On July 1st, 2nd & 3rd, 1863 the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, led by Gen Robert E Lee, battled the Federal Army of the Potomac at a little known town in southern Pennsylvania called Gettysburg. Georgia provided over 13,000 troops to the battle and over 2,700 became casualties.
News quickly spread back home that a major battle had been fought in the North and families across the nation waited to learn the fate of their husbands, fathers and sons. Days later a casualty list from the battle of Gettysburg would arrive bringing the sad news of the Sumter County men who were killed, wounded and missing.
SUMTER LIGHT GUARDS
(Co K, 4th Ga Infantry)
Lt Col David RE Winn, killed
Sgt Sidney Sullivan, wounded
Pvt Robert M Boring, wounded & captured
Lt Charles Tim Furlow, wounded
Lt Joseph H Rivière, killed
Sgt Peter S Twitty, wounded & captured
Pvt William K Wallace, wounded
Pvt Sylvanus Wilder, captured
AMERICUS VOLUNTEER RIFLES
(Co K, 9th Ga Infantry)
Capt James M.D. King, wounded & captured, died of wounds at Johnsons Island Ohio
Lt William A Cobb, severely wounded
Lt Littleton B Brooks, captured
Pvt Asa E Ansley, wounded
Pvt Andrew J Bass, captured
Pvt Avery W Cobb, wounded
Pvt John N Edwards, killed
Pvt William H Edwards, killed
Pvt Andrew J Lee, captured
Pvt Tillman J Lewis, mortally wounded
Pvt James E Stanford, wounded & captured
Pvt C.A.T. Stephens, wounded & captured
Pvt George P Suber, wounded & captured
Pvt John A Underwood, wounded
Pvt Harrison D Watts, wounded & captured
Pvt Abram Wilkins, wounded & captured
MUCKALEE GUARDS
(Co A, 12th Ga Infantry)
Cpl Charles S Darley, wounded
SUMTER FLYING ARTILLERY
(Battery A, 11th Btn Ga Artillery)
Pvt Reuben Dyess, killed
Cpl Wm H. H. Edge, wounded
Pvt Jasper English, wounded
Pvt Benjamin C Jones, wounded
Pvt William S. Moore, wounded
Sgt Horace D Randall, wounded
Pvt George W Varner, wounded
Pvt Fair C Yeomans, wounded
Pvt Bernard Harris, captured
Pvt George Weaver, captured, died at Ft Delaware Prison
(Battery B, 11th Btn Ga Artillery)
Pvt Thomas Guerry, killed
Pvt Littleton B Hancock, killed
Pvt James M Jones, wounded & captured died Oct 6, 1863.
Pvt Henry Tison, wounded
Pvt Hamlin A West, wounded
Pvt James H West, wounded
Pvt Thomas J Wynn, wounded
Pvt Louis Lamp, captured
Cpl John R Simmons, captured, died July 12, 1863 in US hospital
(Battery C, 11th Ga Btn Artillery)
Pvt John S Barnett, wounded
Pvt John D Brown, wounded
Pvt James MC Bryan, wounded
Cpl Henry Cummings, wounded
Pvt Wesley J Huling, wounded
Pvt Hopkins B Pope, wounded
Cpl Josephus E Strother, wounded
Capt James T Wingfield, wounded
Pvt John H Fitzpatrick, captured
"Georgia Confederate Soldiers - We sleep here in obedience; When duty called, we came;
When country called, we died"
Deo Vindice
