Francis Marion Gandy

Francis Marion ("Frank") Gandy, like his father Max, was a Mason.  He and
Zilpha are buried in the Gandy Cemetery about 10 miles north of Rockford, AL.
The inscriptions on their tombstones read:

"F.M. Gandy—Call not back the dear departed
Anchored safe where storms are o'er
On the border land we left him
Soon to meet, to part no more."

 Zilpha's stone reads:

"Weep not that her toils are over
Weep not that her race is run
God grant we may rest as calmly
As our work like hers is done."

Francis Marion Gandy served in Company E, 50th GA Infantry, Confederate States
Army, in the War between the States. He enlisted on May 15, 1862, at Fort Brown
in Savannah, GA, for "3 years or the war." He entered as a Private,
and his record shows that he was admitted to General Hospital number 19 in
Richmond, VA, between July and August 1862. Returned to duty, he was then
wounded at Sharpsburg on September 17, 1862. Another note in his file shows
that he was admitted in early October 1862 to Wayside Hospital (General
Hospital No. 9) in Richmond, and was later transferred to Bellview Hospital. In
January and February 1863, he was reported to be in Thomas County, GA,
"severely wounded." Sometime between February and August, Frank
rejoined his company. He was not yet recovered, and his muster record shows
"present, sick. Disabled from gunshot wound." After being promoted to
Sergeant, Frank was wounded again, shot in the left shoulder, and twice
hospitalized -- first on October 31, 1864, at the C.S.A. General Hospital,
Charlottesville, VA; then at Wayside Hospital at Richmond. He was discharged
from the hospital to return to duty on December 28, 1864. He was then detached
to Lynchburg, VA, where he, along with his entire regiment, was captured on
April 13, 1865. 

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