J E. Blackstock
Residence Fulton County GA;
Enlisted on 10/25/1861 as a 1st Sergeant mustering into "C" Co. GA 4th State Troops
He was Mustered Out on 4/25/1862
On 5/15/1862 he was commissioned into "E" Co. GA 56th Infantry
He Resigned on surgeons certificate of disability on 1/28/1864
Promotions:
* 2nd Lieut 5/15/1862
* 1st Lieut 5/17/1863
You may procure his service records files at: http://history-sites.com/research/index.html
George Martin
Also in Company E were D. D., G. W., J. A., Joseph J., and William W. Blackstock
D. D. Blackstock was killed at Baker's Creek, Mississippi on May 16, 1863. G. W. Blackstock was killed on June 16, 1863 at Vicksburg. The 56th at that time was occupying a salient on the siege line about 800 yards to the left of the Hall's Ferry Road where the Federals had advance to a position some 275 yards from their position. He was probably killed by a sharpshooter or by artillery fire. Neither are listed among the known buried in Confederate Rest, Vicksburg City Cemetery.
See: http://www.nwinfo.net/~jagriffin/56th.htm
http://www.colquitt.k12.ga.us/gspurloc/Cobbslegion/gasca/units/56th_gvi.htm