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 Private William Benjamin Fleming

 
Company B, 13th Georgia Cavalry 
Last veteran of the War Between the States to die in Clay Co., North Carolina 1846 - 1938 

Great-Great Grandfather of Proud Southerner Vicki Fleming, UDC 

Captain William Anderson Ellis, Company I, 35th North Carolina

William Anderson Ellis was a school teacher who enlisted in
Company I, 35th North Carolina in 1861. He was wounded at
the Bermuda Hundred in May of 1864 and died in a Virginia
hospital three days later. For more info, click here.

Great-Great Great Uncle of Proud Southerner Jim Shelton of NC 

Private James Chandler Harrison


48th Regiment NC State Troops, Company G. Enlisted June 1, 1861 at age 26 for the war. Wounded at Bristoe Station, VA October 14, 1863.
Wounded at Wilderness, VA May 5, 1864. Retired to Invalid Corp December 24, 1864.

2nd Great Granduncle of Proud Southerners and SCV Members John and Doug Nash

William H. Stubbs, 1844-1864


He was killed at Resaca, Georgia May 1864. He was in the 18th Alabama Infantry. He was severely wounded. One of his buddies survived the War and told his family that they had to prop William against a tree and leave him there. He was twenty years old. 

Great Great Uncle of Proud Southerner Paula Hurst  

Captain Daniel McLeod, 24th Alabama Infantry


From Grove Hill, Clarke  Co. Alabama. From 1861 to the surrender (26 Apr. 1865) fought at Shiloh, Corinth, Siege of Chattanooga, Chicamauga, Missionary Ridge, Atlanta Siege, Franklin, Nashville, and the Carolina Campaign.

Great Great Grandfather of Proud Southerner James A. Bentley, Stone Fort Camp 1944 S.C.V.

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 Isaac Newton Hightower, Ala 45 Infantry and 1st Ala Calvary

Isaac Newton Hightower, born 1839 died 1925 in Salem Alabama, shot in left knee at Union Grove Georgia/Newnan Church Georgia, surrendered under Gen Joseph E Johnston.

Great Great Great Grandfather of  Proud Southerner, Adam Robinson

Charles Augustus DeLoach, Company A, Hilliard's Legion, 5th Battalion, Cavalry, Alabama Volunteers.

Charles Augustus DeLoach joined the CSA on March 10, 1863 in Chambers County, Al. for the duration of the war. He was a private in Company A, Hilliard's Legion, 5th Battalion, Cavalry, Alabama Volunteers. He furnished his own horse (for which he was to be paid 40 cents per day) and gun. He was paroled at Hillsboro, NC on May 3, 1865. He came home without a horse or gun, walking. He had a brother, Jesse M. DeLoach, who was in the same Company but was killed in action. He had 7 first cousins serving in the Company with him. Of those 7, 3 of them returned. Charles A. DeLoach was born August 2, 1842 in Upson County, Ga. and died December 31, 1926 in West Point, Troup County, Ga.

Great Great Grandfather of  Proud Southerner, Marsha S. Faulk

Pvt. Joshua James Chadwick
4th North Carolina Cavalry, (59th Regiment, NC State Troops), Company C

Joshua James Chadwick was born in 1846 in New Hanover County where he resided as a farmer. He died February 25, 1902 in Lenoir County, North Carolina. He enlisted in the Confederate States Army for three years or the duration of the war at age 16 on July 6, 1862. His Unit was assigned to the Army of Northern Virginia under General J.E.B. Stuart, General R.E. Lee, Commanding, and was quite famous in many actions, the most renowned being salient in the "Bloody Lane," Sharpsburg, (Antietam), under General A.P. Hill, in which they literally slaughtered the famous Yankee Division known as the "Iron Brigade" (60% casualties). He was said to have worn his great mustache to cover a scar, resultant of a wound caused by a Yankee saber in one of the many actions his unit took part in.

Grandfather of Proud Southerners and US Armed Forces veterans Edward Earl Chadwick, (USN), Joshua Columbus Chadwick, Jr., (USN), Homer Bryan Chadwick, (USAF), and Great Grandfather of Proud Southerners, Sons of Confederate Veterans and US Armed Forces veterans, Edward Dunn (Chad) Chadwick, (USAF), Joshua Columbus Chadwick, III, (USAF), Thomas Earl Chadwick, (USA) and a great lady & Southern Patriot, Mary Latta Chadwick.

Private James Jefferson Anderson, Company K, 33rd, Mississippi
 

James Jefferson Anderson was from Amite County, Mississippi, one of 4 sons of Benjamin and Jane Anderson.  All of the sons went to the War Betweeen the States fighting on behalf of the South. James Jefferson Anderson watched his brother, John Anderson, killed at the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee as well as his wife's cousin C.N.B. Street and friend Henry Clay Shaw a color bearer of the 33rd.  Co. K. the 33rd met death headlong on the Bloody Field of Franklin.

James Jefferson Anderson was married to Victoria Caroline Morgan, her brother, Fielding Morgan, at age 15 joined the Confederate Cavalry.

Great Grandfather and Great-Great Grandfather of Proud Southerners William G. Barron and son Will Barron

 

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