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Roster of the Battalion of the Georgia Military Institute Cadets
In the Confederate Army service in the Civil war from May 10th, 1864, to May 20th, 1865.
In May, 1864, and previous to that date, the
Georgia Military Institute, at
Marietta, Ga., was composed of the various professors and cadets.
They were interested in the prospect of soon being ordered ‘to the front,’ and the old ‘G. M. I.’
campus was an interesting scene of active preparations of the boys to go to war. About the first of May studies were practically abandoned, in the contemplation of active duties in the field.
At that time the faculty of the institute was composed of splendid professors, distinguished as educators, namely:
General Frank W. Capers as Superintendent and Instructor in
Military Tactics and Engineering.
Captain James S. Austin, Commandant of Cadets and
Professor of English Literature.
Captain Victor E. Manget,
Professor of
French.
Captain John M. Richardson,
Professor of Higher Mathematics.
Captain Paul Eve,
Professor of Mathematics and
English Branches.
Rev. John W. Baker,
Chaplain of the
Institute, and
Professor of Belle Lettres.
Dr. E. J. Setze, Physician and
Surgeon G. M. I.
Major Dobbs, Quartermaster and Commissary.
About the first of May, 1864, orders were received for the battalion to prepare for active service.
Equipments of army guns and accoutrements, knacksacks, haversacks and canteens were received and issued to the cadets.
They were intensely interested in these preparatory events.
The battalion was divided into two companies in the duties at the
Institute, Company A and Company B, composed of boys 16 to 18 years of age, and in the same way they entered the army service.
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General Capers was placed in command as major of the battalion.
Commandant
James S. Austin was assigned as captain of Company A.
Professor V. E. Manget was assigned as captain of Company B.
The other officers of the companies were members of the cadet corps.
Rations of ‘hardtacks’ and bacon were issued, and pretty soon things began to take on the aspect of active war, The first duties were in acting as provost guard about the city of
Marietta, and other general duties incident to their position at that time, in the rear of
General Joseph E. Johnston's Confederate army.
In a few days an order was received for a detachment of cadets to be sent to
Resaca, and there, on the 14th of May, 1864, the detail of cadets were first under fire from the guns of the
Federal enemy.
A Federal officer,
Lieutenant James S. Oates, of the 9th Illinois Mounted Infantry, writing of the ‘marching through
Georgia’ and of the first day's fighting in the
battle of Resaca, says: ‘It was during the advance of that day that we came in contact with the
Georgia Cadets, from the Military Institute at
Marietta, who had come out from the woods at
Resaca and formed their line behind a rail fence.
After a volley from the cadets, which killed several of our men, our regiment charged them.’
Thus it is shown and acknowledgedby one of our opponents that the cadets were intrepid and effective in their very first engagement.
At the time of entering the service the roster of the Battalion in the respective Companies A and B was substantially as follows:
General Frank W. Capers, commanding the Battalion, under the title of
Major Capers, of the
G. M. I. Cadets.
Died in
Charleston, S. C., January 1892.
Sergeant-Major, and Quartermaster of Battalion,
Cadet John A. Fitten,
Atlanta, Ga. Died, 1895 in
Atlanta.
Adjutant of Battalion,
Cadet Jack F. Crutchfield,
Macon, Ga. Died in
Macon, 1905.
Following is the roster of Companies A and B, with first and last known address.
Those marked with * are known to be dead:
Company A.
Captain James S. Austin,
Marietta, Ga.;
Waterman, California.
First Lieutenant,
Cadet Lodowick J. Hill, of
Washington, Wilkes Co., Ga.
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On entering the service,
First Lieutenant Hill was
Adjutant of the Battalion.
At Oconee River Bridge he was selected and appointed as Ordnance Officer, by
Major General Henry C. Wayne.
After the evacuation of
Savannah, he was appointed
Assistant Inspector General on the staff of
General R. W. Carswell.
He lives now in
Atlanta, Ga.
*
Second Lieutenant,
Cadet Frank E. Courvoisier,
Savannah, Ga. Died in 1896, at
Fort Royal, S. C.
Third Lieutenant,
Cadet James R. McClesky,
Athens, Ga. Now minister of gospel at
Covington, Ga.
First
Sergeant-Major, and Adjutant of Battalion,
Cadet Paul Faver, of
Fayetteville, Ga. Lives there now and is a popular physician.
Orderly Sergeant,
Cadet W. E. H. Searcy,
Griffin, Ga.
*Second
Sergeant,
Cadet Cary Wood Henderson,
Covington, Ga. Died in
Atlanta, Ga., since the war.
*Third
Sergeant,
Cadet Theodore A. Elyea,
Atlanta, Ga. Died in
Atlanta, since the war.
Fourth
Sergeant,
Cadet J. W. Symmes,
Brunswick,
Ga.
Fifth
Sergeant,
Cadet J. Scott Todd,
West Point, Ga. Lost right arm in battle at Oconee River Bridge, Nov. 1864.
Now popular and distinguished physician in
Atlanta, Ga.
Corporal,
Cadet J. A. Arnold.
(I cannot now remember names of the other corporals of company A.)
Privates of Comany A.
Adams,——.
Adams,——.
Akers,——.
*Alexander, A. H.,
Forsyth, Ga. Killed by cannon ball at
Atlanta, 1864.
Arnold, F.,
Coweta county, Ga.
Arnold,
Park,
Coweta county, Ga.
Atkinson, B.,
Brunswick.
Now doctor at
Tarboro, Ga.
*Bellingrath,
Herman,
Atlanta, Ga.
*Blanton,
Benjamin P.,
Atlanta, Ga Died Sept. 1904.
Bozeman,——.
Bridges, ——.
Brooks, B. E.,
Hattiesburg, Miss.
Brumby, E.,
Marietta, Ga.
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Brumby, J.,
Marietta, Ga.
Burke, W. H.,
LaGrange, Ga.
Burroughs, J.
Cabaniss, E., Forysth, Ga.
Cabaniss, H. H., Forysth, Ga. Atlanta,
Ga.
*Campbell,
Jos. F.,
Mobile, Ala., died in
Galveston, Texas, in 1904.
Carlton, ——,
*Cashin, Ed.,
Augusta, Ga. Anderson,
S. C..
Died Oct. 11, 1897.
Clarke,——.
Cockerell, ——.
Crutchfield,
Wm. Ambrose,
Macon, Ga.
Dabney, ——. *D'Antignac, Frank,
Augusta, Ga., died since the war.
Dorsey, J.,
West Point, Ga.,
Opelika, Ala.
Dozier,——.
*Edwards,
J. Polk,
Opelika, Ala. Died there since the war.
Elliott,——.
Everett, ——.
Fitzpatrick, ——.,
Madison, Ga.
Flake,
Warren W.,
DeKalb county, Ga. Jacksonville, Texas.
*Foster, A. W.,
Madison, Ga.
Freeman, ——.
Gary, J.
Gary, W.
Gould, ——.
Green, John M.,
Atlanta, Ga.
Hamilton,
Thomas A.,
Columbia county, Ga. Birmingham, Alabama.
Hardee, J.
*Hardee, W. P.
Harlee, ——.
Harrington,
Henry P.,
West Point, now New York.
Harris, John.
*Haslem, George,
Perry, Houston county, Ga.
Hawkins, J. C., Merriwether county, Ga.
Head, George M.,
Monroe county, Ga.
Hill, A. W.,
Washington, Ga. Atlanta,
Ga.
Hill,
Thomas A.,
Washington, Ga.
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Hinton, John.
Holland,——
Holmes, John H.,
LaGrange, now
Wetumpka, Alabama.
Houston
Howard,
Huger, ——,
Charleston, S. C.
Jones, H. P.,
Burke county, Ga.
Jones,
Henry,
Burke county, Ga.
Jones, W. D.,
Burke county, Ga.
*Jones W. (Jr.,)
Burke county, Ga. Died in 1864.
King, (
Barrington,)
Marietta, Ga.
Kollock,——,
Savannah, Ga.
Land, J. H.
Lane, W. S.
Latimer, Charles T.
Leseuer,——., S. C.
Lester, T. G.,
Lexington, Ga.
Livingston,——.
Lovett, Robert O.,
Screven county, Ga. Atlanta, Ga.
McCarthy,
McClellan,——, was from
Florida.
McLeod, George,
Cobb county, Ga.
McCleskey, L. L.,
Athens, Ga. Atlanta,
Ga.
McHenry, W. S.,
Madison, Ga. *McWhorter,
Madison,
Green county, Ga. *McWhorter,
Robert Ligon,
Green county, Ga.
Mann, Charley,
Perry, Ga. *Marshall, C.,
Perry, Ga.
Mims,——.
Mims, W. H.
Myrick, G. D.,
Milledgeville, Ga.
Myrick, J. D., Dovedale,
Baldwin county, Ga.
Napier,——,
Macon, Ga.
Nevett, ——,
Savannah, Ga.
Noble,
Stephens,
Rome, Ga.
Owens,
James,
Macon county, Ga.
*Parsons, William H.,
Johnson county, Ga.
Pattillo, George,
Cartersville, Ga.
Pearce,
James.
Pearce, J. W.,
Decatur, Ga.
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*Plant, Robert H.,
Macon, Ga. Died in 1903.
President of a bank.
Randall,
Bush,
Cobb, Ga. Decatur,
Ga.
Redding,——.
Reese,——.
Robert, W. H.,
Lagrange, Ga. Now druggist in
Denison, Texas.
Roberts,
Wiley.
Robinson, A.,
Meriwether counter,
Ga.
Robinson, E.,
Meriwether county, Ga.
Roddy, R. L.,
Forsyth, Ga.
Rucker, Jeptha H.,
Athens, Ga.
Rucker, TinsleyW., (‘Tinnie’),
Athens, Ga. Atlanta,
Ga.
*
Ryan Lawrence T.,
Hawkinsville, Ga.
Sapp, A. J.
Sciley, B.
Schley, G.
Schofield, ——,
Macon, Ga.
Sheppard, W. T.,
West Point, Ga. Boston,
Mass.
Shumake, W.,
Harris county, Ga.
Slappey, A. B.,
Marshallville, Ga.
Smith, Archibald A.,
LaGrange, Ga.
Smith, H. H.
*Smith, W.,
Crawford county, Ga. Died in service, 1864.
Solomon, W.,
Gordon, Ga.
Spain,——.
Taft, W.,
Charleston, S. C.
Thurman,
Jas. T.,
Atlanta, Ga.
*Tilson,
Mitchell,
Darien, Ga.
*Turnbull, J. J.,
Banks county, Ga.
Waitzefelder, Abraham,
Milledgeville, Ga. New York City.
Walker, C.
Walker, J.
Waters,
Byron B.
Watson, ——.
*Williams,
C. Howard,
Columbus, Ga. Died in
Atlanta, Ga., 1895.
Williams, M.
*Woodward,
James P.
Wynn, Joseph H.,
Newnan, Coweta county, Ga.
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Color guard.
*
Color Sergeant,
George C. Coleman,
Harris county, Ga. Was killed at
Aberdeen, Miss., in 1896. Co. B.
Color Corporal, Julius L. Brown,
Milledgeville, Ga. Atlanta, Ga. Son of
Governor Joseph E. Brown, the
War Governor of
Georgia. Co. A.
*
Color Corporal,
A. J. Hulsey,
Atlanta, Ga. Co. A.
Color Corporal, Thomas W. Milner,
Cartersville, Ga. Co. B.
Color Corporal, Henry W. Dewes,
Forsyth, Ga. Kirkwood, Ga. Co. B.
*
Color Corporal,
Henry A. Dunwoody, Co. A.
Cobb, county,
Darien, Ga.
Company.
B.
Captain, Victor E. Manget,
Marietta, Ga. Professor of French at
G. M. I. Living now at
Marietta, Ga. Minister of the Gospel.
*
First Lieutenant,
Cadet Charles H. Solomon,
Macon, Ga. *
Second Lieutenant,
Cadet P. Hazlehurst,
Macon, Ga. *
Third Lieutenant,
Cadet Steele White,
Savannah, Ga.
Fourth Lieutenant,
Cadet Frank Einstein,
Macon, Ga. New York, N. Y.
Sergeants.
First
Sergeant,
Cadet T. A. Ward,
Greensboro, Ga. Last heard of was in
Alabama.
Second
Sergeant,
Cadet Tom Bussey.
Died in 1893.
*Third
Sergeant,
Cadet Isaac P. Harris,
Covington, Ga. Died at
Atlanta, Ga., in 1899.
*Fourth
Sergeant,
Cadet Seaborn Montgomery,
Ellaville, Schley county, Ga. Died in service 1864.
Corporals.
Cadet B. Frank Lee,
Fort Valley, Ga. Thomaston, Ga. Later was made Third
Sergeant in Co. B, to take place of
I. P. Harris, promoted to
Lieut.
Cadet C. W. Linn. *
Cadet Thomas Acree,
Talbotton, Ga.
Cadet J. Symmes.
Cadet F. Jones.
Cadet J. K. Anderson,
Edgefield county, S. C. Wounded in in line, and died at
Atlanta, August, 1864.
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Cadet McNealy,
Marianna, Fla.
Cadet J. H. Stokes, Lumkin, Ga.
*
Cadet Stephen G. Jordan,
Washington county, Ga. Died May 23d, 1904.
Privates.
Allen, J. L.,
Bainbridge, Ga. Chipley,
Ga.
Atkinson, R. H.,
Macon, Ga.
*Baker, W.,
West Point, Ga.
Beall,
Bignon,——.
Billingslea,
Clay,
Green county, Ga.
Bolger,——.,
Charleston, S. C. *Bomar, W. A.,
Atlanta, Ga. Died 1905.
Bostick,——
Bozeman,——.
Brantley,——.,
Atlanta, Ga.
Breese, W. E.,
Charleston, S. C. Brevard, N. C.
Brown, C.,
Cuthbert, Ga.
*Brown, R.,
Americus, Ga.
Bryan,——.,
Chattanooga, Tenn.
Burt, F.,
Marietta, Ga. Came from
South Carolina.
*Bussey, Nathan,
West Point, Ga. Died in Soldiers' Home, 1904.
Calhoun, O., Abbeyville, S. C.
Cameron, H. C.,
Harris county, Ga. Columbus, Ga.
Chaney, T. G.,
Ellaville, Ga.
Coleman, J. D.,
Harris county, Ga. Aberdeen, Miss.
Brother of George C.
*Collier, William E.,
Fort Valley, Ga.
Commander,——.
Tampa, Fla.
*Culverhouse, Augustus,
Knoxville, Ga.
Compton, Lymon H.,
Milledgeville, Ga.
Cunningham, D.,
Talbot county, Ga.
*Dean, Jesse,
Atlanta, Ga.
*Dean, W.,
Atlanta, Ga.
Dunwoody, ——
Faver, J. D.,
Washington, Ga.,
Atlanta Ga.
Goldsmith, Tom B.,
DeKalb county.
Simpsonville, S. C.
*Goldsmith,
Paul,
Atlanta, Ga.
Goode, Samuel W.,
Lumpkin, Ga. Atlanta, Ga.
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Gould,——.
*Griffin, J. W.,
Lowndes county, Ga.
*Griffin, Samuel,
Lowndes county, Ga. (Brothers.)
Grubbs,
James W.,
Waynesboro, Ga.
Guyton,——.
Harris, W.
*Heidt, C. B.,
Savannah, Ga.
Hitchcock,
Winfield,
Hancock county, Ga.
Holliday, George H.,
Atlanta, Ga.
Holmes,——.
Hood. M. F.,
Hamilton, Harris county, Ga.
Hudson, J. M.,
Hamilton, Harris county, Ga.
Hughes,
Hulbert,
Humber,
Lucius,
Lumpkin, Ga.
Hunt, T. J.,
Harris county, Ga. Columbus, Ga.
Hunting, ——.
Johnston, A.
Johnston,
Malcolm,
Baldwin county, Ga. Atlanta, Ga.
Johnston, T.
Jones, D. A.,
West Point, Ga.
*Jones, H. B.,
Columbus, Ga.
Jones, W. M.,
Hamilton, Ga.
*Jordan, Edmond,
Washington county, Ga. Died 1864.
Kollock, ——,
Savannah, Ga.
Lamar,
Lucius J.,
Milledgeville, Ga.
Lamar, Ophilo V.,
Ellaville, Ga.
Lee,
Lewis T.,
Fort Valley, Ga.
Jasper, Tennessee.
Lee, Oscar,
Atlanta, Ga.
*Lewis,
Hal T.,
Green county, Ga. Died in 1903. Supreme Court Justice.
Ligon,
Little, W. W.,
Harris county, Ga. West Point, Ga., R. F. D. I.
Loftin, Frank S.,
Franklin, Heard county, Ga. Franklin, Ga.
Loud,——.
Luckie, Alfred T.,
Covington, Ga. Athens,
Ga.
*Mabry, J.,
Houston county, Ga. Died 1864.
Markley, Wm. A.,
Greenville, S. C. Commerce, Texas.
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Marsh,
Clayton H.,
Cartersville, Georgia.
Wounded at Oconee Bridge battle, died in
Savannah, Ga., November 1864.
McClatchey,
W. Penn,
Marietta, Ga. Chattanooga,
Tenn.
Mays,——.
McLauren,—,
South Carolina.
*McLeod, John,
Emanuel county, Ga. Died 1864.
*Mobley, Reuben B.,
Hamilton, Harris county, Ga. Died July, 1904.
Moore, J.,
Weston, Ga.
Moore, W. F.,
Marietta, Ga.
Mousseau,——,
Charleston, S. C.
Myrick, A. B.,
Milledgeville, Ga. Mississippi.
*Myrick, W. E.,
Milledgeville, Ga. Died in
Mississippi, 1867.
Neufville,—,
Savannah, Ga.
Newsome,
Willard H.,
LaGrange, Ga.
Parrott,——.
Partee,——.
Patillo, W. F.,
Harris county, Ga. Decatur, Ga.
*Persons, Robert T.,
Fort Valley, Ga.
Persons, Thomas,
Marietta,
Ga.
Rahn,
James M.,
Guyton, Effingham county, Ga.
Ramsey,
Remshart,
G. Horace,
Savannah, Ga.
Reynolds, Homer V.,
Cobb county,
Marietta, Ga.
J. Richter,
Madison, Ga.
Richter, M. L.,
Madison, Ga.
*Reynolds,
Fletcher P.,
Covington, Ga. Died at
Marietta, 1889.
*Robertson, ——,
Meriwether county, Ga. Died since the war.
Rodgers, Robert L,
Washington county, Ga. Atlanta, Ga.
*Sanders, O. A., (‘Cube,’)
Covington, Ga. Died in
Atlanta, 1883.
Sharp,
Shropshire,
Andrew J.,
Coweta county, Ga. Atlanta, Ga.
Shoemake, W. W., Troupe county, Ga. Died 1865.
Smart,——,
Camden county, Ga.
Smith, Richard R.,
Washington county,
Tennille, Ga.
Smith,
Thomas N.,
Washington county,
Tennille, Ga. (Brothers.)
Spencer, Samuel,
Columbus, Ga., now
President Southern Railway Company, and lives in New York City.
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Staten,——.
Stevens, N. C. (‘
Dick,’)
Ellaville, Ga. Now doctor at Ama,
Louisiana.
Stevenson, V. K.,
Nashville, Tenn.
New York.
Stotesbury, ——
Tenant,
Marietta, Ga.
Thomas, Isaac,
Forsyth, Ga.
Traylor, R. B.,
Harris county, Ga. Chipley, Ga.
Ulmer——,
Vance,——.
*Villard, W. D.,
South Carolina.
Died in
Atlanta, Ga., 1897.
Walton,
Taylor,
Lumpkin, Ga.,
Texas.
Waters, J. C.,
Marietta, Ga.
Wesson, M.,
Albany, Ga.
Wesson, T.,
Albany, Ga.
Wilcox,——
Williams, O. S.,
Hamilton, Harris county, Ga.
Williams, T.
*Wright, B. F.,
Covington, Ga.
Wright, C.
*Young, Thomas,
Valdosta,
Ga.
Casualties in the Battalion.
Cadet Corporal Anderson, of
Greenville, S. C., was wounded in knee during siege of
Atlanta, and died August 11, 1864, two days later, in hospital.
Cadet F. E. Courvoisier, of
Savannah, Ga., was wounded in hip in August, 1864, siege of
Atlanta.
He recovered.
Died in
Port Royal, S. C., 1896.
Cadet A. H. Alexander, of
Forsyth, Ga., was killed instantly by a solid ball from a six-pounder cannon, passing entirely through his body, in siege of
Atlanta, August 12, 1864.
Cadet A. T. Luckie painfully wounded in eye in 1864.
Cadet Samuel W. Goode painfully wounded in the arm, near shoulder, at
Atlanta, in July or August, 1864.
Cadet Griffin slightly wounded on nose in 1864.
Cadet W. E. Myrick wounded in head at Oconee bridge, on Central railroad, in November, 1864.
Died in
Mississippi, 1867.
Cadet Sergeant J. Scott Todd was wounded in arm, which was
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amputated at once, at Oconee bridge, over
Oconee river, on Central railroad, in
Washington county, Ga., on November 23, 1864, in charge on Yankee pickets in Oconee swamp.
He is now
Dr. J. S. Todd, of
Atlanta, Ga., and surgeon of
Georgia Division of U. C. V.
Cadet Thomas A. Hamilton, of
Columbia county, Ga., now of
Birmingham, Ala., was severely wounded in shoulder at Oconee bridge, over
Oconee river, on Central railroad, on November 25, 1864.
Cadets
Commander,
W. Baker,
Edmund Jordan,
Mabry,
John McLeod and
G. Smith, died in the service by disease contracted while serving in the trenches around
Atlanta.
Cadet Marsh was mortally wounded by minie ball in right groin, in charge on Yankee pickets at
Oconee river, Oconee bridge, on the Central railroad, in
Washington county, Ga., on the 23d of November, 1864.
He was carried on train to
Savannah, Ga., and died in hospital there on the 26th of November, 1864.
This battalion was a conspicuous organization in the
Confederate service, in the Western army, commanded by
General Joseph E. Johnston.
The battalion served under
General Hood, and was a noted battalion of youths from the celebrated military school, the
Georgia Military Institute.
The boys were in excellent discipline, splendidly drilled, and with fine courage and great enthusiasm and patriotic spirit.
They were a marked battalion of as fine mettled youths as ever went to any war for any country.
Major F. W. Capers was proud of his ‘boys,’ as he affectionately spoke of them.
When they were under severe artillery fire at Turner's Ferry, over
Chattahoochee river,
Major Capers said he was very proud of them, and spoke in very high compliment of them, as exhibiting a cool courage and skill, remarkable in every respect, and he said that he believed that if he had a full division of such boys he could repulse the whole Yankee army.
Major-General Henry C. Wayne was in command of the forces with which the cadets served, as they confronted
Sherman's army, on the ‘Marching through
Georgia.’
General Wayne, in his official report of February 6, 1865, gives account of the distinguished conduct of
Georgia cadets in the campaign through
Georgia.
His report is fully set forth in the official war records, series 1, volume 53, supplement, on pages 32 to 37 inclusive, in serial
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No. 111.
On page 36,
General Wayne says: ‘I would conspicuously mention
Majors Hartridge and
Capers, and
Captains Talbot,
Pruden,
Austin and
Warthen.
The gallantry of these gentlemen cannot be surpassed.
To
Major Capers I am under the greatest obligations.
His qualifications for military command are of the highest order, and entitle him to a prominent position.
They have been brilliantly illustrated by the corps of cadets, whose gallantry, discipline and skill equal anything I have ever seen in any military service.
I cannot speak too highly of these youths, who go into a fight as cheerfully as they would enter a ball-room, and with the silence and steadiness of veterans.’
The Georgia Cadets were the last organized Confederate soldiers on duty east of the
Mississippi river, and their last service, as the first, was on provost duty, guarding the city of
Augusta, Ga., and the
Confederate arsenals and army stores at that city.
They obeyed the last order of a Confederate officer,
Major-General Lafayette McLaws.
The order was issued after the surrenders of
General Lee and
General Johnston, and was dated May 1, 1865, and they served under that order till the 20th day of May, 1865, when they were relieved from their duties by a Yankee garrison, who came to
Augusta to take charge of the city and Confederate supplies there.
The order of
General McLaws is in copy, on page 420, in the volume 53, of series 1, supplement, of the official war records.
It is as follows:
special order.—Headquarters,
Augusta, Ga., May 1, 1865.
The battalion of
Georgia Cadets will proceed at once to the city hall, in the city of
Augusta, taking one day's rations with them, and will bivouac there until further orders, for the purpose of preserving order in said city.
They will suppress all disturbances and will make such details for the preservation of order and property as may be called for by
Major Henry Bryan,
Inspector-general.
Upon the zeal and honor of this battalion rests the good name of their State and the safety of
Augusta.
By command of
Brigadier-General Fry.
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On the 20th of May, 1865, the battalion was disbanded, and the cadets returned to their respective homes, Thus the boy soldiers of the
South, and of
Georgia, were the last to do duty in the cause of the
Confederate States of America.
In their manhood they have made good citizens, and are now fast passing from the activc scenes of life forever.
Respectfully submitted,
