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rge S. Jones (D). Major Hardeman was subsequently called to other fields of duty, and George W. Ross became major. W. F. I. Ross became captain of Company A; W. F. Walker captain of Company B on the death of Captain Dupree, and C. R. Redding, captain of Company C on the promotion of Ross. The gallant manner in which this battalion began its career was repeated on the many battlefields of the army of Northern Virginia. Faithful to every duty, it served in Wright's famous brigade (afterward Sorrel's) and surrendered at Appomattox. The Third Georgia battalion, as at first organized, had the following officers: Lieut.-Col. M. A. Stovall; Maj. A. F. Rudler; Quartermaster B. T. Jones; Capts. James D. Yeiser (A), Robert E. Meson (B), M. Kendrick (C), George M. McDowell (D), Andrew J. White (E), J. J. Bradford (F), T. D. Caswell (G), W. H. H. Phelps (H). Under Lieutenant-Colonel Stovall the battalion was on duty for awhile at Lynchburg, Va., and Goldsboro, N. C., and then was sent to ea

d by Col. John H. Lowe. The gallant George Doles, killed in the Wilderness battle, was succeeded in brigade command by Gen. Philip Cook; Wofford's brigade was led by Gen. Dudley M. DuBose, Bryan's by Gen. James. P. Simms, Wright's first by Gen. G. M. Sorrel, and afterward by Col. George E. Taylor. In the fighting on Hatcher's run early in February, Evans' brigade was distinguished. The two brigades of Georgians in Gordon's corps were also participants in the desperate attack on Grant's lin In C. M. Wilcox's division: Brigade of Gen. E. L. Thomas—Fourteenth regiment, Col. Richard P. Lester; Thirty-fifth, Col. Bolling H. Holt; Forty-fifth, Col. Thomas J. Simmons; Forty-ninth, Maj. James B. Duggan. In William Mahone's division: G. M. Sorrel's brigade, Col. George E. Taylor—Third regiment, Lieut.-Col. Claiborne Snead; Twenty-second, Capt. George W. Thomas; Forty-eighth, Capt. Alexander C. Flanders; Sixty-fourth, Capt. James G. Brown; Second battalion, Maj. Charles J. Moffett; Tent

ough brief, reflects credit on his native State. Brigadier-General G. Moxley Sorrel Brigadier-General G. Moxley Sorrel, a native of GeBrigadier-General G. Moxley Sorrel, a native of Georgia, when the war between the Northern and Southern States of the Union began, entered the Confederate service as captain on the staff of Gethe general held the horses, the staff officers, Majors Fairfax and Sorrel and Captain Latrobe, served the guns, keeping the enemy in check unarmy. Not long before the battle of Gettysburg (June 23, 1863), Major Sorrel was promoted to lieutenant-colonel. As acting adjutant-general treet: As soon as our horses could be saddled we started, Lieutenant-Colonels Sorrel and Manning and myself, to find the headquarters of the csing while on our first ride. At the battle of the Wilderness, Colonel Sorrel, chief of staff, was ordered to conduct three brigades, George of the best brigadiers of the army. Since the end of the war General Sorrel has been a merchant in the city of Savannah, and connected with

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