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Photographer: Mike Stroud
Taken: May 10, 2011
Caption:
Memory Hill Cemetery,Jesse Sanford Beall (Co. K 51st GA), at right | Additional Description: (October 18, 1840-Nov. 30, 1863) was Captain
of the “Albany Greys” in Semms’ Brigade.
He fought through the Virginia campaigns under
General Lee and was wounded at Chancellorsville.
At Chickamauga, while leading his
company in an assault, he fell mortally
wounded. He was buried on the field. His
remains were reburied here in March 1866.
His monument is a broken column symbolizing
his life was cut short and a wreath of oak
leaves symbolizing his military strength. (Memory Hill Cemetery tour)
Monument reads:
Capt:Beall
Commanded the "Albany Greys'
of the 51st Regiment Geo: Volunteers,
Semms' Drigade: He fought through
the Virginia Campaigns under Gen
L- Lee
wounded at Chancellorsville- was
at the Battle of Chickamauga- and
while gallantly leading his company
to an assukt upon one of the forts
in front of Knoxville, fell mortally
wounded on the 29th- and died on
the 30th November 1863, he was buried
on the field with military Honors- and
his remains now rest beneath this
monument erected to his memory
by his father.
Submitted: May 12, 2011, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p153027
File Size: 5.647 Megabytes
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