H.M. Middleton died suddenly at his home in Chattanooga, Tenn., March 28. The deceased was born August 20, 1830, in Forsyth County, Ga., and moved with his parents to Chattooga County, where, in 1860, he married Miss Mary Carter. In the early months of the year 1862 he helped to organized Company H, Thirty-Ninth Georgia Infantry, and was elected third lieutentant. In the regular order of promotion he was made captain of the company in the early part of 1864, while the army was in winter quarters at Dalton, Ga. On February 21, 1864, he received a furlough to visit his home, and walked from Dalton to Summerville, a distance of forty miles, making the trip in one day. On February 22 he was captured by a detachment from the Fifteenth Pennsylvania United States Troops, at Summerville, and was taken to Chattanooga, then to Nashville, and on to Fort Delaware about March 30. He remained there until Kirby Smith surrendered the trans-Mississippi Department, and was then paroled July 25, 1865.

He returned to Summerville, sold out his possessions there and moved to Elizabethtown, Ky., with his wife and daughter Ella. They lived there for twenty-five years, and in 1890 moved to Chattanooga. Capt. Middleton was in engagements with his company at Bridgeport, Ala., at Baker's Creek, or Champion Hill, Miss., in the siege of Vicksburg, in the battle of Missionary Ridge, and in the operations around Chattanooga. Capt. Middleton was a member of Hardin Lodge Master Masons, Knights of Honor, and N.B. Forrest Camp.
∼Confederate veteran, Co.H, 39th GA Inf
Husband of Mary Carter buried adjacent to him

The WPA has him listed in the Citizens Cemetery in Chattanooga which is right next to the Confederate Cemetery. Middleton, Capt. H M - 39 Ga Regiment - Aug 20, 1837 - Mar 28, 1903. Also listed is Middleton, Mrs. H M - May 12, 1844 - Mar 2, 1930. https://www.tngenweb.org/hamilton/cemetery/citizen.htm
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