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HQ Staff  Company A  Company B  Company C  Company D  Company E 
Company F Company G Company H  Company I  Company K.
 

GBSHHA President Weldon M. (Mike) Griggs has graciously donated this compilation of data which tracks the movements of the 41st Georgia Regiment from the beginning of 1862 through the end of the War Between the States. This is an invaluable research aid for 41st Georgia researchers. The information is the property of Mr. Griggs, for information on its use (other than personal) contact: Weldon M. Griggs.

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Mike Griggs has also compiled this very interesting set of Tables that trace the 41st Georgia soldiers through the war beginning March 4, 1862 through the surrender on April 26, 1865.
 

41st GEORGIA INFANTRY LOCATIONS AND DATES
WITH EVENT OR COMMENTS
Compiled by Weldon Michael Griggs
August, 2003
 

The 41st Georgia Infantry fought in 17 battles in six states and marched over 5,000 miles before they surrendered on April 26, 1865 as part of the Georgia Brigade of The Army of Tennessee, CSA. This record is largely a record of the Geohe Georgia Brigade included the 40th, 4 1st, 42nd, 43rd and 52nd Georgia Infantry regiments. Soon after formation the 41st was sent to Bridgeport, Alabama to guard a large bridge while the remaining regiments were sent to the Cumberland Gap area of Tennessee. While guarding the bridge, the 41st received orders to reinforce the troops in Corinth, Mississippi. Following the Corinth Campaign, the 41st was sent back to Tennessee to fight in the Kentucky Campaign. After the battle of Perryville, Kentucky the regiments were together in the retreat, but were in different brigades. The regiments were reassembled and assigned to Major General Carter Stevenson's Division as the Georgia Brigade ,commanded by Brigadier General Barton in December, 1862.
These regiments were to fight and march together until the surrender on April 26, 1865. Elements of the 42nd and 52nd were detailed to protect a wagon train from Columbus, Mississippi in late January, 1865. They later rejoined the other regiments of the Georgia Brigade in North Carolina.
 Regiments were grouped or brigaded with regiments from the same state. However, earlier in the war regiments from different states would be in a brigade. Division and Corps assignments varied from time to time. Command assignments also changed.
 Because the regiments fought and marched together as a brigade, we can use accounts from brigaded or sister regiments to track the 41st Georgia in time and location and what they were likely doing. A number of letters, diaries and reports have been found from men who took the time and effort to make records, after a long hard day of fighting, marching or digging trenches.


Letters, Diaries and Reports
The largest volume of details have come from these men:

·Captain Jared E. Stallings Co. A, 41st Georgia
·Private William B. Towns Co. B, 41st Georgia ( Killed in Action at Perryville, KY)
·Private Pleasant D. Post Co. B, 41st Georgia
·Private William W. Turner Co. E, 41st Georgia
·Lieutenant Colonel Lovick Thomas 42nd Georgia
·Private Henry W. Robinson 42nd Georgia (Died of smallpox at Vicksburg, MS)
·Private Francis H. Nash Co. C, 42nd Georgia
 


References:

The bulk of the references come from Georgia Confederate 7,000 ,Vol I, II, and III by Gary Ray Goodson,Sr.
Goodson Enterprises inc, P.O. Box 128, Shawnee, CO 80475 1995,1997,2000

In the right hand columns the volume and page is listed like: I 16 Visit Personal visit to the site.

J.S. = Personal letters from Captain Jared Stallings Co. A, 41st Georgia, to his wife Lizzie The Coweta Courier Vol. 17 Number 2 and 3 Spring 1998 Coweta County Genealogical Society Inc., P.O. Box 1014, Newnan, Georgia 30264.

Perry = Perryville. Battle for Kentucky by Kenneth A. Hafendorfer K H Press, 8915 Cromwell Hill Road, Louisville, Kentucky 40222 1991.

TAC = This Astounding Close The Road to Bennett Place by Mark L. Bradley The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill, North Carolina 2000.

VC = The Campaign for Vicksburg Vol. I, II and III by Edwin Cole Bearss Morningside House, Inc 260 Oak Street, Dayton, Ohio 45410 1985, 1986, 1986

Several comments on the phrases and names must be made for clearer understanding. They would include the following:

In Camp: When a unit was "in camp", there was much to do. They had to perform guard duty, gather firewood, cook meals, repair equipment, look for food and rest if at all possible. Many times rest meant sleeping on the ground with few blankets and often without tents in all kinds of weather. While in camp, units had to participate in reviews, inspections and sometimes additional drill. If they were in camp during a march, the goal was to get as much rest as possible to resume the march the next day.

Camped at: It must be understood that a brigade of 7,000 men could not camp in one location. Even if the entry stated, "Camped 6 mi. West of town" or " Arrived and camped "the regiments camped near each other, but all could not be exactly" 6 mi. West of town". One regiment would be on one side of the road, another on the other side of the road , while yet another was camped further down the road and so on.

Departed: The departure time refers to the time the lead element of the unit started the march. If all units are using one road, it will take awhile for all units to clear the starting point. In the case of train travel, some units may have to wait for other trains and leave at a later time or day.

Arrived: The arrival refers to the time the lead element reaches a town or other location. If a soldier records a time, it is most probably the time his regiment arrived or departed. Other regiments in the brigade likely arrived sooner or later than the regiment that recorded the time.

Marched: Regiments usually marched down a road with four or five men in a rank from ditch to ditch, depending on the width of the road. The lead regiment would be followed by another, and another regiment until all regiments of the brigade were on the road. The length of the column would vary with the number of men that were present and the gaps between regiments, but the point is that the length of a brigade could be quite long from front end to back end. Regiments marching one after the other was important to prevent them from scattering, taking the wrong road, or mixing with other units--all important elements of control or lack of control while on the march.

Trains, Rails, Railcars: Troops rode trains by climbing onto or into flat cars, gondola cars or box cars. They did not ride in coaches with seats. They did not have dining cars, club cars or rest rooms. In World War I (1914-1918) the standard for French box cars was "Forty and Eight". That meant either 40 soldiers or eight horses to a box car. The French box car at the time was roughly the size of a Civil War box car. A trip on the train was smoky, bumpy, jerky and largely exposed to the elements---but they were riding and not marching. Because different width rails were in use, the soldiers often had to get off of one train and march to the train station of another train and re-board the new train. If equipment, supplies, horses and cannons were being hauled they would have to be unloaded and reloaded, which was time consuming and took labor to accomplish.

Dates: My computer had several limitations on dates. In order to properly sort over 813 entries, I had to type the year, then the month, then the date. If a date was unknown, unclear or not mentioned, the day was recorded as "00". The month could be determined, so the 00 entries will appear first on the list, but the event may have happened later in the month. If the 41st was "camped for two weeks" at a place, I gave it an entry for each day of that two week period. When the 41st was under siege at Vicksburg, each day had an entry. The result became nearly a daily log. There are gaps in the log because there are gaps in what has been recorded and found.

Places: When a town appears, it should be understood that the town really means, "in the vicinity of..." Again, when the Army of Tennessee gathered at Lovejoy Station, Georgia, for example, the units were camped around Lovejoy Station, not on the depot station porch. They were in that area.

More than one place of the same name is listed because more than one thing happened at that place on different dates. Sometimes more than one thing happened on the same date
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Type of Reports. One sort is by date, from the start of the unit to the surrender.
The information is in different places, all jumbled between books, diaries, letters, reports. This sort allows one to see what was happening, when, in sequence. It becomes a time line in list form.

The second sort is by state and then place in alphabetical order. The intent is to be able to look up a place while traveling in a particular state, and quickly read what happened there and when it happened without looking at all the places the 41st was at during the whole war.
Omissions: If a date does not appear on the list, it means that day's event has not been recorded or found. The 41st Georgia may well have been camped at Camp McDonald or near Tupelo, Mississippi for example, but an exact reference to that day has not been found. Much of the time one can compare the known date before and the known date after and get a good idea what was probably happening.

It is my intention to prepare a set of maps to go with these lists so that the routes of march and the places mentioned can be seen in relation to one another. The maps will probably be by state. That is a project for another time.


Greg Land found this article in Portraits In Conflict, by Anne J Baliey and Walter J Frasier Jr.

This picture of Captain John Cornelius Curtright is taken from a copy of an ambrotype donated by Mrs Lowry W. Hunt.

Captain Curtright commanded Company E of the 41st Georgia Regiment. He owned a plantation east of LaGrange, Georgia. The Captain died during the battle at Perryville, Ky on October 8, 1862.

"Family tradition maintains that Curtright's slave, Berry, found the captain's body and buried him, marking the spot with a cedar board. Berry returned to LaGrange and gave the captains sword and epauletts to Curtright's widow, Mary; the captain also left behind three small children. One of them, Antoinette, eventually married Methodist minister Warren A. Candler, wjho bedcame a prominent bishop. In 1919 Bishop Candler, speaking a the Annual Methodist Conference at Lexington, Kentucky, remarked that his father-in-law had been killed at the Battle of Perryville and buried somewhere near there. After the service a listgener told Candler that he knew a person who was a child in 1862 and might have some details about the battle. The elderly man remembered a slave bringing an officer's body from the field and insisting that he have a separate grave; he also recalled the long vanished cedar marker. The grave was then part of a horse lot, but aftr some digging the men found the bones of a large man (Curtright was over six feet tall) and several Confederate uniforme buttons. Candler had the remains moved to LaGrange and p[laced beside Mary. Curtright's grandson, who had just returned from France, wore his World War I uniform while serving as a pallbearer.Captain Curtright served with the Georgia Brigade from October 10, 1862 to the surrender in North Carolina.

KILLED IN ACTION - PERRYVILLE,KENTUCKY
41ST GEORGIA INFANTRY
(BY COMPANY)
 

HEADQUARTERS
Colonel Charles A. Mc Daniel  Died from wounds October 30, 1862 Harrodsburg, KY

COMPANY A ( COWETA CO.)
Private Martin J. Miller
Private Benjamin F. Sconce

COMPANY B (COBB CO.)
Captain George N. Lester ( Lost right arm)
Corporal Alva C. Brake
Private Enoch M. Benson
Private James M. Brake


COMPANY C (BARTOW,CHEROKEE,COBB, PAULDING CO.)
Corporal James M. Bennet
Private Bailus E. McKinney
Private Edward L. Mosley
Private John G. Strickland

COMPANY D (COWETA CO.)
1st Lieutenant Henry H. Lambert
Private William L. Mullins

COMPANY E (TROUP CO.)
Captain John C. Curtright
Private Sims Barkdale
Private Nathan Beall Dozier
Private James H. Jones
Private William M. Lancaster ( Died of wounds October 20, 1862)
Private Benjamin T. Stringfellow
Private William B. Towns

COMPANY F (MERIWETHER CO.)
Private Thomas F. Darden
Private James R. Meachum
Private Samuel F. Tillery
Private H.W. Wheelless

COMPANY G (CARROLL CO.)
2nd Lieutenant Phillip B. Watkins
Private William Belcher
Private John B. Long
Private Thomas Pope
Private James P. Sloan
Private Anson J. Williams ( Died of wounds November 24, 1862)

COMPANY H (CARROLL CO.)
Corporal Austin V. Corley
Private George Buttram
Private Matthew P. Gurley (Died of wounds November 1, 1862)
Private Robert H. Jeter
Private John L. Norris ( Died of wounds October 9, 1862)

COMPANY I (HEARD CO.)
2nd Lieutenant (Unidentified)
Private Henry M. Taylor

COMPANY J
Private David J. Hilley

COMPANY K (CAMPBELL CO.)
1st Lieutenant Edward H. Hinds
Private James M. Abbott
Private Parker L. Gann
Private John L. Cochran
Private William V. McLarty
Private Alfred Meeks
Private Edward D.N. Wood
Private P. L. Yawn

COMPANY UNRECORDED
Private T. Harmon
Private T.W. Wharton

NOTE In addition, 125 were wounded and 3 were missing in action.