Revolutionary War Veterans
Jacob Neely
Enlisted in Continental Army and was assigned as an aide to his brother Thomas, with whom he served for three months. After this service, he volunteered again and served for two months as a private in the North Carolina troops, once more under his brother Thomas, who by this time had become a lieutenant under Cols. Douglass and Williams. Jacob was in the Battle of King’s Mountain (one of his comrades in this battle was William Steen, whose grandson many years later married a granddaughter of Jacob Neely in Mississippi).
John Stell
Private- Sergeant in Revolutionary War- South Carolina, Captain William Smith’s Company, Colonel John Thomas’s Regiment, Sumpter’s Brigade, 96th District.
Thomas Gatlin
Captain in Virginia (as was his brother, Edward).
Fielder Bowie
Captain of the Nottingham Company, Prince George County, Maryland. Commissioned January 20, 1776.
William Cantey
Captain served under General Williamson in 1779 and Francis Marion’s Brigade “Swamp Fox” (seven Cantey brothers and cousins served as officers under Francis Marion).
Thomas Jones
Captain. born 1747 in Washington County, Virginia and died 25 February 1785 in Newberry County, South Carolina.
John Cargill
Captain John Cargill’s Minute Men of the Lunenburg County Militia. Father of Elizabeth Sarah Cargill (wife of Wettenhall Warner) Captain John CARGILL, Cornelius CARGILL Jun. Lieutenant
Robert Fletcher, Sr.
Enlisted June 12 1777 (term of enlistment three years). Served in Captain Richard Stevens Co. commanded by Col Edward Stevens. He was under Brigadier General George Weeden. He also served under Colonel John Green, Lt. Colonel Lewis Willis.
Enlisted in 1778, having taken the place of his brother John Fletcher. Also as a Private in the 10th Virginia Regiment commanded by Colonel Woodford Stevens, Rockbridge and Augusta Counties, Virginia. Served as a Private, Captain Hawes Co, 1st Virginia Regiment, Commanded by Colonel Woodford, for the term of about three months. and then Major Samuel Hawes. After being wounded he spent several months in the hospital. He was given 2500 acres of land in Kentucky, mostly in Adair and Green Counties.
Wettenhall Warner
Enlisted February 1776 in Captain David Bell’s Company, Albermarle County, Virginia. He is noted as 5’5″ tall at age 20 at time of enlistment.
Henry Richbourg
South Carolina Militia volunteer and officer in Captain (later General) Richard Richardson’s Company, along with his brothers John Richbourg, James Richbourg and Nathaniel Richbourg. After Capt. Richardson was promoted, Henry and his brothers accepted commissions under General Thomas Sumter (Continental Army).
John L. Fletcher
Served as a Colonel in the Revolutionary War and had been “shot up”. For his service to the United States John L. received a 2,500 acre land grant.
Martin Hugh Mahaffey served with Patriots as horseman.
Cornelius Cargill . . . killed by Whigs in spring of 1781.
James Lindley
Captain under Colonel David Fanning (Loyalist forces). Fought in various battles in the backcountry of South Carolina. Hanged by Patriot after a “trial” at Ninety-Six, South Carolina in April, 1779.
In the Spring of 1781, the Fort at 96 was under siege by Gen. Greene. Col. Cruger was the commander of the fort. Captain Cargill’s company went up early in the Spring to the assistance of Cruger. After the fall of the fort, Cruger left 96 and while passing down the country, he permitted Cargill’s men to visit their homes, and they on their way passed the home of Capt. Soloman Pope, where they found 3 of Pope’s men, Aaron Wever, Joe Allen, & Fred Sissan, whom they made prisoners. Having no place of confinement after the lose of the 96, they took them into a swamp near by on Mine Creek & put them to death. Capt. Pope immediately called his company together, hastened to Mount Williaang & called on Capt. James Butler for assistance. With their forces united they met the troops under Cargill in the fork of Cloud’s Creek & Little Saluda, where a bloody fight ensued in which Cargill’s men were completely exterminated. It is said that about half of them were killed after they surrendered, so great was the exasperation of the Whigs at their conduct in murdering Pope’s men a short time before. Only 1 man was left alive, Henry Etheridge.
Frederick Calvit
He and his brothers fought with George Rogers Clark in the Northwest Wilderness. Frederick was scalped in 1777, but he survived.
War of 1812
Thomas Neely … Corporal, 7th Regiment (Perkin’s Battalion), Mississippi Militia.
Major John Bowie . . . adjutant in Colonel Nixon’s regiment of Mississippi Volunteers. On April l4, l8l4, he was ordered to Pierce’s Stockade. Oct l, l8l4, he was promoted to major in Hind’s battalion of cavalry, and mustered out of service in l8l5. He is said to have participated in the Battle of New Orleans.
Colonel James Richard Fletcher … was commissioned as a Captain on October 3, 1814. After the war, lands were ceded from the Creek Indians for their support of the British. Much of those lands made up the original Henry County. James was promoted to Colonel of the 42nd Militia Regiment by Georgia Governor William Rabun on October 12, 1819. He was assigned to survey the boundaries of Henry County “by horseback”. Surveyors were paid either $3.50 or $2.50 per mile surveyed depending upon their duties out of which all expenses incurred had to be paid. In 1822 James Fletcher was appointed to
the important county office as the first Sheriff. In 1823 he purchased a lot in Square C of the city of McDonough. He is indentified as Sheriff in several original documents in the possession of his descendants. Sheriff Fletcher died suddenly in 1827 and his grave is reported to be in an old cemetery in the Riverdale area. It is believed that he died from the rapid onset of a disease.
Colonel Thomas Cargill Warner … as judge, Thomas Warner also served as colonel of the militia of Washington Parish. In 1814-15 he commanded the 13th & 14th Regiments of Lousiana Volunteers at the siege and Battle of New Orleans. Andrew Jackson stayed with the Warners on his way down to New Orleans. It is said that Col. Warner and Col. Daniel Edwards had their portrait painted with Gen. Jackson, but it was last lost or sold.
Thomas Gatlin … Florida Infantry.
Nathaniel Richbourg
Nathaniel and his son Rene, along with a slave, died Aug 30, 1813 in the massacre at Fort Mims, Alabama Territory. Another son, Wade, survived.