TALIFERRO COUNTY, GA - MILITARY INDIAN WAR Capt James M. Sanford - 1836

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Captain James M. Sanford's Volunteers
1836 Taliferro County Georgia 

[Partial] [Some of the names are unreadable on the muster roll] 

Sanford, James M.              Captain

Moore, Isaac J                 Lieutenant

Alexander, Samuel W            Sergeant


Privates:

Andrews, Joseph 

Baker, John 

Beck, John 

Bourke, Terrance 

Birdsong, J.W 

Chapman, Nathan M (Newton M. - correction)
(see newspaper account of burial below)

Daniel, William H 

Darden, William F 

Dowling, Duncan 

Dowling, James 

Duncan, John 

Duncan, William 

Edwards, Lewis A 

Farmer, Daniel A

Farmer, Martin

Graves, Richard S 

Griffith, David 

Griffith, George W

Gunn, George W 

Hammock, D.H.T

Harris, James M

Harris, John N 

Johnson, A.A. 

Johnson, A.S

Jones, Thomas 

Jones, William D 

Jourdan, Dempsey
[Died in Mississippi?] 

Jourdan, James

Jordan, John 

Littleton, Benjamin F 

Maddox, William 

Mercer, George F
[Born 1816, died 1875 GA]

Moody, Thomas J

Moody, William G 

Moore, William W 

Murphy, Allen 

Norris, J.H 

Osler, George D 

Overton, Thomas L

Overton, William J 

Perkins, Absolom 

Portwood, John (see below)

Read, James R 

Rickles, Jeremiah 

Rhodes, A.S.W 

Roberson, John R 

Rogers, Aaron 

Simmons, C 

Stevens, Stephen 

Stoker, Allen O or C 

Terry, William T 

Thompson, Thomas P 

Wiggins, William C 
[Born 1801, died 1862 Civil War] 

Wellborn, Thomas J 

Williams, James D

Williams, John D 

Wilson, William J 

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Notes: Rhoda Fone  RhodaFone@aol.com 

Marriages and Obituaries From Early Georgia
Newspapers, abstracted by the late Judge Folks
Huxford, F.A.S.G. 

"On the 12th inst. at JAMES VEAZEY'S residence
in Talbot County, MR. NEWTON CHAPMAN, a private
in the Volunteer Infantry from Taliaferro
County. He died among strangers but was
rendered every attention. Was buried on the
13th with full military honors by the Talbot
Guards. July 26, 1836." 

Battle of Chickawatchee Swamp occurred on July 26, 1836

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Addendum: submitted by Terri Saturday


John W Portwood, born 1814, son of Benjamin
Portwood and Martha Patsy Perkins married on July
18, 1843 to Sarah Ward, member of the Indian Wars
and Private, Co. C, 6th Reg. 1st Brigade, GA.
State Troops. He was a farmer and died in 1865 due
to a disease contracted in service.

His children : Marion (1843), John H (1845),
Amanda (1846), Abram (1848), and Hannah (1849).