Courtesy of the State Historical Society of Iowa

Original Muster Roll for Company B

Adams, Joseph A.

Clothing issued at Ringgold, GA, 2nd quarter 1863.

Clothing issued Buckner Hospital, Newnan, Georgia, October 31, 1863.

Received pay December 18, 1862 from F.W. Dillard at Columbus, Georgia.

Relieved of duty by Board of Examiners, Auburn, Alabama, March 15, 1865 because of spurious vaccination of 2 years duration and assigned as nurse in medical department.

Adkins, John A.

April 5, 1862: Enlisted at Opelika by T.F. Flournoy. Russell County resident. Captured: Franklin, Tennessee, November 30, 1864; sent to Louisville and then to Camp Douglas.

Barnett, Alexander H.

March 19, 1862: Age 29. Monument in Philips-Barnett family cemetery, Russell County, Alabama, lists him as Lieutenant, born, July 6, 1832, died Sept 20, 1862.

Barnett, J.W.

March 19, 1862: Age 21; enlisted at Opelika. Hospital muster roll Bemiss Hospital, Opelika,

Dec. 7, 1864.

Baugh, R.A.

March 19, 1862: Age 18; enlisted Opelika.

Belvin, E.D.

March 19, 1862: Enlisted Opelika. Died Gilmer Hospital, Chattanooga, Tennessee. Left $25.65 in charge of Council of Admiral June 20, 1863

Bird, Thomas J.

March 19, 1862: Age 17; enlisted Opelika.

Captured Pulaski, Tennessee, December 23, 1864. Sent Louisville, Camp Chase, Point Lookout;

Released June 23, 1865.

Description: From Russell County, Alabama, light complexion, dark hair, brown eyes, 5'5".

Hospital Record: Number One United States General Hospital, Nashville with gunshot wound to right foot, July 24, 1865.

Blackstock, J.J.

Clothing issued April 13, 1864


Buckner, James

March 19, 1862: Age 45; enlisted at Opelika.

Captured near Atlanta on July 22, 1864.

Sent to Louisville, Camp Douglas.

Description: Native of Russell County, Alabama; dark complexion, grey eyes, 5'9".

Buckner, J.H.

March 19, 1862: Age 16; enlisted at Opelika

Captured near Atlanta on July 22, 1864.

Buckner, J.N.

March 19, 1862: Age 16; enlisted at Opelika

Captured: Franklin, Tennessee.

Sent to Louisville, then Camp Douglas December 3, 1864.

Burr, Allen

March 19, 1862: Age 18; enlisted at Opelika.

Captured: Stone's River.

Died of gunshot wound February 10, 1863 at Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

Capps, Daniel Webster

Born: September 20, 1846.

Enlisted as Private in February, 1864 Dalton, Georgia. Continued until close of war.

Carden, John L.

Commutation of rations receipt dated July 9, 1863, Talladega, Alabama and again at Dalton, Georgia, June 13, 1863, $22.50.

Cargill, G.S.R. (George)

March 19, 1862: Age 30, enlisted at Opelika.

Captured: Danville, Kentucky; shipped Vicksburg November 12, 1862 for exchange.

Description: Blue eyes, red hair, light complexion.

Hospital: Tunnel Hill, Georgia. March and April as nurse.

Carmack, William Jackson C.

March 19, 1862: Age 21; enlisted at Opelika.

Captured: Perryville, Kentucky, sent to Vicksburg via Cairo, Illinois, January 14, 1863.

In Prison at Camp Douglas sent to Vicksburg for exchange January 6, 1863.

Duty: Military Prison Atlanta, Georgia. May 1864.

On report for Confederates captured at Macon, Georgia April 20-21, 1865.

Chadwick, W.J.

Clothing issued on April 13, 1864. On list of Way Hospital, Meridian, Mississippi, from wounds

January 13, 1865; furloughed.


Cherry, G.W.

Born: July 17, 1831 in Houston County, Georgia

Mustered March 19, 1862: Age 31.

Entered as 1st Sergeant. Company B, February 22, 1862 at Auburn, Alabama

Promoted to Lieutenant, to Captain at Dalton, Georgia, February 20, 1864.

Continued as Captain until close of war.

Hospital: St. Mary's, LaGrange, Georgia (not dated).

Hospital: St Mary's West Point, Georgia January 5, 1865

Paroled at West Point, Georgia.

Childers, Joseph B.

March 19, 1862: Age 25

St. Mary's Hospital, Dalton, Georgia, with febris typhoides, May 2, 1863

Captured: Nashville, Tennessee, December 24, 1864; sent to Camp Douglas.

Paroled: Youngsboro, Russell County, Alabama, 30 days.

Christian, W.R.

Employee roll, Buckner Hospital, Ringgold, Georgia as nurse May, 1863.

Listed as 2nd Lieutenant on inspection report dated September 14, 1864.

Sick and sent to hospital March, 1864.

Coggins, S.

From: Loachapoka, Alabama

Hospital: Ocmulgee Hospital, Macon, Georgia with febris renal and general debility--attended with chronic bronchitis, September 4, 1864.

Cole, I.W.

Clothing issued April 13, 1864

Collier, J.F.

March 19, 1862: Age 23

Enlisted Opelika.

Employed as druggist and nurse through June 30, 1864

DeLoach, J.W.

March 19, 1862: Age 35

Enlisted Opelika.

Received clothing April 20, 1864; employed as a cook.

Tunnel Hill Hospital, months of July and August, 1863.

Dennis, J.M.

March 19, 1862: Age 42.

Enlisted Opelika

Wounded in June (year unknown).

Clothing issued April 13, 1864

Echols, Thomas

Age: 19

Mustered: Montgomery, May 24, 1862

Survived War-resided in Pike County.

Echols, Thomas

Clothing issued April 13, 1864.

Captured: Macon, Georgia, April 20-21, 1865

Edins, J.S.

March 19, 1862: Age 27

Enlisted: Opelika

Clothing received April 13, 1864

Fair, J.G.

March 19, 1862: Age 19

Enlisted: Opelika

Inspection report dated Atlanta, Georgia, August 25, 1864; wounded, not sent to hospital.

Leave of absence, September 17, 1864.

Hospital Stay: Way Hospital, Meridian January 9, 1865

Fair, Richard M. (Farn)

March 19, 1862: Age 20

Enlisted: Opelika

Captured: Atlanta on July 22, 1864; sent to Louisville, Camp Chase, Oath at Camp Chase, May 15, 1865.

Description: From Russell County, Alabama, dark complexion, dark hair, dark eyes, 5'7".

Farril, W.M.

Captured: Perryville, Kentucky on October 9, 1862, sent to Camp Douglas.

Falkenberry, Issac C.

March 19, 1862: Age 20

Enlisted: Opelika

Captured: Stone's River

Died: Murfreesboro, Tennessee, January 14, 1863.

Department of Cumberland indicates death on January 21, 1863.

Declaration of father indicates death occurred February 6, 1863.

Description: Blue eyes, light hair, fair complexion, 5'9", born in Russell County and a farmer.

Fletcher, Zabud

March 19, 1862: Age 19

Enlisted: Opelika

Wounded and Captured: Perryville, Kentucky, January 5, 1863, exchanged Jamestown, Virginia, June, 1863. Rejoined regiment near Mufreesboro in July.

Captured: Peachtree Creek, Atlanta, Georgia, July 20, 1864 and sent to Camp Douglas, Chicago, Illinois.

Discharged: June 17, 1865,.

From Chambers County, Alabama.

Description: Born August 3, 1842 at Mt. Jefferson, Alabama. Fair complexion, light hair, blue eyes, 5'6".

Drove ambulance for company.

Flournoy, T.F.

March 19, 1862

Enlisted: Opelika

Resigned November 4, 1862, because of kidney trouble.

Recommended as Provost Marshall at Opelika.

Freeman, R.L.

April 5, 1862

Enlisted: Opelika

Parolled: May 24, 1865 at Talladega, Alabama

Freeman, W.J.

March 20, 1862: Age 20

Enlisted: Opelika

Gaffney, D.E.

March 19, 1862: Age 29

Enlisted: Opelika

Killed: October 8, 1962

Galligher, Dennis (Gallagher)

Captured: Big Shanty (Kennesaw), Georgia June 15, 1864 and sent via Louisville, Kentucky, June 24, 1864

Record of that date shows in Lowery's Brigade, Cleburnes Division, Hardee's Corps.

Sent to Rock Island. Illinois, November 7, 1864.

Gentry, Thomas Onesimus

March 19, 1862: Age 18

Enlisted: Opelika

Captured: Perryville, Kentucky on October 9, 1862.

Was sent to Vicksburg via Cairo, Illinois, December 13, 1862, rank of Corporal, Company B.

Captured: Location and date unknown.

Died: Febuary 28, 1863 of pneumonia at Alton Military Prison, Age 19.

Claim for deceased's property January 22, 1864 by Davis Clopton, Attorney.

Gibbs, Thomas W.

March 19, 1862: Age 17

Enlisted: Opelika

On September 3, 1863, received $30.00 for delivery of Berry Wilson who was a deserter from Company A, 1st Tennessee, at Cleveland, Tennessee. Delivered to T.W.W. Davis, Lieutenant Colonel, Commanding.

Transferred to Company D, 37th Alabama on February 15, 1864.

Giddens, F.M.

March 19, 1862: Age 18

Enlisted: Opelika

Died: Claimes of deceased filed April 30, 1863.

Goggans, Samuel

March 19, 1862: Age 36

Enlisted: Opelika

Hospital: Ocmulgee Hospital, Macon, Georgia, September, 1864.

Hospital: Bemiss Hospital, Opelika, Alabama, December, 1864.

Residence: Shelby County, Alabama.

Goodwin, William

Clothing issued April 13, 1864

Hospital: Floyd House, Macon, Georgia-left foot tarsal bones badly fractured.

From Union Springs, Alabama

Granberry, Elisha

March 19, 1862: Age 19

Enlisted: Opelika

Clothing issued: April 13, 1864

Grier, W.J.

March 19, 1862: Age 20

Enlisted: Opelika

Haley, J.T.J.

March 19, 1862: Age 20

Enlisted: Opelika

Hammonds, Washington

March 19, 1862: Age 37

Enlisted: Opelika

Hamner, M.W.

Record of payment to soldier dated December 31, 1863

Hamner, Samuel N.

March 19, 1862: Age 24

Enlisted: Opelika

Sent to Columbus, Georgia on furlough without shoes.

Was issued shoes July 19, 1864.

Handley, J.C.

Received pay for the period May 15, 1862 to August 31, 1862; $38.50.

Hanley, James

St. Mary's Hospital record at Dalton, Georgia, Dyspepsia.

Admitted March 25, 1863; on furlough April 18, 1863; transferred to Warm Springs, Georgia for 30 days.

Hanson, Moses

Appears on register of St. Mary's Hospital, LaGrange, Georgia, July 3, 1864.

Claim filed for deceased for the Confederate States Suditor for the War Department.

Harrison, William H.

Enrolled: March 16, 1862 by Captain Black of Company D.

Record shows age 21, grey eyes, dark complexion; 6'0".

Born: Russell County, Alabama.

Employed for extra duty at Missionary Ridge and at Tunnell Hill near Dalton, Georgia.

Hartness, R.E.H.

March 19, 1862: Age 21

Enlisted: Opelika

Haygood, J.R.

March 19,1862: Age 31

Enlisted: Opelika

Detailed on Quartermaster Supplies Depot at Atlanta, Georgia, March 1864.

Bottoming shoes-extra duty at Columbus, Georgia

House, John

Clothing receipt record 1864 only.

Hugley, C.T.

In Walter Hospital, Columbus, Georgia, March, 1864.

In Hospital, Mississippi from results of wounds; admitted January 19, 1865.

Hunt, Geo

March 19, 1862: Age 42

Enlisted: Opelika

Died April 5, 1863 at Atlanta Hospital

L.J. Hunt filed claim for deceased's property on January 26, 1864.

Hurt, G.M.

Captured: Talladega, Alabama, June 20, 1865

Jackson, E.W.

Died October 30, 1863 in Fairground Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia with $15.00.

Jackson, J.E.

Admitted to Floyd House and Ocmulgee Hospital, Macon, Georgia, with tonsillitis, December 15, 1863

Jackson, William

Receipt of clothing 1864.

Hospital: Tunnel Hill with diarrhea, July 11, 1863

Johnson, Mark G.

Born: January 2, 1844 at Hamilton in Harris County, Georgia.

Entered as Private in Company B, 45th in March, 1862 at Opelika.

Near close of war at home on wounded furlough.

Surrendered: Bentonville, North Carolina.

Johnson, Robert

March 19, 1862: Age 32

Enlisted: Opelika

Captured: Franklin, Tennessee, December 15, 1864.

Died: Nashville Hospital on December 25, 1865.

Johnson, Robert S.

Born: Georgia

Admitted USA General Hospital Nashville, Tennessee, December 26, 1864 with injury to right shoulder and groin.

Died: December 28, 1864 from wounds.

Buried: Nashville Cemetery, grave number 10733

Jones, A. (Abe)

March 19, 1862: Age 33

Enlisted: Opelika.

Detailed for employment by Major F.W. Dillard. Quartermaster. Dated Columbus, Georgia, April 2, 1864. Disabled-worked in shoe shop.

Kauffman, M. (Marcus?)

March 19, 1862: Age 31

Enlisted: Opelika

General Hospital, Chattanooga, Tennessee, June 19, 1864, from gunshot wound fracture of left forearm at Lost Mountain.

Languedoe, F. (Florentine)

March 19, 1862: Age 47

Enlisted: Opelika

Born: Danponsml, France

Disabilty discharge for old age on April 13, 1863 at Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Description: 5'8", fair complexion, blue eyes.

Lassiter, J.W.

March 19, 1862: Age 66

Enlisted: Opelika

Employed special duty in shoe shop.

Disabled: February 15, 1863.

Lockhart, W.D.

March 9, 1862: Age 22

Enlisted: Opelika

Lockhart, James Ward

Born: August 9, 1845 at Opelika, Alabama.

Enlisted March, 1862 at Auburn, Alabama.

Transferred to Company D, 37th Alabama and then to 42nd Alabama. Afterwards the two were consolidated.

Continued until end of war and paroled at Charlotte, North Carolina.

Lovett, William R.

Captured: Shelbyville, July 5, 1863; sent to Nashville, July 18 then to Louisville.

Enlisted in the US Navy.

Mayes, J.V.

March 19, 1862: Age 28

Enlisted: Opelika

Moony, Warne W.

On CSA Post Hospital list January 1, 1863 with hemorrhoids.

Mullins, William M.

Enlisted: May 6, 1862 in Russell County by Captain Willock.

Murphey, Augustus

March 19, 1862: Age 29

Enlisted: Opelika

Drummer; also employed to repair wagons for the Regiment.

Murphey, Charles

March 19, 1862: Age 23

Enlsited: Opelika

McConaha, F.G.

March 19, 1862: Age 25

Enlisted: Opelika

McCormack, John P.

Born: Dallas County, Alabama

Enlisted: Macon County on February 19, 1863: Age 32

Description: 6'0", dark complexion, black eyes, black hair and a farmer.

Discharged: August 3, 1863 at Catoosa Springs Hospital in Georgia for Chronic diarrhea and neuralgia.

McGaughey, E.N

Listed on exchanged prisoner sent to their command under J.N. Campbell, dated January 23, 1863.

McMurray, John M. (Maury, John W.)

March 19, 1862: Age 48

Examined for furlough by Medical Board, Dalton, Georgia, November 4, 1863; diagnosis: general debility, anemia and chronic rheumatism; 60 days leave granted.

Nunley, J.

Enlisted: August 1862 at Macon, Georgia by Captain Cherry

Oldram, J.P.

Captured: Sugar Valley, Georgia, May 16, 1864.

Page, A.T.

March 19, 1862: Age 24

Paroled from Camp at Chattanooga, Tennessee, January 11, 1863.

Page, William B.

Employed by Major W.W. Dillard, Quarter Master, April 21, 1864; a nurse at Tunnel Hill Hospital; age 34; physically disabled; listed as shoemaker.

Parker, J.A.C.

March 19, 1862: Age 25

Enlisted: Opelika

Parker, Jesse

April 3, 1862: Age 28

Enlisted: Auburn, Alabama

Description: 5'10"; fair complexion; dark eyes; dark hair; farmer; born in South Carolina.

Promoted: First Lietenant on July 10, 1862

Killed: Chickamaugua, September 19, 1863.

Paye, A.T. (Page)

Reference card only.

Pierson, James

March 19, 1862: Age 23

Enlisted: Opleika

Pinner, T.D.

March 19, 1862: Age 43

Enlisted: Opelika

Pitts, Davis W.

March 19, 1862: Age 50

Enlisted: Opelika

Academy Hospital, Chattanooga, Tennessee as nurse, April 30, 1863.

Pitts, John

March 19, 1862: Age 20

Enlisted: Opelika

Captured: Spring Hill, Tennessee, December 19, 1864.

Description: Place of residence: Russell County, Alabama; dark complexion; dark hair; grey eyes; 5'9".

Plunt, Wiley

March 19, 1862: Age 29

Enlisted: Opelika

Poyner, S.S.

March 19, 1862: Age 32

Enlisted: Opelika

Ragland, James H.

March 19, 1862: Age 22

Captured: October 12, 1862 at Perryville, Kentucky. Shipped from Louisville to Cairo on Steamship Belle Creole November 18, 1862.

On registerMedical Director's Office, Richmond, Virginia, November 8--30 days furlough.

Description: 5'8"; blue eyes; light complexion; light hair.

Reynolds, Uriah

March 19, 1862: Age 16

Enlisted: Opelika

Born: Stewart County, Georgia.

Description: Black eyes, red hair, fair complexion and a farmer.

Father was John Reynolds.

Died: October 8, 1862 at Perryville, Kentucky.

Riddle, Hiram

March 19, 1862: Age 23

Enlisted: Opelika

Born December 9, 1836 near Camden, Kershaw County, South Carolina. Originally entered Company F on February 2, 1862 but transferred to Company B as he had three brothers in Company B.

Captured: Nashville, December 16, 1864-Shipped to Camp Douglas, Chicago, Illinois; discharged June 20, 1865.

From Russell County and buried at Hopewell Methodist Church Cemetery, Lee County, Alabama.

Robertson, John

March 19, 1862: Age 29

Enlisted: Opelika

Died: September 23, 1862

Description: Dark complexion; blue eyes; light hair; 5'8"; born in South Carolina.

Robinson, W.Z.

March 19, 1862: Age 22

Enlisted: Opelika

Died: October 12, 1862.

Description: Fair complexion, blue eyes, light hair and a farmer. Born in Talbot County, Georgia.

Wife: Mary Jane Robertson

Royal, Humphrey D.

Born: October 23, 1832 at Harpers Ferry and was living at Opelika.

Promoted to Master Sergeant on May 8, 1862 and continued until close of war.

"Was in every engagement with said Regiment from Shiloh until end of war".

Royall, W.H.

March 19, 1862: Age 36

Enlisted: Opelika

Clothing issued: May 5, 1863

Rush, Benjamin

Captured: May 16, 1864 at Resaca, Georgia. Sent to Rock Island from Alton, Illinois.

Ill with ren fever May 16, 1864; erysipelas, diarrhea acute, remittent fever.

Rush, Samuel W.

March 19, 1862: Age 18

Enlisted: Opelika

Detailed as nurse, unfit for field duty, April 21, 1864 at hospital in Columbus, Georgia.

Captured: April 16, 1865; transferred Military prison, Macon, Georgia, April 23, 1865.

Saunders, H.H.

March 19, 1862: Age 20

Enlisted: Opelika

Singly, James A.

March 19, 1862: Age 41

Enlisted: Opelika

Patient at Ladies Hospital, Montgomery, Alabama, November 15, 1864.

Temple, J.A.

Description: 5'5"; dark hair; black eyes; dark complexion.

Paroled Montgomery, May 19, 1865.

Terrell, A.B. (Andrew B.)

March 19, 1862: Age 25

Enlisted: Opelika

Captured: Perryville, Kentucky, shiped to Cairo, Illinois on Vovember 18, 1862 for exchange.

Captured: Franklin, Tennessee, December 17, 1864; sent to Louisville, Camp Chase, Point Lookout, Maryland March 26, 1865.

Troell, Albert B.

Captured: Franklin, Tennessee, December 18, 1864; sent to Louisville.

Tucker, J.D.

March 19, 1862: Age 23

Enlisted: Opelika

Tucker, S.A.

March 19, 1862: Age 21

Enlisted: Opelika

Walwork, Joseph

March 19, 1862: Age 42

Enlisted: Opelika

Description: Born in England; 4'4.5"; brown complexion, brown eyes, auburn hair.

Discharged: May 11, 1863, debility and old age.

Warthy, J.D.

March 19, 1862: Age 25

Enlisted: Opelika

Promoted to Sergeant, to First Lieutenant

Watson, G.W.

March 19, 1862: Age 21

Enlisted: Opelika

Watson, W.T.

March 19, 1862: Age 17

Enlisted: Opelika

Clothing issued for August 7, 1863-April 1864.

Weaver, Thomas J.A.

March 19, 1862: Age 25

Enlisted: Opelika

Captured: Dallas, Georgia, May 24, 1864. Sent to Rock Island, February 15, 1865.

White, John G.

March 19, 1862: Age 43

Enlisted: Opelika

Williams, E.A.

March 19, 1862: Age 23

Enlisted: Opelika

Description: 6'1"; fair complexion; blue eyes; light hair; farmer born in Chambers County, Alabama. Wife: Sue A. Williams

Died: November 8, 1862

Williams, James

Possibly same person as below.

Williams, John Wesly

Born: December 19, 1831, in Tazwell, Marion County, Georgia.

March 19, 1862: Age 30

Enlisted: Opelika

Promoted Commissary, Clayton's Brigade

Paroled: Meridian, Mississippi

Worthy, J.M.

No information

Wright, R.B.

March 19, 1862: Age 22

Enlisted: Opelika

Born: Liberty, Bedford County, Virginia

Wounded: Franklin, Tennessee

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