RANDOLPH COUNTY, GA - NEWSPAPERS The Georgia Dead at Gettysburg Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: "Lindy Hard" Table of Contents page: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/randolph.htm Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm Cuthbert Appeal [Cuthbert, Randolph Co GA newspaper] 30 June 1871 “The Georgia Dead at Gettysburg.-- Having been informed by a person who has viisited the spot, that the following named Georgians are interred at Gettysburg, and unless removed by fall, the owners of the ground have given notice that they “intend ploughing up the land and grinding the bones for fertilizing purposes,” the Savannah Memorial Association asks each of her sister associations in the State to come forward at once and assist her in removing these remains to a resting place on her own soil. The names can be identified by original chart: W. S .Bruen, co. B., 16th Ga.; W. F. Nash, co. G, 9th Ga.; F. Lawrence, co. G, 24th Ga.; T. B. Fowler, co. G, 24th Ga.; W. R. Bracewell, co. G, 49th Ga.; Richard Gualt, co. E, 61st Ga.; E. P. Johnson, co. G, 38th Ga.; R. C. Steel, co. I, 7th Ga.; J. S. Hayden, co. E. 13th Ga.; James Ceens, co. H, 8th Ga. Lieutenant C. A. Walker, co. F, 21st Ga.; Lieutenant C. A. Bailey, co. A., 10th Ga. Sergeant J. T. McCullough, Co. A, 3d Ga.; Sergeant L. W. Bremer, co. K, 51 Ga. The earliest possible response is solicited, and will be acknowledged with receipt, when money is sent at once. Address J. R. Sneed, Esq., Editor Republican, for “Savannah Memorial Association.” 29 Sept 1871 “The last remains of the Confederate dead, which had been discovered in the cemetery at Gettysburg, were conveyed to their final resting place at Savannah, on Sunday-- The scene was a most impressive, and the procession one of the largest Savannah ever saw.”