Richard White has too many Confederate ancestors and kin to keep
up with, but he keeps looking for more...
The trail is long and winding and a bit tedious at times, but surprises may lurk around around any corner. I appreciate the contact by a ever-growing number of distant relatives brought about by the existence of these web pages, and I hope that more such are forthcoming. It seems that many of us each have only a small portion of a map through our past that if put together will describe for us us one hell of a journey...
However, as I look further into the map of those travels I become more and more impressed with how much death came close to home in family members no longer remembered, who are scattered in the earth in places unknown, marked or unmarked, through the war. When I started this project I thought that most of my ancestors came through the war virtually unscathed because it was the survivors who continued on and because my very existence depends on the birth and survival of several post-war babies... but what I was unaware of was how very many kinsmen were actually lost in the war, and how completely they have been forgotten. Today these men can no longer be remembered... their memory has to be resurrected and re-created from scattered and incomplete records.
But in some ways those who died in the war were the lucky ones. They did not live to see the loss of everything that they had struggled so hard and died for. They did not live on physically mutilated, ill with terminal disease brought to them by the war, or with mental scars ("soldier's heart"... what we would now call post traumatic stress disorder - P.T.S.D.) that affected them and their families deeply.
In some cases, I am not sure of a family connection and have stated what I know in hopes that someone who reads these pages can help make or break such a connection. Whatever their fate, here is the little that I now know of my Confederate kinsmen and their families:
David Autry 64th Georgia Infantry Regiment
Henry Autry 11th Georgia Artillery Battalion (Sumter Flying Artillery)
James C. Autry 64th Georgia Infantry Regiment
John
English Autry (my 2-great grandfather) 64th Georgia Infantry Regiment
William Bluford Barwick 12th Georgia Militia
Green B. Butler Concordia Florida Infantry and 5th Florida Infantry Regiment
John Butler 6th Florida Infantry Regiment
Henry C. Carter Gamble's Florida Light Artillery and Kilcrease Florida Light Artillery
James M. Carter (my great grandmother's first husband) 5th Florida Infantry Regiment
Morris Carter 5th Florida Infantry Regiment
William P. Carter
61st Georgia Infantry Regiment
Ashley J. Davis 11th Florida Infantry Regiment and 1st Florida Cavalry (Union)
Hugh
Craven Davis 2d Georgia State Troops and 2d Florida Cavalry
Regiment
Jasper N. Davis 50th Georgia Infantry
John W. Davis 50th Georgia Infantry
Jonah
Beale Davis 8th Florida Infantry Regiment
L.C. Davis 12th Georgia Militia
Thomas
Prevatt Davis 8th Florida Infantry Regiment
James M. Dawsey 37th Alabama Infantry Regiment
Thomas Jefferson Dawsey 37th Alabama Infantry Regiment
George W. Haire 5th Florida Cavalry Battalion
John Haire 5th Florida Cavalry Battalion
John
Haire 29th Georgia Cavalry Battalion
John Hair (my 2-great grandfather) 6th Florida Infantry Regiment and 1st Florida Reserve Infantry
James C. Haire 17th Georgia Infantry Regiment
Little Berry Hare 5th Florida Cavalry Battalion
Wiley W. Hare 5th Florida Cavalry Battalion
George Haven Campbell's Independent Georgia Siege Artillery Company
Green Berry Haven Gamble's Florida Light Artillery and Campbell's Independent Georgia Siege Artillery Company
Henry Haven 59th Georgia Infantry Regiment
John Shepard Haven (my 2-great grandfather) Campbell's Independent Georgia Siege Artillery Company
John Shepard Haven 1st Florida Reserves Battalion
William Sampson Johnson
59th Georgia Infantry Regiment
John
Murphy 64th Georgia Infantry Regiment
John W. Murphy 11th Georgia Artillery Battalion (Sumter Flying Artillery)
William S. Norton (my great grandmother's second husband) 29th Georgia Infantry Regiment
Alexander Peacock, III 29th Georgia Infantry Regiment
Allen M. Peacock 29th Georgia Infantry Regiment
Evan Jarvis Peacock 29th Georgia Infantry Regiment
Henry M. Peacock 29th Georgia Infantry Regiment
James A. Peacock 29th Georgia Infantry Regiment
William Peacock 29th Georgia Infantry Regiment
Alfred M. Prevatt 3d North Carolina Infantry Regiment
Alfred R. Prevatt 51st North Carolina Infantry Regiment
Andrew J. Prevatt 51st North Carolina Infantry Regiment
Charles Prevatt
50th North Carolina Infantry Regiment
David Ward Prevatt 11th Florida Infantry Regiment
Elias Prevatt 51st North Carolina Infantry Regiment
Henry C. Prevatt 51st North Carolina Infantry Regiment
James P. Prevatt 51st North Carolina Infantry Regiment
James W. Prevatt 8th Florida Infantry Regiment
John Prevatt 46th North Carolina Infantry Regiment
Jordan Prevatt 51st North Carolina Infantry Regiment
Joseph Prevatt 18th North Carolina Infantry Regiment
Michael Prevatt 51st North Carolina Infantry Regiment
Peter P. Prevatt 51st North Carolina Infantry Regiment
Thomas K. Prevatt 8th Florida Infantry Regiment
William W. Prevatt 51st North Carolina Infantry Regiment
Willis P. Prevatt 51st
North Carolina Infantry Regiment
Jonathan Ridley 2d Florida Infantry Regiment
Charles A. Rehberg 59th Georgia Infantry Regiment
Henry Rehberg 17th Georgia Infantry Regiment
John Rehberg 59th Georgia Infantry Regiment
Luke R. Rehberg 12th Georgia State Troops*
William
Rehberg 59th Georgia Infantry Regiment
George W. Sellers 51st Georgia Infantry Regiment
Jacob Benjamin Sellers (my 2-great grandfather) 51st Georgia Infantry Regiment
James Lunsford Sellers 23d Alabama Infantry Regiment
Richard M. Sellars (my great grandfather) 11th Georgia Infantry Regiment
Allen Spear (my 2-great grandfather) 12th Georgia Militia*
Allen W. Spear 49th Georgia Infantry Regiment and United States Volunteer Infantry, no regiment designated
David E. Spear 29th Georgia Infantry Regiment
John A. Spear 50th Georgia Infantry Regiment
Harrison W. Spear 29th Georgia Infantry Regiment
Winfred G. Spear 29th
Georgia Infantry Regiment
Amon H. Thompson 29th Georgia Infantry Regiment
Bryant R. Welch 59th Georgia Infantry Regiment and 9th Florida Infantry Regiment
William
Newton Welch 59th Georgia Infantry Regiment
Aaron White 29th Georgia Infantry Regiment
Joseph G. White (my 2-great grandfather) 6th Florida Infantry Regiment
* I believe that the 12th Georgia State Troops and 12th Georgia Militia are probably one and the same unit. There are Compiled Confederate Service Records records existing in the name 12th Georgia Militia, but Luke Rehberg is not listed in them. Because of his youthful age Luke quite possibly was not enrolled until very near the war's end. The records are so sparse that I cannot say that with absolute certainty that Luke Rehberg served in the 12th Georgia Militia , but I am unaware of any other possibilities. His Confederate service was memorialized locally with an Confederate Cross during his lifetime and there were still plenty of folks alive who would have come out of the woodwork had any false claim been involved.
Click on the peanut to see
the lyrics of my favorite song of the War of Northern
Aggression.
The photo of me at the top of the page was taken by my brother-in-law, Fritz Stewart, as I spoke at the memorial service at the Natural Bridge Battlefield State Historic Site, on 6 March 2000.