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Muster Roll of the Worth Rebels

Brief Record of Their Campaignings, Heroic Deeds, etc.

   It is a source of pleasure to us to stir up memories of the time when the
whole South was one vast military camp and her gallant sons were leaving home
and kindred and rushing to the seat of war, ready to lay down their lives in
defense of a cause they deemed just and sacred. In today's issue we present to
our readers the muster roll of the Worth Rebels, as gallant a company of men as
ever shouldered arms.

   This Company was organized in Worth County in March, 1862, and the late Hon.
Daniel Henderson was elected captain. The Company numbered eighty-one, rank and
file, but was rapidly recruited to one hundred and thirty. We have been unable
to obtain the names of those who joined the company after it left home, but
learn that they were all men who knew their duty, and knowing it performed it.
They are now added to the list. .

   Soon after organization the company received marching orders and left for
Richmond, Va. After seeing active service in various places, the company joined
Lee's army at Fredericksburg, and the battalion to which it belonged (10th
Georgia) was assigned to duty in Tige Anderson's brigade. From that time until
the close of the war the company participated in all the great battles in
Virginia, and nobly upheld the honor of Worth County and their State.

   Capt. Henderson was a member of the Legislature from Worth County during the
entire time he was in service, and obtained furloughs to attend its sessions.
Being over age, and legislative duties' pressing upon him, in the fall of 1863
he resigned and returned home.

   Lieutenant William A. Greer, a ranking officer, was then promoted to the
captaincy. Previous to this Lieutenant R. R. Jenkins resigned the second
lieutenancy, and Manasseh Henderson was elected third lieutenant, the other
lieutenants having risen one grade by promotion.

   In the fall of 1864 Lieutenant D. H. Pope resigned, and M. Henderson was
promoted to the position of first lieutenant. This developed the command of
company upon him, as Capt. Greer was at home at the time on a sick furlough, and
did not return again, his health incapacitating him for service. "Nas" at that
time was a beardless boy, but made a gallant officer. He commanded the company
until the close of war, and never asked his men to go where he did not lead.

   In the spring of 1864 the company was in the breastworks at North Anna river,
supporting a battery, and while there the Yankees threw a shell which struck the
breastwork and rolled down among the men. Private W. R. McLelland seeing the
terrible danger almost as quick as thought seized the shell and threw it over
the breastworks, at the same time inviting it to "lie there and swell awhile."

   This was an act of heroism seldom equaled and never surpassed, for in lifting
the shell he ran the risk of being torn to atoms. Not one man in a hundred
thousand would have performed the feat, and yet he claimed no merit for the act,
as he considered that he had merely performed his duty.

   While the company were in the breastworks at Deep Bottom the Yankees made a
furious charge and succeeded in carrying the works. When the charge was made a
stalwart Yank mounted the breastwork in front of Private Berrien Hobby, and
making a thrust at him with his bayonet, succeeded in running it through Hobby's
shirt bosom just below the neck. In making the thrust he lost hold of the gun,
and Hobby's gun not having a bayonet on it, he quickly seized the Yank's
"fowling piece," and while he was drawing the bayonet out of his shirt the
gentleman in blue was making strenuous efforts to fill his eyes with sand, which
laudable and warlike undertaking he partially succeeded in accomplishing before
Hobby got "things straightened out." Then bringing the gun to a "charge," Hobby
made a dash for his foe and ran him over the works and three others with him.
Looking up and down the works he saw the enemy pouring over them, and not a
"rebel" in sight but himself. Realizing the situation at a glance, he threw down
his gun, "shucked" all extra weight and made a dash for liberty, while the
bullets of the foe chopped and hacked and split up the zephyrs around his ears
in a lively manner. Fortunately, he escaped without a scratch. In speaking of
the affair afterwards he said: "bast if they had all stayed as long as I did if
them Yanks ever would have cleaned us up!"

   When the company surrendered at Appomattox Court House, it laid down eighteen
guns.

  We have no reliable information as to the number of killed and wounded, but
the decimated ranks of the company at the time of surrender speaks in trumpet
tones for their bravery and devotion to the Lost Cause.

  The following is the muster roll of the company as it appeared in the Albany
Patriot of March 27th, 1862:

Officers, Muster Roll Co. B, 10th Ga. Battalion:

Captain, Daniel Henderson; 
1st Lieutenant, W. A. Greer; 
2nd Lieutenant, Royal R. Jenkins; 
3rd Lieutenant, David H. Pope; 
1st Sergeant, W. W. Poulan; 
2nd Sergeant, J. P. Register; 
3rd Sergeant, J. J. S.Young; 
4th Sergeant, G. W. Summer; 
5th Sergeant, G. W. Green; 
1st Corporal, J. N. Dixon; 
2nd Corporal, J. W. Brown; 
3rd Corporal, W. G. Willis; 
4th Corporal, J. W. Nipper.

Privates:

Barfield, Levi; 
Barfield, John; 
Bass, A.; 
Benafield, Jas.; 
Blunt, Joseph; 
Blunt, Thos.; 
Brooks, A. C.; 
Brooks, Jno. F.; 
Britt, H. H.; 
Brown, D. F.; 
Creede, C. E.; 
Cook, Jno. R.; 
Cooper, W. M.; 
Davis, Jno. T.; 
Davis, W. M.; 
Downs, Thos.; 
Dykes, A. H.; 
Dykes, Jesse; 
Dixon, W. M.; 
Dixon, W. C.; 
Faircloth, Z.; 
Fillyaw, J. J.; 
Fillyaw, T. C.; 
Fillyaw, J S.; 
Faircloth, H.; 
Fortner, H. F.; 
Fletcher, E.; 
Fletcher, J.; 
Fletcher, W.; 
Gaff, W.; 
Gay, Obadiah; 
Giddens, T. J.; 
Giddens, E.; 
Giddens, M. D.; 
Giddens, Jno. F. 
Going, John; 
Goodman, R.; 
Hall, M. B.; 
Hancock, J. J.; 
Hancock, R. W.; 
Hall, G. W.; 
Hammond, Chas.; 
Henderson, M.; 
Hobby, A. J.; 
Hobby, Jesse ; 
Hobby, B.; 
Hobby, J. N.; 
Hodges, W.; 
Holliday, J. M.; 
Horne, R.; 
Howard, G. W.; 
Howard, J. W.; 
Hammonds, W. R.; 
Johnston, D. C. (or E. C.); 
Knight, Lewis ; Knight, A.; 
Kennedy, J. M.; 
Land, John; 
Land, Joseph; 
Long, Elisha ; 
Long, I. A.; 
Long, Jno. W.; 
Land, C. R.; 
Land, Jas. R.; 
McLeland, E. J.; 
McLeland, W. R.; 
McClelland, J. J.; 
McClelland, M.; 
Mitchell, J. M.; 
Monk, J.; 
Monk, Miles; 
Murray, Isaac B.; 
Murray, Wm.; 
Newell, Alford; 
Powell, Nathan; 
Pate, Elbert; 
Pate, Elijah ; 
Pate, Samuel ; 
Powell, D.; 
Pate ; Jno. M.; 
Register, J. T.; 
Register, Calvin; 
Reynolds, J. R.; 
Reynolds, J. J.; 
Reynolds, H. J.; 
Reynolds, Jno. M.; 
Ricks, W. A.; 
Ross, Lott; 
Ross, J. M.; 
Rouse, C. R.; 
Simpson, Lewis; 
Sinclair, J. B.; 
Smith, Jno. M. ; 
Smith, J. M.; 
Smith, A. M.; 
Smith, J. A.; 
Smith, M. L.; 
Spring, I.; 
Sumner, Berry ; 
Sumner, Wm. R.; 
Sumner, J. M.; 
Story, Jas. D.; 
Story, F.; 
Story, J.; 
Story, S. S.; 
Story, W.; 
Taylor, Wm.; 
Taylor, W. W.; 
Theus, Joshua ; 
Thornhill, J. T.; 
Willis, D.; 
Willis, J.; 
Williams, T. L.; 
Williams, Alex ; 
Willis, John ; 
Wilson, Wm.; 
Wommach, Jno. S.; 
Yerty, Homer; 
Yerty, H. L.; 
Yerty, Wm.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from "Family Record of the Henderson and Whiddon Families and their
Descendents...", compiled by William Henderson (1926)

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