Troop B
Chatham County, Georgia

5th Georgia Flag (Side 1)
Photo By Gregg Biggs

OFFICERS AND STAFF

Captain Richard F. AIKIN was Captain of the Chatham Guerillas in Jun 1861. The Chatham Guerillas reorganized as the Chatham Light Horse on 10 Feb 1862. This company was sometimes called the Chatham Light Dragoons. The Chatham Light Horse became Company B, 5th Georgia Cavalry Regiment on 20 Jan 1863. Captain Aikin was wounded at Cedar Creek, near Jacksonville, Georgia. Richard F. Aikin was Clerk of the Savannah City Council in 1852. He was a member of the Georgia Hussars before the War of Southern Independence.  [MIL REC & ROLL AND LEGEND OF THE GEORGIA HUSSARS (1906) BY, ALEXANDER McC. DUNCAN]

1^st Lieutenant Sidney P. GORDON enlisted as a in Company B,  8^th Regiment "Oglethorpe Light Infantry" on 21 May 21, 1861. He transferred and was elected Elected 2d Lieutenant in the Chatham Light Horse on 24  Mar 1862. He was later elected 1st Lieutenant. From: [Henderson's Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, vol. I, page 927. (On CD-ROM H-Bar Enterprises 800-432-7702)] 

1^st Lieutenant Henry TAYLOR

2^nd Lieutenant William H. DAVIS

2^nd Lieutenant John S. BRYAN

1^st Sergeant William P. WELLS

Sergeant William A. BOWEN

Sergeant Francis E. COLLIER

Sergeant George W. KING

Sergeant William B. MALPHRAS

Sergeant George W. MATTAIR

Sergeant Jacob G. REDDICK

Sergeant William S. THOMPSON

Sergeant John W. DAWSEY

Corporal Luther W. ALEXANDER

Corporal Mercer HAYNES

Corporal George L. JOHNSTON

Corporal Fredrick OTTO

Private Patrick SUMMERS - Farrier

PRIVATES

James A. G.  ALEXANDER

Josiah A.  ALEXANDER

Joseph W. ALEXANDER enlisted as a private in the  2^nd Battalion, Georgia Cavalry, on 10 Jun 1862. He transferred to Company B, 5^th Regiment, Georgia Cavalry on 20 Jan 1863. On 21 Feb 1863 he transferred to and was elected 2^nd Lieutenant of Company K, 22^nd Regiment, Georgia Infantry. He was elected 1^st Lieutenant on 18 Jul 1863. Lieutenant ALEXANDER was captured at Wilderness, Virginia, 10 May 1864.  He was released at Fort Delaware, Delaware, on 10 May 1865. [HEN]

Andrew ANDERSON

William AUSTIN

Michael BARRETT

Wylley BIRD

ELISHA M. BLITCH

ELISHA M. BLITCH was born 1845 in Georgia.  He married MARTHA PENELOPE BLITCH, daughter of HENRY BLITCH and LAVANIA ENGLISH.  She was born 24 January 1851 in Georgia, and died 19 July 1925. Elisha is listed in the 1870 Bryon County, Georgia Census as head of household of seven children. He was a farmer. [ FAM Maureen McCarthy]

James BOND

Dennis P. BRADY

James J. BREELAND

William B. BREELAND

John BROOKS

Patrick CANNON

Charles CARROLL

Thomas COLEMAN

Christopher C. COWARD

Edward COWARD

Henry COWARD

Rudolph COX

William Riley CRAVEN 

Peter J. CREAGHAN

William P. CREWS

J. E. DORRIS

Patrick  DOWNEY

Thomas  DREW

John C. DUDLEY

Reuben J. DUKES

James M. DYE

John W. EDWARDS enlisted in the Chatham Light Horse, 2^nd Battalion., Georgia Cavalry on 17 Feb 1862 at Savannah, Georgia. He transferred to Company B, 5th Regiment, Georgia Cavalry on 20 Jan 1863. He was appointed cook in Jan 1864. The roll for June, 1864 listed him as being absent, sick in the rear hospital. He died at Guyton General Hospital at Guyton, Georgia on 15 Nov 1864 from disease. [MIL REC – GALLANT - NPS SOLDIERS AND SAILORS DATABASE]

Charles EHLERS

Andrew Jackson ENGLISH  enlisted in the Chatham Light Horse. The muster roll for Dec 1862, last on file, lists him as present. On 20 Jan 1863 he was transferred to Company B, 5th Georgia Cavalry. [MIL REC MICROCOPY 266 #14 & NPS SOLDIERS AND SAILORS DATABASE - FAM REC C. S. MILLER]

Andrew Jackson ENGLISH  was born in 1840 in Bryan County, Georgia, the son of Ruben and Eliza SHUMAN ENGLISH.  Andrew was twenty-two years old when he enlisted in the Chatham Light Horse.  He married 10 Aug 1865, in Bryan County, Georgia, Susannah GIBSON who was born in 1836, the daughter of John White  & Clarissa DENMARK GIBSON. [MIL REC MICROCOPY 266 #14 & NPS SOLDIERS AND SAILORS DATABASE - FAM REC C. S. MILLER]

Joseph ENGLISH enlisted in the Chatham Light Horse at the age of twenty. The muster roll for Dec 1862, last on file, lists him as present. On 20 Jan 1863, he was transferred to Company B, 5th Georgia Cavalry. [MIL REC MICROCOPY 266 #14 & NPS SOLDIERS AND SAILORS DATABASE - FAM REC C. S. MILLER]

Joseph ENGLISH was born in Bryan County in 1841, the son of Ruben and Eliza Shuman English.  He enlisted in the Chatham Light Horse at the age of twenty. The muster roll for Dec 1862, last on file, lists him as present. On 20 Jan 1863, he was transferred to Company B, 5th Georgia Cavalry. He married first, Mrs. Charlotte ELLARBEE LANIER, the widow of a Confederate soldier, by whom he had two children.  He was a life long Methodist and gave land for the construction of Ellabell Methodist Church, Bryan County.  He was a farmer, miller, and a Mason.  He married second on 20 Jan 1887, his former wife's sister, Mrs. Clementine ELLARBEE ENGLISH, by whom he had no children. Both of his wives were the daughters of Allen and Mary Ann (or Polly Ann) ELLARBEE. On his deathbed, he relived parts of the Atlanta campaign. He is buried in the English Family Cemetery or Campground Cemetery, Bryan County, Georgia. [MIL REC MICROCOPY 266 #14 & NPS SOLDIERS AND SAILORS DATABASE - FAM REC C. S. MILLER]

Peter FURLONG

Jasper W. GREEN

William GRIFFITH

John GRIGGERS

Leonard E. HEIDT enlisted in Company B, 5th Regiment, Georgia Cavalry. He enlisted in Company I, 22nd Battalion, Georgia Heavy Art. on 11 may 1864, at Macon, Georgia. He was captured and sent to Point Lookout, Maryland. He was released on 27 June 1865. [Mil REC - GALLANT - NPS SOLDIERS AND SAILORS DATABASE]

Christopher HERNANDEZ

James HOWARD

Eli HURST

Henry HURST

John Miles HURST enlisted in Captain Brailsford's Company, 1st Battalion, Georgia Cavalry on 19 May 1862. Captain Brailsford's Company was re-designated Company H, 5th Georgia Cavalry on 20 Jan 1863. He transferred to Company B, 5th Georgia Cavalry on 16 May 1863. Pension records indicate he was surrendered at Tallassee, Florida on 10 May 1865 and paroled at Thomasville, Georgia on 10 May 1865. [FL CW PEN WEB SITE PENSION # A11467- NPS SOLDIERS AND SAILORS DATABASE]

John Miles HURST He married Sarah Catherine TAIT, in Thomas County, Georgia, on 10 Jan 1866. John M. Hurst was born in 1838, and died on 17 Nov 1901, at Mayo, Lafayette County, Florida. [FL CW PEN WEB SITE PENSION # A11467- NPS SOLDIERS AND SAILORS DATABASE]

Josiah HURST (Also listed in Company H)

Campell  JOHNSON

Francis M.  JOHNSON

John  JONES

Patrick  KELLY

Albert  KNIGHT

George W. LANE  died at Camp Chase, Ohio, on  28 Jan 1865. [CAMP CHASE WEB SITE - NPS SOLDIERS AND SAILORS DATABASE]

George A. LEE

Francis V. R. MACE

Walter MANY

John McARTHY

John, McGRATH, Jr.

John, McGRATH, Sr.

FREDRICK MEYER

Henry C. OTTEN

John W. OTTO

James PARK

Latin PERVAIL

Henry N. PHILLIPS

Christian POLE

James POND

William H. POND

William PREVAIL

Allen PREVEAUX

Stephen Y. PROCTOR

Dederick PRUSH

Cadwallader D. C. RHIND

John K. RODENBERRY

Washington SAULS

Martin SCHRODER

William SMALLWOOD

Ransom C. SMITH

Robert M. SMITH

Joseph STEWART

Benjamin STILES

John J. TAYLOR 

Adolph VESTING

Thomas WADE

John WAGER

Washington S. WELLS

John WHALEN

John W. WILLIAMS

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