Written and Submitted By: Leighton Stallones San Marcos, Texas William W. Stallings from Barnesville, Monroe County, Georgia was born Dec 20.1845 in Pike County, Georgia, the son of Jeremiah and Hattie (or Kitty) Stallings.
read on the census record. Also, the last two children are no doubt twins] William enlisted in the Rutland Volunteers, Company B, Monroe County 45th Georgia Regiment, recruited by J.W. Dozier on Mar 10th, 1862. He was 16 1/2 yrs old. He enlisted for 3 years or the war, at $11.00 per month with an initial bounty of $50.00. [I have a copy of his 45th Regiment Flag that shows they fought at Mechanicsville, Cold Harbor, Frazier's Farm, Cedar Run, Manassas, Ox Hill, Harpers Ferry, Shepherds Hill, Chancellorsville. the Wilderness Campaign and Gettysburg.] He was in two hospitals for wounds and contusions. He was admitted to the Wayside Hospital, General Hospital #9, Richmond, Virginia on May 6, 1863 after the battle of Chancellorsville and sent to Chimborazo Hospital # 4 for contusion-left side. Chimborazo in Richmond was the largest hospital in the South with 8000 beds. He was then transferred about a month later on June 9th 1863 to Macon, Georgia where he would have been close to his family. At this time he married Mary Bowers and probably their son William was conceived and born about this time. He was captured at the battle of The Wilderness on May 6th, 1864. He was sent to the prison at Point Lookout, Maryland until he was transferred to the Elmira, N.Y. prison on Aug 10th, 1864. Elmira was nicknamed Helmira because of the terrible mistreatment received by the Confederate prisoners there. He was released on an exchange of prisoners on February, 20th, 1865 and sent to a place on the James River, Virginia for exchange. Mary Bowers his wife, was several years older than he and their son who was also named William is believed to have been a lawyer in the area in later years. After returning home for a short time after the war he left and moved to Louisiana where he lived with a Doctor who treated him for maladies contracted during the war and most probably at Elmira. The reason for leaving Georgia is hazy but it is likely that Mary left or remarried during the time because she likely heard he was dead. He told his grandsons that he repaid the Doctor by hunting and fishing for game in the area while he stayed with him. He then moved to East Texas and became a Methodist Preacher and a circuit rider in East Texas and changed his last name to Stallones reportedly because of a problem with a Black carpetbagger on the farm back in Georgia who may not have survived. While on his circuit of traveling to different areas for the Church he met and married Amanda Box in Crockett Texas. She was from a famous family of the Texas Army and San Jacinto battle fame. Nelson Box her father, was a San Jacinto hero and was from the Stephen Box Family who had moved to Texas and started Box's Fort on the Angelina River west of Nacogdoches in 1824. He and Amanda moved to a farm south of Athens, Texas where several children were born. Amanda was killed in an Indian uprising in Oklahoma in 1893 around the City of Ardmore while they were there assisting in the building of a Cotton Gin. He probably had furnished the bricks as he had freight wagons that hauled bricks from Athens to as far as Houston. Many of the early buildings in Houston were built with bricks that W.W. hauled in. Around 1895 he married Hattie Hobby who was 24 years old at the time and moved to Hot Springs, Arkansas where he lived for many years and died on Aug 24, 1925 at the age of 80 years. *Civil War data obtained from the National Archives Please place in the Subject Line: WEBPAGE-HISTORY 
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