Confederate Cemetery in West Hill Cemetery, Dalton GA

[Greg Barnett]

Does anyone have a list of the names on the wall monument at the cemetery? I have been looking for an ancestor, Henry Barnett, who was killed at Chickamauga, at Snodgrass Hill.
Thanks

[guad42]

Re: Confederate Cemetery in West Hill Cemetery, Dalton GA

Greg,

Maybe you've already done this part, but have you searched the various records on ancestry.com?

-Sam Dolan

[Garrett Silliman]

Re: Confederate Cemetery in West Hill Cemetery, Dalton GA

Greg old buddy,

I don't know if you saw this or not http://www.accessgenealogy.com/cemetery/georgiaw.htm
but scroll down the page to Whitfield and they have a complete listing of names at West Hill by section. Good luck, Garrett

[rebelfirefighter07]

Re: Confederate Cemetery in West Hill Cemetery, Dalton GA

I live close by in Tunnel Hill. I'll go by and look this weekend if I can get a chance. This whole area was covered in hospitals following Chickamauga and during a big part of the war. Sadly alot of soldiers ended up in unmarked graves all over the place around here.

[Greg Barnett]

Re: Confederate Cemetery in West Hill Cemetery, Dalton GA

Greg old buddy,

I don't know if you saw this or not http://www.accessgenealogy.com/cemetery/georgiaw.htm
but scroll down the page to Whitfield and they have a complete listing of names at West Hill by section. Good luck, Garrett

Thanks Garrett,old Buddy. I will look that over.

Greg,

Maybe you've already done this part, but have you searched the various records on ancestry.com?

-Sam Dolan

Sam,

I have looked at ancestry for years and no luck. I just saw a partial picture of the monument that was placed at the cemetery in 1999, I think, with recently found names of the 400 unknown buried there. The picture does not show the whole monument. I saw one soldier from my ancestors regiment, 63d Tenn. So, maybe he is there as well.

I live close by in Tunnel Hill. I'll go by and look this weekend if I can get a chance. This whole area was covered in hospitals following Chickamauga and during a big part of the war. Sadly alot of soldiers ended up in unmarked graves all over the place around here.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks to all,

[Greg Barnett]

Re: Confederate Cemetery in West Hill Cemetery, Dalton GA

I have found more photos of the cemetery. My ancestor is not listed. Thanks for the responses. I am pasting a link to the photos of the monument.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ericandcarol/sets/72157618606234197/

Cheers,

[LWhite64]

Re: Confederate Cemetery in West Hill Cemetery, Dalton GA

Greg,
You might want to also check for him in the Marietta Confederate Cemetary and Oakland in Atlanta. Those two have the highest numbers of Chickamauga deads in them.

Lee

[Resaca]

Re: Confederate Cemetery in West Hill Cemetery, Dalton GA

Hey Spinner,

Lee's right, checking the Marietta cemetery would be a good shot at finding him. Mary Green (who gathered the dead for the Resaca Confederate Cemetery) was put in charge of gathering the CS bodies from Chickamauga Battlefield in 1866. Which she sent to Marietta. Microfilm of her scrap book is in the Georgia Archives and it has lists of the recoveries (mostly unknowns but quite a few names -along with unit designation and area recovered).
The city of Dalton petitioned (which is in her scrapbook) to have the Chickamauga dead buried in Dalton, but Marietta was chosen.

I have a copy here at the house I will dig out and see if I can find anything for you.

There is also a list of the soldiers she exumed from the "Citizen GraveYard" as she called it, at Tunnel Hill , which she also sent to Marietta.

YOS,

Tony Patton
Blue Ridge Mess
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