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Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 4 2 Browse Search
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Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 6: (search)
was ordered to Virginia and assigned to Evans' brigade. Smith's Georgia legion (see Sixty-fifth regiment), or partisan rangers, was organized with the following officers: Col. Sumner J. Smith, Lieut.-Col. John R. Hart, Maj. B. F. Brown, Adjt. B. F. Chastain, Asst. Surg. B. P. White, Asst. Quartermaster Jas. W. Langston; Cavalry, Capts. (A) G. W. Standridge, (B) T. C. Fain, (C) W. F. Thomas, (D) S. M. Ralston, (E) L. Harlow, (F) S. Anderson, (G) John R. Hart, (H) A. Rudolph; Infantry, Capts. ( the Dalton-Atlanta campaign, and in the campaign of the Carolinas in the spring of 1865. The field officers of the Sixth were: Col. John R. Hart, Lieut.-Cols. B. F. Brown and J. C. Fain, Maj. J. C. Fain, Asst. Quartermaster T. W. Fulton, Adjt. B. F. Chastain. For further information about this regiment, see Smith's Georgia legion. The Seventh Georgia cavalry regiment was organized with the following officers: Col. W. P. White (died), Lieut.-Col. J. L. McAllister (killed), Maj. E. C. Anders
Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical (search)
s elected lieutenant-colonel commanding the Augusta volunteer battalion, a wellequipped and admirably-disciplined body of five infantry companies, with a battery attached. A few weeks later he resigned this position and became major of the First regiment Georgia volunteers, one of the two which the State first undertook to organize. He assisted in the formation and instruction of this regiment as its acting commander in the absence of its colonel, W. H. T. Walker, and lieutenant-colonel, Chastain, until, reporting for orders to Gen. R. E. Lee, commanding the forces of Virginia, he was commissioned in June, 1861, lieutenant-colonel in the provisional army of the Confederate States, and assigned to the Tenth Georgia regiment, Col. Lafayette McLaws commanding. The latter being speedily advanced to higher duties, Cumming was in command of the regiment on the Yorktown line, and in October was promoted to colonel. The regiment shared the service of Magruder's command in the Seven Days c