He was shown as Zacheus Drennon, age 12, in the 1850 census and gone from his parents' household by 1860.
Zachariah Drennan enlisted as a corporal in Company C., Cobb's Legion, at Roswell in 1861. He is reported to have died Sept. 15, 1862, in a letter on file by N.B. Green, attorney at law, Marietta, Cobb Co., GA., dated July 30, 1863.
He appears to have been mortally wounded at the Battle of South Mountain, Maryland, on September 14, 1862, and died the next day. The Battle of South Mountain was any one of three pitched battles fought for possession of three South Mountain passes: Crampton's Gap, Turner's Gap, and Fox's Gaps, in Frederick County and Washington County, near Boonesboro, Maryland. Lt. Col. Jefferson Mirabeau Lamar (1835-1862) (who had been named Lieutenant Colonel of Cobb's Legion on January 18, 1862) also was mortally wounded on Sept. 14 and died the next day. Lt. Col. Lamar was the son of Chief Justice L.C.Q. Lamar of the Georgia Supreme Court and a nephew of Mirabeau B. Lamar, President of the Republic of Texas. Lee's Army retreated to near Burkittsville, Frederick County, on the 15th, where Zach Drennan probably died.
Lt. Col. Lamar's body was sent back to Athens, Georgia, for burial. It is likely that Corporal Drennan was buried with other Confederate dead near Burkittsville, Maryland, though his burial site remains unknown.
If he did die the day after the battle, and at the same place as Lt. Col. Lamar, then at least we can be sure he was not one of the 48 Confederate corpses dumped down the Wise well on South Mountain on Sept. 14th.
It is possible that he could be buried in the Washington Cemetery, established for Confederate dead from the South Mountain and Antietam battles, years later within Washington County's Rose Hill Cemetery. However, most all of these died the day of the battle and in Washington County rather than in Frederick County.
A brother of Corporal Zach Drennan was John W. Drennan who enlisted in the 8th Georgia Regiment. They had a brother, "William P. Drennan" (born 1839), who left home before the 1860 census and is probably the "William J. Drennan" enlisted as a private in Co. H, 8th Georgia Regiment, of whom no further record has been found.
Zachariah Drennan enlisted as a corporal in Company C., Cobb's Legion, at Roswell in 1861. He is reported to have died Sept. 15, 1862, in a letter on file by N.B. Green, attorney at law, Marietta, Cobb Co., GA., dated July 30, 1863.
He appears to have been mortally wounded at the Battle of South Mountain, Maryland, on September 14, 1862, and died the next day. The Battle of South Mountain was any one of three pitched battles fought for possession of three South Mountain passes: Crampton's Gap, Turner's Gap, and Fox's Gaps, in Frederick County and Washington County, near Boonesboro, Maryland. Lt. Col. Jefferson Mirabeau Lamar (1835-1862) (who had been named Lieutenant Colonel of Cobb's Legion on January 18, 1862) also was mortally wounded on Sept. 14 and died the next day. Lt. Col. Lamar was the son of Chief Justice L.C.Q. Lamar of the Georgia Supreme Court and a nephew of Mirabeau B. Lamar, President of the Republic of Texas. Lee's Army retreated to near Burkittsville, Frederick County, on the 15th, where Zach Drennan probably died.
Lt. Col. Lamar's body was sent back to Athens, Georgia, for burial. It is likely that Corporal Drennan was buried with other Confederate dead near Burkittsville, Maryland, though his burial site remains unknown.
If he did die the day after the battle, and at the same place as Lt. Col. Lamar, then at least we can be sure he was not one of the 48 Confederate corpses dumped down the Wise well on South Mountain on Sept. 14th.
It is possible that he could be buried in the Washington Cemetery, established for Confederate dead from the South Mountain and Antietam battles, years later within Washington County's Rose Hill Cemetery. However, most all of these died the day of the battle and in Washington County rather than in Frederick County.
A brother of Corporal Zach Drennan was John W. Drennan who enlisted in the 8th Georgia Regiment. They had a brother, "William P. Drennan" (born 1839), who left home before the 1860 census and is probably the "William J. Drennan" enlisted as a private in Co. H, 8th Georgia Regiment, of whom no further record has been found.
He was shown as Zacheus Drennon, age 12, in the 1850 census and gone from his parents' household by 1860.
Zachariah Drennan enlisted as a corporal in Company C., Cobb's Legion, at Roswell in 1861. He is reported to have died Sept. 15, 1862, in a letter on file by N.B. Green, attorney at law, Marietta, Cobb Co., GA., dated July 30, 1863.
He appears to have been mortally wounded at the Battle of South Mountain, Maryland, on September 14, 1862, and died the next day. The Battle of South Mountain was any one of three pitched battles fought for possession of three South Mountain passes: Crampton's Gap, Turner's Gap, and Fox's Gaps, in Frederick County and Washington County, near Boonesboro, Maryland. Lt. Col. Jefferson Mirabeau Lamar (1835-1862) (who had been named Lieutenant Colonel of Cobb's Legion on January 18, 1862) also was mortally wounded on Sept. 14 and died the next day. Lt. Col. Lamar was the son of Chief Justice L.C.Q. Lamar of the Georgia Supreme Court and a nephew of Mirabeau B. Lamar, President of the Republic of Texas. Lee's Army retreated to near Burkittsville, Frederick County, on the 15th, where Zach Drennan probably died.
Lt. Col. Lamar's body was sent back to Athens, Georgia, for burial. It is likely that Corporal Drennan was buried with other Confederate dead near Burkittsville, Maryland, though his burial site remains unknown.
If he did die the day after the battle, and at the same place as Lt. Col. Lamar, then at least we can be sure he was not one of the 48 Confederate corpses dumped down the Wise well on South Mountain on Sept. 14th.
It is possible that he could be buried in the Washington Cemetery, established for Confederate dead from the South Mountain and Antietam battles, years later within Washington County's Rose Hill Cemetery. However, most all of these died the day of the battle and in Washington County rather than in Frederick County.
A brother of Corporal Zach Drennan was John W. Drennan who enlisted in the 8th Georgia Regiment. They had a brother, "William P. Drennan" (born 1839), who left home before the 1860 census and is probably the "William J. Drennan" enlisted as a private in Co. H, 8th Georgia Regiment, of whom no further record has been found.
Zachariah Drennan enlisted as a corporal in Company C., Cobb's Legion, at Roswell in 1861. He is reported to have died Sept. 15, 1862, in a letter on file by N.B. Green, attorney at law, Marietta, Cobb Co., GA., dated July 30, 1863.
He appears to have been mortally wounded at the Battle of South Mountain, Maryland, on September 14, 1862, and died the next day. The Battle of South Mountain was any one of three pitched battles fought for possession of three South Mountain passes: Crampton's Gap, Turner's Gap, and Fox's Gaps, in Frederick County and Washington County, near Boonesboro, Maryland. Lt. Col. Jefferson Mirabeau Lamar (1835-1862) (who had been named Lieutenant Colonel of Cobb's Legion on January 18, 1862) also was mortally wounded on Sept. 14 and died the next day. Lt. Col. Lamar was the son of Chief Justice L.C.Q. Lamar of the Georgia Supreme Court and a nephew of Mirabeau B. Lamar, President of the Republic of Texas. Lee's Army retreated to near Burkittsville, Frederick County, on the 15th, where Zach Drennan probably died.
Lt. Col. Lamar's body was sent back to Athens, Georgia, for burial. It is likely that Corporal Drennan was buried with other Confederate dead near Burkittsville, Maryland, though his burial site remains unknown.
If he did die the day after the battle, and at the same place as Lt. Col. Lamar, then at least we can be sure he was not one of the 48 Confederate corpses dumped down the Wise well on South Mountain on Sept. 14th.
It is possible that he could be buried in the Washington Cemetery, established for Confederate dead from the South Mountain and Antietam battles, years later within Washington County's Rose Hill Cemetery. However, most all of these died the day of the battle and in Washington County rather than in Frederick County.
A brother of Corporal Zach Drennan was John W. Drennan who enlisted in the 8th Georgia Regiment. They had a brother, "William P. Drennan" (born 1839), who left home before the 1860 census and is probably the "William J. Drennan" enlisted as a private in Co. H, 8th Georgia Regiment, of whom no further record has been found.
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