WHITTLE GUARDS Company D, 10th Battalion Georgia Infantry Rutland District southern Bibb County Source: The Macon Daily Telegraph, page 1, published April 2, 1862. It is an early muster roll of the "Whittle Guards" Company D, 10th Battalion Georgia Volunteer Infantry. This company was raised in the Rutland District of Bibb County and was named in honor of Lewis N. Whittle. It was officially organized March 4, 1862. IMAGE of ARTICLE: http://scvcamp1399.org/units/whittle-guards-bibb-macontelegraph_04021862.jpg Macon Daily Telegraph April 2, 1862 - Page 1, column 6 Muster Roll of Whittle Guards OFFICERS Dr. W.L. Jones, Captain *********************************** John. H. Underwood*, 1st Lieutenant *********************************** ************************ CORRECTION - This is JOHN HARTWELL WOODWARD ===John H. Woodward is son of Stephen and Jane Barnett Woodward who owned a 1000 acre plantation in southern Bibb County. Younger brothers Lt. James T. Woodward (for whom SCV Camp 1399 is named) of Company D, 12th GA Inf, and Pvt. William Washington Woodward of Company B, 27th GA Inf, also served. Lt. John H. Woodward was with the 10th Batn assigned to POW guard duty at Camp Oglethorpe in Macon when he received news that his younger brother, Lt. James T. Woodward, was killed at the Battle of McDowell (Virginia) May 8th, 1862. John, with a trusted family slave, made the trip to McDowell Virginia to retrieve the body for burial in Bibb County. Read more... http://scvcamp1399.org/aboutWoodward.php http://scvcamp1399.org/CampOglethorpe.php Dr. Charles Kellum (Macon) is a great grandson of John H. Woodward. John H. Woodward was forced to resign due to illness June 11, 1862, not long after retrieving his brother's body. He again tried to make a go of it in the army by enlisting as 3rd Lt. Co C, 14th Batt Ga State Guards Aug 4, 1863, but again resigned due to disability. He would later serve two terms as Dooly County Court Judge, Representative in the Legislature in 1871-1872 and Senator in 1880. Born 16 Jan. 1831, died in Dooly County Oct 17, 1918 and buried at Vienna City Cemetery (Dooly County Georgia). http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Woodward&GSfn=John&GSiman=1&GScid=37539&GRid=50756301& ************************************* Wm Reese Busbee, 2nd Lieutenant Thos Jeptha Gibson, 2nd Brev. Lieutenant Henry Bass Treadwell, Chaplain of Bat. Young D. Johnson, 1st Sergeant Wm. W. Russell, 2nd Sergeant George W. Hartley 3rd Sergeant John W. Jackson , 4th Sergeant Richard Wiggins, 5th Sergean John Knox Polk Grace 1st Corporal Sargett Rigdon Thomas , 2nd Corporal Anderson Cunningham 3rd Corportal Wm Hunnicutt, 4th Corporal ************************************** PRIVATES James W. Aultman Lewis Barefield John Allen Bartlett Joseph A. Brantley Wm T. Brantley Edmund C. Collum Philip Causey Thos Cunningham Jaosper Champion Wm G. Cribb Thomas Cribb Hart W. Campbell Thos Coughlin Henry R. Curry Private - September 25, 1861 in Co. D, 30th GA. http://www.scvcamp1399.org/units/30thGA_CoD.php Transferred to Company D, 10th Battalion Georgia Infantry November 1, 1862. Wounded at Jericho Ford, Virginia May 20, 1864. Surrendered, Appomattox, Virginia April 9, 1865. James Davidson Joseph Marion Drawhorn ** Enlisted as a private in Company D 10th Battalion Georgia Infantry March 4, 1862. Transferred to Company D, 30th Regiment Georgia Infantry November or December 1862. Wounded at Murfreesboro, Tennessee December 17, 1864. Captured at Franklin, Tennessee December 17, 1864. Released at Camp Chase, Ohio June 13, 1865. (Born in Bibb County, Georgia in 1843.) http://www.scvcamp1399.org/units/30thGA_CoD.php David E. Fullbright Hosea Grooms Wm Giblert Seaborn A. Gray Needham C. Hastey J.George W. Hodge W.E. Hollingsworth Franklin Hollingsworth Wm. Hasty Jefferson C. Hamlin Wm A. Hutchings Jackson A.Hambrick James Hays Floyd Jones Charles E. Jones John L. Kitchens Wiley Moncrief Joel Mizzles Pinckney Masters Wm B. Nowell * **William Nowell married Elizabeth Rainey 10 Dec 1846 John J. Nelson David Owens Wm Petty Thos Potter Wm Procter Reuben A. Rainey Charles W. Rainey Robert J. Rainey Seaborn L. Ricks Wm C. Simmons Monroe Smith John S. Slocumb Eli Summerlin Abel Sullivan Franklin L. Sykes Stephen Tucker John A. Tharpe Calvin Thomas Bertran Ticereau (Tissereau) George Taylor Rufus Veal John H. Waller A. Jackson Ward James Wiggins John P. Waldrop David Wilson Dawson Weaver George Williams David Weaver George W. Yates ================================= Company A of the 10th Battalion GA Inf was the Macon County Guards http://scvcamp1399.org/units/Muster-Roll-10th-GA-Inf-Battn-CompanyA.php More about Lt. James Thomas Woodward & family: http://scvcamp1399.org/aboutWoodward.php http://scvcamp1399.org/units/27thGA_CoB.php http://scvcamp1399.org/units/10thGA-Btn_CoD.txt ===================================== Whittle Guards named for Lewis N. Whittle: FROM Richard W. Iobst's book CIVIL WAR MACON. "Lewis Neale Whittle - Lewis Neale Whittle was born on 15 May 1818, in Norfolk, Virginia. As a youth he became a surveyor, and was employed by railroads in Virginia and Georgia. He married Sarah M. Powers of Monroe County, Georgia, studied law, and came to Macon to be admitted to the Bar. He had a prosperous career, served two terms in the Georgia State Legislature, was a senior warden and leader in Christ Episcopal Church on Walnut Street in Macon, and was a director of both the Macon and Western and Macon and Brunswick Railroads. During the war he served as an aide to Georgia Governor Joseph E. Brown. Some of his greatest contributions came in the field of education, serving on the boards of the Georgia Academy for the blind; the Bibb County Board of Education; the Macon Free School; and the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. He was the first president of the Georgia Bar Association in 1883 the same year in which he died. Whittle School in Macon was named after him." ============================================================ http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/bibb/military/cod10bat.txt The 10th Battalion was organized at Griffin, Ga, March 17, 1862, of companies mainly from Macon, Worth, Sumter and Bibb Counties. There were also men from counties surrounding each of the aforementioned counties. A 5th company was formed in July '62. In 1862, the Battalion guarded prisoners held at Camp Oglethorpe in Macon from May to December. They also guarded military installations within the city of Macon. They were sent to Virginia in December 1862 and attached to G.T. Anderson's Brigade through April '63. They did not guard any prisoners other than those at Macon. They participated in the Suffolk Campaign of Apr '63 and were later unattached from any brigade and posted at Franklin, Va, for 8 months from August '63 to Apr '64. They did not serve in N. Carolina except for patrols from Franklin. In April '64, the Battalion was attached to A.R. Wright's Brigade and participated in the campaign from the Wilderness to Petersburg from May to June '64. Maj. John E. Rylander was killed at Cold Harbor. Capt. James D. Frederick of Co A, was promoted in his place. They were at Deep Bottom Aug 16, '64 and Weldon R.R. Aug 21, '64 and remained on the lines at Petersburg until the withdrawal Apr 2, '65. Maj. Frederick was wounded at Deep Bottom and the command of the Battalion eventually fell to Capt. Caleb Hill of Co A. Their last battle was at Farmville Apr 7, '65.