Chatham County GaArchives Biographies.....Bloodworth, Francis D 1842 - living in 1913
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Author: William Harden
p. 606-607

   CAPT. FRANCIS D. BLOODWORTH, vice-president, of the National Bank of
Savannah, and in many ways identified with the city's activities, is a native of
the Empire State of the South.

   It was in Spalding county, Georgia, October 16, 1842, that Francis D.
Bloodworth was born, son of Solomon W. and Lucy (Thornton) Bloodworth, both
natives of this state. He completed his education in Marshall College, Griffin,
Georgia, where he was a member of the Spalding Grays, one of the companies which
were ordered to Virginia by Governor Brown in April, 1861, upon the call of
Governor Letcher of Virginia. They were sent to Norfolk to guard the stores
abandoned by the enemy, and, with the other Georgia companies that went at the
same time, were organized as the Second Independent Georgia Battalion, under the
command of Colonel Hardeman, being the first troops from another state to arrive
in Virginia, After a year's service in the vicinity of Norfolk, his battalion
joined the army under General Lee, and participated in the Seven Days' battle
around Richmond, and in the Manassas, Maryland and Fredericksburg campaigns. In
the summer of 1863, Mr. Bloodworth, who had risen to the rank of first sergeant
of his company, was detailed, owing to his physical condition, as clerk in a
hospital in Atlanta, where he was on duty until January, 1864. Then he returned
to his battalion in Gen. Ambrose R. Wright's brigade, Anderson's division, Gen.
A. P. Hill's corps, Army of Northern Virginia, and fought through the Wilderness
campaign. His health failed under this arduous service, and he was again
disabled from active service until February, 1865, when he joined his command on
the Petersburg lines. His last engagement was a fight between High Bridge and
Farmville on the retreat to Appomattox, April 7, 1865, when he was slightly
wounded, and captured. He was paroled at Burkesville, Virginia, shortly after
General Lee's surrender, and returned to Griffin, Georgia.

   Captain Bloodworth resided at Griffin until 1871, when he removed to Savannah
and embarked in business as a commission merchant. And here he has since made
his home, with the exception of two years, from 1893 to 1895, when he was
engaged in manufacturing at Atlanta, and since 1895 he had held the important
and responsible position of cashier and vice-president of the National Bank of
Savannah, one of the strongest banking institutions of the state. This bank has
a capital stock of $400,000, with surplus and undivided profits in excess of
$600,000.

   At the time of his leaving Savannah for Atlanta in 1893, Captain Bloodworth
was vice-president of the Confederate Veterans' Association, a director of the
Merchants National Bank, and a member of the sanitary board of the city of
Savannah. And previous to that time he had served one term as president of the
Cotton Exchange. Since then he served one term as president of the Georgia State
Bankers' Association, and for several years, ending in 1911, he was president of
the Savannah Clearing House Association. He is vice-president of the Savannah
Port Society and a director of the Savannah Cotton Exchange. For a number of
years he was an active member of the Georgia Hussars. Among other organizations
of a social or business nature with which he is identified are the Oglethorpe
Club, the Golf Club, the Yacht Club, the B. P. & T. Club and the Capital City
Club of Atlanta.

   Captain and Mrs. Bloodworth have two children: Lucy, wife of Mr. H. P.
Inabnett of Tampa, Florida, and Effie, wife of Mr. F. M. Butler of Savannah.  
Mrs. Bloodworth, formerly Miss Sarah Allen, was born in Meriwether county,
Georgia.


Additional Comments:
From:

A HISTORY OF SAVANNAH AND SOUTH GEORGIA
BY
WILLIAM HARDEN

VOLUME I
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AND NEW YORK
1913


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