6th Alabama Photo Album
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STOKES, Greenberry Jefferson, (Corporal,
(Old) Company I, 6th Alabama Infantry Regiment, Sergeant, (New)
Co D, 6th Alabama Infantry Regiment), Great-grandfather.
Greenberry was born in Tennessee, February 12, 1839 and enlisted, April
25, 1861, as a member of the "Raccoon Roughs", the company
organized by General John B. Gordon. He was wounded in Sharpsburg,
Maryland (Battle of Antietam) September 17, 1862 and captured, September
21, 1863. He was sent to Camp Chase, Ohio, to Rock Island, Illinois and to
Louisville, Kentucky to be exchanged. Greenberry Jefferson married
Virginia Ann Dykes 1870 in Grundy county Tennessee. He later moved his
family to Dade county, Georgia and lived there until his death, February
15, 1912. Greenberry J. and Virginia are buried in Sarah’s Chapel
Cemetery in Dade County, Georgia. They had five children, Ollie E. Stokes,
Walter Levi Stokes, Martha Maud Stokes, Nellie Barbara Stokes, Noah
Lafayette Stokes. Shirley Denney ddenney@akron.infi.net
STOKES, Lawson Henry, (Company I. 6th Alabama Infantry Regiment) Great Granduncle. Lawson H. Stokes was born about 1835 in Alabama and enlisted May 1861 in Montgomery (Long Island, Alabama), Co. I., his brother, Greenberry J. Stokes, enlisted in the same regiment. Lawson was discharged January 7, 1862 suffering from nostalgia. His discharge gives his age as 26, place of birth as DeKalb County, Alabama. Shirley Denney ddenney@akron.infi.net |
Greenberry Jefferson Stokes
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