WHITFIELD COUNTY, GA - MILITARY HOSPITALS - Dalton ***************** 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: http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/gahistmarkers/confedcemeteryhistmarker4.htm Confederate Cemetery State Historical Marker Located near the old chapel in cemetery at Cuyler and Ridge Sts. in Dalton, Ga. (Text) CONFEDERATE CEMETERY 421 unknown Confederate, four known Confederate and four unknown Federal soldiers are buried here. Some of these men died of wounds received in the Battles of Stone's River, Perryville, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga, Missionary Ridge, and other battles fought north of here. Others died of disease and sickness. Located here, in 1862-1864, were several important Confederate Hospitals where thousands were treated and nursed back to health. Hospitals were moved south of this point in early May 1864 to get out of the path of invading Federals. 155-31 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1956 1)Cannon Hospital 2) ? Hospital NOTES: Muster Roll of Company E 39th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry Army of Tennessee C.S.A. Walker County, Georgia "Walker Light Guards" We first camped at Big Shanty, GA on the W. & A. Road. Our first service was in East Tennessee in the spring and early summer of 1862. In the latter part of the summer and fall of 1862, we made the Kentucky campaign under General E. Kirby Smith. We then crossed the Cumberland Mountains at the Cumberland Gap back into East Tennessee. From there we were ordered to middle Tennessee and to Murfreesboro. From there our Division was ordered, about the 20th of December 1862, to Vicksburg, Mississippi. Made the Mississippi campaign, fought through the battle of Baker's Creek, Miss. on May 16, 1863; fell back into Vicksburg the next day; went through a forty-eight days' siege, and surrendered on the 4th day of July 1863, and were paroled. There was more or less fighting every day during the siege. We were exchanged about September 1863. Our Division was ordered to Sweetwater and Loudon in East Tennessee. Remained until General Longstreet left Bragg's army at Missionary Ridge and relieved us. We then returned to Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain. Camped on Lookout Mountain until November 23rd, then we were ordered off the mountain and to Missionary Ridge. We took our position on the extreme right of line and on the 25th of November we fought the battle of Missionary Ridge. We lost the Ridge and fell back to Dalton, Ga., where we took up winter quarters and remained there until about the 7th or 8th of May 1864. Sherman appeared in our front and flanked us out of our position. We fell back to Ressaca, fought the battle of Resaca, Ga. the 14th and 15th of May. We had more or less fighting to do every day during that campaign from Dalton to Atlanta and Jonesboro, and from May 7th or 8th until September 1st. Among the battles fought during the campaign were Resaca, New Hope Church, Kennesaw Mountain, Peachtree Creek, Atlanta and Jonesboro. There were many skirmishes, and picket fighting besides battles mentioned above. By James B. Hill, A member of this Company ================ MUSTER ROLL OF COMPANY I, 41st REGIMENT GEORGIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY ARMY OF TENNESSEE C. S. A. HEARD COUNTY, GEORGIA HEARD COUNTY RANGERS Wagnon, Joseph Marion - private March 4, 1862 . Captured at Vicksburg, Miss. July 4, 1863 , and paroled there July 1863 . Report of Medical Examining Board at Dalton, Ga. shows he was "Examined for furlough May 28, 1864 , 60 days, at St. Mary's Hospital." Appears on rolls of Co. B, this regiment, but no record of transfer. Williams, Thomas B.- private March 4, 1862 . Wounded at Baker's Creek, Miss. May 16, 1863 . Captured at Vicksburg, Miss. July 4, 1863 , and paroled there July 16, 1863 . Examined by Medical Examining Board at Dalton, Ga. and recommended for 30 days extension of furlough because of unhealed wound of left elbow, November 24, 1863 . Pension records show he sur- rendered at Greensboro, N. C. April 26, 1865 . (Born in Heard County, Ga. December 24, 1843.) ============== Phillips Legion Infantry - Co B - The Dalton Guards William T Field - Enlisted 6/11/1861 as Corporal, Shown as 4th Sgt on June 1862 roll, Detailed as a druggist to Cannon Hospital in Dalton, Ga. 11/5/1862, Shown AWOL 2/6/1863, Shown detailed as hospital steward 8/10/1864, No further record, Brother of James H Field ====================== MUSTER ROLL OF COMPANY A, 66th REGIMENT GEORGIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY BIBB AND OTHER COUNTIES COLEMAN, DAVID-Private June 27, 1863. Died in Dalton, Ga., hospital between Jan. 1 and Apr. 16, 1864. ========= Muster Roll of Co. C, 36th Regiment Vaughn, James M. private March 3, 1862. Died in Dalton, Ga. hospital March 18, 1864. =================== 57th GA Regiment Colonel William Barkuloo was the 57th Regiment's first commander. Governor Joseph E. Brown authorized Secretary of War, G.W. Randolph, to accept Barkuloo's GA State troops as full members of the Confederate States Army on 6 May 1862, asking also that all State troops be given "perfect equality with regiments which originally entered the Confederate service." Randolph notified General E. Kirby Smith in Knoxville, Tennessee on 2 July 1862 that he had ordered Colonel Barkuloo's troops from Dalton, Georgia to Chattanooga, Tennessee along with several other military units. All units were unarmed, but Randolph promised a 6000 stand of arms to General Kirby, instructing him to advise the reinforcements of where to receive their arms.