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Excerpts from Jackson County Paper 1883-1885

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Extracted from "Jackson County, Georgia Newspaper Clippings, The Jackson Herald, 1883-1885"\
Abstracted by Faye Stone Poss Copyright 2010 by Faye Stone Poss. Published by Faye Stone Poss
Snellsville, Ga., July 2010 with the assistance of a grant from the R J. Taylor, Jr. foundation, Atlanta, Georgia 30302

Friday, July 27, 1883, Vol. III, No. 23. (page 64)
“Re-Union of the 18th Ga. Regiment.
The following is a list of the surviving members of Co. “C”, 18th Regiment Georgia Volunteers, Confederate States Army:
John F. Espy, Captain; J. B. Silman, Captain; H. W. Bell, 1st Lieutenant; J.W. Strickland, Orderly Sergeant; H, C. Barnett, Sergeant; J. W. Doster, Corporal; T. H. Niblack, J. M. Wilhite, W. C. Davis, A. J. Bell, W. L. Thurmond, Oscar Adair, H. C. Gilbert, A.D. Stapler, W. A. Watson, J. N. Orr, R P. Potter, J. A. Weir, L. I. Hutchins, Elijah Ervin, T. L. Harrison, J. W. Lord, R. H. Hilton, F. Hilton, Ben Franklin, A. A. DeLaperriere, Thomas Rogers, A. W. Potts, Thomas Moore, H. P. Davis, H. J. Randolph, Jr., Jones, Dailey, J. M. Story.

This company carried into the war 84 men and was recruited with 49 more men, and came out of the war with 34 men,
losing near three-fourths of their number, slain in battle and died from sickness. Thirteen of above named survivors were wounded. This leaves only eighteen men out of 133 that escaped death or wounds in the late war.

The survivors of the above company who desire to attend the reunion in Atlanta the 1st day of August, residing in Jackson County, are requested by the members residing here in Jefferson to come to Jefferson Monday evening, July 30th,so they may be ready to take the train Tuesday morning for Atlanta.
(Note: C. C. (Charles C.) Vandiver served in this company. He died in Richmond, Va. (Probably Measles) November 1861)

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