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General Barton & Stovall History~Heritage Association

The 40th Georgia Infantry Regiment, Army of Tennessee was formed in early Spring, 1862 with companies raised in Bartow, Calhoun, Gordon, Whitfield, Paulding, and Haralson counties of Georgia. Major Raleigh S. Camp was appointed by Govenor Joe Brown of Georgia to command the Regiment.

Two documents of interest are the Surrender of Vicksburg, and an advertisment of the re-organization of the regiment after the surrender.

Young 40th Georgia Hero!

Pvt. Asberry B. "Az" Clonts

One of the South's youngest defenders during the War Between the States. Private Clonts was born January 25, 1851 and joined (along with has Father and Uncle) Company "F", 40th Georgia Volunteer Infantry on March 4, 1862.
His age at the time was 11 years, 1 month, 1 week.
Both his Father and Uncle died in Vicksburg from the effects of the siege, and at age 12, he had only his Company members to look out for him. Apparently they did pretty good, for he survived the War, returned to Paulding County, and now rests in the cemetery at Flint Hill Methodist Church in Hiram. This is the same Church where the Army of Tennessee spent the night of October 3, 1864. "Az" was no doubt with them at the time.

Muster Roll of Company F, 40th Regiment
Georgia Volunteer Infantry
Army of Tennessee C.S.A.
Paulding County, Georgia
Paulding Washington Guards

Clonts, A.B. Private March 4, 1862. Captured at Vicksburg, Miss. July 4, 1863, and paroled there July 6, 1863. Roll for December 31, 1863, last on file shows him absent, sick.

Clonts, S.W. (Uncle) private March 4, 1862. Captured at Vicksburg, Miss. July 4, 18863 and paroled there July 6, 1863. Died at Vicksburg, Miss.

Clonts, Thomas H. (Father) Private March 4, 1862. Captured at Vicksburg, Miss. July 4, 1863, paroled there July 6, 1863, and died there in 1863.

 

Chunn Letters

William Augustus Chunn was a lieutenant in the Georgia State Troops and later a commissary sergeant in Co. I of the 40th Georgia. The following letter is among a number of Chunn family documents preserved at Emory University’s Special Collections Library in Atlanta. Collections of Chunn letters written during the war are also housed at the Georgia Department of Archives and History and Duke University. Says one Chunn researcher “taken together, the three collections of letters represent an almost complete record of the 40th GA’s odyssey across the Western theatre of the war.”

The Chunn letters have never been published. I began transcribing in August 2004 and, as time permits, will be posting them here for the General Barton & Stovall History/Heritage Association. Spelling and punctuation are Chunn's, comments in parenthesis are mine.

Before enlisting as a private in the 40th in April of 1862, Chunn was commissioned a second lieutenant in Co. I, 1st Regiment, 1st Brigade, Georgia State Troops. He was later promoted to lieutenant.

Willie Chunn grew up in Cassville, Bartow County GA, where his father was a partner in Chunn-Patton dry goods. Shortly before enlisting in the State Troops in 1861, Willie married Lila Land, the daughter of Judge Nathan Land of Cassville.

Kay Borden, 40th GA Historian
Descendant of Samuel L. Pittard, Pvt., 40th GA, Co. I
 

These two letters written by Wm. Augustus Chunn are in .pdf format.                           

                                      Letter 1 Sept 8, 1861

                                      Letter 2 Sept 8, 1861
 
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