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  1. William Pickney Dennington: Birth: ABT 1849 in Rome, Floyd County, Georgia.

  2. Elizabeth Dennington: Birth: ABT 1851 in Rome, Floyd County, Georgia.

  3. Caroline Dennington: Birth: ABT 1854 in Rome, Floyd County, Georgia.

  4. Amanda Josephine Dennington: Birth: Oct 1856 in Rome, Floyd County, Georgia. Death: 16 May 1931 in Ada, Pontotoc County, Oklahoma

  5. Washington Dennington: Birth: ABT 1857 in Floyd County, Georgia.

  6. Sarah Dennington: Birth: ABT 1858 in Rome, Floyd County, Georgia. Death: ABT 1895 in Alabama

  7. Henry Dennington: Birth: ABT 1861 in Rome, Floyd County, Georgia.

  8. Delia Dennington: Birth: ABT 1863.


Notes
a. Note:   Pvt. Charles Dennington, Regiment 4 Georgia Calvary, Company C under Commander Dallas, died frm Typhoid Fever June 24, 1864. He was interned in the Confederate Cemetery grave # 1281 on Rock Island between Moline, Illinois and Davenport, Iowa. Charles left a wife and seven children ages 8 - 21.
  The first 468 Confederate prisoners arrived at Rock Island by train on December 3, 1863. They had been captured in the Battle of Lookout Mountain in Southeastern Tennessee. Hundreds of curious citizens gathered to watch the prisoners be unloaded on the far Western edge of the island. In an effort to control the crowd, local police officers and their deputies confined the spectatrs to a roped-off area. The prisoners were marched past the crowd a mile or so inland to the prison.
  Within a few weeks the prison population rose from the original 468 to over 5,000 prisoners. Eventually, the prison population grew to 8,594 prisoners, the largest number of prisoners held at any one time at the Rock Island Prison Barracks.
  Though the prisoners' existence at the Rock Island Prison Barracks was harsh, especially by present day standards, living conditions were relatively typical of prison camps in the North. Most Southern prisoners had difficulty adjusting to the cold winter of the North and, unfortunately, the first prisoners arrived during a severe cold spell with temperatures plummeting to 30 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. Not long after the prison had opened, the supply of winter clothing and blankets for the prisoners became depleted; however, nearby coalfields provided each barracks with sufficient heating coal to burn in the barracks' stoves.
  A diary written by one of the prisoners of his recollections of the winters in the prison.
  January 1, 1864 - The coldest day I have ever felt. Thermometer 30 (degrees) below zero.
  January 3, 1864 - I suffer greatly for blankets. Many fellows have no blankets yet and are very thin clad. Such men suffer terrible. We sleep by reliefs (to man the fires in the barracks) and fill each bunk heads and tails fashion. I fear that disease and death will be the result of all this suffering.
  Deaths have already occurred from freezing.
  In addition t surviving the bitter winter cold of the North, Confederate prisoners had to endure exposure to a deadly smallpox epidemic, among other contagious diseases. Intially, prison doctors diagnosed 94 cases of smallpox among the first prisoners. Unfortunately, they did not detect all the cases, and those that processed into the camp undetected exposed the entire camp to the dreaded disease. The conditions which enhanced the spread of smallpox, such as the faulty drainage system of the prison compound. The prison was situated in a low land area of the island, causing water to drain in, rather than out, of the camp. Therefore, during the spring of 1864, the camp ground was constantly wet and muddy. On another inspection on April 8, 1864 the conditions of the prison grounds and its water supply were still poor; and several unsanitary conditions and practices still continued at the prison. The latter included prisoners tossing their kitchen refuse and wash water on the ground near their barracks. The wash water contributed to the standing water and muddy grounds severely hindered the prison's already inadequate drainage system. Prisoners also emptied and washed barrels from their privies in the river twice a day. Smallpox claimed 98 prisoners and 3 guards in December 1863; 231 prisoners and 4 guards in January 1864; and 350 prisoners and 10 guards in February 1864.
  (Information taken from "An Illustrated History Of The Rock Island Arsenal And Arsenal Island")
  Charles Dennington was captured on May 25, 1864. This was the first day of fighting in the BATTLE OF NEW HOPE CHURCH. Charles was taken to Dallas, Georgia, the county seat which is just a few miles Northwest of Atlanta. From Dallas, Georgia, Charles was sent to the Rock Island Prison, Illinois, arriving there on June 1, 1864. Charles died June 29, 1864, of typhoid fever and is buried in the Confederate Cemetery in grave number 1281.
  The BATTLE OF NEW HOPE CHURCH was where the Confederates made one of their last stands against General Sherman's Union forces, trying to keep them out of Atlanta. The battle lasted for three days and is considered a Confederate victory although they were greatly outnumbered. Sherman then split his forces, sending them East and West, flanking the Confederates and eventually took Atlanta and then went on to Savannah.


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