Leonidas C Draffin
Birth: 24 Mar 1839
Death: 1 Oct 1917
(Aged 78 years, 6 months, 7 days.)
Burial: Pine Level Cemetery
Cairo, Grady County, Georgia, USA
Served in Company I, 31st Inf., Georgia as Pvt
Residence Decatur County GA; Enlisted on 12/20/1861 as a Private. On 12/20/1861 he mustered into "I" Co. GA 31st Infantry He was Surrendered on 4/9/1865 at Appomattox Court House, VA He was listed as: * Wounded 6/27/1862 Cold Harbor, VA (Died in Grady County, Georgia, September 30, 1917.) Sources used: - Roster of Confederate Soldiers of Georgia 1861-1865 - Southern Historical Society Papers: Appomattox Paroles ANV
Residence Decatur County GA; Enlisted on 12/20/1861 as a Private. On 12/20/1861 he mustered into "I" Co. GA 31st Infantry He was Surrendered on 4/9/1865 at Appomattox Court House, VA He was listed as: * Wounded 6/27/1862 Cold Harbor, VA (Died in Grady County, Georgia, September 30, 1917.) Sources used: - Roster of Confederate Soldiers of Georgia 1861-1865 - Southern Historical Society Papers: Appomattox Paroles ANV
Unit Details:
31st Infantry Regiment [also called 27th Regiment] completed its organization in November, 1861, at Cusseta, Georgia. Its companies were from the counties of Muscogee, Chattahoochee, Monroe, Bartow, Pulaski, Dawson, and Newton. After serving Savannah it was ordered to Virginia and placed in Lawton's, John B. Gordon's, and C.A. Evans' Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia. The 31st participated in various conflicts from Seven Days' Battles to Cold Harbor, moved with Early to the Shenandoah Valley, and took part in the final campaign at Appomattox. It contained 1,200 men when organized, and reported 170 casualties at Gaines' Mill, 55 at Sharpsburg, 78 at Fredericksburg, and 23 at Chancellorsville. The regiment lost more than twenty-five percent of the 252 engaged at Gettysburg, and surrendered with 120, of which 66 were armed. The field officers were Colonel Clement A. Evans, John H. Lowe, and Pleasant J. Phillips; and Lieutenant Colonels John T. Crowder, Daniel P. Hill, and R.T. Pride.- This family tree contains 1 known Confederate soldier.
- Leonidas Constantine Draffin