MERIWETHER COUNTY, GA - MILITARY Byrd Lovett Co F 30th Reg Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Thomas Lovett tlovett@numail.org Table of Contents page: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/meriwether.htm Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm State of Georgia Head Quarters Chatham County September 2d 1862 To All Whom It May Concern I, Wm J. Phinazee, First Lieutenant Comanding Co “F”, (30) Thirtieth Regiment Georgia Volunteers- Do hereby Certify That Byrd Lovett of the County of Meriwether and State of Georgia, aged twenty eight years Hair Brown Eyes Grey Complexion Dark Occcupation Farmer Five feet nine and a half inches in height a Private of my Company regularly sworn mustered and enrolled in to the Service of the Confederate States of American for three years or the War has this day produced William P. Crowell of the County of Upson and State of Georgia as his Lawful Substitute under and by the virtue of the Conscription Act passed by the Congress of the Confederate States of America. That the said William P. Crowell is five feet four ˝ inches in height Hair Grey Complexion Dark and by Occupation when enlisted Farmer. That the said has been sworn enrolled and mustered in to the Service of the Confederate States of America for three years unless the War sooner teminates as the substitute of the said Byrd Lovett. That the said William P. Crowell produced by aforesaid is exempted from the operation of the said Conscription Act having attained the age of 57 years as per his affidavit filed this day before Phillip M. Russell a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Chatham and the State of Georgia, said Act releaving all persons under the age of Eighteen years and above the age of Thirty five years from all Military Service. I do further Certify that the said William P. Crowell was this day examined by D.A. Mathews Surgeon in the Army and Service of the Cofederate States of America, and pronounced to be perfectly sound and in every aspect fit for camp and Military Service. I do further Certify that the said Byrd Lovett Private as aforesaid is not indebted to the government and that William Crowell is the only substitute taken in my Company for the month of September 1862. In Accordance therefore to and with the Conscription Act aforesaid I do hereby Honorably discharge the said Byrd Lovett Private aforesaid from the Service in my Company and from all Military Service in the Confederate States of America. Approved Wm J.P. Phinazee 1st Lieut Commanding Company F 30th Regiment Ga vols Jas S. Bozilon Major Comander 30th Rgt Ga vol State of Georgia Chatham County Before me personally came and appeared William P. Crowell who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he was fifty seven years of age on March the 5th day 1862 and that he is exempted under the Conscription Act passed by the Congress of the Confederate States of America. Wm P. Crowell Sworn before me This 2nd day of September 1862 Phillip M. Russell ---------------------- The Byrd Lovett Honorable Discharge Document The original hand written document is in the possession of Thomas E. Lovett of Newnan, Georgia. Byrd Lovett is the great grandfather of Thomas E. Lovett. The document is presented as evidence to establish that Byrd Lovett served in Company F of the 30th Regiment of the Confederate States of America. A check of the Compiled Service Records of the 30th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infrantry did not find a service records for Byrd Lovett (Form no. CWRS-4 (1966) Miss Carroll Hart, Director Georgia Department of Archives and History Civil War Records Section). It is possible that he was not in the unit long enough to appear on the existing records for this unit. Byrd Lovett was born December 29, 1833 at Mount Chulis in Meriwether County Georgia. Mount Chulis was an estate of Byrd Lovett’s father Napoleon Bonaparte Lovett and was located four miles north of Woodbury, Georgia. In the will of Napoleon, he mentions the estate of “Mt. Chulis” and the estate of “Champinole”. Napoleon’s name and the name he gave his plantations in Meriwether County reflect his mother’s French Huguenot background and influence. His mother was Rebecca Bonnell of Screven County, Georgia. Napoleon was an attorney of note and a Judge. His name appears on many early records in Screven County. The estate of Champinole in French is Little Pasture and Mount Chulis is Place of Rest in French. At Mount Chulis he built a plantation with a school house, shops, mill, houses for slaves, and both a slave cemetery and a family cemetery plot. Byrd Lovett’s mother was Martha Ferrell, daughter of Benjamin Ferrell, Sr. of Screven County. Byrd Lovett married Amanda Barham of Louella, Georgia (Henry County) on October 3, 1860 at “Tim Barham’s”. The Byrd and A.M. Lovett Family Bible records seven children: Julius Ferrell Lovett, Virgil Burns Lovett, Lynda T. Lovett, Amanda C. Lovett, Benjamin Byrd Lovett, Addie E. Lovett, and Warren P. Lovett. Byrd Lovett died October 3, l893 as is buried at he Lovett Family Cemetery at Mt. Chulis Meriwether County. The plantation and cemetery have been destroyed. The tombstone of Byrd Lovett still remains at the site of the Lovett Cemetery. Thomas Lovett was told by his father, Ben Lovett, and grandmother, Elvie Lovett, that Byrd Lovett paid the substitute the amount of One-Thousand Dollars and the substitute was required so he could be with his wife because of sickness.