RICHMOND COUNTY, GA - MILITARY 1836 Richmond Blues ***************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm *********************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Volunteers RICHMOND BLUES Francis Marion Robertson (Dr.), Captain Eben Starnes, 1st Lieutenant William M. Martin, 2nd Lieutenant Samuel C. Wilson, 3rd Lieutenant Benj Douglass, M.D. Surgeon Joseph A. Beard AACS William H. Michael C? Theodore J. Brown, 1st Sergeant Charles B. Martin, 2nd Sergeant William W. Mann, 3rd Sergeant John W. Stoy, 4th Sergeant John B? Campbell 1st Corporal ? Stovall, 2nd Corporal John Kirkpatrick, 3rd Corporal William O. Eve, 4th Corporal George Anderson Francis H. Alley George A. Allen'James Alleman W.T. Adams Lewis A. Boisclair George R. Beard Foster Blodgett Samuel W. Bates Hosea Blinn? James C. Bartlett Phiades Beall Oliver T. Brasengton J.N. Copeland Samuel Campbell Hiram C. Clarke Patrick Crown Henry R. Casey George R. Clayton, Jr. Jacob R. Davis David Douglass Chappel S. Devall Daniel W. Dill James M. Dye Samuel P. Edgar Levi J.V. Fritts Geo. W. Forrest Mathew N. Fox James A. Fulcher Peter J. Guerin James G. Gallagher Thomas D. Glenn William H. Grimes George Groton Sylvanus R. Groves Hnery Hora Neal Holland Charles A. Hardwick James M Hayward Phillip Happel Roger Hassett Walter Henry William H. Harris Henry Jessup Jesse C. Jackson Peyton A. King Hamilton A. Kendrick Ira Lee Bartholomew Labuzan Charles B. Leitner Jesse Lloyd Ben F. Lyon Wm J. Mealing Sam Milling Don S. McWhorter Wm C. Musgrove Wm McLaughlin Thomas W. Miller Joseph Marshall Lewis Moncrief James Maher Sam C. Mustin James McCafferty Henry H. Meals Robert Nesbitt Henry P. O'Neil Wm F. Pemberton John A. Peck William Phillips Columbus M. Park Frederick Plyler Lewis C. Pearson Wm A. Robertson Aaron Ruff Thomas Roberts Soloman Rush Wm W. Reid Wm Reid Marcellus A. Stovall (see bio below) Wm A. Sandford Sam Sandford Wm T. Thompson (see bio below) Wm Thornton Thompson Kimbrough H. Watson Jas H. Wilson Robert Webb Alexander C. Walker George R. Wilson Chas Webber Barne Abrahams Axe,am JOINED IN FLORIDA Same W. Trott Andrew Low Wm M. Berrien (musicians) Wm McDowell Matt Bennehed ? Isaac Sherall? Source: The Augusta Chronicle May 11, 1902 ========= Additional notes: http://www.aug.edu/~liblsc/Grant/Stovall/Stovall_description.html Marcellus Stovall Marcellus A. Stovall was born at Sparta, (Hancock county) Georgia on September 18, 1818. ... son of Pleasant Stovall, a successful merchant in Augusta, Georgia. ... In 1835 he returned to Georgia to enlist, at age 17, in the Richmond Blues, Augusta, Georgia, for service in the Seminole Wars. ..in 1839 before returning to Augusta, Georgia, where he was active in business and volunteer military companies including captaincy of the Clinch Rifles. In 1842, he married Sarah G. McKinne of Augusta. In 1846 he moved to Floyd County, Georgia, where he was in business and captain of the Cherokee Volunteer Artillery. ... He was made a colonel of artillery assigned to the 2nd Brigade, Georgia Volunteers and on October 8, 1861 made lieutenant colonel of the 3rd Georgia Battalion and assigned at Richmond, Virginia. ... He returned to Augusta and continued his cotton business and civic life. He served as a city alderman, first police commissioner and was active in the Confederate Survivors Association. In 1878 he married again to Courtney Augusta Peck and on August 4, 1895 died at the age of 77 of a "critical illness." =========== http://library.gcsu.edu/~sc/collections/thompson/ Biographical Note William Tappan Thompson was born in Ravenna, Ohio, August 13, 1812; the first child born in the "Western Reserve." His father, David Thompson, was a settler from Virginia; his mother, Catherine Kerney Thompson, was born in Ireland. ... ..appointed assistant to James Diament Westcott, Secretary of the Territory of Florida (1830). In 1835... He moved to Augusta, Georgia, ... In 1836, he served with an Augusta militia unit, the Richmond Blues, in the campaign against the Seminoles in Florida. On June 12, 1837, Thompson married Caroline A. Carrie of Augusta, Georgia. ..... During the sectional struggle preceding the Civil War, Thompson defended the institution of slavery. .... In 1861, Thompson served as an aide-de-camp to Georgia Governor Brown, and in 1864, he served as a volunteer soldier. Further biographical information may be found in Dictionary of American Biography (Scribner's, 1935) and Georgia and Georgians (Lewis, 1917).