Re: JOLLY or JOLLEY of Whitfield Co GA 1860
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JOLLY or JOLLEY of Whitfield Co GA 1860
Rulon N Smithson 12/01/04
Hello Rulon.You are part of the Jolley family that moved from Ireland to SC, then to Cass County Georgia.I believe your Thomas then moved to Dalton and then to Alabama.I ran across this from the Roots Web tonight on him.......
Thomas B Jolly - Enlisted 6/11/1861, WIA 12/13/1862 at Fredericksburg, WIA (shot in arm, bayoneted in body) and captured 7/2/1863 at Gettysburg, Reported dead by Confederates, Wife Eliza filed death claim 8/14/1863, Imprisoned at Fort Delaware until transferred to Hammond hospital at Point Lookout 10/22/1863, Released from hospital 1/12/1864, Exchanged from Point Lookout 5/3/1864 and furloughed home, Recaptured 7/1/1864 at Dalton by Sherman's troops (Both he, wife Eliza and two other people were arrested as spies who had wrecked a Federal supply train per 7/2/1864 telegram from Col Bernard Laibold commanding Dalton Post to General Stedman at Chattanooga), Imprisoned at Louisville until sent to Camp Chase in Ohio 10/24/1864, Released 5/2/1865 and sent to New Orleans for exchange, Admitted to USGH #2 at Vicksburg with fever 5/12/1865, Released 5/23/1865, Shown as Town Marshall of Dalton in 1870 census, Age 42, 1880 census still shows him in Dalton and lists him as a disabled veteran, Moved to Jefferson County Alabama and died there 7/11/1893
Please tell me who Thomas B Jolley's father is.Thanks, Sheila McCloud