BLACKSHEAR GUARDS

MUSTER ROLL OF
CAPTAIN THOMAS M. YOPP’S COMPANY
GEORGIA VOLUNTEERS
BLACKSHEAR GUARDS
IN THE 14TH REGULAR REGIMENT

Commanded by Col. A.V. Bumbry, Lt. Col. W.S. Ramsay, and Major Felix Price and called into service of the Confederate States in the provisional army under the provision of an act of Congress passed May the 8th, 1861 from the 23rd day of July, 1861 for the term of the war unless sooner discharged. All the members of the company were residents of Laurens County. Georgia. Lieut. Col. W.S. Ramsay, who was captain of the company when it left and was elected Lieut Colonel of the regiment at Atlanta, Ga on the 16th of July, 1861. The company left Atlanta, Georgia on the 18th day of July 1861 for Lynchburg, Virginia when they were mustered into service. Colonel Ramsay resigned, August 15th, 1861.


No. of Names Rank Age Remarks
each Present and absent

Grade

Thomas M. Yopp Capt. 33 Resigned Sept. 5th, 1861, Cause: Surgeon’s certificate of disability
Thomas H. Rowe 1st Lt. 21 Was not mustered into service
James T. Chappell 2nd Lt. absent
Hardy B. Smith 3rd Lt. 19
Henry Currell 1st Sgt. 17
James Stevens 2nd Sgt. 20 Died in Huntersville, Va. Oct. 10th, 1861
Richard H. Duncan 3rd Sgt. 18 Discharged on Surgeon’s
certificate of disability, Aug. 25th, 1861
Louis C. Perry 4th Sgt. 19
Richard D. Davis 1st Cpl. 19 Died in Huntersville, Va. Nov. 1861
Irwin Calhoun 2nd Cpl. 44
James C. Lee 3rd Cpl. 23
Littleton C. Jenkins 4th Cpl. 20
Benjamin Atkinson Pvt. 22
William Berryhill Pvt. 19
Andrew Berryhill Pvt. 33 Discharged Surgeon’s certificate of disability, Nov. 1861
Osborne Beals Pvt. 18
David J. Bush Pvt. 17
Hardy Bellflower Pvt. 22
Green W. Bristle Pvt. 29 Died in Western Virginia, Nov. 1861
John Bates Pvt. 19
George W. Conner Pvt. 20 Died in Staunton, Va. 1861or 1862
John Coleman Pvt. 20
George Couley Pvt. 27 Died in Rock Alum Springs, Va.
Caswell W. Davis Pvt. 24
Thomas R. Dickson Pvt. 24
John J. Dominy Pvt. 28
Benjamin Dominy Pvt. 19
Valentine J. Fullford Pvt. 24
Frances C. Fullford Pvt. 21
Alkania Faulk Pvt. 22
William G.B. Faulk Pvt. 18
Thomas Gates Pvt. 27 Was not mustered into service
Ebenezer Hilliard Pvt. 21
George W. Hendricks Pvt. 20
Joel G. Hall Pvt. 20
Hollingsworth, Green B. Pvt. 32
Hill, Robert F. Pvt. 24
Jonathan G. Hall Pvt. 35
William G. Hall Pvt. 22
Quinn L. Harvard Pvt. Absent, was not mustered into service
Jenkins, George W. Pvt. 16
John W. Jones Pvt. 21
William L. Jones Pvt. 17
Lumpkin L. Linder Pvt. 19 Died in Huntersville, Va., Oct. 1861
Benjamin B. Linder Pvt. 17 Promoted to 1st Corp. Dec.61
Francis A. Linder Pvt. 19
Amos L. Moore Pvt. 23
Andrew Moore Pvt. 21
R.H.C. McLendon Pvt. 18
John McDaniel Pvt. 21
Dennis McLendon Pvt. 22
McVay, George W. Pvt. 22 Died in Huntersville, Va. Aug. 1861
Robert Nobles Pvt. 23
Terrell Perry Pvt. 24
Daniel G. Pope Pvt. Absent sick, was not mustered into service. Afterwards enlisted into service with reserves of Laurens Co., which discharged from
John T. Perry Pvt. 19
William J. Perry Pvt. 18
William C. Robinson Pvt. 32
Thomas P. Register Pvt. 24
John Register Pvt. 18
David Register Pvt. 16
Elijah F. Register Pvt. 26
Washington Register Pvt. 17
William Register Pvt. 18
James L. Register Pvt. 28 Died in Huntersville, Va. Oct. 9th, 1861
George W. Rowland Pvt. 45(40)
J.F.L. Scarborough Pvt. 16
Thomas D. Smith Pvt. 22 Appointed 2nd Sergeant
David L. Scarborough Pvt. 24
M.V.B. Smith Pvt. 22
James W. Stanley Pvt. 31 Appointed 3rd Sergeant, Dec.3 1861
Emory Smith Pvt. 22
William H. Smith Pvt. 20
Hardy M. Stanley Pvt. 19
Henry Smith Pvt. 19
Hardy B. Stanley Pvt. Absent was not mustered into service
E.H. Thompson Pvt. Absent, mustered into service and died at Richmond, Va., Dec. 1861
James A. Williams Pvt. 21
E.Y. Woodard Pvt. 21
P.W. Douglass 1st Lt. 33 Elected to fill the vacancy of T.H. Rowe, resigned.




List of the names of the men who left Laurens County, Georgia, May 24, 1861 and joined Capt. O.C. Horne’s Company of Georgia Rangers of Pulaski County, Georgia, and which company formed a part of the 10th Georgia Regiment, Georgia Volunteers and are now stationed at Williamsburg, Virginia, August 4, 1861


Peyton W. Douglas Elected 3rd Lieutenant, resigned about the 1st Sept., 1861 and elected
1st Lieutenant, Co. H., Blackshear Guards.
Richard E. Hudson
David M. Roberts
Thomas Moore
Augustus C. Whitehead
Malcom J. Coneley Discharged 1st September, 1861
John J. Stanley
Josey Coleman
Charles Mason
Charles W. Linder
James E. Scarborough