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

James C. Autry 64th Georgia Infantry Regiment

John English Autry 64th Georgia Infantry Regiment

Henry C. Carter Gamble's Florida Light Artillery and Kilcrease Florida Light Artillery

James M. Carter 5th Florida Infantry Regiment

Morris Carter 5th Florida Infantry Regiment

William P. Carter 61st Georgia Infantry Regiment

Hugh Craven Davis 2d Georgia State Troops and 2d Florida Cavalry Regiment

Jonah Beale Davis 8th Florida Infantry Regiment

Thomas Prevatt Davis 8th Florida Infantry Regiment

George W. Haire 5th Florida Cavalry Battalion

John Haire 5th Florida Cavalry Battalion

John Haire 29th Georgia Cavalry Battalion

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 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

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

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

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

Richard M. Sellars 11th Georgia Infantry Regiment

Allen Spears 12th Georgia Militia*

Allen W. Spears 49th Georgia Infantry Regiment

David E. Spears 29th Georgia Infantry Regiment

John A. Spears 50th Georgia Infantry Regiment

Harrison W. Spears 29th Georgia Infantry Regiment

Winfred G. Spears 29th Georgia Infantry Regiment

Bryant R. Welch 59th Georgia Infantry Regiment and 9th Florida Infantry Regiment

William Newton Welch  59th Georgia Infantry Regiment

Joseph G. White 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.  The records are so sparse that I cannot say that with certainty , but I am unaware of any other possibilities.

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