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Cemetery, Nathan C. Barnett (June 28,1801- February 2, 1890) was Georgia
Secretary of State during the Civil War. When General Shermans forces
entered Milledgeville in November 1864, Barnett hid the Great Seal of the
State of Georgia in a pig pen to keep it from falling into the Federal
armys hands |
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Enlarge Dr. Samuel Gore
White (1824-1877) served as Surgeon in Cobb's Legion, Georgia
Volunteers,64th Regiment of Georgia Infantry, C.S.A., Army of Northern
Virginia. Dr. White served as Assistant Surgeon in the U.S. Navy during
the Mexican War |
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Enlarge Lucius James
Lamar (Cadet, Co. B, GA. Military Institute) (May 10, 1847-June 11, 1924)
enlisted in the GMI cadet corps June 15, 1864 at the age of 17. Five
months later he was defending Milledgeville, with two companies of cadets
and some prisoners released from the Milledgeville State Penitentiary,
against the army of General Sherman. Because of overwhelming odds, the
cadets retreated from Milledgeville without offering resistance |
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Enlarge Jacob M. Caraker
(Co.. H, 4th GA, Baldwin Blues) (February 11, 1838-November 2, 1907)
Elected Captain of the Baldwin Blues May 9, 1861. Before the war he was
captain of the guard at the state penitentiary in Milledgeville. Severely
wounded at the battle of Sharpsburg on September 17, 1862, he resigned
February |
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Enlarge James W. Herty
(August 14, 1838-December 20, 1876 - gravestone is incorrect) After
graduation from the University of New York, James Herty joined the United
States Navy as an assistant surgeon. He was assigned to the USS San
Jacinto patrolling off the African coast. Returning from African waters,
the San Jacinto intercepted the British ship HMS Trent carrying
Confederate diplomats to England. After returning to port in Boston in
November 1861, Herty resigned from the US Navy and stated his desire to
join the Confederacy. He was exchanged for a U.S. physician held by the
Confederacy. Herty was assigned to the CSS Richmond and then the
Rappahannock. He is the only veteran in Memory Hill who honorably served
both the Confederacy and the United States during the Civil War |
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Enlarge Dr. Andrew J. Foard
(died March 18, 1868) This tombstone, erected in 1896, misspells the name.
"Foard" is correct. Dr. Foard was the Medical Director of the Army of
Tennessee. In February 1865 he was promoted to Medical Inspector of the
armies and hospitals in the States of Georgia, Florida, Alabama and
Mississippi. After the war he was a professor at the Washington Medical
College in Baltimore |
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Enlarge Carlos Wilson
(1843-Oct 8,1906) was a bugler in Company F, 2nd Michigan Cavalry in the
Union army. Like the other Union veterans buried here, he came to
Milledgeville after the Civil War. Here he became an inventor, patenting a
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