Category: Florida

Private, Company F, 5th Florida Infantry. Enlisted 14 March 1862 in Jasper. Killed in action at the Battle of the Wilderness. Body never identified. Buried with the masses of KIA. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/133123361/reason-edon_franklyn-swilley  

Samuel Cenus Swilley was born in Washington County, Georgia on May 15, 1829 to Zenus Swilley and his wife, Cynthia Amans. Samuel’s great-great-great-grandparents were French Huguenots who came to Virginia in 1700 to seek refuge from religious persecution in their native land. His great-grandfather migrated to North Carolina, and his grandfather to Washington County, Georgia, […]

Born on April 9, 1832 in Bulloch County, Georgia. He joined the Confederate Army in May 1862. He was wounded during the Battle of the Wilderness. In October 1864 records show he was still in the hospital recovering from those wounds. Family history says he was wounded again and captured. He was released on April […]