Private Matthew Everett Morton (born May 20, 1839), Company F, enlisted in Clinton, GA where he made his home and was paid an enlistment bounty of $50.00. He wrote a letter while "3 miles north Richmond Va" on Saturday, May 31st 1862. Private Morton died on July 21, 1862 as a result of exposure during battle. His obituary was carried in the August 12, 1862 issue of The Christian Index. It stated that he died in a private house in Richmond on July 20, 1862 and died of fatigue, pneumonia and typhoid fever, and that his brother was with him. The brother was Melvin Harris Morton who also enlisted with him in Company F of the 45th Georgia. Matthew is buried in some unknown place in or near Richmond, Virginia. He was one of four brothers who served in the Confederate Army, including Melvin, mentioned above; Thomas Henry Morton, a private in a Louisiana infantry regiment, died at Vicksburg on May 25, 1863 and is interred in a military cemetery there; and William Troup Morton, who served as a private in Company H (Captain R. T. Ross commanding) of Major W.A. Lofton's Battalion of the Georgia Sixth Infantry Regiment (State Guards). He was temporarily attached to Compamy B, Lofton's Rgt. by order of Major General Cobb on September 28, 1863. He returned to Clinton (Jones County) after the war.
At the beginning of the hostilities James Madison Gray, a wealthy Jones County farmer, organized and equipped at his own expense a military company of Jones County men and boys that were known as "Gray's Volunteers." This company later became Company "F" 45th Infantry Regiment, Georgia Volunteers commanded by Col. Thomas Hardeman. According to official battle reports, this company experienced severe battle action in the operations around Richmond, VA, during 1862 to repel the Union Army thrust up the York and James River Peninsula.
1st Lt. William Anderson Chambers was the only surviving officer of Company G (Myrick Volunteers), 45th Georgia Regiment, at Appomattox on April 9, 1865.
Private Jasper A. Gillespie, Company B (Rutland Volunteers), enlisted February 26, 1862 and was killed in action at Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia, on May 12, 1864.
Private James Hathcock, Company C, was killed on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville. The burial site is unknown.
