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49th Georgia Infantry
Company A
William Henry Harrison Bailey - Private
Served entire war with the 49th. Fought in all engagements.
Contact Name: Reed Davis
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Date Added: 2/15/2011

Company A
Hansford A. Hall - Private
Enlisted on 4 May 1862 at Irwinton, GA.
Contact Name: Herman Johnson
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Date Added: 12/13/2008

Company B
John Henry Bowen - Corporal
No comments
Contact Name: Carolyn Moody
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Date Added: 2/26/2002

Company B
John Willcox Coffee - Private
Born 03/26/1836 in Telfair Co. Georgia to John Bryan Coffee (b. 01/08/1814 in Telfair Co. Georgia) and Rebecca Willcox (b. 10/02/1817 in Telfair Co. Georgia). John enlisted as a private 4 March 1862 in Company B, 49th GA Volunteer Infantry, soon to transfer to Company H. He surrendered at Appomattox, VA 9 April 1865. John died on 13 September 1899 at the age of 63. He is buried in Coffee-Harrell Cemetery, Dodge Co, GA. National Archives Microfilm Box, Roll, and Record: 000226, 0013, 00000116. Married twice with 4 children. Died 09/03/1899 in Rhine, Dodge Co. Georgia.

(3rd Cousin 4 times removed)
Contact Name: Donald Steven Smith
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Contact Homepage: http://www.mdscv.org/1388/adopt-a-confederate/
Date Added: 3/30/2006

Company B
Angus Edward Shaw - Sergeant
No comments
Contact Name: Wade Pittillo
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Date Added: 12/28/2004

Company B
John C. Shaw - Sergeant
No comments
Contact Name: Wade Pittillo
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Date Added: 1/1/2005

Company B
John Charles Shaw - Sergeant
No comments
Contact Name: Teresa Shaw
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Date Added: 12/24/2015

Company B
James Watson - Private
No comments
Contact Name: Colynn Watson
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Date Added: 11/8/2014

Company B
Lucius Lazarus Williams - Captain
Lucius was a 3rd Lieutentant when he joined this regiment in 1862. By the end of the war he was a captain.
Contact Name: Carolyn Moody
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Date Added: 2/26/2002

Company C
Uriah Wesley Veal - Private
My first cousin four times removed...Wounded at Gettysburg and killed in the battle of the Wilderness on May 5, 1864...I have found no record of his grave....I think he may be buried in one of the mass graves where they buried many confederates after the battle....He was 21 years old....
Contact Name: Dianne Sullivan
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Date Added: 5/9/2013

Company D
Jason G. Akins - Private
Captured & Paroled at Battle of Vicksburg. Died Jan 1927, Gilmer Co, GA.
Contact Name: Mark Anderson
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Date Added: 12/18/2009

Company D
William Thomas Combs - Corporal
No comments
Contact Name: Johnny Kicklighter
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Date Added: 12/25/2008

Company E
Jonathan Lawson Fortner - 1st Corporal
Mustered into unit on March 4, 1862 as a Private. Appointed First Corporal on August 7, 1863. Wounded by concussion of an exploding artillery shell at Gettysburg on July 3, 1864. Died in 1897 and rests in Mount Zion Cemetery near Dade City, Florida.
Contact Name: Benny P. Haimovitz
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Date Added: 6/9/2007

Company E
Allen Gibbs - Private
Enlisted May 10, 1862 at Abbeville, GA.
Contact Name: Herman Johnson
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Date Added: 12/3/2008

Company E
John A. Gibbs - Private
Enlisted on 4 Mar 1862 at Abbeville, GA.
Contact Name: Herman Johnson
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Date Added: 12/3/2008

Company E
Nathaniel S. Gibbs - Private
Enlisted on 22 Dec 1862 at Abbeville, GA.
Contact Name: Herman Johnson
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Date Added: 12/3/2008

Company E
Richard Gibbs - Private
Enlisted on 4 Mar 1862 at Abbeville, GA.
Contact Name: Herman Johnson
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Date Added: 12/3/2008

Company E
James Valentine Hollingsworth IV - 1st Corporal
Born May 27, 1845 in Irwin Co., Georgia. Enlisted March 4, 1862, Private. Killed at Chancellorsville, Virginia, May 3, 1963, four weeks before his 18th birthday. Listed on the Confederate Roll of Honor.
Contact Name: John H Griscom Jr
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Date Added: 7/23/2012

Company E
Redding F. Hunter - Private
Enlisted 4 Mar 1862 at Abbeville, GA.
Contact Name: Herman Johnson
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Date Added: 12/10/2008

Company E
Dennis M. Taylor - Private
Enlisted on 10 May 1862 at Abbeville, GA.
Contact Name: Herman Johnson
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Date Added: 12/10/2008

Company F
Daniel Grantham - Private
Enlisted on May 15, 1862 at Irwinville, GA.
Contact Name: Herman Johnson
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Date Added: 12/3/2008

Company F
Jacob R McCook - 2nd Corporal
Jacob was my great-great grandfathers brother. He enlisted on May14, 1862, was wounded on December 13,1862 at Fredericksburg and became a POW on May 6, 1864 at Wilderness, Va. Was exchanged on February 20, 1865 at Boulware's Wharf, Va. Furloughed home on April 15, 1865.
Contact Name: Mike Hayward
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Date Added: 2/26/2010

Company F
William Green McCook - Private
Enlisted as a Private on 04 March 1862 at the age of 37
Enlisted in Company F, 49th Infantry Regiment Georgia on 04 March 1862.
POW on 12 May 1864 at Mine Run, VA
Released on 05 May 1865 at Fort Delaware, DE
Contact Name: Fred Rose
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Date Added: 1/17/2009

Company F
Alonzo Paulk - Private
Enlisted on 30 Aug 1862 at Calhoun, GA.
Contact Name: Herman Johnson
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Date Added: 12/24/2008

Company F
Daniel Paulk - Private
Enlisted on 22 Aug 1862 at Calhoun, GA.
Contact Name: Herman Johnson
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Date Added: 12/24/2008

Company F
George R. Paulk - Private
Enlisted on 4 Mar 1862 at Irwinville, GA.
Contact Name: Herman Johnson
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Date Added: 12/24/2008

Company F
Jacob H. Paulk - Private
Enlisted on 30 Aug 1862 at Calhoun, GA.
Contact Name: Herman Johnson
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Date Added: 12/24/2008

Company F
James Paulk - Private
Enlisted on 4 Mar 1862 at Irwinville, GA.
Contact Name: Herman Johnson
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Date Added: 12/24/2008

Company F
Micajah Paulk - Private
Enlisted on 12 Sep 1862 at Calhoun, GA.
Contact Name: Herman Johnson
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Date Added: 12/24/2008

Company F
Reason Paulk - Private
Enlisted in Co F 49th GA Infantry on 4 Mar 1862 Irwinville, GA..
Contact Name: Herman Johnson
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Date Added: 12/5/2008

Company F
Daniel Purvis - Private
Enlisted 4 Mar 1862 at Irwinville, GA.
Contact Name: Herman Johnson
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Date Added: 12/11/2008

Company F
Jacob Purvis - Private
Enlisted 4 Mar 1862 at Irwinville, GA.
Contact Name: Herman Johnson
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Date Added: 12/16/2008

Company F
John Purvis - Private
Enlisted 30 Aug 1862 at Calhoun, GA.
Contact Name: Herman Johnson
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Date Added: 12/16/2008

Company F
Thomas Sylvester Rigdon - Private
I have written a book on the Georgia 49th - Don't Drink the Water.
Contact Name: John Rigdon
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Contact Homepage: www.researchonline.net
Date Added: 4/17/2009

Company F
John G. Roberts - Private
Enlisted on 4 Mar 1862 at Irwinville, GA.
Contact Name: Herman Johnson
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Date Added: 12/20/2008

Company F
Burrell Bary Sumner - Private
No comments
Contact Name: Thomas Pritchett
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Date Added: 10/30/2007

Company F
Jacob Troup - 4th Corporal
Jacob was born 2 Oct 1838 in Irwinsville, Irwin Co. Ga. He has 22 cards in his archival file. He enlisted 4 March 1862 when the Regiment was forming at Irwinsville, Ga. He was wounded 9 Aug 1862 in the battle of Cedar Mountain Va. Extent of injuries not stated. He rejoined his Regiment and was appointed to rank of 4th Corporal on 1 Nov 1864. He served with Thomas's Brigade A.P. Hill's Division, 2nd Corps, Army of North Virginia. He was involved in 18 major battles including Gettysburg, He married Sealy " Celia" Ann Hogan and died 27 May 1922. They are buried at Chipola Primitive Baptist Church, Altha, Calhoun Co Fla. He applied for a pension and it was granted. We are related by a distant marriage / no blood but married in kin /
Contact Name: Phillip Thomas
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Date Added: 10/2/2021

Company F
Elisha Tucker - Private
Joined on 13 Aug 1862 in Calhoun, GA.
Contact Name: Herman Johnson
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Date Added: 11/25/2008

Company F
Frederick Tucker - Private
Enlisted on 15 Aug 1862 Calhoun, GA.
Contact Name: Herman Johnson
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Date Added: 11/25/2008

Company F
Jacob Tucker - Private
Enlisted on 24 Sep 1862 at Calhoun, GA.
Contact Name: Herman Johnson
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Date Added: 11/25/2008

Company F
James Tucker - Private
He enlisted on 6 Nov 1863 at Macon, GA.
Contact Name: Herman Johnson
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Date Added: 11/25/2008

Company F
Matthew Tucker - Private
Enlisted 1 Sep 1862 in Calhoun, GA.
Contact Name: Herman Johnson
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Date Added: 11/25/2008

Company F
Richard Tucker - 2nd Lieutenant
Enlisted on 4 Mar 1862 at Irwinville.
Contact Name: Herman Johnson
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Date Added: 1/15/2009

Company F
Solomon Tucker - Private
Enlisted March 4, 1862 at Irwinville, GA.
Contact Name: Herman Johnson
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Date Added: 11/24/2008

Company F
Dennis M. Turner - Private
Enlisted on 4 Mar 1862 at Camp Davis, Irwinville, GA.
Contact Name: Herman Johnson
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Date Added: 12/14/2008

Company F
Thomas Young - Private
Enlisted 4 Mar 1862 at Irwinville, GA.
Contact Name: Herman Johnson
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Date Added: 12/17/2008

Company G
M. Littleton Akins - Private
Surrendered 9 Apr 1865, Appomattox, VA. Died Dec 1899, Gilmer Co, GA.
Contact Name: Mark Anderson
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Date Added: 12/18/2009

Company G
David Alligood - Private
Enlisted on May 16, 1861. Captured on July 4, 1863 at Gettysburg, PA. Taken to City Point, Virginia Prison where he was released on Sept. 8, 1863. Returned hom where he was killed by an enrolling officer on Nov. 18, 1864.
Contact Name: Linda
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Date Added: 4/23/2009

Company G
Henry Couey - Private
From Civil War service records
Contact Name: Ralph Couey
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Contact Homepage: race-the-sunset.blogspot.com
Date Added: 8/15/2008

Company G
George Graham - Private
Discharged at Fredericksburg, Va. December 20, 1862 due to disabling injury.
Contact Name: wyatt parker
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Date Added: 4/22/2008

Company G
Calvin Mimms - Private
Enlisted on May 16, 1862. Died on July 28, 1862 in Richmond of dysentary. One of three sons of Benjamin and Lydia Mimms to die of war related injury/sickness.
Contact Name: Wyatt Parker
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Date Added: 4/25/2008

Company H
Ezekiel Nathan Bailey - Private
Enlisted as a Private on 27 April 1863.
Enlisted in Company H, 49th Infantry Regiment Georgia on 27 Apr 1863.
Died Company H, 49th Infantry Regiment Georgia on 20 Jun 1863.
Contact Name: Laurence Bailey
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Date Added: 10/1/2011

Company H
Green Hamilton Holmes - Private
Holmes, Green H. - private
Enlisted May 5,1862.
Wounded at Gettysburg, Pa. July 3, 1863.
Captured near Petersburg, Va. March 25, 1865.
Released at Point Lookout, Md. June 28, 1865.

Named his son Mark Newman Holmes. No doubt in honor of his 2nd Lieutenant Mark Newman. They were both captured at Petersburg, Va and must have had a close friendship.
Contact Name: Alex Tye
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Date Added: 9/13/2007

Company H
Caney Swain Meadows - 4th Sergeant
No comments
Contact Name: Jim Meadows
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Date Added: 2/12/2012

Company H
William Saffold MeadowsRank Unknown
The information is from my father's Sons of Confederate Veterans membership certificate
Contact Name: Orran Hudson
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Date Added: 11/29/2010

Company H
William A Moxley - Private
No comments
Contact Name: B L Stroud
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Date Added: 2/24/2013

Company H
William A Moxley - Private
March 12 1829 - Feb 12 1912

Private, Co. H, 49th Georgia Infantry, Army of Northern Va.

According to National Archive records, he stood 5 ft 11 inches
tall, was of fair complexion with blue eyes and by profession a farmer.

Enlisted March 4 1862(3?). He had been in the hospital off and on during 1863 from chronic illness, resulting in his discharge due to disability March 1 1864.

1902-1907 he applied for pension.

He died 1912 having been married twice, widower once, and the father of nine children, seven with his second wife Margaret M. Stroud Moxley, daughter of John 'Jack' Stroud (private, Co H, 48th Georgia Infantry, Army of Northern Va.)

His widow, Margaret M. Stroud Moxley applied for widow's pension 1917-1918. She passed away in 1925.
Contact Name: BL Stroud
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Date Added: 9/12/2015

Company I
John William Jones - Private
No comments
Contact Name: JR Shannon
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Date Added: 4/1/2008

Company I
Terrell Kitchens - Private
Enl 4 Mar 1862, Hancock Co, GA at age 37. Wounded (report is he lost an arm) at Wilderness, VA (1864). Exchanged and discharged - died in GA - 1889
Contact Name: N Lavin
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Date Added: 4/26/2011

Company I
JASPER JOSEPH MCCRAY - Private
ENLISTED IN COMPANY I GEORGIA 49TH INFANTRY REGIMENT ON 4 MARCH 1862 MUSTERED OUT 11 MARCH 1863 BACK IN 9 APRL 1864 BIRTH 3 MAY 1847 DIED IN 29 JULY 1907 ( FAMILY BIBLE DATES )
Contact Name: DANIEL P. HIGH JR
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Date Added: 3/17/2014

Company K
John Haynes Pate - Major
My GGG Grandfather.
Contact Name: Vince Vaughn
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Date Added: 9/10/2006

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