Cullen Rogers Ezell

He enlisted in Monticello, GA on 26 April 1861 and mustered as 3rd Corporal of Company G, 4th Georgia Infantry. He was elected 2nd Lieutenant at the army reorganization on 28 April 1862.

He was one of the officers of the regiment recognized by Brigadier General Doles as having "commended themselves to my special notice by their gallant and meritorious conduct" in Maryland, and was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 6 March 1863 and was slightly wounded - "shocked by a shell" - at Chancellorsville, VA on 2 May and "left the field." He was promoted to Captain on 16 (or 23) July.

He was wounded again, and captured, at the Wilderness, VA on 10 May 1864 and was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 20 August, when he was sent with a group of Confederate officers to Hilton Head, SC. They were sent on to Fort Pulaski, GA in October and returned to Fort Delaware on 12 March 1865 - one of the "Immortal 600". He took an oath of allegiance to the United States there on and was released 16 June 1865.

Residing in Huron, Georgia about 1903.

His service from Thomas1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, under Cullin R Ezell. The Doles reference from D.H. Hill's after-action report. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

02/19/1839; Jasper County, GA

01/05/1914; Eatonton, GA; burial in Pine Grove Cemetery, Eatonton, GA