The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-12-22
TERRELL COUNTY'S SOLDIERS.
SOME OF THE MEN WHO WENT
FROM HERE TO THE WAR.
The Names of the Second Company of Vol
unteers who Left Dawson and What
Become of Them.

Become of Them.
EDITOR News Herewith l enclose
YOU a roll of the second company of
Confederate volunteers, which left
Terrell county July 9Th, 1861, and ask
you to publish same.
There has been no effort made by
the county in its official capacity to
preserve the names and fate of the
brave men who went out from it to en-
gage in that useless strife, and many
OF whom never returned.
As one of the few living members of
that company | think it due their
memory (and the friends who gave
them up at the call of their country
that permanent record be made Of
their names and as far as can be, at
this late date. the manner Of their re-
lease from the oath they took at Crit
fin, on July Sth, 1861. | do not claim
for this roll and the side entries absO-
lutte correctness, and know full well
that many were wounded mention Of
whom is not made. But in the first
case it is the best that can be done
and Of the latter it is needless to speak,
might return to their duties but family
represent the sutlerngs and hardshIp3
endured during the nearly four years
OF service. In cold and heat, in line
or IN prison, in the heat of battle or
the lonely yidette, they, with very few
exceptions, proved their fidelity and in
many instances sealed it by their death.
What others may nave thought | do
Of N
Regiment of GOrdOn's Brigade, with
very few exception were brave men and
fearless fighters As one Of the suryi-
vors | can bear testimony to their valOr
having seen them on many Of the fields
occupied by the corps Of the matchless
jackson from Richmond to Appoma-
tox, at which place but three of the
more than 100 men whose names were
on the roll first and last, and but one of
the original 81 that were in the leave
taking at Dawson on that July day, an
sWered to their names to take a parole
when it was said Gen. Lee had sur
rendered While working at this rec
ord at sight of those names their faces
come up. their wounds and fall for |
saw many of the killed fall when smit-
ten. and the thought forces itself upon
my mind that Terrell county is greatly
indebted to the memory of her deyOt-
ed representatives on those fields of
strife.
1t is due to J. w F Murray of Sum
ter county to say that to him more than
all others is this roll possibility.
w. II. PARKER, Fla. Camp.
Largo, Florida.
THE ROLL.
Capt r, r. Spearman, died in West
Virginia November, 1861.
LIST. Lieutenant R. I. Maltby, came
home.
2nd. Lieutenant E 5. Bass, killed at
Sharpsburg, Nd, Sept II, 1852.
Bird, Lieutenant 7, X, Taylor, resign
ed 1851.
1st. Sergeant J, /. D. Perryman, dis
charged 1861.
2nd. Sergeant William Hunter, came
home.
Bird. Sergeant B. B. Odum, came home.
4th Sergeant E D Parker, elected lieu
tenant 1862; came home.
9Th Sergeant J A Smith, came home.
LIST Corporal NJ j Fountain, killed at
Sharpsburg Sept. II, 1862,
End Corporal d X Crimson, wounded
at Gettysburg: came home.
Bird Corporal l. A Clay, came home.
4th Corporal l. 7 Walker, died in West
Virginia, 1861.
B I Adams, died at Woodstock, Va,
1862
T J Adams, came home; died in 1862.
d Z Adams, discharged in 1862.
j II Allen, came home.
jesse Barker, foot shot off August 81,
1852: came home.
VIM. Bynum, died 1864.
w G Beard, came home.
r A Beard, discharged and died.
Nathan Bradbury, discharged 1862.
J w Berry, came home.
II Brown. killed at Sharpsburg, Nd.
T w Corder, died az Stanton, Va,
1868
l. J Carter, came home.
w Crawford deserted in Penn. 1868.
r r Quits, died in w. Virginia 1861.
y \ Cults. killed at Gettysburg July
!, 1868.
H II Cults, wounded May u, 1864; died.
Jasper Cults, killed April %, 1868.
b f Causey, discharged and died 1862.
b Cain, came home.
Q w Clark, killed at ManOCOcy, Md,
August 9, 1864
d II Clay, came home.
+ Cook, killed May 5, 1864.
w NJ Carey, Killed May 10, 1854.
J w Dale, died in 1862.
William Dale, died in 1862.
G B Dale, died in 1862
w Il Darden, came home.
A II Echols, came home
j l. Ethridge, wounded Aug. 30, 1862:
came home.
X c Faire, killed May y, 1864,