There is an unmarked grave next to Marinda but Linzy is buried elsewhere, perhaps in Gainesville, GA.
The history of the 1st Georgia Infantry (Union), changed to the 5th Tennessee Company C and in 1865 became Company H 5th TN, received little or no attention. The north Georgia independent lifestyle of hard work and hard times did not fit with either Southern or Northern sympathies.
Many home guards raided southern farms taking cattle and horses. The north Georgians helped deserters and draft evaders and fought off the home guard to protect their land and property.
They were finally organized as spys and helpers to Sherman in 1864 but were never paid by the union nor formally helped after the war. On Nov. 5, 1864, Confederate Col. James Findley arrested Lindsey Vaughters, a justice of the Dawson Co. Inferior Court, along with 3 other justices and the sheriff of the county. Findley had captured a document indicating that the men were Unionists. Of the men captured, a dozen were found to be deserters from Confederate units, tried and executed in Gainesville on 7 Nov 1864, their bodies were transferred to the National Cemetery at Marietta, GA in July 1867, today buried in Section E, Numbers 6012-6023.
In 1870, fellow veterans recalled "Linza Vaughters" as a private in Co. C. of the 1st GA Infantry, a federal unit. "died since war". The records are found at the National Archieves on microfilm reel 279-34 at Georgia Archives.
...Family History
There is an unmarked grave next to Marinda but Linzy is buried elsewhere, perhaps in Gainesville, GA.
The history of the 1st Georgia Infantry (Union), changed to the 5th Tennessee Company C and in 1865 became Company H 5th TN, received little or no attention. The north Georgia independent lifestyle of hard work and hard times did not fit with either Southern or Northern sympathies.
Many home guards raided southern farms taking cattle and horses. The north Georgians helped deserters and draft evaders and fought off the home guard to protect their land and property.
They were finally organized as spys and helpers to Sherman in 1864 but were never paid by the union nor formally helped after the war. On Nov. 5, 1864, Confederate Col. James Findley arrested Lindsey Vaughters, a justice of the Dawson Co. Inferior Court, along with 3 other justices and the sheriff of the county. Findley had captured a document indicating that the men were Unionists. Of the men captured, a dozen were found to be deserters from Confederate units, tried and executed in Gainesville on 7 Nov 1864, their bodies were transferred to the National Cemetery at Marietta, GA in July 1867, today buried in Section E, Numbers 6012-6023.
In 1870, fellow veterans recalled "Linza Vaughters" as a private in Co. C. of the 1st GA Infantry, a federal unit. "died since war". The records are found at the National Archieves on microfilm reel 279-34 at Georgia Archives.
...Family History
Family Members
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William James Vaughter
1812–1866
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Hiram S Vaughter
1814–1853
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Lucinda Vaughter Allen
1816–1846
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Elizabeth Ann Vaughter Stone
1818–1868
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Vincy Vaughter
1823–1823
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Delila Vaughter Anderson
1825–1902
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Lydia Melinda "Lidda" Vaughters Davis
1829–1917
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Jane Vaughters Bennett
1830–1912
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Eliza A. Vaughters Young
1832–1908
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