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Lt. James T. Woodward Camp 1399 |
Many of the men in Company A 14th Battalion were re-enlisted veterans of 1st Georgia Regiment Company C (Ramsey's). More service record details posted there.
OFFICERS
Captain............................ Joseph Palmer; promoted Major
1st Lieut. .........................M. W. Havis; promoted Capt.
2nd Lieut.......................... J. R. Duncan; promoted 1st Lieut.
2nd Lieut...........................C. H. Smith
2nd Lieut.......................... H. R. Felder
1st Sergt.......................... C. C. Duncan
2nd Sergt. .........................A. S. Giles
3rd Sergt. .........................Sylvester Capers King
4th Sergt. .........................W. H. Norwood
5th Sergt. ........................J. R. Rice, 3rd Lieut.
6th Sergt. ........................H. S. Feagan Transfered
7th Sergt. ........................S. C. Kendrick
8th Sergt. ........................M. Tharp, Quartermaster Sergt.
1st Corp. ..........................A. H. Foy, Sergt.
2nd Corp. ........................G. W. Smith
3rd Corp.......................... A. H. Tharp, Sergt.
4th Corp. .........................J. D. Kendrick
5th Corp. ..........................H. J. Harvey
6th Corp. ..........................A. C. Bryan
7th Corp. ..........................J. P. Weddon
8th Corp. ..........................T. H. Marshall
9th Corp. ..........................Newton Greer, Transfered
10th Corp. ........................Blake Walker, Died in camp
11th Corp. ........................C. Etheridge, Killed at Perryville, Ky.
12th Corp. ........................W. F. Killen
PRIVATES
B. G. Albea
W. C. Aired
Dr. W. H. Bailey,................. Asst. Surgeon
J. H. Barker
James Barker
William Barker
J. E. Barrett, Private - September 18, 1861. Mustered
out (of Co. C 1st GA) at Augusta, Georgia March 18, 1862. Enlisted as a private
in Company A, 14th Battalion, Georgia Light Artillery, April 26,
1862. Appointed Guidon. Surrendered, Greensboro, North Carolina
April 26, 1865.
T. W. Barron
W. A. Barron
A. P. Baskin - Private - March 18, 1861. Appointed 5th
Sergeant October 18, 1861. Mustered out (of Co. C 1st GA) at Augusta, Georgia March
18, 1862. Enlisted as a private in Company A, 14th Battalion,Georgia Light Artillery, April 26, 1862. Appointed Corporal. Surrendered,
Greensboro, North Carolina April 26, 1865.
S. E. Bateman - Private - March 18, 1861. Mustered
out (of Co. C 1st GA) at Augusta, Georgia March 18, 1862. Enlisted as a private
in Company A, 14th Battalion, Georgia Light Artillery, April 26, 1862. Surrendered, Greensboro, North Carolina April 26, 1865.
Dr. A. H. Baxley
Louis Bechold
A. W. Bell
Jesse Bell
S. W. Birch
James Bishop
Peter Blankenship
John Bone
P. C. Britt
D. H. Brown
J. S. Bryan
L. E. Bryan, .......................died in army
G. W. Busby
_____ Bush
B. G. Cambron
G. C. Chambers
L. R. Chambers
C. E. Chancey
C. T. Choate
B. F. Clark
B. L. Clark
Daniel Clark
J. W. Clark (John W) - Private - March 18, 1861. Mustered out
at Augusta, Georgia March 18, 1862. Enlisted as a private in Company
A, 14th Battalion, Georgia Light Artillery, April 26, 1862. Appointed
Corporal. Surrendered, Greensboro, North Carolina April 26, 1865.
J. B. Cofield
G. W. Collins
T. W. M. Cox
W. R. Cox
J. Cummings
G. R. Dolittle
Z. Dolittle
B. A. Dougherty
William Dougherty
F. T. Downs
J. J. Dumas, ........................died in army
E. E. Duncan
W. D. Dyer
A. Eddins, ...........................died in army
W. H. Engraham
J. T. Etheridge, ..................died in army
T. W. Eubanks, ..................died in army
L. B. C. Evans
B. F. Finney
J. B. Finney
W. A. Finney
W. C. Garner
J. T. Gibson
K. S. B. Gibson
J. R. Gilbert, ...................died in army
K. J. H. Gilmore
J. E. Gladden
William Glorn
Henry Goodson, ...............FIRST MAN TO DIE
William Grace
T. J. Graves
W. B. Griffin
T. Mc. Hardy
E. J. Harvey
G. S. Haslam
F. C. Henderson
John Hicks
T. T. Hollingsworth
John Holmes
J. Holton
J. H. Houser
M. C. Hudson
J. M. Isbell
John Jacobs
A. Johnson
W. A. Jones
W. R. Jones
James Judge
John F. Kendrick
Alfred Augustus King
H. L. King
I. M. King
J. T. King
W. M. King, ......................died in hospital
J. H. Laider
Sol Laidler
J. B. Lane
J.D. Lane, .........................killed at Bakers Ferry
J. H. Lane
N. P. Lane
R. B. Lane
Thomas Lane
W. H. Lane
William Lanier
S. H. Leary, .......................killed at New Hope Church
A. J. Lewis
E. G. Logan
G. B. Lovett
_____ Lovett
W. B. Malone
C. R. Mann
R. F. Mann
John Marshall
William Martin
C. M. Mason
W. B. Mclnvale
J. W. Melvin
W. M. Melvin
William Mitchell
J. G. Moore
I. L. Murray
J. D. Murray
John Murray
William Myrick
J. E. Nichols
William Oglivie
Archibald Parker
B. F. Parker
Weeks Parker
William Parker
J. P. Pattishall
George Paul
W. B. Peddy
Gid L. Pence
W. W. Pence, .....................killed at Chicamauga
Henry Perry
Virgil Perry
S. C. Pettishall
John Pollock
John G. Pollock
J. R. Pool
A. H. Pratt
James Price
H. T. Rainey
W. L. Rainey
J. R. Raylor
S. C. Rice
J. L. Riley, ......................died in camp
J. A. Rogers
J. R. Rollins
J. A. Roquemore
J. B. Russell
T. Rutherford
J. T. Sanderfur ,...............died in army
J. H. Sauls
A. B. Schilling
B. Shelly, ........................died in army
James H. Sistrunk, ..........died in army
T. W. Skinner
S. S. Skipper
Eason Smith
J. J. Smith, .....................killed in Atlanta
Joel Smith, .....................died in army
Joseph Smith
J. N. Smith
T. A. Smith
T. W. Smith
N. G. Smith
P. J. Smith
W. A. Snelling
B. T. Stafford
A. C. Staley
J. A. Streeter, ....................killed at Chicamauga
Thomas Stribling, ..............died in army
L. A. Stubbs
Thomas Swafford
C. T. Swift, ........................Capt. Commy Dept
W. R. Talley
J. H. Talton
Allen Tanner
J. E. Taylor
C. A. Thompson
E. Thompson
G. F. Thompson,..................commissary for company
Dr. F. A. Toomer, ................was surgeon
George M. Townsley, ..........bugler
L. S. Townsley
G. W. Waddell
A. E. Walker
George T. Walker
H. G. Walker
J. E. Walker
J. O. Wardlaw
L. S. Watson
Gilford West
E. Whitfield
E .Whittle
Alvin Williamson
Henry Williamson
E. Williams
Dallas Williford
David Williford
W. F. Wilson
D. B. Wimberly
H. A. Wimberly, ................died in army
C. Woodley
From Havis' Battery Organized as the Southern Rights Battery in Perry, Houston Co., Georgia in March of 1862, this battery would later become known as "Palmer's Battery" and then as "Havis's Battery". Most of the officers and sergeants were recently discharged veterans of company C, 1st Ga. Infantry (Ramsey's) who had seen service in Virginia. The battery was mustered in to Confederate service, 14th Battalion, Georgia Light Artillery, by Captain Joseph T. Montgomery at Perry, Georgia on April 26, 1862. The unit went to camps of instruction at Griffin and at Calhoun. As the best drilled battery in the battalion, Southern Rights Battery was selected to join Bragg's army in the invasion of Kentucky (Battle for the Bluegrass), receiving their baptism of fire at Perryville, October 8, 1862, attached to Brown's Brigade, Anderson's Division of Hardee's Corps. Mounted as horse artillery and now known as Palmer's Georgia Battery, they accompanied John Hunt Morgan and his famous Morgan's Raiders on his Christmas Raid, distinguishing themselves at Elizabethtown, December 27, 1862. Relinquishing their cannoneer's mounts and losing the gallant Palmer through promotion and reassignment to Cheatham's Corps, Havis's Battery reunited with their old mates from the 14th, Anderson's Battery, and, along with Lumsden's Alabama Battery became the Artillery Reserve of the Army of Tennessee, under Major (later Brigadier-General) Felix H. Robertson. As one wag put it, " we are called Reserve Artillery because we are never in reserve." The Reserve Artillery saw action in the Tullahoma Campaign, Chickamauaga, the Siege of Chattanooga, Missionary Ridge, and all the battles of the Atlanta campaign. In the spring of 1864 Major Palmer returned to take command of the Reserve Artillery, and after the fall of Atlanta most of Hood's artillery was sent to Macon where were located the Confederate Macon Armory and an Arsenal. The rest of the Army of Tennessee marched off to their ill-fated meeting with Thomas at Franklin and Nashville. In the spring of 1865 Havis's Battery marched to North Carolina to rejoin the shattered remnants of the army, surrendering with Joe Johnston at Greensboro, N.C. April 26, 1865, three years to the day after mustering in on the steps of the Houston County courthouse. |
Additional resources:
14th Battalion Georgia Light Arty Info