Was nearly starved to death as a prisoner of war. Had one son, Z. (Zachery) Taylor May, who, with his wife Nettie, is buried next to Harvey May. Taylor and Nettie had three daughters, Ida, Thelma Odessa, and Othelia. Thelma married Les Midkiff and died in childbirth along with her children. Othelia married J (John) …
Monthly Archives: October 2021
Crispin Dickenson
In March 1862 Crispin Dickenson was elected First Lieutenant of the Ringgold Battery, a Confederate artillery unit formed from men from Danville, Virginia, and the surrounding area. Captain Timothy Stamps commanded the unit, initially outfitted with two smoothbore iron 6-pounder cannons, a 3-inch rifled gun, and one brass 12-pounder Napoleon cannon. Following Stamps’ June 1863 …
John Thomas Newton
Private John Thomas Newton mustered with the 1st SC Rifles at Sandy Springs, SC in 1861. He participated in all unit engagements until the retreat from Gettysburg (Battle of Williamsport – Falling Waters) when he was captured. He spent the remainder of the war at Elmira and Point Lookout prisons in the North. He survived …
Henry Harrison Galloway
Henry Harrison Galloway was born in Georgia on October 7, 1839, but moved into Alabama as a young man. He served as a 2nd corporal in Co. H, 46th Alabama Infantry Regiment C.S.A. He was at the surrender of Vicksburg July 4th, 1863, was paroled, and went home for two months before rejoining the Army. …
Archibald Vaughn
Archibald and his son Samuel entered service at the same time.
David Barnes
David Barnes was born September 29, 1843, in Princess Anne County, Virginia, the second child and oldest surviving son of John J. Barnes and Catherine Bonney. At the age of nineteen he enlisted for the war on March 1, 1860, at Tanners Creek (Lafayette River) Crossroads as part of Company G (Atlantic Guard), 16th Virginia …
James Elisha Reynolds
James Elisha Reynolds was the grandson of Elisha Reynolds, a patriot lieutenant in the Wilkes County Militia, North Carolina during the Revolutionary War. He was born in Carroll County, Mississippi on July 17, 1837. The youngest of nine children and the son of the Reverend Bowen Reynolds and Sarah (Meaux) Reynolds. He was orphaned at …