Campbell Tracy

b. circa 1841, d. October 1868
  • Campbell Tracy was born circa 1841 in Georgia.
  • Rebecca Caroline Campbell appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Macon, Bibb County, Georgia. Other members of the household included Campbell Tracy, Anne Clark Tracy, Philemon Tracy, Edward Dorr Tracy Jr., Matilda Caroline Tracy and Harriet Charlotte Tracy.
  • Rebecca Caroline Campbell appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Macon, Bibb County, Georgia. Other members of the household included Campbell Tracy, Harriet Charlotte Tracy, John Spring Baxter and Matilda Caroline Tracy.
  • The following appeared on 25 March 1861 in The Macon Daily Telegraph: Among the appointments for the army of the Confederate States we were pleased to see that Macon will be represented on the "tented field." Our young and talented townsman, A. M. Rowland, Esq., who is at present serving the State in the ranks of the Jackson Artillery at St. Simon's Island, has received the appointment of 1st Lieutenant.
         We also observed that Campbell Tracy, Esq., another of our young men has been appointed 2d Lieut.
  • The following appeared on 2 June 1862 in the Macon Daily Telegraph: [Private Telegram] Richmond, June 1. T. R. Bloom.--In the battle yesterday and to-day, Phil. Tracy and myself are unhurt.--Campbell Tracy received a flesh wound in the thigh -- not dangerous -- is doing well. Victory ours. A. M. Rowland.
  • The following appeared on 29 September 1862 in the Macon Daily Telegraph: [by telegraph] The following dispatch was received by Mr. T. R. Bloom: Richmond, Sept. 27th.--Lieut. [A. M.] Rowland slightly wounded in the shoulder, Campbell Tracy safe -- Major Phil. Tracy wounded and taken prisoner. R. P. Pullium.
  • The following appeared on 17 July 1863 in The Macon Daily Telegraph: We understand a dispatch was received yesterday from young Campbell Tracy, one of the Vicksburg garrison, announcing that he was alive and safe.
  • The following appeared on 21 July 1863 in The Macon Daily Telegraph: Mr. Campbell Tracy, who was one of the immortal Vicksburg garrison, arrived here Sunday last to recruit after his experience in the dietetics of that place. Have not seen him and therefore cannot speak about the flavor of mules and rats to a hungry man. But it is stated that the garrison ate up a hundred mules and found them better than tough beef. Rats were choice game, and sold readily at two dollars apiece. We understand young Tracy says Grant had a hundred and eighty thousand men from first to last. It seems, at all events, that he had enough.
  • Campbell Tracy died in October 1868.
  • The following appeared on 22 February 1890 in The Macon Telegraph: On next Monday the remains of Edward D. Tracy and of his wife and three children will be removed from the old cemetery at the foot of Cherry street to the William B. Johnston burial lot in Rose Hill cemetery.
         The time-stained marble tablets which mark their resting place show that their [sic] burial took place in 1849. This was one of the original cemeteries of Macon, but it has been allowed to grow up in bushes and trees, and now, after lying there for more than forty years, a new and more fitting resting place will be provided for the remains of a citizen who was once the mayor of Macon, and also judge of the Macon circuit.
  • He was interred on 24 February 1890 at Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, Bibb County, Georgia.
  • Last Edited: 26 Mar 2012