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Culpepper Cemetery is a small family cemetery located about 2½ miles west of Whitesburg in southeastern Carroll County off Acorn Creek Road. There are about 8 marked graves and about 50 unmarked graves. The only Reese having a marked grave is Wade Reese born 1837, died 1928. The military marker reads "Pvt., Co. K, 20 GA Inf, CSA, POW."
Company K, 20th Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry, Army of Northern Virginia was organized in Richmond County, Georgia in August 1861. An abstract of the service record of Wade Hampton Reese indicates that he enlisted August 17, 1861; that he was captured at Falling Waters, Maryland July 14, 1863, sent to the Old Capitol Prison at Washington, D.C. and was transferred to Point Lookout Prison, Maryland August 8, 1863. He was sent to Hammond General Hospital at Point Lookout in October 1863 and then sent to City Point, Virginia for exchange on March 17, 1864. A parenthtical note added to the abstract records that he was born in Forsyth, Georgia in 1837. I don't know if that is Forsyth County or Forsyth in Monroe County.
I have included this detail because he appears to be a son of John W. Reese and may be of some interest. This does appear to be the same John Reese that is enumerated in the 1850 Monroe County, Georgia census. In 1852 he purchased two adjoining Land Lots in Carroll County (Lot 112 in the Fourth Land District and Lot 214 in the Third Land District). These lots are about 3 miles south of Whitesburg on the Chattahoochee River and about the same distance southeast of the above cemetery.
If you would like to have a copy of John W. Reese' original signature you can get one at the Georgia Archives from the microfilm of the 1867-1868 Georgia Voter Registration Oath Book B for Carroll County, Volume 224, page 210.
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