* * * American Revolution * * *

Samuel Elbert
Captain, Colonial Army (under Britain), 1774
Lieutenant Colonel, Continental Troops in Georgia, 1776
Acting Brigadier General under General Howe, Georgia's Continental Troops, 1778

"It is a pity that the people on our Frontiers will behave so cruelly toward those poor savages; not contented with having the lands, but to rob, beat and abuse them likewise is enough to bring down divine vengeance on their heads."
   --Governor Samuel Elbert (one of a number of early residents who disapproved of the treatment of the Indians), 1785; Quoted in Mills Lane, Indians and Settlers, 2 in The People of Georgia (Savannah: The Beehive Press).

* * * ?Indian Wars? * * *

S. E. Muse, 1rst Lieutenant, 1rst Infantry Regiment, U.S.A.

* * * Civil War * * *

Richard Malone Whitehead,
helped put up the wall in Atlanta
(too old for service under General Lee;

his sons, William Johnson Whitehead and Joseph Whitehead
served in Alabama; Jesse Francis Whitehead was too young for service)

Solomon Elihugh Lorenzo Greyham Bedingfield,
Company K 66th regiment of Walton County, Georgia.

(His pension application for Civil War services filed in 1899 is on file at the Georgia Archives, drawer 276, box 57, page 688.)

Charles Bagley, Union Army
Residence: Fitchburg, Massachusetts
Occupation: Railroader


DISTINGUISHED SERVICE
UNIT NUMBERS: 965, 965. Enlisted as a Private on 27 August 1862 at the age of 23.
Enlisted in Company B, 53rd Infantry Regiment Massachusetts on 18 October.
Mustered out Company B, 53rd Infantry Regiment Massachusetts on 02 September 1863 in Camp Stevens, Groton, MA

Cyrus Smith (Angell) Locke, Union Army
Residence: Salem, Massachusetts
Occupation: Comb Maker
Death Date: 20 September 1911

DISTINGUISHED SERVICE
Service Record: Promoted to Full Corporal
Unit Numbers: 3402 3402 1007 1007
Enlisted as a Private in 1862 at the age of 24
Enlisted in Company B, 7th Infantry Regiment Massachusetts on 01 July 1862.
Mustered out Company B, 7th Infantry Regiment Massachusetts on 31 December 1862 in Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, MA
Enlisted in 7th Light Artillery Regiment Massachusetts on 04 January 1864. (Reenlisted)
Mustered out 7th Light Artillery Regiment Massachusetts on 10 November 1865 in Galloup's Island, Boston, MA
(He was a prisoner at Richmond and used a Leominster Post Office Box address though his entry residence was Salem)