Inscription on tombstone #2029 reads "A. R. Bolton Co. A. FREEMAN's BATT'Y TENN. C.S.A." He was taken prisoner at Salisbury, North Carolina on April 12, 1865, three days after the surrender of General Lee at Appomattox Court House. The compiler notes he had nothing to do with artillery nor the State of Tennessee rather his correct unit was Captain Freeman's Company, Alabama Prison Guards formally known as Captain Powell's Tuscaloosa Guards. The unit sometimes is referred to as Freeman's Battalion. The compiler notes he was one of the last Confederates to die at Camp Chase and ironically among one of the youngest.
The 1860 United States census listed "Agustus G. Bolton"age ten living in the household of Mary A. Bolton in the Western Division of Tuscalossa County, Alabama. In 1893 Mary A. Bolton filed for a Federal pension for her husband Allen K. Bolton's service during the Florida Indian War with Captain Dent's Company Alabama Volunteers. The compiler notes there were three Seminole Indian Wars in Florida and he appears to have had duty in the 2nd Seminole Indian War 1835-1842.
Confederate Compiled Military Service Records reported his name as Gustavus R. Bolton and all of his records are nothing but Federal POW records and noted him with Company A Freeman's Battalion Infantry. His POW records reported him taken prisoner at Salisbury, North Carolina located in Rowan County and transferred to Nashville, Tennessee and then forwarded to Louisville, Kentucky and finally transferred to Camp Chase where he arrived on May 4, 1865.
The soldiers of Freeman's Company Prison Guards were generally used at the Confederate Prison at Salisbury, North Carolina to guard Union prisoners and perform other duties thus freeing up military aged soldiers for Confederate service. Union General Stoneman occupied Salisbury, North Carolina on April 12, 1865 in hopes of releasing the Union prisoners however all had been removed with the exception of the sick to other prisons in February of 1865. What had been left at Salisbury was a stockpile of supplies in part guarded by elements of Freeman's Company Prison Guards. The company did offer a token of resistance to the Stoneman raiders but the Freeman's Company Prison Guards and other Confederate units were badly outnumbered.
"Private Augustus R. Bolton" as found at ancestry in "Selected Records of the War Department relating to Confederate Prisoners of War 1861-1865 reported him in Company A of Freeman's Battalion and taken prisoner at Salisbury, North Carolina on April 12, 1865 and arrived at Camp Chase May 4, 1865 and sent to the Camp Chase Hospital on May 17, 1865 and died on Monday, June 5, 1865 of phthisis pulmonary and placed in grave 2029." The compiler notes this disease today is associated with tuberculosis.
The compiler notes using the initials "A. R. Bolton" as found at ancestry in "Selected Records of the War Department relating to Confederate Prisoners of War 1861-1865 he was listed with Company A Freeman's Battery and taken prisoner on April 12, 1865 at Salisbury, North Carolina."
While there was a Tennessee artillery battery named Freeman's the compiler notes it was Company B and that no soldier with the surname of Bolton was listed among the unit.
The compiler also notes according to family genealogy as found on Find A Grave Memorial #77057677 that Mary Ann Henderson was married to Allen K. Bolton in September 1835 and that Ransom K. Bolton was the brother of Allen K. Bolton. The compiler notes that "Ramson" K. Bolton was also with Company A Freeman's Company Prison Guards and was reported as age 46 and he too was taken prisoner at Salisbury, North Carolina on April 12, 1865 and became a prisoner at Camp Chase. If the family genealogy is correct than Augustus R. Bolton was the nephew of Ransom K. Bolton.
The Nationwide Gravesite Locator as provided by the National Cemetery Administration reported Private A. R. Bolton as with the artillery which according to the compilers research clearly was not the case.
The 1860 United States census listed "Agustus G. Bolton"age ten living in the household of Mary A. Bolton in the Western Division of Tuscalossa County, Alabama. In 1893 Mary A. Bolton filed for a Federal pension for her husband Allen K. Bolton's service during the Florida Indian War with Captain Dent's Company Alabama Volunteers. The compiler notes there were three Seminole Indian Wars in Florida and he appears to have had duty in the 2nd Seminole Indian War 1835-1842.
Confederate Compiled Military Service Records reported his name as Gustavus R. Bolton and all of his records are nothing but Federal POW records and noted him with Company A Freeman's Battalion Infantry. His POW records reported him taken prisoner at Salisbury, North Carolina located in Rowan County and transferred to Nashville, Tennessee and then forwarded to Louisville, Kentucky and finally transferred to Camp Chase where he arrived on May 4, 1865.
The soldiers of Freeman's Company Prison Guards were generally used at the Confederate Prison at Salisbury, North Carolina to guard Union prisoners and perform other duties thus freeing up military aged soldiers for Confederate service. Union General Stoneman occupied Salisbury, North Carolina on April 12, 1865 in hopes of releasing the Union prisoners however all had been removed with the exception of the sick to other prisons in February of 1865. What had been left at Salisbury was a stockpile of supplies in part guarded by elements of Freeman's Company Prison Guards. The company did offer a token of resistance to the Stoneman raiders but the Freeman's Company Prison Guards and other Confederate units were badly outnumbered.
"Private Augustus R. Bolton" as found at ancestry in "Selected Records of the War Department relating to Confederate Prisoners of War 1861-1865 reported him in Company A of Freeman's Battalion and taken prisoner at Salisbury, North Carolina on April 12, 1865 and arrived at Camp Chase May 4, 1865 and sent to the Camp Chase Hospital on May 17, 1865 and died on Monday, June 5, 1865 of phthisis pulmonary and placed in grave 2029." The compiler notes this disease today is associated with tuberculosis.
The compiler notes using the initials "A. R. Bolton" as found at ancestry in "Selected Records of the War Department relating to Confederate Prisoners of War 1861-1865 he was listed with Company A Freeman's Battery and taken prisoner on April 12, 1865 at Salisbury, North Carolina."
While there was a Tennessee artillery battery named Freeman's the compiler notes it was Company B and that no soldier with the surname of Bolton was listed among the unit.
The compiler also notes according to family genealogy as found on Find A Grave Memorial #77057677 that Mary Ann Henderson was married to Allen K. Bolton in September 1835 and that Ransom K. Bolton was the brother of Allen K. Bolton. The compiler notes that "Ramson" K. Bolton was also with Company A Freeman's Company Prison Guards and was reported as age 46 and he too was taken prisoner at Salisbury, North Carolina on April 12, 1865 and became a prisoner at Camp Chase. If the family genealogy is correct than Augustus R. Bolton was the nephew of Ransom K. Bolton.
The Nationwide Gravesite Locator as provided by the National Cemetery Administration reported Private A. R. Bolton as with the artillery which according to the compilers research clearly was not the case.
Inscription on tombstone #2029 reads "A. R. Bolton Co. A. FREEMAN's BATT'Y TENN. C.S.A." He was taken prisoner at Salisbury, North Carolina on April 12, 1865, three days after the surrender of General Lee at Appomattox Court House. The compiler notes he had nothing to do with artillery nor the State of Tennessee rather his correct unit was Captain Freeman's Company, Alabama Prison Guards formally known as Captain Powell's Tuscaloosa Guards. The unit sometimes is referred to as Freeman's Battalion. The compiler notes he was one of the last Confederates to die at Camp Chase and ironically among one of the youngest.
The 1860 United States census listed "Agustus G. Bolton"age ten living in the household of Mary A. Bolton in the Western Division of Tuscalossa County, Alabama. In 1893 Mary A. Bolton filed for a Federal pension for her husband Allen K. Bolton's service during the Florida Indian War with Captain Dent's Company Alabama Volunteers. The compiler notes there were three Seminole Indian Wars in Florida and he appears to have had duty in the 2nd Seminole Indian War 1835-1842.
Confederate Compiled Military Service Records reported his name as Gustavus R. Bolton and all of his records are nothing but Federal POW records and noted him with Company A Freeman's Battalion Infantry. His POW records reported him taken prisoner at Salisbury, North Carolina located in Rowan County and transferred to Nashville, Tennessee and then forwarded to Louisville, Kentucky and finally transferred to Camp Chase where he arrived on May 4, 1865.
The soldiers of Freeman's Company Prison Guards were generally used at the Confederate Prison at Salisbury, North Carolina to guard Union prisoners and perform other duties thus freeing up military aged soldiers for Confederate service. Union General Stoneman occupied Salisbury, North Carolina on April 12, 1865 in hopes of releasing the Union prisoners however all had been removed with the exception of the sick to other prisons in February of 1865. What had been left at Salisbury was a stockpile of supplies in part guarded by elements of Freeman's Company Prison Guards. The company did offer a token of resistance to the Stoneman raiders but the Freeman's Company Prison Guards and other Confederate units were badly outnumbered.
"Private Augustus R. Bolton" as found at ancestry in "Selected Records of the War Department relating to Confederate Prisoners of War 1861-1865 reported him in Company A of Freeman's Battalion and taken prisoner at Salisbury, North Carolina on April 12, 1865 and arrived at Camp Chase May 4, 1865 and sent to the Camp Chase Hospital on May 17, 1865 and died on Monday, June 5, 1865 of phthisis pulmonary and placed in grave 2029." The compiler notes this disease today is associated with tuberculosis.
The compiler notes using the initials "A. R. Bolton" as found at ancestry in "Selected Records of the War Department relating to Confederate Prisoners of War 1861-1865 he was listed with Company A Freeman's Battery and taken prisoner on April 12, 1865 at Salisbury, North Carolina."
While there was a Tennessee artillery battery named Freeman's the compiler notes it was Company B and that no soldier with the surname of Bolton was listed among the unit.
The compiler also notes according to family genealogy as found on Find A Grave Memorial #77057677 that Mary Ann Henderson was married to Allen K. Bolton in September 1835 and that Ransom K. Bolton was the brother of Allen K. Bolton. The compiler notes that "Ramson" K. Bolton was also with Company A Freeman's Company Prison Guards and was reported as age 46 and he too was taken prisoner at Salisbury, North Carolina on April 12, 1865 and became a prisoner at Camp Chase. If the family genealogy is correct than Augustus R. Bolton was the nephew of Ransom K. Bolton.
The Nationwide Gravesite Locator as provided by the National Cemetery Administration reported Private A. R. Bolton as with the artillery which according to the compilers research clearly was not the case.
The 1860 United States census listed "Agustus G. Bolton"age ten living in the household of Mary A. Bolton in the Western Division of Tuscalossa County, Alabama. In 1893 Mary A. Bolton filed for a Federal pension for her husband Allen K. Bolton's service during the Florida Indian War with Captain Dent's Company Alabama Volunteers. The compiler notes there were three Seminole Indian Wars in Florida and he appears to have had duty in the 2nd Seminole Indian War 1835-1842.
Confederate Compiled Military Service Records reported his name as Gustavus R. Bolton and all of his records are nothing but Federal POW records and noted him with Company A Freeman's Battalion Infantry. His POW records reported him taken prisoner at Salisbury, North Carolina located in Rowan County and transferred to Nashville, Tennessee and then forwarded to Louisville, Kentucky and finally transferred to Camp Chase where he arrived on May 4, 1865.
The soldiers of Freeman's Company Prison Guards were generally used at the Confederate Prison at Salisbury, North Carolina to guard Union prisoners and perform other duties thus freeing up military aged soldiers for Confederate service. Union General Stoneman occupied Salisbury, North Carolina on April 12, 1865 in hopes of releasing the Union prisoners however all had been removed with the exception of the sick to other prisons in February of 1865. What had been left at Salisbury was a stockpile of supplies in part guarded by elements of Freeman's Company Prison Guards. The company did offer a token of resistance to the Stoneman raiders but the Freeman's Company Prison Guards and other Confederate units were badly outnumbered.
"Private Augustus R. Bolton" as found at ancestry in "Selected Records of the War Department relating to Confederate Prisoners of War 1861-1865 reported him in Company A of Freeman's Battalion and taken prisoner at Salisbury, North Carolina on April 12, 1865 and arrived at Camp Chase May 4, 1865 and sent to the Camp Chase Hospital on May 17, 1865 and died on Monday, June 5, 1865 of phthisis pulmonary and placed in grave 2029." The compiler notes this disease today is associated with tuberculosis.
The compiler notes using the initials "A. R. Bolton" as found at ancestry in "Selected Records of the War Department relating to Confederate Prisoners of War 1861-1865 he was listed with Company A Freeman's Battery and taken prisoner on April 12, 1865 at Salisbury, North Carolina."
While there was a Tennessee artillery battery named Freeman's the compiler notes it was Company B and that no soldier with the surname of Bolton was listed among the unit.
The compiler also notes according to family genealogy as found on Find A Grave Memorial #77057677 that Mary Ann Henderson was married to Allen K. Bolton in September 1835 and that Ransom K. Bolton was the brother of Allen K. Bolton. The compiler notes that "Ramson" K. Bolton was also with Company A Freeman's Company Prison Guards and was reported as age 46 and he too was taken prisoner at Salisbury, North Carolina on April 12, 1865 and became a prisoner at Camp Chase. If the family genealogy is correct than Augustus R. Bolton was the nephew of Ransom K. Bolton.
The Nationwide Gravesite Locator as provided by the National Cemetery Administration reported Private A. R. Bolton as with the artillery which according to the compilers research clearly was not the case.
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