TWIGGS COUNTY, GA - Civil War - Meadows, Peter Clay 48th Regiment ***************** 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: Betty Bivins The unit was from Twiggs, Peter Clay Meadows, lived in Pulaski, now Bleckley Co. GA. Peter Clay Meadows, 48th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry Twiggs County, Georgia “Slappey Guards” was formed March 4, 1862 On November 26, 2005, Harold and Betty Bivins went to Fredericksburg to the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park Virginia, seeking additional information about this soldier. We found the following confirmation about his burial site. “# 137, GA, Meadows, Peter C Pvt. G/48 death-3/07/1863; Row # B 2; Died of disease at Guinea Station. “ The historian gave me a map of the cemetery. The cemetery is on the left on Route 208 on Confederate Cemetery Road east of Spotsylvania Court House and on the same side of the road as the county court house. The state of Georgia graves are in the first plot on the right. We owe much to the Ladies Memorial Association of Spotsylvania which was formed in 1866 for the purpose of collecting and interring the remains of the Confederate dead and to the people who over the years have maintained this beautiful, peaceful place. Guinea Station, VA was a large Confederate rail head and supply station. And thousands of Confederate soldiers were camped there. The busy railroad is in use today. Stonewall Jackson was carried to Guinea Station VA from the Chancellorsville battlefield, about twenty-eight miles away, in the hope of taking him via rail to Richmond, but the lines were cut and by the time they were repaired he was too near death to be moved. His wife came to Guinea Station and was there when he died. We went in the building , an office for the Chandler plantation, where he died. The Chandler family kept the bed, in which he died, a blanket and a clock and donated it to the park service which maintains the property. Peter C. Meadows was buried in the Spotsylvania Confederate Cemetery at Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia. We went to this cemetery in the afternoon and found his grave. Peter Clay Meadows was the brother of James Meadows, who surrendered at Appomattox Court House, and made it back to Pulaski County, and the son of Isaac and Carrie Bryant Meadows of Pulaski County Georgia. In earlier census records, the family of Isaac Meadows is listed on the Twiggs census. They were members of the Old Richland Baptist Church. This is all that I know about his service to the CSA. © Copyright Betty Bivins 2005