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served under Gen. Kirby Smith in 1862, in east Tennessee, and the company from Newnan participated was with Longstreet at Chickamauga and in east Tennessee. There were many changes in the organizatthat it was engaged in the Chickamauga and east Tennessee campaigns under Longstreet in the fall of wed Longstreet through the Chickamauga and east Tennessee campaigns. Its colonel, Howell Cobb, becad Pennsylvania, also at Chickamauga and in east Tennessee. Its colonel, H. L. Benning, became briga its campaigns, also at Chickamauga and in east Tennessee under Longstreet, returning to Virginia inhickamauga. It participated in the Atlanta, Tennessee and North Carolina campaigns, surrendering w was with Longstreet at Chattanooga and in east Tennessee. Ten companies became the Ninth Georgia caand Goldsboro, N. C., and then was sent to east Tennessee to guard bridges and protect the Southern 's division. It served through the Atlanta, Tennessee and Carolina campaigns, surrendering with Jo[4 more...]

jor Bagley was killed, Captain Morris and one private wounded, and Colonel Garnett's horse shot under him. During the period in the fall of 1861, when the descent of a Federal naval expedition was feared at all points of the coast, some of the Georgians who had been called to Virginia were ordered to North Carolina for service. M. A. Stovall's Third battalion, the Twenty-fourth, and Colonel Wofford's Eighteenth were at Goldsboro; but in November Stovall's battalion was transferred to east Tennessee. The Third Georgia, Col. A. R. Wright, moved into North Carolina early in September, for the purpose of reinforcing Fort Hatteras, but that yielding to the enemy before they could reach it, the regiment took possession of Roanoke island and set to work putting it in condition for defense. On October 1st Colonel Wright learned that the Federals had landed a regiment on Hatteras island near Chicamicomico, and with the co-operation of Commodore Lynch, commanding the steamers Curlew and

nels with the city. On February 18th, following the disaster at Fort Donelson, General Lee was ordered by the war department to withdraw all forces from the islands in his department to the mainland, taking proper measures to save the artillery and munitions of war. About March 1st the works on Cumberland and Amelia island were abandoned, and Captain Blain's company was ordered to Savannah. The military situation had now become very grave through the Federal successes in Kentucky and Tennessee. An intimation of what might be expected from the meeting in battle of the largely superior forces of the enemy and the overconfident soldiers of the Confederacy, had been furnished by the affair at Fishing creek, where General Zollicoffer was killed and the army of Crittenden practically annihilated. This was followed by a levy of troops, made February 2d, in which Georgia was called upon for twelve regiments. Soon afterward came the news of the surrender of Forts Henry and Donelson an

ttached to the command of Gen. Danville Lead-better in east Tennessee, and brought to Chattanooga when that point was threatage. In the campaign under Bragg through Kentucky and Tennessee, undertaken to protect Chattanooga and Atlanta by carryinavalry regiments were earning their spurs with Forrest in Tennessee. Part of the First, under Col. J. J. Morrison, and the So take a force of infantry and march against a band of east Tennessee Unionists, who had assembled under Col. William Clift Georgia battalion under Maj. H. D. Capers. On the way to Tennessee most of the horses were killed in a railroad accident. O 4 wounded. General Maney, commanding the brigade of four Tennessee regiments and the Forty-first Georgia, said in his report Chickasaw bayou, a brigade of Georgians, organized in east Tennessee under Gen. Seth M. Barton, and thence transferred to Mon of Georgia artillery, Maj. A. Leyden, was taking part in the operations in east Tennessee under Gen. Humphrey Marshall.

ision marched into Kentucky. Returning to east Tennessee, it served in that department until surrenty-seventh served under Kirby Smith in east Tennessee through the greater part of 1862. In Stevenart from Smith's Georgia legion, served in east Tennessee; was afterward in the battles of Chickamaungstreet to Georgia and was engaged in the East Tennessee campaign under that general. It nobly ill. Foster. This legion participated in the East Tennessee and Kentucky campaigns of 1862, and was ingia, and in December, 1862, was ordered to east Tennessee to report to Gen. Humphrey Marshall. It sson Artillery, Capt. G. A. Dure, served in east Tennessee and then with Bragg in middle Tennessee, bigns of 1862, and then in the campaign in middle Tennessee. When the infantry companies were taken cavalry, which served in the campaign in middle Tennessee, in the Dalton-Atlanta campaign, and in t (F) T. R. Sheats. This battalion served in Tennessee, part of the time under Gen. John Morgan. [27 more...]

ates Chattanooga the maneuvers in the mountains the two Days battle on Chickamauga Creek Rosecrans defeated and Penned in at Chattanooga. The operations in Tennessee in the summer of 1863 resulted in the pushing back of Bragg's army to the line of the Tennessee river, or practically the north line of Georgia. Before this was brought about there was sharp fighting in the hills of Tennessee, notably at Hoover's gap, June 24th, where the Thirty-seventh (then known as the First) Georgia regiment, Col. A. F. Rudler, and Maj. T. D. Caswell's battalion of sharpshooters (Fourth Georgia battalion) participated. The Georgians fought all day, forming with the Tinth battalion, Lieut. W. S. Everett, to Stewart's division. The batteries of Capts. Tyler M. Peeples and Andrew M. Wolihin came with Leyden's battalion from east Tennessee, and in the reserve artillery under Maj. F. H. Robertson, were the Georgia batteries of Capts. M. W. Havis and T. L. Massenburg. The Federal army which app

nderson. The Georgia cavalry in the department of East Tennessee during these movements acted a gallant part. On Novemberliam T. Martin, in his report of cavalry operations in east Tennessee, says that in a successful fight at Russellville the Fon detached service. Longstreet's army remained in east Tennessee during the winter of 1863-64, enduring hardships compae army was soon in Georgia, whence it did not again enter Tennessee until a year later. Cleburne halted on the night of threserve in the center of the gap, and a portion of Polk's Tennessee and Arkansas brigade was placed temporarily at the rear mconsidered with some anxiety the situation in Georgia and Tennessee, and believed that there were grounds to apprehend that to assume the offensive he must either invade middle or east Tennessee. The obstacles to the first course were Chattanooga, sissippi, 6,367; South Carolina, 4,511; Louisiana, 3,039; Tennessee, 2,849; Arkansas, 1,948; Florida, 1,119. During the fa

s the reclaiming of the provision country of Kentucky and Tennessee, and an increase of the army by recruits. To aid in takisult in definite arrangements. The Confederate army of Tennessee on May 1st was composed of two infantry corps, under Lieue brigades of Maney, Strahl, Carter and Vaughan, all from Tennessee. Major-General Cleburne's division, composed of Polk's Arkansas and Tennessee brigade, Govan's Arkansas brigade, Lowrey's Alabama and Mississippi brigade, and Granbury's Texas brigad of Lewis' Kentucky brigade, Bate's (Tyler's) Georgia and Tennessee brigade, and Finley's Florida brigade. Hood's corps: Mhat Sherman's army is much stronger compared with that of Tennessee, than Grant's compared with that of Northern Virginia. Yny repairs until August 20th, when Wheeler pushed on into Tennessee with his main force. But he left 200 picked men to raid eded in running off twenty trains during his absence. In Tennessee, Wheeler destroyed the railroad from Cleveland to Charles

wn cavalry went 10. I have sent two divisions up to Chattanooga and one to Rome, and Thomas started to-day to clear out Tennessee. As soon as advised of Hood's crossing of the Chattahoochee toward his rear, Sherman left General Slocum and his corpsy except Kilpatrick's division to Chattanooga to report to Thomas, who was given chief command of all Federal troops in Tennessee, moved his remaining three corps back to Kingston, whence he sent all the impedimenta back to Chattanooga, and preparedtless en route to the sea, thence to reinforce Grant, and he instructed Hood that he should promptly crush Thomas in middle Tennessee, to relieve Lee. On the 24th, Wayne reported to General McLaws that the Federals were shelling him at Oconee bridfort of General Hood to restore the fortunes of the Confederacy in the West. In the ill-fated army that marched into Tennessee under General Hood, there were four brigades of Georgians, and parts of two others. In S. D. Lee's corps were Cumming'

e campaign, and in subsequent movements in east Tennessee until ordered back to Virginia. On Februa his brigade marched under Longstreet into east Tennessee and took part in the siege of the city of m one month later leading his regiment in middle Tennessee, in Wharton's brigade of Wheeler's cavalr Stevenson's division. Being ordered into east Tennessee, it returned to Missionary ridge in time ter. For the armies of Northern Virginia and Tennessee there was hardly an intermission. During thier-General Dudley M. DuBose was a native of Tennessee, born at Memphis in November, 1834. Enjoyin, when Hood was preparing for his march into Tennessee, Jackson was reappointed brigadier-general ie First Georgia twelve months troops, and in Tennessee under Gen. E. Kirby Smith. During 1863 Gene., and Goldsboro, N. C., he was ordered to east Tennessee to guard bridges and protect the Southern nd nominated for the presidency John Bell of Tennessee, and for the vice-presidency Edward Everett

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