Francis
Evans Glover
Frank
enlisted in the State Troops in Taylor , County, Ga. to serve six months. The troop
was reorganized and he became a member of Company F (Capt. J. B. Fowler), Fifty-Seventh
Georgia regiment, and was engaged in many battles, Barboursville and Paris : he
was taken prisoner at Paris, he was first sent to Camp Chase, Ohio, and after
seven days he was sent to Cairo, he was then sent to Vicksburg, he was exchanged in
Vicksburg. After the exchange he fought in the battle of Bakers Creek near
Vicksburg. He returned from the war and spent his his life working
his farm. He was on the Board of Commissioners in Taylor, County. He also was the chairman
of the Confederate Veterans in Taylor County, Ga. Frank was the son of John P. Glover, Jr. and grandson of
John Paschal Glover Sr., nephew of Elizabeth and Zephaniah Fowler.
