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Wilkinson County Georgia Civil War
34% of the 685 Volunteer Regiment Soldiers
from Wilkinson County died in the Civil War. 
UNITS AND ROSTERS
VOLUNTEER:
3rd Regiment Infantry
Company F, "Wilkinson Rifles" 
      Battle of South Mills

         Company I, "Carswell Guards"
 
14th Regiment Georgia Infantry
Company B, "Ramah Guards" 
       The Personal Effects of Pvt. William Langford of Wilkinson County, Georgia

 
49th Regiment Georgia Infantry
"Deep in the Heart" Based on the true story of  Wiley Nesmith and his wife
      Martha Ann of Wilkinson County, Georgia
57th Regiment Georgia Infantry
    Company D, "Smith Guards" 
    Company I, "Barkuloo Rifles" 
    Company K, "Oconee Greys"
    William Wallace Adams - 57th Reg  Co F
 Hell's Broke Loose in Georgia, Survival In A Civil War Regiment, Scott Walker, 2005. A  history of the Georgia 57th Infantry. The regiments were from Baldwin, Crawford, Houston, Laurens, Thomas, Washington and Wilkinson counties. 
   63rd Regiment Georgia Infantry
     Company D

             December  1889 Atlanta Consititution The Boy Soldier of the Confederacy
 
STATE LINE/TROOPS:

         2nd Regiment, Company F, "Georgia Rangers", Georgia State Line
               Stuckey, John January 1863 Civilwar - Pension Co F, 2nd Ga. State 
         2nd Regiment, Company H, 1st Brigade Georgia State Troops
         2nd Regiment, Company G, Georgia State Troops
          2nd Regiment, Company B, Georgia State Troops
         2nd Regiment, Company C, Georgia State Troops 
         6th Georgia Infantry,Company A,  State Guards
         8th Georgia Militia, Company D
          Benjamin F Pate, Sr August 12 1910 Civilwar - Pension Co D 8th GA Reg

          8th Regiment, Wilkinson Volunteers (Company O,
                      Carswell's Battalion,  Local Defense Troops, Georgia).
List of Ex-Confederate soldiers living in Wilkinson County, 1923

THE WAR AT HOME

Stoneman's Raid - August 1864
Ball's Ferry, Toomsboro

 

 
 
 

March 1, 1919
Augusta Chronicle
MONITOR-MERRIMAC BATTLE SURVIVOR DIES
Portsmout, Va., Feb. 28. Capt. Elsberry V. White, survivor of the Monitor-Merrimac battle in Hampton Roads during the Civil War, died at his home here today, aged 80 years. Capt. White was a member of the Confederate engineer corps and was assistant engineer of the Merrimac, then the ironclad Virginia, during the fight He was born in Wilkinson county, Georgia.

PENSIONS
       Application For Pension
John Stuckey enlisted in January 1863 at Irwinton, Georgia in Co F, 2nd Ga. State ___.  He served until the close of the war. His company was discharged at Columbus, Georgia in 1865.  "The regiment was divided up before surrender." L. F. Etheredge,of Dodge County, Georgia, witnessed that John Stuckey served in the war in with him at Griswoldville, Georgia in February 1863 until he (Etheredge) was wounded in 1864."  (Ga. Archives - Pensions)

We cannot locate a pension for John Stuckey.

Additional Comments:
John Stuckey is buried in the Orphans Cemetery, Eastman, Georgia.  There is a Confederate marker to the right of his gravestone.  His wife, Amanda Butler Stuckey, is buried at Pleasant Plains Cemetery in Wilkinson County, Georgia.

file contributed and copyrighted by R. Elizabeth Brewer 2004.

 

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