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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 2: (search)
G), Capt. John W. Evans Dahlonega Volunteers (H), Capt. Alfred Harris, who resigned and was succeeded by Thomas B. Cabaniss, elected from the ranks of the company from Forsyth Walker Light Infantry (I), Augusta, Capt. Samuel H. Crump Quitman Guards (K), Forsyth, Capt. J. S. Pinkard (these ten forming the First Georgia） First independent battalion. Independence Volunteers (A), Macon, Capt. J. E. Aderhold Ringgold Volunteers (B), Capt. H. J. Sprayberry Brown Infantry (C), Macon, Capt. G. A. Smith, and Etowah Guards (D), Capt. Peter H. Larey (these four forming the First independent battalion). When the first ten companies of this list organized as the First regiment of Georgia volunteers, April 3, 1861, at Camp Oglethorpe, Macon, they elected the following officers: James N. Ramsey, colonel; James O. Clark, lieutenant-colonel; George H. Thompson, major. Capt. Andrew Dunn was appointed quartermaster; Capt. George W. Cunningham, commissary, and Lieut. James W. Anderson, adju
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)
ast Tennessee. It was in Stevenson's division during the Vicksburg campaign, at Missionary Ridge, and in the Atlanta and Tennessee campaigns. It served also in the campaign of the Carolinas, consolidated with the Forty-second and parts of the Thirty-fourth and Thirty-sixth, and was surrendered April 26, 1865. The First Confederate regiment, of Georgia, seems to have been made up from parts of the First independent battalion with companies from other commands, and had for its colonel, G. A. Smith, formerly captain of Company C. The First Confederate also shared the fortunes of the army of Tennessee in the campaigns in Tennessee and Georgia. During the campaign in the Carolinas it was consolidated with the First battalion of sharpshooters and the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth and Sixty-sixth Georgia regiments. After long and faithful service it surrendered with Johnston in North Carolina. The Thirty-seventh regiment Georgia volunteers had for its field officers Col. A