Upson County GaArchives Military Records..... Upson Light Dragoon January 20 1836 Indian - Rosters Upson Light Dragoon ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Fred Bennett Fred.Bennett@carters.com August 27, 2004, 8:58 pm Thomaston Upson Co. GA January 20th 1836 To Bolling H. Robinson Aid-de-Camp Sir, According to your Order I herewith transmit to you the effective forece under my command with the names of the officers and Privates and of the number nature and condition of our arms and accoutrements. We are prepared with swords which are generally in good order but should there be any other volunteers offering their service, we are destitute of any more to supply them. Owing to our having been flattered with the hope of getting Pistols from the Arsenal of this State we did not think proper to purchase them ourselves & having failed to procure them in that way we are therefore Entirely destituted of any other munitions of war except the above mentioned swords. Furnish us with Munitions of War so we will be ready to meet & fulfill any orders that may issue. Below you will see a full statement of our situation with the names of Officers & Privates, Number 26. Officers: [note: * means more information below. Scroll down] [note: later this became known as Capt Allen's Company, Beall's 1st GA Mounted Volunteers Creek War] Edwin C. Turner, Capt Carey W. Allen 1st Lieut [later Capt] Jesse Stephens 2n Lieut Reuben Blaylock Cornett [Blalock] Thos Ingrim, 1st Corporal [Ingham] Jno H. Worthy, Orderly Serjt [1840 Capt.] James Boyington, 2nd Serjt [Boynton] William Silman, 2nd Corporal James McCoy, 3rd Serjt Alexander Pace, 3rd Corporal Jno W. Roberson, 4 Serjt Peter P. Buts (Butts) 4 corp Aggregate amount of officers - 12 Name of Recruits Wm Collier Chas W. Moore James M. Allen Samuel S. Cruit Hiram I Smith James Harrel Samuel Black Xenophan Bowdre Augustin Ogletree Larkin Turner Wm Ship Junr Greenville Stephens Maxfield H. Williford James Stephens Wm Stephens Roswell Powell Jno. Gibson Thompson Grimes E.N.C. Blaylock Wm. W. Stephens Jourdan Lyons Robt Traylor Richmond Brown Edward Rogers Drewry Gryms John Davis Smith Horsely Washington Brown Wm Smith Richmond Davis Wm Rose David C. Hightower Henry White James W. Hightower Edward Meadows Robt B. Mann Vines H. Collier * Chesley B. Snipes Willis McMullen Joel A. Wilson Wm J. Willis, Jr Alfred Harp Robt M. Gibson Sylvanus Gibson Jackson Dunn John D. Praytor Benj H. Marsh Harrison Birdsong Seaborn Smith Thos Robertson Wiles Kendrick Samuel M. White Jno Traylor, Jr Simon Smith H.M. Cannon Total number of Privates, aggregate 68 68 men 64 swords 2 pistols 68 horses 0 horse equip 1 holster 0 halter 0 velices I certify the above to be the true state and situation of the Upson Light Draggoon under my command. It will be seen we are not entirely supplied with swords, lacking 4. I have but 2 pistols. 21 pr. Holsters H.H. Edwin C. Turner, Capt Commanding Jany 20, 1836 To: Bolling H. Robinson, Aid-de-Camp Reverse Report Upson Light Dragoon 68 officers & men, equipment defective Rec'd 22nd Jan 1836 Executive Department Milledgeville GA Additional Comments: Source: Georgia Dept of Archives and History Georgia Military Affairs Vol 7 1836 WPA Project ========================= Researcher: Meredith Clapper http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00012.html#0002801 *Collier, Vines H. (Venus) Married Eleanor Peal or Pearl 16 Jan 1817 Jasper Co., GA. Married Ann Mangham 25 Nov 1835 Upson Co., GA. last census 1880 Chambers Co AL * File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/upson/military/indian/rosters/gmt79dragoon.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 3.5 Kb