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A Roster of General Officers , Heads of Departments, Senators, Representatives , Military Organizations, &c., &c., in Confederate Service during the War between the States. (ed. Charles C. Jones, Jr. Late Lieut. Colonel of Artillery, C. S. A.)	378	0	Browse	Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I.	340	0	Browse	Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans)	274	0	Browse	Search
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nghold, which commands also the entrance into Georgia, may not be occupied by any hostile force until the convention of the State of Georgia, which is to meet on the 16th inst., has decided on the ped to Fort Pulaski, which I found occupied by Georgia troops, commanded by Colonel Lawton. I was rdecide upon the action to be taken by the State of Georgia. Among the delegates were some of the ablest men that Georgia has produced. Immediate secession was advocated by Thomas R. R. Cobb, Franciiefly and impressively announced that the State of Georgia was now free, sovereign and independent. osition as a sovereign, independent republic, Georgia began preparing for the maintenance of indepeexecuted: His excellency the governor of Georgia, having demanded the United States arsenal aton had been occupied by the troops of the State of Georgia under my command. Another famous incithe time in the department of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. They fought in the brigade of G[28 more...]

Walker for the command. The first call to Georgia made by the government of the Confederate Sta coast, in all, some twenty-three regiments. Georgia has now to look to the shotguns and rifles inW. Avery. The following were also in camp in Georgia: The regiments of Col. T. J. Warthen, Twenty-e brigade led by the gallant A. R. Wright, of Georgia. The first colonel, Robert H. Jones, was suassigned to the department of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, and throughout the latter part o September of that year, being transferred to Georgia, in the brigade commanded by its colonel and undisciplined. The large calls upon the State of Georgia have taken away nearly every trained compa special agent to Richmond on this subject. Georgia is stripped of arms. Men in abundance, if a Lynchburg, and five other armed companies of Georgia troops. This request was not acceded to by teptember, 1861, by Capt. James D. Bulloch, of Georgia, the European agent of the Confederate States[31 more...]

Chapter 3: Georgia troops in Virginia Laurel Hill, Carrick's ford and First Manassas death of Barl. Francis S. Bartow. The disposition of the other Georgia troops was as follows: The Sixth and Tenth regiment before the defeat of Garnett, Henry R. Jackson, of Georgia, had been commissioned brigadier-general in the armanded the Monterey division, which included the two Georgia regiments brigaded under Col. Edward Johnson. Earluent naval shelling by the enemy. One company from Georgia, and Alabama and Mississippi troops, composed the J hands of a small force under General Bragg. These Georgia commands were Ramsey's First Georgia regiment, Ville Third, 260 strong, under Col. John K. Jackson, of Georgia, was made up of volunteers from the Fifth Georgia rhe camp were captured by the Federals. A number of Georgia officers and enlisted men were distinguished for ga under Captain Ellison. Colonel Villepigue with his Georgia and Mississippi regiment, the First Georgia battali

vasion had become so great that the people of Georgia were at the time unwilling to send troops out Olmstead, of the First volunteer regiment of Georgia, commanding at Fort Pulaski, was notified by a levy of troops, made February 2d, in which Georgia was called upon for twelve regiments. Soon assed an inquiry to Adjt.-Gen. H. C. Wayne, of Georgia, asking for an expression of the governor's vr, no delay in supplying every regiment which Georgia had been asked to contribute to the Confederaf the Savannah regiment, or First regiment of Georgia, the companies being the Montgomery Guard, Catates in Fort Pulaski and on Cockspur island, Georgia, are hereby confiscated and declared free, in9th by the following: The three States of Georgia, Florida and South Carolina, comprising the mannah by the enemy. The Confederate force in Georgia was strong enough to resist an advance by anyd his total strength at 300. The people in Georgia began to feel less alarm for the safety of th[1 more...]

lation Chickasaw Bayou and Murfreesboro. Georgia appears with credit at the famous battle of Sonscription law was necessary to raise men in Georgia, the answer must have been in the negative. of 300 cavalry, under Capt. T. M. Nelson, of Georgia. Gracie's force included some companies thatin picketing Big Creek gap. The following Georgia commands went into Kentucky in Heth's divisioction. At the same time the ironclad battery Georgia was constructed, to which the ladies of Savanith especial reference to the defense of southwest Georgia, a region which had been blessed with th Way; Fifty-ninth, regiment, Col. Jack Brown; Georgia Guards, Major Screven; DeKalb Rifles, Captainry, Captain Dawson; Light battery, Company D, Georgia regulars, Captain Read; Savannah river batteron an expedition up the rivers and lagoons of Georgia between St. Simon's and Fernandina. This was about the same period the Ninth battalion of Georgia artillery, Maj. A. Leyden, was taking part in[4 more...]

sboro, April 26, 1865. The First battalion Georgia infantry, sharpshooters, was made up of four Hester of Company G. The Second battalion Georgia infantry (Hardeman's) during the Appomattox c, (C) J. J. Shumate. The Seventh battalion Georgia infantry, which was consolidated with the Sixinia at Appomattox. The Eleventh battalion Georgia infantry at its organization was commanded byeventh infantry. The Eighteenth battalion Georgia infantry at its organization had the followin (formerly Thomas A. Dawson's) battery was in Georgia during the Atlanta campaign, Ferrell's batter, served in the department of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, and formed part of the army withgiven. The officers of the Ninth battalion Georgia cavalry were: Maj. William Phillips, Capts. (as already been given. Stephens' battalion Georgia cavalry had the following officers: Lieut.-Co S. G. White, (D) J. F. Geev. A company of Georgia cavalry, commanded by Capt. T. M. Nelson (kil[64 more...]

Chapter 7: Georgia troops in Virginia in 1862 Yorktown Seven Pines the valley campatfall. This action brought credit to some of Georgia's most brilliant commanders, and to troops wh constituted the main part of the battle, two Georgia regiments were conspicuous. These were the Tkins, was hailed by the latter with, Come on, Georgia, I want you. As the two gallant regiments ad brigade on Saturday, the 31st of May. Other Georgia regiments, the Third, Sixth, Fourteenth and Ngadier-General Lawton with six regiments from Georgia is on the way to you, and Brigadier-General Wh regiments. In Magruder's corps were more Georgia regiments than of any other State. D. R. Jonh and Twenty-second regiments. Still another Georgia brigade was found in A. P. Hill's light divisritory properly had 5th, the largest number. Georgia had 38; North Carolina, including the troops lant charge on one occasion. The losses of Georgia infantry (not including artillery and cavalry[1 more...]

re cut off from the rest of the army by rising water. Two Georgia and six Virginia regiments were in this dangerous positione could not immediately find them, and cried out, Halloo! Georgia, where are you? The reply was, Here! All right! We have for a time the advance of the enemy. Meanwhile several Georgia commands had the great honor of being with Stonewall Jacks, at Sharpsburg and along Antietam creek, there were forty Georgia regiments, including the cavalry of Cobb's legion with Stusburg, relieving the First regulars, who thereupon went to Georgia. At the battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862, GeGeorgia soldiers achieved no less fame than in previous encounters. With the two important epochs of that battle, the attempt s division and the assault upon Marye's hill, the names of Georgia commands are indissolubly associated. It was the Ninete heights, under command of Lieut.-Col. E. P. Alexander, of Georgia. Capt. John Milledge's battery of eight rifled guns was se

Chapter 9: Georgia in 1863 Fort M'Allister destruction of the Nashville organization on the coasilled Maj. John B. Gallie, Twenty-second battalion Georgia artillery, the gallant commander of the battery. Pstill more formidable attempt to subdue the gallant Georgia gunners in the sand and mud batteries on the Ogeechavannah river batteries and other defenses—First of Georgia, Col. C. H. Olmstead; Fifty-fourth regiment, Col. Cson, and at the same place was the floating battery Georgia. Near Fort Jackson was Battery Lee, and opposite, tors. In the spring of 1863 there occurred in north Georgia one of the most celebrated cavalry exploits of t mostly mounted, with orders to cut the railroad in Georgia below Rome. He was promptly followed by a cavalry ht, driven from this position, pushed on toward the Georgia line; but on the next day he was overtaken at Black so much as to create very considerable distress in Georgia. The great question in this revolution is now a que

ook; Twelfth, Col. Edward Willis; Twenty-first, Col. J. T. Mercer; Forty-fourth, Col. J. B. Estes; and last, the Lawton brigade, in Early's division, now commanded by John B. Gordon, promoted brigadier-general from the colonelcy of the Fifth Alabama infantry— Thirteenth regiment, Col. J. H. Baker; Twenty-sixth, Lieut.-Col. J. S. Blain; Thirty-first, Col. C. A. Evans; Thirty-eighth, Col. J. D. Matthews; Sixtieth, Col. W. B. Jones; Sixty-first, Col. J. H. Lamar. The artillery commands from Georgia at Chancellorsville were: Sumter battalion, Lieut.-Col. A. S. Cutts, (A) Ross' battery, (B) Patterson's battery, (C) Wingfield's battery; Fraser's battery (Pulaski artillery) and Carlton's battery (Troup artillery), of Col. H. C. Cabell's battalion; and Milledge's battery of Col. William Nelson's battalion. Wingfield's and Milledge's batteries were in reserve and not actively engaged. The others were in the thickest of the fight. Capt. John Lane's battery (E), of the Sumter battalion, wa

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