DOUGHERTY COUNTY, GA - MILITARY Co. k51st Regiment Dougherty Grays Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Volunteers Table of Contents page: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/dougherty.htm Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm Company K, 51st Regiment Dougherty County "Dougherty Grays" or "Dougherty Guards" OFFICERS Beall, Jesse S. -- 2nd Lieutenant - March 4, 1862. Elected 1st Lieutenant March 22, 1862; Captain January 7, 1863. Killed December 2, 1863. (Born in 1841.) Hobbs, Richard -- 1st Lieutenant - March 4, 1862. Elected Captain March 22, 1862. Wounded in left shoulder, necessitating amputation above, elbow, at South Mountain, Maryland, September 14, 1862. Resigned January 7, 1863. (Born in 1825.) Jeffries, William H. -- Private - March 4, 1862. Elected Jr. 2nd Lieutenant March 22, 1862; 1st Lieutenant January 7, 1863; Captain December 2, 1863. Regimental return dated March 1865, shows him absent, leave of absence expires March 11, 1865. (Born in 1836.) Oliver, William H. -- Private - March 4, 1862. Appointed Sergeant in 1862. Elected Jr. 2nd Lieutenant December 22, 1862; 1st Lieutenant December 2, 1863. Wounded through right lung and liver and captured at Knoxville, Tennessee, November 29, 1863. Elected Captain December 21, 1863. Released in 1865. (Born in 1836.) PRIVATES Akridge, L. C. -- Private - June 1862. Alley, Richard W. -- Private in 1862. Beall, Jesse S. -- 2nd Lieutenant - March 4, 1862. Elected 1st Lieutenant March 22, 1862; Captain January 7, 1863. Killed December 2, 1863. (Born in 1841.) Bell, Henry -- Private - July 1, 1864. Appointed Commissary Sergeant, August 1864. Bennett, Lewis -- Private - March 4, 1862. (Born in 1812.) Bentley, John J. -- Private - March 4, 1862. (Born in 1838.) Black, David S. -- 4th Corporal - March 4, 1862. Killed at Chancellorsville, Virginia, May 3, 1863. (Born in 1842.) Braswell, W. H. -- Private - March 4, 1862. Brewer, William L. -- Private - March 4, 1862. Killed at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 2, 1863. (Born in 1824.) Bruce, John M. -- Private - March 4, 1862. Absent without leave January 1865. (Born in 1831.) Buried there in Rose Hill Cemetery. (Born in 1834.) Cain, Alonzo D. -- Private - March 4, 1862. Discharged, disability, in 1863. (Born in Stewart County, Georgia, May 6, 1836.) Calhoun, Joel J. -- Private - March 4, 1862. (Born in 1840.) Calhoun, Mack C. -- Private - March 4, 1862. Captured at Cedar Creek, Virginia, October 19, 1864. Released at Point Lookout, Maryland, June 16, 1865. (Born in Dooly County, Georgia in 1843. Died in Worth County, Georgia in 1914.) Calhoun, Thomas H. -- Private - March 4, 1862. Appointed 3rd Corporal April 1864. Wounded at Cedar Creek, Virginia, October 19, 1864. Surrendered at Appomattox, Virginia, April 9, 1865. (Born in 1844.) Cannon, Henry C. -- Private - May 1, 1862. Wounded, right arm permanently disabled at Sharpsburg, Maryland, September 14, 1862. (Born in Georgia. Died in Mitchell County, Georgia, January 19, 1904.) Cannon, J. E. -- Private. Cannon, Jasper -- Private - May 1, 1862. Captured April 4, 1863. Paroled at Fort Delaware, Delaware July 1863. Wounded at Knoxville, Tennessee, December 1863. Detailed in Medical Department at Macon, Georgia, account of disability, August 1864. (Born at Andersonville, Georgia, April 25, 1831. Died in Dougherty County, Georgia.) Cannon, Joseph -- Private. Carney, J. J. -- See Coursey, J. J. Chapman, John -- Private - May 1, 1862. Substitute for William Q. Dickinson. Cook, Lewis M. -- 1st Corporal - March 4, 1862. Wounded and captured at South Mountain, Maryland, September 14, 1862. Sent to Richmond, Virginia, Paroled September 15, 1862. (Born in Georgia in 1842.) Cooper, J. W. -- Private - December 18, 1864. Cooper, James B. -- Private - March 4, 1862. (Born in 1845.) Cooper, Lewis B. -- Private - March 4, 1862. (Born in 1825.) Coursey, J. J. (or Carney) -- Private - November 27, 1864. Daniels, Harrison -- Private - March 4, 1862. (Born in 1840.) Daniels, Solomon -- Private - March 4, 1862. Died at Macon, Georgia. Buried there in Rose Hill Cemetery. (Born in 1834.) Dickenson, William Q. -- Private - March 4, 1862. Discharged, furnished John Chapman as substitute, May 1, 1862. Dickinson, Richard A. -- Private - March 4, 1862. (Born in 1835.) Dittenhoffer, Tobias (or Dittenhoeffer) -- Private - March 4, 1862. Discharged, furnished substitute, in 1862. (Born in 1834.) Doyle, James S. -- Private - March 4, 1862. Captured at Harper's Farm, Virginia, April 6, 1865. Released at Point Lookout, Maryland, June 8, 1865. (Born in 1842. Died in Fulton County, Georgia, January 27, 1922.) Etheridge, John D. -- Private - March 4, 1862. (Born in 1832.) Fleming, William L. -- Name cancelled on original roll. (Born in 1815.) Floyd, John F. -- Private - March 4, 1862. Appointed 4th Corporal November 1863. Captured at Cold Harbor, Virginia, June 1, 1864. Released in 1865. (Born in 1839.) Freeman, John F. -- Private - March 4, 1862. (Born in 1840.) Gilbert, Richard T. -- Private - March 4, 1862. Wounded in right leg, necessitating amputation above knee, at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania July 3, 1863. (Born in Georgia in 1832.) Gilder, Senate J. -- Private - March 4, 1862. (Born in 1829.) Giles, John A. -- 5th Sergeant - March 4, 1862. (Born in 1834.) Hamer, William C. (or Houser) -- Private - March 4, 1862. Hamrick, William T. -- 3rd Corporal - March 4, 1862. (Born in 1842.) Harris, Iverson A. -- Private - March 4, 1862. Not mustered in. Herring, Lewis -- Private - March 4, 1862. Appointed 1st Corporal May 1863. Captured at Funkstown, Maryland, July 10, 1863. Paroled in 1865. (Born in 1843.) Hobbs, Richard -- 1st Lieutenant - March 4, 1862. Elected Captain March 22, 1862. Wounded in left shoulder, necessitating amputation above, elbow, at South Mountain, Maryland, September 14, 1862. Resigned January 7, 1863. (Born in 1825.) Homer, Houser -- Private - March 4, 1862. Hood, Seaborn L. -- 2nd Sergeant - March 4, 1862. Captured at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania July 2, 1863. Exchanged. Captured January 1865. Paroled in 1865. (Born in 1825.) Hooks, John -- Private - March 4, 1862. Horne, Hardy H. -- Private - March 4, 1862. Wounded and captured at Knoxville, Tennessee, November 29, 1863. (Born in 1844.) Houser, William C. -- See Hamer, William C. Houston, Edward J. -- Private - March 4, 1862. Sent from Orange Court House, Virginia, to Richmond, Virginia, hospital with pneumonia in 1862. Furloughed home. Returned to command. Unfit for field duty. (Born in 1822. Died from consumption, contracted in service, January 2, 1887.) Houston, Stephen -- Private - March 4, 1862. Wounded in left side and spine and permanently disabled, at Cedar Creek, Virginia, October 19, 1864. (Born in Georgia, November 5, 1843.) Jeffries, William H. -- Private - March 4, 1862. Elected Jr. 2nd Lieutenant March 22, 1862; 1st Lieutenant January 7, 1863; Captain December 2, 1863. Regimental return dated March 1865, shows him absent, leave of absence expires March 11, 1865. (Born in 1836.) Johnston, James W. -- Private - March 4, 1862. Pension records show he was captured at Macon, Georgia, and paroled there May 19, 1865. (Born in Sussex County, Virginia in 1826. Died in Thomas County, Georgia in 1900.) Johnston, Sampson -- Private - March 4, 1862. (Born in 1838.) Josey, Charles W. -- Private - March 4, 1862. Pension records show he was wounded left leg permanently disabled at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 2, 1863. Detailed Enrolling Officer in 1864. At home on wounded furlough close of war. (Born in South Carolina, July 3, 1833.) Kennedy, E. -- Private - April 25, 1862. Kline, T. (or Klien) -- Private - March 4, 1862. Sick at Savannah, Georgia. (Born in 1837.) Lasseter, William M. -- Private - March 8, 1862. Wounded at 2nd Manassas, Virginia, August 28, 1862. Ledbetter, William A. -- Private - March 4, 1862. Captured at High Bridge, Virginia, April 6, 1865. Released at Newport News, Virginia, August 28, 1865. (Born in Putnam County, Georgia, August 26, 1838.) Lewis, Frank B. -- Private - March 4, 1862. Appointed 5th Sergeant. Detailed in Medical Department at Richmond, Virginia, August 1864. (Born in 1827.) Lorch, Jacob (or Lorsch) -- Private - March 4, 1862. Pension records show he surrendered at Appomattox, Virginia, April 9, 1865. Lovett, George W. -- Private - March 4, 1862. (Born in 1822.) Lunday, Oliver P -- Jr. 2nd Lieutenant - March 4, 1862. Elected 2nd Lieutenant March 22, 1862. Resigned, disability, December 12, 1862. Appointed in Quartermaster Department by General Howell Cobb. (Born in Dawson County, Georgia, May 2, 1839.) Mallard, Allen T. -- Private - March 4, 1862. (Born in 1828.) Mangham, Jesse S. -- Private - May 8, 1862. Killed at Chancellorsville, Virginia, May 2, 1863. McDonald, Thomas S. -- Private - March 4, 1862. (Born in 1834.) McLendon, Charles G. -- Private - March 4, 1862. Appointed 1st Sergeant. Elected Jr. 2nd Lieutenant January 7, 1863. Killed at Cold Harbor, Virginia, June 3, 1864. (Born in 1830.) Mead, David S. -- Private - March 4, 1862. Wounded, left leg permanently disabled at South Mountain, Maryland, September 14, 1862. (Born in 1830. Died in Dougherty County, Georgia in 1901.) Moncrief, Richard B. -- Private in 1864. Captured in 1864. Moore, John S. -- 4th Sergeant - March 4, 1862. Captured at Cold Harbor, Virginia, June 1, 1864. Released at Elmira, New York, June 1865. (Born in Elbert County, Georgia, September 15, 1833. Died in Colquitt County, Georgia, April 21, 1904.) Odom, Livingston -- Private - June 1863. Died of congestive chill at Tallahassee, Florida, September 8, 1863. Oliver, Jesse -- Private - March 4, 1862. Oliver, Joseph -- Private - May 8, 1862. Oliver, William H. -- Private - March 4, 1862. Appointed Sergeant in 1862. Elected Jr. 2nd Lieutenant December 22, 1862; 1st Lieutenant December 2, 1863. Wounded through right lung and liver and captured at Knoxville, Tennessee, November 29, 1863. Elected Captain December 21, 1863. Released in 1865. (Born in 1836.) O'Sullivan, Cornelius -- Private - March 4, 1862. Killed in service. (Born in 1820.) O'Sullivan, John -- Private. O'Sullivan, Michael -- Private - March 4, 1862. Died in service. (Born in 1826.) Palmer, Alfred -- Private - March 4, 1862. Surrendered at Appomattox, Virginia, April 9, 1865. (Born in 1822.) Paris, Henry A. -- Private - March 4, 1862. Wounded at James Island, South Carolina, resulting in paralysis, June 10, 1862. Discharged, disability, September 23, 1862. (Born in Georgia in 1845.) Paris, Redden C. -- Private - March 4, 1862. Captured at Farmville, Virginia, April 6, 1865. Released at Point Lookout, Maryland, June 17, 1865. (Born in Georgia, July 23, 1837.) Parmalee, Charles H. -- Private - March 4, 1862. (Born in 1831.) Peters, Alexander G. -- Private - March 3, 1863. Pierce, Reddick -- Private - March 4, 1862. Absent without leave September 1864. (Born in 1811.) Polfus, Samuel -- Private - March 4, 1862. Wounded at Cedar Creek, Virginia, October 19, 1864. (Born in 1828.) Pollock, David -- Private - March 4, 1862. Deserted May 1862. (Born in 1842.) Quick, Robert -- Private - March 4, 1862. Captured at Knoxville, Tennessee, November 29, 1863. (Born in 1817.) Ragan, Joseph D. -- Private - April 10, 1862. Absent without leave August 1864. Ransom, Charles W. -- 3rd Sergeant - March 4, 1862. Captured at Cedar Creek, Virginia, October 19, 1864. Paroled in 1865. Ransom, Charles W. -- Private. Captured. Died on way home. (Born in 1840.) Rawson, Edmund P. -- Private - March 4, 1862. (Born in 1830.) Rawson, Garrett F. (or Ransom, Grinnell F.) -- Private -May 1, 1862. Rawson, Lloyd S. -- Private - March 4, 1862. Appointed Ordnance Sergeant in 1862. (Born in 1833.) Rawson, R. Tuck (or Ransom, R. Tuck) -- Private - March 4, 1862. Killed at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 2, 1863. Rhodes, George A. -- Private - May 7, 1862. Wounded at Chancellorsville, Virginia, May 3, 1863. Captured at Knoxville, Tennessee, November 29, 1863. Sent to Rock Island, Illinois and from thence to New Orleans, Louisana May 4, 1865, where he was exchanged May 23, 1865. Rhodes, John A. -- Private - May 7, 1862. Wounded through left wrist and leg at Chancellorsville, Virginia, May 3, 1863. Wounded and captured at Knoxville, Tennessee, December 3, 1863. Transferred from Rock Island, Illinois to New Orleans, Lousiana, For exchange May 4, 1865, and exchanged there June 23, 1865. (Born in Dooly County, Georgia, October 22, 1834. Died in Colquitt County, Georgia, April 16, 1918.) Rigsby, Louis H. -- Private - March 4, 1862. Wounded, leg broken, at Chancellorsville, Virginia, May 3, 1863. Pension records show he was sick in Macon, Georgia hospital close of war. (Born in Walton, Alabama, September 13, 1845.) Rigsby, Samuel L. -- 1st Sergeant - March 4, 1862. (Born in 1830.) Robertson, James J. -- Private - March 4, 1862. Appointed Corporal. (Born in 1826.) Robinson, J. L. (or G. L.) -- 2nd Corporal - March 4, 1862. Ryals, Ferdinand S. -- Private - March 4, 1862. Died at Pocotaligo, South Carolina, May 5, 1862. (Born in 1844.) Scott, Alexander F. -- Private - March 4, 1862. Captured at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania July 2, 1863. (Born in Georgia in 1846.) Scott, Henry A. -- Private - March 4, 1862. (Born in 1828.) Sealey, A. B. -- Private - October 22, 1864. Slaughter, William Marion – Captain - March 4, 1862. Elected Colonel March 22, 1862. Killed at Chancellorsville, Virginia, May 2, 1863. (Born in 1825.) Smith, Appleton M. (or Appleton S.) -- Private - March 4, 1862. Appointed 2nd Corporal November 29, 1863. Captured at Cold Harbor, Virginia, June 1, 1864. Paroled in 1865. (Born in 1844.) Smith, George L. -- Private - March 4, 1862. (Born in 1820.) Spitz, Charles A. -- Private - March 4, 1862. Detailed baker at Albany, Georgia September 1864. (Born in 1841.) Stringer, Edwin -- Private - March 4, 1862. Died at Logansville, South Carolina, June 26, 1862. Stringer, William C. -- Private - March 4, 1862. Captured at Knoxville, Tennessee, November 29, 1863. (Born in 1840.) Stripling, Lawrence G. -- Private - March 4, 1862. Wounded at Wilderness, Virginia, May 6, 1864. Pension records show he surrendered at Appomattox, Virginia, April 9, 1865. (Born in 1844. Died in Thomas County, Georgia, November 5, 1874.) Taylor, William -- Private - March 4, 1862. Discharged May 18, 1862. (Born in 1838.) Thomas, William -- Private - March 4, 1862. (Born in 1809.) Thompson, Hugh -- Private - March 4, 1862. Killed at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 2, 1863. (Born in 1817.) Tinsley, William J. -- Private - March 4, 1862. Detailed in Division Ordnance Department September 1864. (Born in 1837.) Tisdale, James W. -- Private - March 4, 1862. Pension records show he was captured April 1865. Released in 1865. (Born in Jones County, Georgia, March 24, 1832.) Treer, Henry (or Treir or Truer) -- Deserted. Treir, Phillip (or Truer) -- Deserted. Tuck, William R. -- Private - March 4, 1862. (Born in 1833.) Walden, A. E. -- Private - March 4, 1862. Walden, Abner T. -- Private - March 4, 1862. (Born in 1835.) Walden, Capel Rayford -- Private - March 4, 1862. Pension records show he was wounded at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania July 1863: "Came home with discharge papers January 1864." (Born in Jefferson County, Georgia in 1938. Died in Lee County, Georgia in 1892.) Walden, Klien F. -- Private - March 4, 1862. (Born in 1841.) Walden, Seaboro J. -- Private - March 4, 1862. Detailed in Richmond, Virginia, hospital December 1864. (Born in 1838.) Williams, Emory -- Private - March 4, 1862. Absent without leave August 1864. (Born in 1824.) Windham, Giles M. -- Enlisted as a private in Company I, 18th Regiment, Georgia Infantry June 22, 1861. Transferred to Company K, 51st Regiment, Georgia Infantry January 5, 1863. Wounded, date and place not given. Woods, Thomas H. -- Private - March 4, 1862. (Born in 1813.) Wright, Benjamin J. -- Private - March 4, 1862. Absent without leave October 1864. (Born in 1835.) Zalwiski, Phillip -- Private - March 4, 1862. Deserted. (Born in 1841.)