Thank you very much for the photos. Each of these three men's posture and the glint in their eyes indicate to me that they were ready to do whatever was necessary to defend their right of self determination. Do you have any data as to where any of these men survived the war?

My GG Grandfather, George Cornelius Vandiver, served in the 13/16 Battalion of the Georgia Calvary. He lived in Jackson County, Georgia with his parents at the time he enlisted. There is only one page that survived in his combined service record, and that page indicates that he was 16 years of age and rode his horse to Clarkesville, Georgia to enroll.

GG Grandfather Vandiver's unit accompanied General John Morgan on his 1st raid into Kentucky, because the "Georgia Boys" are mentioned in the story of John Hunt Morgan, written by one of General Morgan's line officers.

I don't recall the name of the officer that received permission to organize the 13/16th Battalion of Georgia Calvary, but that Colonel was shot in the thigh during their first skirmish and bleed to death. The Colonel became the first known casualty named in the aforementioned book concerning the 1st raid into Kentucky made by General Morgan.

It is likely that that the 13/16th Battalion participated on other excursions with
General Morgan behind the Yankee lines, but I have found no creditable proof that they did participate in other raids.

I have come to the conclusion that perhaps the reason for the lack of details in the combined service records is that the records were either destroyed or never existed because they were careful to destroy any evidence of General Morgan's
presence in Yankee Territory.

GG Grandfather George C. Vandiver survived (no record of wounds) and lived to the ripe old age of 81, dying sometime is the early 1930s. Married four times, and fathered some 16 children by his various wives. I suppose that he was trying to help repopulate Georgia to compensate for those killed in the Civil War.

George had an older brother, Charles C. Vandiver, that enlisted in an infantry regiment organized earlier in Jackson County, Ga. shortly after the war began.
After participating in several major battles in Virginia, George died in a Confederate hospital in Richmond Virginia (likely from measles), and is probably buried in an unmarked grave in the Hollywood cemetery.

George had a younger brother, (Name is in my records but can't recall) that enlisted in a Georgia Calvary shortly after the Battle of Atlanta began and resisted Sherman's soldiers until they reached Savannah, Ga. This brother was shot in the arm or hand during the battle and returned to his home in Jackson County, Ga.
George's family consisted of three sons and two sisters.

I found no record of the sisters after the war and assume that they married and I have found no records of their marriage so they are lost to history.