Summers County, West Virginia - Confederate Soldiers - Civil War ********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** The records for this work have been submitted by Amber Dalakas, E-mail address: , March, 1999. ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** From Miller's HISTORY OF SUMMERS COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA, 1908 (p. 210 - 217) SOLDIERS TALCOTT DISTRICT 26th Virginia, Battalion, Edgar's -------------------------------- W.W. JONES, Co. B John B. THOMPSON, Co. H T.C. MADDY, Co. F C.R. CRAWFORD, Co. F T.J. HOLSTINE, Co. F Wilk MEADOWS, Co. F Calvin MEADOWS, Co. F Mason ALTAIR, Co. B A.P. LOWRY, Co. B, near the close of the war. Lowry's Battery --------------- E.D. ALDERSON W.C. HEDRICK A.P. PENCE Chapman's Battery ----------------- John C. MANN James KIRBY John COINER A.J. WALLACE, connected with no company; on detailed service J.C. BURNES, Co. C, 17th Virginia Cavalry H.J. DAVIS, Co. G, 23d Virginia Battalion James COOPER, Co. H, 60th Virginia Regiment Thurmond's Company ------------------ A.C. KESLER J.B. HEDRICK Wallace KELLER George KELLER Lewis B. MEADOWS M.M. WARREN Joseph HUFFMAN, and afterwards captain of his company. D.D. RHODES E.P. HUSTON, Co. A, 62d Virginia Regiment Wm. G. McCORKLE, Co. A, 22d Virginia Regiment David WASHINGTON, Co. D, 51st Virginia Regiment A.J. BLAKE, Co. A, ----------- Virginia (McCausland's) Regiment J.A. HOUCHINS, Co. I, 50th Virginia Regiment Thomas SHOEMAKER, Co. G, 17th Virginia Cavalry (Jenkins') David W. LEFTWICH, Vawter's Co., Clark's Battalion Conrad B. PACK, Co. A, 60th Virginia Regiment; now dead, died in Kansas. Samuel D. PACK, Co. H, 27th Virginia Cavalry; died in Kansas. John A. PACK, Co. H, 27th Virginia Cavalry; lives in Oklahoma. *These PACKs were sons of Anderson PACK, and born and raised on New River. Their grandfather was Captain Mat. FARLEY, a scout in General George Washington's Army. JUMPING BRANCH DISTRICT 23d Virginia Cavalry, Breckingridge's Div. ------------------------------------------ J.E.C.L. HATCHER Jack VEST Josiah LILLY John W. MOYE Mathew ADKINS R.W. LILLY Capt George, Gen. McCausland's Div. ----------------------------------- Joshua HARVEY Wm. BASHAM Isaac MANN Austin HARVEY J. Calvin HARVEY Thurmond's Rangers ------------------ Ab. BIRCHFIELD John HINTON, Sr. John Wayne HINTON Wm. HINTON, Jr. Capt. White G. RYAN, James W. PACK, Wm. LILLY ("One-arm Bill"), Joseph LILLY, Mathew A. HEDRICK, M.A.W. YOUNG, Allen H. MEADOR, Geo. W. PLUMLEY, Simeon LILLY, Louis LILLY, Andy Lewis LILLY, Granville C. LOWE, Thomas E. BALL, Levi M. NEELY, Sr., Wm. T. MEADOR, J.J. CHARLTON. White G. RYAN, Captain of Co. I, 60th Virginia Thomas E. BALL, wounded. PIPESTEM DISTRICT Co. I, Smith's Br., 60th Va. Inft., Harton's Div. ------------------------------------------------- E.V. NEELY R. HOPKINS Joel FARLEY J.R. FARLEY Crawford WOOD Squire MEADOR Ballard HOUCHINS J.J. VEST A.P. FARLEY J.W. RYAN John PETRY John ANDERSON A.T. CLARK James CLARK W.R. NEELY Co. B, Echols' Br., 23d Va., Batl. Inft. ---------------------------------------- A.G.P. FARLEY H.C. FARLEY M. COOK J.A. MARTIN R.A. WOOD J.A. WILLIAMS, Co. H, Smith's Br., 36th Va. Inft., Harton's Div. Ben BECKET, Co. H, Marshall's Br., 4th Va. Inft. 17th Va. Cav., McCausland's Br. ------------------------------- Jackson FARLEY A.J. WILLIAMS S.D. HOPKINS W.C. KEATON J.D. ANDERSON Wm. BROWN J.F. WOOD Jas. BUTLER J.R. NEWKIRK S.A. MEADOR and A.G. LILLY belonged to Jonathan Lilly's Co., and John DORE was wagoner. Robert GORE, Capt. Co. D, 17th Va. Cav. Gordon L. WILBURN was a member of McComas' Battery, from Giles County. He was for many years a citizen of Pipestem, and now resides at Beckley, in Raleigh County. GREENBRIER DISTRICT M.N. BREEN, gunner; J.M. AYRES, Wm. M. COTTLE, Carl A. FREDEKING, Joseph HINTON, W.D. Thurmond's Co., Echols' Brigade; Wm. HINTON, W.D. Thurmond's Co., Echols' Brigade; Thos. W. TOWNSLEY, C.P. BROWNING, Samuel PACK (son of Wm.), Evi BALLENGEE, Dr. Wm. L. BARKSDALE, B.B. BURKS, Lafayette BALLENGEE, Wm. HINTON, Sr., Erastus H. PECK, Henderson GARTEN, Andy BENNETT, Parker J. BENNETT, John F. GEORGE, John M. CARDEN, James W. MILLER, R.T. DOLIN. "Jack" HINTON, the founder of the family in this county, was before the war a captain of the Monroe Guards, and Eber WILLEY was his first lieutenant. Co. I, 60th Virginia -------------------- Thomas MUSTAIN Wm. MUSTAIN GREEN SULPHUR DISTRICT John COX was one of the brave men who received a saber wound in the head in the Battle of the Wilderness; captured and sent on to Fort Delaware as a prison of war. James WALKER Co. B, 60th Va. Regiment, was as corporal of his company, and a son of Joel WALKER. William DUNCAN, a son of Nathan L. DUNCAN, Co. B, 60th Va. Regiment, died of fever on being brought home from Monroe draft by his father. Marion FINK, son of Joseph FINK, also died of fever, being brought home by his father from Monroe draft, Co. B, 60th Va. Regiment. James Sedley DUNCAN, Co. B, 60th Va., under Captain Baxter fought under Generals Hill and Pemberton; was guard of General R.E. Lee's headquarters on Sewell Mountain and at other points; was shot through the shoulder, and, after lying two months in the hospital, started for home. He was wounded at Gaine's Farm, in the Seven Days' fight. It took him thirteen days to reach home from Richmond. John L. DUNCAN was in Co. B, 60th Va. Regiment, and later with Thurmond's Rangers. Nathan A. DUNCAN was a son of Charles DUNCAN; first eighteen months in Co. B, 60th Va. Regiment, and later first lieutenant in Phil Thurmond's Rangers. John Hunter DUNCAN, son of John DUNCAN; Phil. Thurmond's Rangers. Andrew HIX, 60th Va. and later Edgar's Battalion; badly wounded at Battle of Lewisburg. Henry Logan MILLER, son of Ervin MILLER, Co. B, 60th Va. Regiment, died at Brook Church from fever. Sam Henry FOX, Phil Thurmond's Rangers and 60th Va. Perry FOX, Thurmond's Co., died a prisoner of war in Camp Chase. Joseph MARTIN, son of Shadrach MARTIN, in Co. K, 22d Va. Regiment, was shot at Cedar Creek; bomb exploded, and a piece struck him on the left side of the face. He still lives on his farm in Green Sulphur District. He was shot on the 19th of October, 1864. Daniel L. KEELER, in Lowry's Battery; now lives on Laurel Creek in Green Sulphur District. Harrison GWINN, Co. B, 26th Va. Regiment, Edgar's Battalion Logan MILLER, 26th Va. Regiment Thurmond's Rangers ------------------ Augustus GWINN M. GWINN William E. MILLER James W. MILLER John A. MILLER Charles R. FOX John L. DUNCAN James M. HIX James H. MARTIN Irvin BOWLES Andrew A. FOSTER John K. WITHROW Michael HIX Thos D. LUSHER John ELLIS John L. DUNCAN ("Curly Jim") John H. DUNBAR Samuel GWINN Jas S. DUNCAN, 22d Va. Regiment, Col Patton, commanding. Perry FOX, died a prisoner of war in Camp Chase, Ohio. Thomas FOX a son of Perry FOX, and resides on Lick Creek. Joseph MARTIn, 2d. Va Regiment, shot sound. J.S. HITE, under General Floyd. Thomas A. GEORGE and John A. GEORGE, Edgar's Battalion. Peter MADDY, who died in the army at Union. William PATTERSON died a prisoner of war in Camp Chase, Ohio, during the Civil War. Before his death and during his last illness in the war prison, he executed his last will within the prison walls. FOREST HILL DISTRICT Co. A., 60th Va. Regiment ------------------------- Lewis A. ELLISON S.T. SHUMATE W.M. FOSTER Co. F, Edgar's Battalion ------------------------ G.C. MEADOWS E.H. MICHEL James M. ALLEN J.R. WEBB Thos. G. LOWE Jos. J. CHRISTIAN Thos. FRAZIER Harvey YOUNG M.M. MEADOWS, Co. C, Edgar's Battalion B.F. WESLEY, Co. C, 45th Va. Regiment J.D. MARTIN, Co. G, 51st Va. Regiment R.S. RUDD, Mosby's Command Hugh M. HILL, 28th Va., Pickett's Div. Ferdinand HOBACK, Co. G, 21st Va. Cavalry Wm. L. REDMOND, 17th Va. Cavalry Richard MOWRY, 17th Va. Cavalry John ROLES, Co. C, 36th Va. Regiment Stephen DAVIDSON, 22d Va. Regiment A.P. BONHAM, Co. D, 30th Va. Battalion G.B. MANN, Co. D, 30th Va. Battalion A. Newton MANN, Co. D, 30th Va. Battalion Thurmond's Rangers ------------------ A.F. BROWN Jos. N. HAYNES Lowry's Battery --------------- Richard McNEER E.C. WOODSON Henry SMITH A.M. HUTCHINSON I.G. CARDEN Richard WOODRUM, Major in Edgar's Battalion Elbert FOWLER, Va. Cavalry Lowry's Battery --------------- John M. CARDEN Allen A. CARDEN Dr. Thomas BRAY, who died at Talcott in 1880, was in Co. F, 59th Va. Regiment, from Mercer County. M.A. MANNING, who died at Talcott in 1901, was a soldier throughout the war in a company from Nicholas County. *NOTE FROM AUTHOR* These lists of the soldiers from Summers County are practically correct, of those living; but there is no doubt a number of those dead whose names we have not been able to secure.