"Fearless and Faithful"
B. G. Robert H. Anderson
USMA 1857
FROM ROLL AND LEGEND OF THE GEORGIA HUSSARS (1906) BY, ALEXANDER McC. DUNCAN.
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Brigadier General Robert Houstoun ANDERSON resigned his commission as a second lieutenant with the 9th U.S. Infantry on 17 May 1861, and entered the Confederate Artillery as a 1st Lieutenant. He was promoted to Major in September 1861, and named Acting Adj. Gen. of troops on the Georgia coast. This was a staff position on the staff of General William H. T. Walker. He commanded the 1st Georgia Sharpshooters Battalion in 1862, and served at Fort McAllister before becoming Colonel of the 5th Georgia Cavalry Regiment on 20 Jan 1863. In 1864 he was promoted to Brigadier General, commanding Anderson's Brigade, Allen's Division, Wheeler's Cavalry Corps, Army of Tennessee. The 5th Georgia Cavalry served in General Anderson's brigade.
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Edward Bird
,
son of
William BIRD and
Marie BARTHELMESS, was born 30 Sep 1835, and died 15 Apr
1893.
Thirty-four year old Edward BIRD is
listed as the head of his household in the 1860 Effingham County Census.
Colonel Bird married
Eliza Ann WILSON
on 22 May 1850. Before the war, Colonel BIRD ,
was engaged in the timber and turpentine business, and after
the war he resumed the timber business and the manufacture of turpentine.
Colonel Bird and his wife were
active members of the Methodist Church. Children of
Colonel and Eliza Ann BIRD
are: 1. Robert
Edward BIRD,
born in
1852; 2. ANGUS
EUGENE BIRD; 3. almeda g. bird,
born in October, 1856, wife of THOMAS M. ARDEN,
Savannah, Georgia.;
4. IDA R. BIRD,
born in
May, 1859, wife of
JAMES M. NEEDLINGER,
Effingham County, Georgia. , Colonel Bird died April 15, 1893, and
is buried at Guyton Cemetery at Guyton, Effingham County, Georgia. [MIL REC
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James Bird, farmer, Springfield, Effingham Co., Ga., son of William and Maria Bird, was born in Effingham county, April 27, 1833. His father was a large planter, who was also engaged in saw-milling, and was a strict member of the Baptist church. Of eight children born to his parents, Mr. Bird was the fourth. He was educated in the Springfield academy, and when eighteen years old engaged in farming and the timber business. When the civil war began he joined the Fifth Regiment Georgia Cavalry, and in March, 1862, with it entered the Confederate service. The regiment was commanded by Col. Edward Bird, a brother of the subject of this sketch. With his command he saw service from Florida to Virginia and west to the mountains, and was in many engagements of more or less importance, and numberless skirmishes. He was in the battle of Noonday Church, Ga., at Murfreesboro, Tenn., Saltville, and Bear Creek station, in the battles near Macon, and that at Aiken, S. C., where he was wounded and sent to the hospital, soon after which the war came to a close. He was sergeant-major of the regiment. Immediately after the war he resumed farming and has engaged largely in the timber and wood business, and has given his undivided attention to this business ever since. Although unambitious of political office, he has served the county as treasurer a number of years. He is a good business man, and a superior manager, and has a fine property and nice home a few miles from Springfield, near where he was born. He is one of the county's most upright and substantial citizens, enjoying the confidence of all. Mr. Bird was married to Miss Martha H. Berry, daughter of John B. and Mary Berry, and to them ten children have been born: Leona Irene, Lilla A., Maggie G., Mary Ella, Jennie Lou, Borgia Eugenia, Ada A., Verda Ethlyn, Ramah Jordan and Nollie Viola. He is an active and prominent member of the Methodist church, which he joined when he was fifteen years old, and of which he is a steward and trustee. James Bird is now a member of the First Regiment Cavalry, Georgia Volunteers, and was appointed paymaster of the regiment by Col. W. W. Gordon. [Taken from Effingham Memoirs of Georgia REPRINTED: MOUNTAIN PRESS P. O. Box 400 Signal Mountain, TN
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Lt. Colonel Richard J. DAVANT, Jr.
Command Staff 5th
Georgia Cavalry
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Dr. John Theodore McFARLAND, son of Theodore McFARLAND and Harriet HUMBERT, was born in Savannah, Georgia, on 23 Dec 1836. He graduated from the Savannah Medical School and practiced medicine in Savannah. In 1870 he married Fannie ALDRIDGE of Brooklyn, New York. Dr. John Theodore McFarland died on 10 Feb 1888, in Savannah and is buried in Bonaventure Cemetery. [HEN - BROWN (PVT)]
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Chaplain D. H. PORTER was pastor to the First Presbyterian Church of Savannah, Georgia. During the summer of 1861, he began preaching to the Confederate garrison at Fort Pulaski and in the fall of 1863, Porter became chaplain of the 5th Regiment, Georgia Cavalry, retaining this position until the war’s end. [Submitter]