(special thanks to Dennis Brooke for the following info) Captain James H. Willis was with Company C of the 51st Virginia Militia. However, when you pull J.H. Mills CMSR is says see cards for James H. Willis. The people in Nelson, Georgia making the stones in 1908 had no idea and were just making the stones with what information they were given. Mills and Willis are the same soldier.
(special thanks to Dennis Brooke for the following info) Captain James H. Willis was with Company C of the 51st Virginia Militia. However, when you pull J.H. Mills CMSR is says see cards for James H. Willis. The people in Nelson, Georgia making the stones in 1908 had no idea and were just making the stones with what information they were given. Mills and Willis are the same soldier.
Inscription
51 Tennessee Regiment, C.S.A.
Gravesite Details
Listed as J. M. Willis on Executive Report by Chaplin Tolford