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State Capitol Records of Confederate
Soldiers
Copied by Mrs. W. M. Sapp, Mrs. Clarence Fraker, Mrs. R. M. Herron, Mrs. B. A.
Tyler
   NOTE: The following lists of records of Confederate soldiers from Whitfield
county were copied from papers in the State Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia. These
included only the names of the men who enlisted from Whitfield county. There
were many others from the county who enlisted elsewhere in the state, but these
could not be secured.

THE DALTON GUARDS

Excellent and Daring Record of Our Famous Company of Militia

   "In the year 1861, when the tocsin of war sounded, Dalton was found with a
well drilled and finely equipped military organization composed of the very
flower and chivalry of our county called, 'The Dalton Guards.' This company had
perhaps been in existence a year or two, and numbered one hundred and ten men.

"The officers were:

Captain: R. T. Cook, June 11, 1861 
1st Lieutenant:  J. P. B. Jackson 
2nd Lieutenant:  John Norris 
2nd Lieutenant: Thomas Hamilton 
1st Sergeant: James J. Byers
2nd Sergeant:  John H. Bitting 
3rd Sergeant:  William Hamilton 
4th Sergeant: R. P. O'Neill 
1st Corporal: O. S. Higgins 
4th  Corporal: M. G. Hill

   "In the spring of 1S61, the Guards rendezvoused at Camp McDonald near what
was then known as Big Shanty, and were there mustered into Phillips' Legion for
three years or during the war. The Guards went to Virginia in August, 1861,
November following were sent to West Virginia under General Floyd. Had several
sharp skirmishes with General Rosecran's troops in December at Hawk's Nest and
Sewell Mountain.

   "They went to the coast in South Carolina in January 1862, and did picket
duty all winter. They returned to Virginia in the spring of 1863 for the
campaign around Richmond and Chickahominy. From there they went to Manassas,
thence into Maryland to the battles of South Mountain and the bloody battle of
Sharpsburg, after which they recrossed the Potomac.

   "The Dalton Guards had among their volunteers several mere boys of sixteen or
seventeen years of age, who fought like Trojans during the entire war. Three of
them I now recall. They were Warren Davis, Nick Bitting, Tom Wells. In one or
two instances Mr. Davis was conspicuous for his bravery."*

   The following list contains the names of the men who formed the Dalton Guards:

MUSTER ROLL, COMPANY B, PHILLIPS' LEGION,
GEORGIA INFANTRY,
June 11, 1861
Privates

Adams, John
Baker,  R. H. 
Blanton, G. J. 
Bridges,  W.  M. 
Bard, H. H. 
Bridges, W. L. 
Boyles, W. D.
Carson, John T. 
Carter, W. T. 
Carter,  Richard 
Cline,  Daniel 
Carroll, W. M. 
Cureton,  J.  C. 
Cowan, William
Ducket,  E. J. 
Davis, H. O. 
Davis, John A.
Davis, Warren R. 
Davis, C. C. 
Dunn,  Samuel 
Dyer, S.  M.
Edwards,  W. R. 
Edwards, A. B. 
Edwards, A. M. V. 
Edwards, J. H. 
Edwards, J. L. 
England, J. C. 
Eldridge, F. M.
Fields, J. H. 
Fields.  W.   T. 
Fincher, Jesse C. 
Ford, F. M. 
Freeman,  J.  H.  G.
Gambril. B. O.
Glover, D. P. 
Griffin,  Thomas H. 
Griffin, T. W.
Hinton, J. H. 
Hill, William 
Henderson, S. J. 
Hawkins, J. W. 
Hooper, W. J. 
Howells, J. F. 
Hammond, A. H. 
Headden, R. B.
Jackson   W. W. 
Jolly,  T. B.
Kincannon,  William 
Kingsley,  E. T.
Lockard, William
Lynn, A. W.
Mayfield, J. W. 
Mitchell, J. F. 
Mitchell, W. P. 
Mercer, J. A.
Owens, Daniel 
Odell, J. A. 
Odell, James W.
Pittman, A. J.
Quinn, Charles
Rauschenberg, A. 
Robbins, H. A. 
Reed, E. F. 
Russell, H. L.
Small, A. B. 
Small, C. J. B. 
Stone, Richard P. 
Stone, H.
Shumaker, T. J. 
Summers,  William 
Samples, J. W.
Tarver, J. E.
Whittaker, T. F. 
Wilson, Paschal 
Wills, T. P. 
Williams, G. C.

   *Article prepared for the Bryan M. Thomas Chapter, United Daughters of the
Confederacy by the late Miss Laura Kelly, Historian.



Additional Comments:
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OFFICIAL HISTORY
OF
WHITFIELD COUNTY, GEORGIA
BY
WHITFIELD COUNTY HISTORY COMMISSION



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