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	Calvin Bryant Residence: Colquitt County, Georgia Enlistment Date: 22 March 1862 Distinguished Service: DISTINGUISHED State Served: Georgia Unit Numbers: 402 Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 22 March 1862 at the age of 29 Enlisted in Company H, 50th Infantry Regiment Georgia on 22 March 1862. Promoted to Full Corporal 2nd Class on 15 April 1864 (Estimated day of Promo) POW on 12 May 1864 at Spotsylvania Court House, VA Released on 14 March 1865 at Point Lookout, MD U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles about Calvin Bryant 2 Name: Calvin Bryant 2 Residence: Colquitt County, Georgia Age at Enlistment: 29 Enlistment Date: 22 Mar 1862 Rank at enlistment: Private State Served: Georgia Survived the War?: Yes Service Record: Enlisted in Company H, Georgia 50th Infantry Regiment on 22 Mar 1862. Promoted to Full 2nd Corporal on 15 Apr 1864. Birth Date: abt 1833 Death Place: Clinch County, GA Sources: Roster of Confederate Soldiers of Georgia 1861-1865 U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles about Calvin Bryant 1 Name: Calvin Bryant 1 Residence: Colquitt County, Georgia Age at Enlistment: 28 Enlistment Date: 22 Mar 1862 Rank at enlistment: Private State Served: Georgia Survived the War?: No Service Record: Promoted to Full 4th Sergeant on 15 Jun 1862. Enlisted in Company H, Georgia 50th Infantry Regiment on 22 Mar 1862. Mustered out on 14 Sep 1862 at Crampton's Gap, MD. Birth Date: abt 1834 Sources: Roster of Confederate Soldiers of Georgia 1861-1865 Awarded the Iron Cross which is at the foot of his gravesite. Also awarded to other distinquished medals. JUST BESIDE CALVIN BRYANT IN PLEASANT HILL CEMETERY [outside the community of Berlin in Colquitt Co. GA, is the gravesite of Martha A. Giles, Calvin's wife. Although the Pleasant Hill Cemetery records do not document it as so; only family members who have spoken of the funeral and attended remember her being buried there. Martha A. Giles gravesite was proven and as a Bryant family historian, Lorene knew how important it was to purchase and have a tombstone for the grandmother. Lorene BRYANT Epps - Purchased and paid for a gravestone for Martha A. GILES Bryant and it has been placed in Pleasant Hill Cemetery beside her husband Calvin Bryant and between both Calvin and John [Calvin's brother]. Lanette and the entire Bryant family is thankful because now all future generations will know where this grandmother was buried. Many thanks to Lorene for honoring this grandmother and placing a headstone at the gravesite. BRYANT, Calvin - Private, March 4, 1862. 2d Corporal, April 1864. 50th Reg., Ga Volunteer Infan., Army of North Virginia, CSA, Colquit Co., Ga. Colquitt Marksmen or Colquitt Volunteers; Company H. Spotsylvania, VA., 5-12-1864. Released at Point Lookout, MD. March 14, 1865. (Born in Bulloch County, Ga., Sept. 1, 1833). Died in Clinch County, Ga. in 1915.) Note: There is a date difference on his birth. The Tombstone reads differently. His brother 'Hopping' John Bryant also served at the same time in the Confederate War. BATTLES CALVIN BRYANT and his brother 'HOPPING' JOHN BRYANT FOUGHT IN! Georgia 50th Infantry Regiment Organized: Organized at Camp Davis, near Savannah, on March 22, 1862. Most of the regiment was captured at Sayler's Creek on April 6, 1865. Surrendered at Appomattox Court House, Virgnia on April 9, 1865. First Commander: William R. Manning (Colonel) Field Officers: Duncan Curry (Major) William O. Fleming (Major, Lieutenant Colonel) Francis Kearse (Lieutenant Colonel) Peter A. S. McGlashan ( Colonel) Philip C. Pendleton (Major) Pliny Sheffield (Major, Lieutenant Colonel) John M. Spence (Major) Assignments: Mercer's Brigade Military District Of Georgia, Dept. of S. Carolina, Georgia, and Florida (April-June 1862) Military District of Georgia, Department of S. Carolina, Georgia, and Florida (June-July 1862) Drayton's Brigade, Drayton's Division, lst Corps, Army of N. Virginia (July 1862) Drayton's Brigade, D. R. Jones' Division, lst Corps, Army of N. Virginia, (August-October 1862) Drayton's Brigade, McLaws' Division, lst Corps, Army of N. Virginia (Oct-Nov. 1862) Semmes'-Bryan Brigade,McLaws' Div., lst Corps, Army of N. Virginia (Nov 1862-Sept 1863) Bryan's Brigade, McLaws' Division, Longstreet's Corps., Army of Tennessee (Sept-Nov 1863) Bryan's Brigade,McLaws -Kershaw Div., Dept of E. Tennessee (Nov 1863-April 1864) Bryan's Brigade, Kershaw's Div. lst Corps,. Army of N. Virginia (April-Aug 1864) Bryan's-Simms, Brigade, Kershaw Div. Valley District, Dept of N. Virginia, (Aug-Oct 1864) Simms' Brigade, KErshaw's Div lst Corps, Army of N. Virginia (Nov.-1864-April 1865) Battles: Confederates Killed, Wounded & Missing 2nd Bull Run (August 28-30, 1862) 3,700 South Mountain (September 14, 1862) 4,373 Fredericksburg (December 13,1862) 4,576 Chancellorsville (May 1-4,1863) 12,281 Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863) 31,621 Chickamauga (not engaged) Sept. 19-20-1863 17,804 Chattanooga Siege (Sept.=Nov. 1863) 8,684 Knoxville Siege (Nov-Dece. 1863) no numbers given CAPTURED - The Wilderness (May 5-6, 1864) 11,400 CAPTURED - Spotsylvania Court House (May 8-21, 1864) 9,000 CAPTURED - North Anna (May 23-26, 1864) 2,000 CAPTURED - Cold Harbor 9June 1-3, 1864) 1,700 CAPTURED - Petersburg Siege (June 1864-April 1865) no numbers given Sayler's Creek (April 6, 1865) 7,000 Bentonville, N.C. - 2,825 Appomattox Court House (April 9, 1865) On September 19, 1863 - THE BATTLE OF CHICKAMAUGA, Union and Confederate soldiers met at Chickamauga Creek in Tennessee. After a brief period of fighting, the Union forces retreated to Chattanooga, and the Confederacy maintained control of the battlefield. On November 23-25, 1863, THE BATTLE OF CHATTANOOGA, Union forces pushed Confederate troops away from Chattanooga. The victory set the stage for General Sherman's Atlanta Campaign. Between September - November 1863; After Rosecrans's debacle at Chickamauga, Confederate General Braxton Bragg's army occupied the mountains that ring the vital railroad center of Chattanooga. Grant, brought in to save the situation, steadily built up offensive strength, and on November 23-25 burst the blockage in a series of briliantly executed attacks. There are photographs that were taken a year later that include scenes on Lookout Mountain, stormed by Hooker on November 24, 1863. Between November - December 1863, THE SIEGE OF KNOXVILLE, The difficult strategic situation of the federal armies after Chickamauga enabled Bragg to detach a force under Longstreet to drive Burnside out of eastern Tennessee. Burnside south refuge in Knoxville, which he successfully defended from Confederate assaults. AS STATED ABOVE IN THE CONFEDERATE RECORDS OF SOLDIERS IN GEORGIA, May, 1864, THE BATTLE OF SPOTSYLVANIA. General Grant continued to attack LEE. At Spottsylvania Court House, he fought for five days, vowing to fight all summer if necessary. NOTE: This battle at Spottsylvania is where both Calvin Bryant and 'Hopping' John Bryant were captured and then Calvin Bryant was released at Point Lookout, Md, March 14, 1865. 'Hopping' John Bryant got wounded in left side at Bean Station, Tennessee, December 10, 1863. Captured at Harper's Farm, Va. on April 6, 1865, and released at Lookout Point, Md. Hopping John Bryant received promotion to 2nd Corporal April 1864, then he was captured at Spottsylvania, Va. 5-12-1864; where he was once again released at Point Lookout, Va. June 24, 1865. There was a period when these brothers didn't fight together. Both were hero's and fought under General Lee, of the Confederate War. The Civil War ended June 1865 - Final Surrenders among Remaining Confederates Troops. Remaining confederate Troops were defeated between the end of April and the end of May. Jefferson Davis was captured in Georgia on May 10, 1865. Calvin's Confederate Records indicate: April 13, 1862 - he was sent to hospital in Macon, Ga. September 23, 1862 - he was sent to Winchester Hospital. Feb. 20, 1863 - he was sent to Richmond Hospital in Virginia. Three different Captured dates: May 6, 1864 May 7, 1864 at the Wilderness Va. Battle. and this posting of May 12, 1864 at the Battle of Spottsylvania He was sent to Point Lookout, MD prison and exchanged March 4, 1865 - just think, his brother John was captured the following month and sent to the same prison his brother had been in. The last two entries probably mean he did not surrender at Appomattox, Va - therefore, for him to be formally paroled - most of the solders who didn't surrender at Appomattox, went to Thomasville, on their own, to be officially paroled. THE CIVIL WAR WAS OVER - CALVIN BRYANT AND BROTHER JOHN [Hopping John] BRYANT lived to make it back home to Colquitt Co. Georgia. FOUND Calvin Bryant listed on 1867 -1868 Returns of Qualified Voters & Registration Oath Books, by White. 23:1 and 37:16, stored at State of Georgia Archives & History in Atlanta, Ga. In the 1902 Moultrie Observer Newspaper of Georgia; lists Calvin Bryant and John Bryant as surviving Confederate Soldiers - Veterans. 1910 Census of Autreyville District, Colquitt Co. Georgia: has Calvin Bryant and wife Martha were living by themselves. It has James W. Bryant [son] in his own home with wife and only one daughter-Mary age 2 yrs. It also has John Henry Hitch Bryant listed with his family. Wife Martha; son Frank, Daughter Ollie; Son- Ivey John Bryant; Daughter Susie; and Daughter Florence in this census. Calvin later died in the year 1915; only living thirteen years after the Civil War. He entered the Civil War when he was approximately 33 years old. Calvin died at age 83 years. Calvin Bryant was listed as 76 years old in the 1910 Census of Colquitt Co. Georgia Autreyville area; but he really was 76 years old.. His wife was listed as Martha who was 70 years old and her age was correct. It states that Calvins father was born in North Carolina. Mother born Georgia, but the census is not correct on this because in earlier census records it shows Calvin's mother born in North Carolina with Nancy herself..
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