I just read your post on Findley that you posted a few days ago. I found some very interesting information on Findley. I had always known that on my g-grandfather's CSA headstone, it says he served in Findley's Regiment. My g-grandfather Tobias Woody, b. 1805 in Ashe Co., NC, but later moved to Suches, GA. Tobias was in the Home Guard as he was in his 50's during the Civil War. It seems that Tobias might have seen more action that I had thought, as you can read below.

Carolyn

James Jefferson Findley was born in 1829 and reportedly came to Dahlonega at a young age. A lawyer by profession, he was elected sheriff of Lumpkin County and later represented the county in the Georgia Legislature.

During the Civil War, Findley was a Major in Company D, 52nd Georgia Regiment, C.S.A. (“Boyd Guards”) and afterwards a Colonel who commanded the Lumpkin County Home Guards. He had his headquarters in the 1836 courthouse, which also served as a jail for deserters, bushwhackers, and other military prisoners. In October of 1864, he was the officer in charge who ordered the execution of three Union soldiers, whom he believed to be bushwhackers who had been burning and looting in the area. A month later, Col. Findley and his 1st Georgia State Cavalry Home Guards followed raiding Union troops over the top of Amicalola Mountain and captured them after a skirmish that took place in Bucktown in Gilmer County.