at Camp Chase, O. February 21, 1865 . Grave #1368 or #1268, Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery. Copeland, George H.- private April 25, 1862 . Captured, date and place not given. Died at Camp Chase, O. February 15, 1865 . Grave #l272, Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery. Cotton, E. P.- private April 25, 1862 . Captured, date and place not given. Died at Camp Chase, O. May 19,1865 . Grave #1985, Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery. Cowart, Glenn- private June 1862 . On furlough April 1865 . Curry, William E.- private April 25, 1862 . Dalrymple, John H.- private April 25, 1862 . Darnell, James M.- private April 25, 1862 . Darnell, John T.- private April 25, 1862 . Demoney, Pinkney- private April 25, 1862 . Dunlap, James- private April 25, 1862 . Eidson, David C.- private April 25, 1862 . Surrendered at Greensboro, N. C. April 26, 1865 . (Born in Campbell County, Ga. November 12, 1837. Died there November 17, 1916.) Eidson, James- private April 25, 1862 . Pension records show he surrendered at Greensboro, N. C. April 26, 1865 . Ellis, Thomas J.- private April 25,1862 . Endsley, Mathew- private April 25, 1862 . Died of measles in Lookout Mountain, Tenn. hospital August 30,1862 . Entrekin, Thomas A.- private April 25, 1862 . Discharged, furnished Clark C. Talbert as substitute, in 1862 . Gibson, James H.- private April 25, 1862 . Appointed Sergeant. Captured at Nashville, Tenn. December 16, 1864 . Released at Camp Chase, O. June 12, 1865 . Giles, J. S.- Pension records show he enlisted February 1864 , and was at home in Campbell County, Ga., sick with measles, December 1864 , to close of war. Giles, J. Thomas- private April 25,1862 . Captured at Vicksburg, Miss. July 4,1863 , and paroled there July 8,1863 . Pension records show he surrendered at Greensboro, N. C. April 26,1865 . (Born in Campbell County, Ga. September 19,1843.) Gill, Thomas R.- private April 25, 1862 . Griffith, George W.- private April 25, 1862 . Murdered while home on furlough. Harper, James L.- private March 1863 . Pension records show he was at home close of war. Died in Carroll County, Ga. April 25, 1901. Hartsfield, George W.- private April 25, 1862 . Hartsfield, Richard M.- private April 25,1862 . Hicks, James N.- private April 25, 1862 . Wounded, necessitating amputation of right leg, at Missionary Ridge, Tenn., November 25, 1863 . Hicks, Joshua E.- private April 25, 1862 . Holloway, Thomas C.- private April 25, 1862 . Howard, Thomas J.- private April 25, 1862 . Captured at Franklin, Tenn. December 17, 1864 . Released at Camp Chase, O. June 13, 1865 . Huey, John M.- private April 25, 1862 . Captured at Missionary Ridge, Tenn. November 25, 1863 . Paroled at Point Lookout, Md. February 1865 . Received at Boulware & Cox's Wharves James River, Va. for exchange, March 10-12, 1865 . Paroled at Atlanta, Ga. May 18,1865 . Hunter, John G.- private April 25, 1862 . Jackson, Joel Washington- private March 1864 . Captured at Nashville, Tenn. December 16, 1864 . Released at Point Lookout, Md. June 6,1865 . (Born in Ga. in 1847. Died near Sunnyside, Ga. June 14, 1927. Buried at Forest Park, Ga.) Jennings, William P.- private May 10, 1862 . Captured at Vicksburg, Miss. July 4,1863 , and paroled there July 8,1863 . Missing at Missionary Ridge, Tenn. November 25, 1863 . Never heard from. Johnson, James- private April 25,1862 . Jones, John N.- private April 25, 1862 . Contracted chronic diarrhea and lung trouble in Mississippi May 1863 . On detail in Ga. close of war. (Born in Ga. February 3, 1839. Died at Fairburn, Ga. March 7, 1909.) Laton, Thomas G.- private April 25,1862 . Leo, Asa M.- private April 25, 1862 . Lindsey, James A.- private April 25, 1862 . Lovelass, James T.- private April 25, 1862 . Lowry, James M.- private April 25, 1862 . Died of chronic diarrhea at Cumberland Gap, Tenn. November 28, 1862 . Mason, Jabez G.- private April 25, 1862 . McBride, Pinkney A.- private May 1862 . Wounded through right hip at Atlanta, Ga. July 22, 1864 . Discharged on ac- count of wounds. (Born in DeKalb County, Ga. May 20,1836.) McElreath, Carson S.- private April 25, 1862 . McKelvey, John P.- private April 25, 1862 . McKinley, Charles A.- Enlisted as a private in Co. A, 1st Regiment Ga. Inf. (Ramsey's,) March 18,1861 . Appointed Hospital Steward in 1861 . Mustered out at Augusta, Ga. March 18,1862 . Enlisted as a private in Co. A, 56th Regiment Ga. Inf. April 25, 1862 . Transferred to Academy Hospital July 21, 1862 . Appointed Assistant Surgeon of the l2th Battn. Ga. Light Artillery in 1862 ; Assistant Surgeon, P.A.C.S., December 4, 1862 . On duty at Talladega, Ala. September 12, 1864 . No later record. McKoy, Benjamin F. (or McKay)- private April 25, 1862 . Captured. Died of consumption contracted at Rock Island, Ill. September 1,1886. McLarty, Archibald D. private April 25, 1862 . McLarty, John H.- private April 25, 1862 . McLarty, William A.- private April 25,1862 . McWilliams, David- private April 25, 1862 . Miller, Benjamin G.- private April 25, 1862 . Mobbs, Killis B.- private April 25,1862 . Morris, Andrew J.- private April 25, 1862 . Captured, date and place not given. In prison close of war. Morris, Henry- private April 25, 1862 . Took oath of allegiance to U. S. Govt. at Nashville, Tenn. and sent north of Ohio River July 31,1864 . (Born in Hall County, Ga. in 1826.) Morris, James W.- private April 25,1862 . Morris, T. S.- private . Morris, William M.- private April 25, 1862 . Payne, William J.- private April 28,1862 . Captured at Vicksburg, Miss. July 4, 1863 , and paroled there July 8, 1863 . Furloughed at Enterprise, Miss. July 23, 1863 . Pension records show he was severely wounded through hip at Resaca, Ga. in 1864 , and was at home, wounded, close of war. (Born in South Carolina December 1835. Died in Carroll County, Ga. July 1927.) Phillips, William C.- private April 25,1862 . Polk, William H.- private April 25, 1862 . Rogers, James A.- private April 25, 1862 . Rogers, William H. H.-Enlisted as a private in Co. C, 3d Regiment Ga. State Troops October 14, 1861 . Roll dated April 13, 1862 , last on file, shows him present. Mustered out April 1862 . En- listed as a private in Co. A, 56th Regiment Ga. Inf. April 25,1862 . Pension records show he surrendered at Appomattox, Va. April 9,1865 . (Born in Coweta County, Ga. August 1840.) Saltus, Daniel G.- private April 25, 1862 . Saltus, Joseph- private April 25, 1862 . Souter, George M.- private April 25, 1862 . Developed lung trouble from measles contracted at Atlanta, Ga. May 15,1862 . Captured at Nashville, Tenn. December 16,1864 . Released at Camp Chase, O. June 23, 1865 . (Born May 15, 1834.) Seuett, Cicero (or Serutt)- private April 25, 1862 . Shaddrix, William H. (or Shadrick)- private April 25, 1862 . Shaddrix, William W. (or Shadrick)- private April 25, 1862 . Smith, Archibald M.- private April 25,1862 . Stephens, Joseph H.- private April 25,1862 . Stewart, William T.- private April 25, 1862 . Strickland, Henry- private April 25, 1862 . Strickland, Levi S.- private April 25, 1862 . Pension records show he was captured at Vicksburg, Miss. July 4, 1863 . Paroled there July 8, 1863 . Disabled by rheumatism contracted at Vicksburg, Miss. July 1863 . (Born in Cobb County, Ga. August 17,1840.) Talbert, Clark C. (or Tolbert)- private 1862 . Substitute for Thomas A. Entrekin. Teal, William F.- private April 25, 1862 . Terry, John W.- private April 25, 1862 . Thomas, John W.- private April 25, 1862 . Vansant, Eli- private April 25, 1862 . Vansant, Emanuel- private April 25, 1862 . Vansant, John- private April 1, 1864 . Captured at Nashville, Tenn. December 16,1864 . Released at Camp Douglas, Ill. June 20, 1865 . (Resident of Ga. since 1846. Died in Douglas County, Ga. March 12, 1932.) Vansant, Noah- private April 25, 1862 . Captured at Nashville, Tenn. December 16, 1864 . Released at Camp Douglas, Ill. June 20, 1865 . (Resident of Ga. since 1839. Died in Douglas County, Ga. in 1926.) Waruble, Henry- private April 25, 1862 . Captured, date and place not given. Died at Camp Chase, O. October 19,1864 . Grave #340, Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery. White, Samuel J.- private April 25, 1862 . Pension records show he was on furlough April 1865 . Witkerson, Francis M.- private April 25, 1862 . Woodruff, David P.- private April 25, 1862 . Paroled at Atlanta, Ga. May 1865 . Wooter, George J. (or Wooten)- private April 25, 1862 . Died at Richmond, Va. In 1863 . Buried there in Hollywood Cemetery. Wright, Isaac C.- private April 25, 1862 . Captured in Campbell County, Ga. in 1864 . Took oath of allegiance to U. S. Govt. at Louisville, Ky., and released July 27, 1864 . (Born in South Carolina June 20, 1840.) Wright, John M.- private April 25, 1862 .