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Military Service in other WarsWhen war came the Goldens sent their own Army, fighting in large numbers for both the Union and for the Confederacy.
Some Southern Goldens volunteered and chose to fight for the Union.
Golden – Albert Golden 1st Battalion, Tennessee Light Artillery, Union [1]Tennessee Unionists, National Park Service (NPS) records
Golden – Calvin Golden / Goldin 4th Regiment, West Virginia Cavalry [2]West Virginia Unionists, National Park Service (NPS) records
Golden – Claiborne Golden KIA 17 May 1864 at Cedar Glades, Arkansas. Private, Company D, 4th Regiment, Arkansas Cavalry.[3]Arkansas Unionists, National Park Service (NPS) records Enlisted 2 Feb 1864 at Cedarglades, Arkansas for three years of service. Died while in service by 19 May 1864. Reason for death is not given. Was owed $308 for military service at time of death.[4]Fold3, US, Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Arkansas, 1861-1865 … Continue reading His mother applied for a pension in 1869. [5]Index to Compiled Military Service Records; 4th Arkansas Union Cavalry – Arkansas Research Was wounded in action (March) 1864 and absent from duty due to wounds in April 1864. His unit was disbanded from active service just barely two weeks after his death.[6]Fold3, US, Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Arkansas, 1861-1865 … Continue reading
— Parents: Henry Osborn Golden (1806–1860) and Mary Margaret Mason (1813–1874)
Golden – Ezekiel Golden 4th Regiment, Arkansas Cavalry [7]Arkansas Unionists, National Park Service (NPS) records
Golden – George W. Golden 5th Regiment, West Virginia Cavalry [8]West Virginia Unionists, National Park Service (NPS) records
Golden – Edward Golden 1st Regiment, Louisiana Cavalry [9]Louisiana Unionists, National Park Service (NPS) records
Golden – G.D. aka Samuel Golden / Goldon 1st Battalion, Arkansas Infantry (1862) [10]Arkansas Unionists, National Park Service (NPS) records
Golden – Henry Golden 12th Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry [11]Tennessee Unionists, National Park Service (NPS) records
Golden – Hiram Golden / Goldin 4th Regiment, West Virginia Cavalry [12]West Virginia Unionists, National Park Service (NPS) records
Golden – J. H. Golden 7th Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry Tennessee Unionists, National Park Service (NPS) records
Golden – James Golden / Gulden 11th Regiment, West Virginia Infantry [13]West Virginia Unionists, National Park Service (NPS) records
Golden – James Golden 3rd Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry [14]Tennessee Unionists, National Park Service (NPS) records
Golden – James Golden 2nd Regiment, West Virginia Cavalry [15]West Virginia Unionists, National Park Service (NPS) records
Golden – John Golden 2nd Regiment, West Virginia Cavalry [16]West Virginia Unionists, National Park Service (NPS) records
Goulden – John Golden 2nd Regiment, West Virginia Cavalry [17]West Virginia Unionists, National Park Service (NPS) records
Golden – John Alexander Golden (1841–1897) Union Navy and CSA
— Birth 29 Jul 1841, Tallapoosa, Alabama; Death 19 Nov 1897, Tallassee, Tallapoosa, Alabama
— Parents: Seaborn Jasper Golden, Sr. (1799–1859) and Levina Johnston (1805–1885)
— CSA Service #1: A claim made on a recently installed gravestone for John Alexander Golden indicates that he served in a Columbus, Georgia CSA unit known as Captain Croft’s Flying Artillery Battalion,[18]Many members of Croft’s Battery, Georgia Light Artillery, aka Columbus Light Artillery, were organized and mustered into Confederate service at Columbus, Georgia, during the early spring of … Continue reading the nickname given to the Georgia Light Artillery Battalion from Columbus, Georgia. This is probably correct as his brother Benjamin Franklin Golden (B.F. Golden) is verified as having belonged to the same unit, joining in March 1862.[19]Benjamin Franklin Golden was formally recognized in the 1907 Alabama Census of of Confederate Soldiers as a Private, honorably discharged in April 1865 from Captain Croft’s Battery of Light … Continue reading … John Alexander Golden‘s service appears to have been very brief per pay records: A John Golden joined the unit at Savannah, Georgia on 26 Apr 1862. Served one month and 7 days. Pay records of 1 September 1862 indicate ‘Was never paid’: https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/
— CSA Service #2: John Alexander Golden may have entered CSA service again from Mar 1863 until Jan 1864 in the 54th Regiment, Alabama Infantry, CSA, aka the 50th Regiment, Alabama Infantry. This is from a Golden family genealogy. Supposedly entered service at Notasulga, Alabama, where his parents lived.[20]See email discussions with descendant Luther Golden for John Alexander Golden serving in the 54th Regiment CSA and later in the Union Navy. There is no roster for the 50th or 54th Regiment beyond a small list of its officers. [21]Alabama Soldiers Index, supposedly houses some 239,000 records and indicates that a John Golden served in the following CSA units: 7th Alabama Regiment Company K; 8th Infantry Regiment Company I; … Continue reading
— Union Service: John A Golden of Alabama enlisted for one year of service on ship #952 at Pensacola, Florida on 25 July 1864 and was discharged at Pensacola 25 July 1865 when the war ended. Served as a landsman — an inexperienced sailor — on the ship USS Potomac, which patrolled near the the shoreline and was responsible for blockade enforcement as a ship of the West Gulf Blockade Squadron. [22]BOOK — Muster Rolls of the USS Potomac, 1861-1864, page 28. See https://catalog.archives.gov/id/134440783
Golden, Marcus Lafayette (1846-1864 DIS KIA) … Private, Company D, 12th Tennessee Mounted Infantry Cavalry Regiment (UNION). [23]Tennessee Unionists, National Park Service (NPS) records Wounded 27 Sep 1864.
— Enlisted: 26 Feb 1864; Mustered: 27 Mar 1864; Died: 22 Oct 1864 from wounds received at Pulaski, Tennessee on 27 Sep 1864.
— Marcus Golden was member of taskforce of Southern Unionist forces (3rd and 12th Mounted Infantry Regiments) that were constantly engaged in running skirmishes with military and guerrilla forces led by Gen Nathan Bedford Forrest. … Forrest was fast and furious … catching the 12th Regiment off guard in late September. In a rush back to protect Pulaski, Tennessee from falling into Forrest’s control, a series of hasty skirmishes were waged between 24-28 Sep 1864. General Forrest went on to cofound the KKK and became its first Grand Dragon.
— Marcus Golden wounded on September 27th and died from his wounds on October 22nd, 1864. Father Nathaniel Green Golden (c1812-c1882/83) went to Nashville Union military hospital to nurse his son back to health and is believed to have been with him when he passed away.
— Parents: Nathaniel Greene Golden (1812–1882) and Arzela Moore (1825–1886).
— Relationship: Great-Grand Uncle
Golden – Patrick Golden 2nd Regiment, West Virginia Veteran Infantry [24]West Virginia Unionists, National Park Service (NPS) records
Golden – Samuel aka G.D. Golden / Goldon 1st Battalion, Arkansas Infantry (1862) [25]Arkansas Unionists, National Park Service (NPS) records
Golden – Turner Golden 4th Regiment, Arkansas Cavalry [26]Arkansas Unionists, National Park Service (NPS) records
Golden – William Harvey Golden Company D, 4th Regiment, Arkansas Cavalry [27]Arkansas Unionists, National Park Service (NPS) records
— Relationship: Cousin; listed in some genealogies as CSA or a Confederate flag is shown. Was Unionist in an all unionist military regiment.
Golden – William 1st Regiment, West Virginia Cavalry [28]West Virginia Unionists, National Park Service (NPS) records
References
| ↑1, ↑11, ↑14 | Tennessee Unionists, National Park Service (NPS) records |
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| ↑2, ↑8, ↑12, ↑13, ↑15, ↑16, ↑17, ↑24 | West Virginia Unionists, National Park Service (NPS) records |
| ↑3, ↑7, ↑10, ↑25, ↑26, ↑27 | Arkansas Unionists, National Park Service (NPS) records |
| ↑4, ↑6 | Fold3, US, Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Arkansas, 1861-1865 (https://www.fold3.com/publication/44/us-civil-war-service-records-cmsr-union-arkansas-1861-1865 : accessed Dec 15, 2024), database and images, https://www.fold3.com/publication/44/us-civil-war-service-records-cmsr-union-arkansas-1861-1865 |
| ↑5 | Index to Compiled Military Service Records; 4th Arkansas Union Cavalry – Arkansas Research |
| ↑9 | Louisiana Unionists, National Park Service (NPS) records |
| ↑18 | Many members of Croft’s Battery, Georgia Light Artillery, aka Columbus Light Artillery, were organized and mustered into Confederate service at Columbus, Georgia, during the early spring of 1862. Its members were from Russell County, Alabama (west side of Columbus GA) and Muscogee County where Columbus GA is situated. The unit had about 115 men when it first served at Savannah. Later the unit was involved in various campaigns in Mississippi and in November, 1863, totalled 139 officers and men. It went on to fight in the battles for Atlanta and was with Hood in Northern Georgia and Tennessee. The company was then given muskets and converted to infantry until the close of the war. Serving in Mississippi, it surrendered on May 12, 1865. Its commanders were Captain Edward Croft and Alfred J. Young. |
| ↑19 | Benjamin Franklin Golden was formally recognized in the 1907 Alabama Census of of Confederate Soldiers as a Private, honorably discharged in April 1865 from Captain Croft’s Battery of Light Artillery, having joined March 1862 at Savannah, Georgia. Source: Alabama Department of Archives & History; Montgomery, Alabama; Alabama Census of Confederate Soldiers, 1907 and 1921; Roll: Multiple Regiments (Tallapoosa County #62); Roll Number: 227 |
| ↑20 | See email discussions with descendant Luther Golden for John Alexander Golden serving in the 54th Regiment CSA and later in the Union Navy. |
| ↑21 | Alabama Soldiers Index, supposedly houses some 239,000 records and indicates that a John Golden served in the following CSA units: 7th Alabama Regiment Company K; 8th Infantry Regiment Company I; 10th Alabama Regiment Company E; and a John T. Golden served in the 37th Alabama Regiment Company H. |
| ↑22 | BOOK — Muster Rolls of the USS Potomac, 1861-1864, page 28. See https://catalog.archives.gov/id/134440783 |
| ↑23 | Tennessee Unionists, National Park Service (NPS) records |
| ↑28 | West Virginia Unionists, National Park Service (NPS) records |