General Notes

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CENSUS YR:  1860  TERRITORY:  GA  COUNTY:  White  REEL NO:  M653-140 PAGE
NO:  464 REFERENCE:  Enumerated 30th July, 1860 by William F. Sears Page
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LN HN  FN   LAST    First         AGE  SEX OCCUP. REAL & Pers. VALUE
BIRTH/PL
40 232 232  Sears   Wyatt C.   26    M                    150        165
Georgia
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1 232 232   Sears    Louisa     24     F South Carolina
2 232 232 Sears      Martha A.   5    F Georgia
3 232 232 Sears      Sarah         3    F Georgia
4 232 232 Sears      Susan        1    F Georgia
Texas Confederate Pensions Index. Claimant Name: Sears, Wyeth Chappell.
Application Number: 22084. County: Foard
Wyatt and Lousia had 12 children: Mary Martha Ann, Sarah Francis, Susan
Roxanna, Louisa Rosetta, William Jasper, Enoch Wyatt George, Julia Alice,
Charles Eakes, John Wesley, Otheria, Azzie Lee and Sandy Lafayette. Hope
this helps.
WHITE COUNTY, GA - MILITARY  - Civil War  Co. C 24TH Regiment  "White
County Marksmen"
Sears, Wyatt C. -- Private - November 23, 1861. Appointed 3rd Corporal
June 8, 1863. Elected 1st Lieutenant September 14, 1863. Appointed Ensign
November 7, 1864. Captured at
Sailor's Creek, Virginia April 6, 1865. Released at Johnson's Island,
Ohio June 20, 1865.
24th Regiment, Georgia Infantry
24th Infantry Regiment, organized during the summer of 1861, recruited
its members in White, Banks, Towns, Rabun, Gwinnett, Elbert, and Hall
counties. After serving in the Department of North Carolina, the unit
moved to Virginia where it was brigaded under Generals H. Cobb, T.R.R.
Cobb, Wofford, and DuBose. It fought in the difficult campaigns of the
Army of Northern Virginia from the Seeven Days' Battles to Gettysburg,
then moved to Georgia with Longstreet. The 24th was not engaged at
Chickamauga, but did see action in the Knoxville Campaign. Returned to
Virginia it participated in the conflicts at The Wilderness,
Spotsylvania, and Cold Harbor, was active in the Shenandoah Valley, and
ended the war at Appomattox. In April, 1862, this regiment totalled 660
effectives, lost forty-three percent of the 292 engaged at Crampton's
Gap, and had 4 killed, 39 wounded, and 2 missing at Sharpsburg. It
sustained 36 casualties at Fredericksburg, reported 14 killed and 73
wounded at Chancellorsville, and of the 303 at Gettysburg, seventeen
percent were disabled. Many were captured at Sayler's Creek and only 4
officers and 56 men surrendered on April 9, 1865. The field officers were
Colonels Robert McMillan and C.C. Sanders, Lieutenant Colonels Joseph N.
Chandler and Thomas E. Winn, and Majors Robert E. McMillan and Frederick
C. Smith.
Wyatt must have lived in Arkansas. His daughter Susan Roxanna Sears lived
and died in Fulton Co., AR. Wyatt's brother Thomas Glenn Sears lived and
died in Fulton Co., AR also. Reseached by Ron Bridges on 15 Mar 2003.