Dodge County GaArchives Biographies.....Matthews, G. C. July 1 1847 - living in 1932
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Author: MRS. WILTON PHILIP COBB
G. C. MATTHEWS.

G. C. MATTHEWS is one of the three Confederate Veterans now living in Dodge
County. Mr. Matthews was born July 1, 1847, and was the son of James Matthews
and Elizabeth H. Cofield, who came from Harnett County, N. C., in 1830 and
settled in Houston County, later moving to Pulaski County, about five miles west
of Hawkinsville, where our subject was born and reared. James Matthews and his
wife, Elizabeth H. Cofield, were the parents of eight boys, four of whom died in
childhood. The other four served in the Confederate army throughout the war.
They were: William H., John G., David F., and G. C.

  G. C. enlisted in Macon in Company G, Fifth Georgia Reserves, in the early
part of 1864. He went to Griffin and fought in the battle of Griswoldville, one
of the bloodiest battles of the war. The Confederates had to retreat the best
they could, having been rushed into battle unprepared. In a little skirmish at
Walnut Creek, near Macon, Wheeler's Cavalry and the Fifth Georgia Reserves
captured General Stoneman and three thousand Federals, the Fifth then marched
into the stockade at Macon. They then went to Griffin and on to Savannah, thence
to Greensboro, N. C. They fought seven days around Savannah, and had many
hardships to endure, having to go barefooted and without food. They surrendered
at Greensboro, N. C.

  Mr. Matthews married first, Margaret Elizabeth Kinchen on June 5, 1871, and
they were the parents of Charles Hawkins, and a daughter, Mary Elizabeth, who
married Gus Handley. He married second, Sara Delaney Jones on May 1, 1887, and
they were the parents of Annie H., who married a Fulghum; James E., and Lula
Delolia, who married a Williams.



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