★★★ Littlefield, Acial

Acial Littlefield​

Born: December 24, 1811

Birthplace: Spartanburg, South Carolina

1st​ Wife: Elizabeth Miles

2nd​ Wife: Mary Bradley Stanton

Children:

Sarah Caroline Littlefield Sexton​

(Buried: Cleburne Memorial Cemetery, Cleburne, Texas)​

Occupation before War:

Farmer in Cass County, Georgia​

Civil War Career:

Lt. Colonel of 8th​ Georgia Infantry Battalion​

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Colonel of 31st​ Georgia Infantry Regiment​

Occupation after War:

Farmer & Mill Operator in Gordon County, Georgia​

Died: December 24, 1874

Place of Death: Gordon County, Georgia

Age at time of Death: 63 years old

Burial Place: Hayes Cemetery, Adairsville, Georgia

 

[Pollaco]

Oops got my Littlefield and Lightfoot mixed up.

 

[Pollaco]

I can find no mention of this officer in either the 8th Georgia or the 31st Georgia, it does however state that the 31st was also known as the 27th Georgia.

 

[Pollaco]

There is a Lt Col. Asahel Littlefield mentioned along with Leroy Napier, J.T. Reid and Zachariah Watters also as Lt. Colonels in the 8th. How many Lt. Cols. Did a battalion have?

 

[Luke Freet]

There is a Lt Col. Asahel Littlefield mentioned along with Leroy Napier, J.T. Reid and Zachariah Watters also as Lt. Colonels in the 8th. How many Lt. Cols. Did a battalion have?

Should be one. I know Napier was the Ltc at Chickamauga, and Watters the Ltc during the Franklin Nashville Campaign (eventually taking command of Gist's Brigade as senior officer following Franklin).

 

[Luke Freet]

As for the 31st...must have been a militia unit; the original Colonel of the 31st was Pleasant Phillips, before the reorg, then Clement Evans, then I believe John H. Lowe.

 

[GELongstreet]

There is a Lt Col. Asahel Littlefield mentioned along with Leroy Napier, J.T. Reid and Zachariah Watters also as Lt. Colonels in the 8th. How many Lt. Cols. Did a battalion have?

Just one (if at all). Those lists of field officers are either the initial ones or, more commonly, the successive total (though frequently not in temporal order).

Apparently Littlefield was elected to be Colonel of the 33rd Georgia Infantry Regiment but the unit was not organized as it couldn´t muster enough companies (as per Littlefield's entry in Confederate Colonels: A Biographical Register).