R.W. Ballard is Robert W. Ballard, my great grandfather. J.P. Ballard is James Polk Ballard, his brother. They survived, Robert with a wound that eventually crippled him, but lost two other brothers - Henry J. who died at Cold Harbor, and Miles Lafayette, who died at Ellison's Mill. A fourth brother also survived, but was murdered in 1877 in a robbery on a road in Pike. Pike County Journal Zebulon, GA Friday August 14, 1891 Survivors of the 44th The following survivors of Company H 44th Ga. Regiment attended the reunion of that grand old regiment in Griffin last week and enjoyed a hearty handshaking with their old comrades with whom they fought, bled and suffered in the days that tried men’s souls: Capt. J.J. Cook and Lieutenants H.H. Strickland and R.W. Ballard; R.Y. Beckham, J.P. Ballard, G.D. Cook, G.W. Carden, D.M. Coggin, W.H. Hill, J.S. Kendrick, G.B. Millican, J.C. Oxford, B.G. Rivers, J.C. Strickland, W.S. Scott, J.M. Scott, R.M. Scott, Z.T. Scott, W.T. Chapman. (Transcribed by Lynn Ballard Cunningham 9/7/02)