Augustus Scott Avant

1st Sergeant

Co. B, 28th GA Infantry

Confederate States of America

August 24, 1843 – May 21, 1918 

Enlisted September 10, 1861 as a Private and was wounded at Cold Harbor, Virginia on June 27, 1862. 1st Sergeant Avant was wounded two more time; Crampton’s Gap, Maryland on September 14, 1862, and Fredericksburg, Virginia on December 13, 1862, He surrendered Greensboro, North Carolina on April 26, 1865

Joe F. Avant

World War II

1922 – July 8, 1951

Robert Lee “Bobby” Chambers

Private

United States Air Force

1950 – 1953, during the Korean War

September 8, 1931 – December 13, 2015

Edwin Rowell Corbett

Staff Sergeant

492nd Quartermaster Depot Co.

World War II

April 23, 1915 – January 4, 1958 

John Rabun Giles

Staff Sergeant

United States Air Force

Korea

January 2nd, 1928 – July 28th, 1980

Lee Anderson Gladin

Private

Co. H, 49th GA Infantry

Confederate States of America

December 9, 1845 – November 27, 1930

Raymond Thomas Hall Sr.

Corporal

Asiatic-Pacific Theater

United States Army

World War II

December 25, 1924 – January 24, 2017

Jimmy Lee Hanna

United States Air Force

Vietnam

August 20, 1945 – September 23, 2007 

Milton Taylor Hart

Private

World War II

February 25, 1915 – October 7, 1973 

William Milton “Billy” Hart

United States Army

Vietnam

November 26, 1947 – December 10, 2022 

Julian Andrew Lewis

Technical Sergeant

United States Army

Korea

April 26, 1927 – June 19, 1991

Lionel C. Lewis

Sergeant

329th Infantry Division

World War II

February 17, 1920 – July 5, 1944

William James Lewis

Technician 3rd Grade

United States Army

Bronze Medal Recipient

World War II

October 30, 1913 – October 6, 1972 

Huby L. Norris

Private

Medical Department

World War I

June 16th, 1893 – April 22nd, 1958 

Floyd Freeman Peeler

Private First Class

United States Army

World War II

April 20, 1923 – December 30, 2016 

James Haywood Pittman

Private

Captain Howell’s Co. Light Artillery

Confederate States of America

December 18, 1843 – March 28, 1912 

Enlisted May 10, 1862 in Sandersville.

W. H. Robinson

Confederate States of America

William Jefferson Swafford

Private

Co. A and Co. L 1st Ga. Regulars

Confederate States of America

October 8, 1839 – August 17, 1885 

John L. Turner

Private

Co. B, 12th Battalion, GA Light Artillery

Confederate State of America

1825 – January 31, 1904

Enlisted December 17, 1862 in Sandersville as a Private and was assigned a cook.

B. Lamar Veal

Private First Class

13th General Hospital

World War II –

April 5, 1919 – December 6, 1954 

J. H. Veal

Confederate States of America

Richard Dennis Veal Jr.

Lieutenant Colonel

Quartermaster Corps

United States Army

Vietnam – Retired

February 23, 1932 – December 19, 2017

William Edison Williams

Corporal

245th Signal Operations Company

United States Army

World War II

December 6, 1917 – April 3, 1958