List of Georgia Confederate Civil War units

This is a List of Confederate Civil War units from Georgia, many of which were mustered in April 1861.

Infantry

Lt R.A. Mizell of the "Southern Rifles" Company A 4th Georgia Infantry; resigned in 1864 after being wounded in the Battle of the Wilderness; joined Company "A" 2nd Kentucky Cavalry of John Hunt Morgan command

Captain Augustus C. Thompson of Co. G, 16th Georgia Infantry Regiment with sword. From the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Library of Congress

Private R. Cecil Johnson of 8th Georgia Infantry Regiment

Sketch of a soldier of the 55th Georgia Infantry Regiment by war artist Alfred Waud

Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform and Georgia state seal belt buckle with musket

1st (Regular) Infantry
1st (Olmstead's/Mercer's) Infantry
1st (Ramsey's) Infantry
1st Consolidated Infantry (1st Regular, 47th Infantry and 28th Siege Artillery Btln.)
2nd Infantry
3rd Infantry
4th Infantry
5th Infantry
6th Infantry
7th Infantry
8th Infantry
9th Infantry
10th Infantry
11th Infantry
12th Infantry
13th Infantry
14th Infantry
15th Infantry
16th Infantry
17th Infantry
18th Infantry
19th Infantry
20th Infantry
21st Infantry
22nd Infantry
23rd Infantry
24th Infantry
25th Infantry
26th Infantry
27th Infantry
28th Infantry
29th Infantry
30th Infantry
31st Infantry
32nd Infantry
34th Infantry
35th Infantry
36th Infantry (1st Confederate)
37th Infantry
38th Infantry
39th Infantry
40th Infantry
41st Infantry
42nd Infantry
43rd Infantry
44th Infantry
45th Infantry
46th Infantry
47th Infantry
48th Infantry
49th Infantry
50th Infantry
51st Infantry
52nd Infantry
53rd Infantry
54th Infantry
55th Infantry
56th Infantry
57th Infantry
59th Infantry
60th Infantry
61st Infantry
63d Infantry
64th Infantry
65th Infantry
66th Infantry
2nd Georgia Infantry Battalion
7th Georgia Infantry Battalion
8th Georgia Infantry Battalion
9th Georgia Infantry Battalion
10th Georgia Infantry Battalion
18th Georgia Infantry Battalion
26th Georgia Infantry Battalion
27th Georgia Infantry Battalion
40th Georgia Infantry Battalion
1st Georgia Sharpshooter Battalion
2nd Georgia Sharpshooter Battalion
3rd Georgia Sharpshooter Battalion
4th Georgia Sharpshooter Battalion

Cavalry

Private Stephen Pollard of Co. B and Co. L, 7th Confederate States Cavalry Battalion

1st Cavalry
2nd Cavalry
3rd Cavalry
4th Cavalry (Clinch's)
5th Cavalry
- Georgia Hussars (Company A)
7th Cavalry
8th Cavalry
10th Cavalry
11th Cavalry
12th Cavalry
13th Cavalry
29th Cavalry
62nd Cavalry
1st Battalion, Georgia Cavalry
2nd Cavalry Battalion
19th Cavalry Battalion
20th Cavalry Battalion
21st Cavalry Battalion
24th Cavalry Battalion
29th Cavalry Battalion

Artillery

1st Artillery
9th Artillery Battalion
11th Artillery Battalion (Sumter Artillery)
12th Light Artillery Battalion
14th (Montgomery's) Battalion, Light Artillery
22nd Battalion, Heavy Artillery
28th Battalion, Siege Artillery
Anderson's (Captain) Battalion, Light Artillery
Maxwell's (Captain) Battalion, Regular Light Artillery
Baker's (Captain) Company, Artillery
Barnwell's (Captain) Battery, Light Artillery
Bartow Artillery
Blodgett's Flying Artillery
Brooks' (Captain) Company (Terrell Light Artillery)
Campbell's (Captain) Independent Company, Siege Artillery
Chatham Artillery (Wheaton's Artillery)
Chatham Siege Artillery
Cherokee Artillery (Van Den Corput's Company)^[1]
Chestatee Artillery
Clinch's (Captain) Battery, Light Artillery
Columbus Artillery
Cooper's Artillery Company
Croft's (Captain) Battery, Light Artillery (Columbus Artillery)
Daniell's Battery, Light Artillery
Dunn's (Captain) Company, Artillery (Bartow Artillery)
Ferrell's (Captain) Battery, Light Artillery
Forrest Artillery
Fraser's (Captain) Battery, Light Artillery (Pulaski Artillery)
Guerard's (Captain) Battery, Light Artillery
Hamilton's (Captain) Company, Light Artillery (Company A, 1st Regular Infantry)
Hanleiter's (Captain) Company, Light Artillery (Jo Thompson Artillery)
Havis' (Captain) Battery, Light Artillery
Howell's (Captain) Company, Light Artillery
Hudson's (Captain) Company, Light Artillery (Arsenal Battery)
King's (Captain) Battery, Light Artillery
Lumpkin's (Captain) Company, Artillery
Massenburg's (Captain) Battery, Light Artillery (Jackson Artillery)
Maxwell's (Captain) Regular Light Battery, Artillery (Company D, 1st Regular Infantry)
Milledge's (Captain) Company, Light Artillery
Moore's (Captain) Battery, Artillery
Pritchard's (Captain) Company, Light Artillery (Washington Artillery)
Ritter's (Captain) Company, Light Artillery
Scogin's (Captain) Battery, Light Artillery (Griffin Light Artillery)
Siege Train (Major Buist) Artillery
Slaten's (Captain) Company, Artillery (Macon Light Artillery)
Tiller's (Captain) Company (Echols Light Artillery)
Wheaton's (Captain) Company, Artillery (Chatham Artillery)

State Guards

1st Infantry (State Guards)
5th Infantry (State Guards)
6th Infantry (State Guards)
7th Infantry (State Guards)
8th Infantry (State Guards)
9th Infantry (State Guards)
1st Battalion, Infantry (State Guards)
2nd Battalion, Infantry (Atlanta Arsenal Battalion, State Guards)
3rd Battalion (Atlanta Fire Battalion, State Guards)
4th Battalion, Infantry (State Guards)
5th Battalion, Infantry (State Guards)
11th Battalion, Infantry (State Guards)
13th Battalion, Infantry (State Guards)
14th Battalion, Infantry (State Guards)
17th Battalion, Infantry (State Guards)
18th Battalion, Infantry (State Guards)
19th Battalion, Infantry (State Guards)
Hansell's (Captain) Company, Infantry (State Guards)
2nd Cavalry (State Guards)
3rd Cavalry (State Guards)
4th Cavalry (State Guards)
10th Cavalry (State Guards)
11th Cavalry (State Guards)
12th (Robinson's) Cavalry (State Guards)
12th (Wright's) Cavalry (State Guards)
6th Battalion, Cavalry (State Guards)
7th Battalion, Cavalry (State Guards)
8th Battalion, Cavalry (State Guards)
9th Battalion, Cavalry (State Guards)
10th Battalion, Cavalry (State Guards)
12th Battalion, Cavalry (State Guards)
15th Battalion, Cavalry (State Guards)
16th Battalion, Cavalry (State Guards)
22d Battalion, Cavalry (State Guards)
1st Gordon Squadron, Cavalry (State Guards)
Bond's (Captain) Company, Cavalry (State Guards)

State Troops

1st Regiment (State Troops)
2nd Regiment, Infantry, State Troops
2nd Battalion, State Troops
11th (State Troops)
Etowah Iron Works Artillery (State Troops)
Fay's Battery (Etowah Iron Works Artillery) (State Troops)
Pruden's Battery, Artillery (State Troops)

Legions

1st Georgia Legion
- Infantry Battalion
- Cavalry Regiment (6th Cavalry)
Cobb's Legion
- Infantry Battalion
- Cavalry Regiment (9th Cavalry)
- Carlton's Battery (Troup Artillery)
Cherokee Legion (State Guards)
Floyd Legion
- Infantry (State Guards)
- Cavalry (State Guards)
Phillips' Legion
- Infantry Battalion
  - Blue Ridge Rifles (Company E)
- Cavalry Battalion
Smith's Legion
Wright's Legion

Other units

1st (Fannin's) Reserves
1st (Symons') Reserves
1st Battalion, Reserves, Artillery
1st Battalion, Reserves, Cavalry
1st Battalion, Reserves, Infantry
1st City Battalion, Infantry (Columbus)
1st Confederate Battalion, Infantry
1st Local Troops, Infantry
1st Militia
1st Ordnance Battalion
1st Regiment (Army of Georgia)
1st Regiment (Reserves)
1st Regiment, Engineer Troops
1st Regiment, Infantry (Local Troops) (Augusta)
1st Regiment, Light Duty Men
1st Regiment, Troops and Defenses (Macon)
1st State Line
2nd Battalion Troops and Defences (Macon)
2nd Militia
2nd Regiment, Militia
2nd Reserves
2nd State Line, Including Stapleton's and Storey's 3d Infantry
2nd Division, Militia
3rd Reserves
4th (Avery's) Cavalry
4th (Clinch's) Cavalry
4th Infantry (State Guard)
4th Reserves
5th Militia
5th Reserves
6th Militia
6th Reserves
6th State Line
10th Militia
12th Militia
23rd Battalion, Militia (Cook's Reserve Battalion)
23rd Battalion, Infantry, Local Defense (Athens Battalion, Enfield Rifle Battalion)
25th Battalion, Infantry (Provost Guard)
27th Battalion, Infantry (Non-Conscripts)
Alexander's (Captain) Company, Cavalry
Alexander's (Captain) Company, Infantry
Allen's (Captain) Company, Cavalry
Anderson's (Captain) Company, Infantry (Anderson Guards)
Arnold's (Captain) Company, Cavalry
Arsenal Battalion, Infantry (Columbus)
Asher's (Captain) Company (Murray Cavalry)
Athens Reserve Corps, Infantry
Atlanta Arsenal Battery, Light Artillery (Local Troops)
Atwater's (Captain) Company, Infantry
Augusta Battalion, Infantry
Baird's (Captain) Company, Infantry
Baldwin Ordnance Battalion (Local Defense)
Bard's Company, Infantry
Barney's (Captain) Company, Infantry (Richmond Factory Guards)
Blue Ridge Tiger Regiment (State Guard)
Boddie's (Captain) Company (Troup [County] Independent Cavalry)
Bradshaw's Cavalry Battalion
Brook's (Captain) Company, Infantry (Mitchell Home Guards)
Camden County Militia (Mounted)
Caraker's (Captain) Company, Infantry (Milledgeville Guards)
Chapman's (Captain) Company, Infantry (Defenders)
Chatham Light Horse
City Battalion, Infantry (Columbus)
City Light Guards (Columbus)
Clemons' (Captain) Company, Infantry
Coast Guard Battalion, Militia
Cobb's Guards, Infantry
Coffee Revengers
Collier's (Captain) Company, Infantry
Collier's (Captain) Company, Infantry (Collier Guards)
Conscripts, Georgia
Corbin's (Captain) Company, Cavalry
Dorough's Battalion, Cavalry
Dozier's (Captain) Company, Infantry
Ezzard's (Captain) Company, Infantry
First Battalion, Reserve Cavalry
Floyd's (Captain) Company, Cavalry
Fuller's (Captain) Company, Infantry
Garrison's (Captain) Company, Infantry (Ogeechee Minute Men)
Gartrell's (Captain) Company, Cavalry
Green's (Captain) Company, Infantry (State Armory Guards)
Grubb's (Captain) Company, Infantry
Hall's (Captain) Company, Cavalry
Hamlet's (Captain) Company, Infantry
Hardwick Mounted Rifles
Harris' (Captain) Independent Company, Infantry (Brunswick Rifles)
Heard County Rangers, Infantry (part of the 41st Infantry)
Hendry's (Captain) Company, Cavalry (Atlantic and Gulf Guards)
Hendry's (Captain) Company, Mounted Infantry (Pierce Mounted Volunteers)
Holmes' (Captain) Company, Infantry (Wright Local Guards)
Howard's (Captain) Company, Infantry (Non-Conscripts)
Hull's (Captain) Company, Infantry
Humphrey's (Captain) Company, Independent Cavalry (Reserves)
Jackson's (Captain) Company, Infantry
Jones' (Captain) Company, Infantry (Jones Hussars)
Kay's (Captain) Company, Infantry (Franklin County Guards)
Lane's (Captain) Company, Infantry (Jasper and Butts County Guards)
Logan's (Captain) Company, Cavalry (White County Old Men's Home Guards)
Matthews' (Captain) Company, Infantry (East to West Point Guards)
Mayer's (Captain) Company (Appling Cavalry)
Medlin's (Captain) Independent Company, Infantry (High Shoals Defenders)
Milner's (Captain) Company, Infantry (Madison County Home Guard)
Miscellaneous, Georgia
Moore's (Captain) Company, Infantry (Baldwin Infantry)
Moring's (Captain) Company, Infantry (Emanuel Troops)
Nancy Harts (Nancy Hart Rifles)
Nelson's (Captain) Independent Company, Cavalry
Newbern's (Captain) Company, Cavalry (Coffee Revengers)
Pemberton's (Captain) Company, Cavalry
Pool's (Captain) Company, Infantry
Porter's (Captain) Company (Georgia Railroad Guards)
Preston's (Captain) Company (Railroad Guards)
Ragland's Company, Cavalry
Rigdon Guards
Roberts' (Captain) Company, Exempts
Roswell Battalion, Cavalry
Rowland's Battalion, Conscripts
Rumph's (Captain) Company (Wayne Cavalry Guards)
Russell's (Captain) Company (Newton Factory Employees)
Russell's (Captain) Company, Cavalry
Taylor's (Captain) Company
Thornton's (Captain) Company (Muscogee Guards)
Waring's (Lieutenant) Company, Cavalry
Weem's (Lieutenant) Detachment, Camp Guard (Augusta)
White's (Captain) Company
Whiteside's Naval Battalion, Infantry (Local Defense)
Witt's (Captain) Company (Express Infantry)
Wyly's (Captain) Company (Mell Scouts)
Young's (Captain) Company, Cavalry (Alleghany Troopers)
Youngblood's Battalion, Infantry
Zollicoffer Guards, Infantry

Artillery

Regiment	Theaters	Brigades	Notes
Carlton's Battery	East	Barksdale's through Chancellorsville; Wofford's from Gettysburg on	Also known as the "Troup Artillery," which was originally part of Cobb's Legion.
Fraser's Battery	East	Barksdale's through Chancellorsville; Wofford's from Gettysburg on	sometimes called Pulaski Artillery
2nd Georgia Battery	East	Wright's at Gettysburg

Cavalry

Battalion	Theaters	Brigades	Notes
1st Battalion, Georgia Cavalry	Georgia		Became part of the 5th Georgia Cavalry

Regiment	Theaters	Brigades	Notes
Cobb's Legion (9th Georgia Cavalry)	East	Hampton's	Regimental history
Phillips Legion	East	Hampton's
5th Georgia Cavalry

Infantry

Regiment	Fredericksburg	Chancellorsville	Gettysburg	Notes
1st Georgia Infantry	Anderson's Brigade			Regulars
2nd Georgia Volunteer Infantry	Benning's Brigade		Benning's Brigade
3rd Georgia Volunteer Infantry	Wright's Brigade	Wright's Brigade	Wright's Brigade	Farthest advancing unit in Pickett's charge during the Battle of Gettysburg.
4th Georgia Volunteer Infantry	Doles' Brigade	Doles' Brigade	Doles' Brigade
5th Georgia Volunteer Infantry				mustered from Macon
6th Georgia Volunteer Infantry	Colquitt's Brigade	Colquitt's Brigade		mustered from Atlanta
7th Georgia Volunteer Infantry	Anderson's Brigade		Anderson's Brigade
8th Georgia Volunteer Infantry	Anderson's Brigade		Anderson's Brigade	included Francis S. Bartow
9th Georgia Volunteer Infantry	Anderson's Brigade		Anderson's Brigade	Capt. George Hillyer
10th Georgia Volunteer Infantry	Semmes' Brigade	Semmes	Semmes
11th Georgia Volunteer Infantry	Anderson's Brigade		Anderson's Brigade
12th Georgia Volunteer Infantry	Hoke's Brigade	Dole's Brigade	Dole's Brigade	originally led by Allegheny Johnson
13th Georgia Volunteer Infantry	Early's Brigade	Gordon's Brigade	Gordon's Brigade
14th Georgia Volunteer Infantry	Thomas' Brigade	Thomas' Brigade	Thomas' Brigade
15th Georgia Volunteer Infantry	Benning's Brigade		Benning's Brigade
16th Georgia Volunteer Infantry	Cobb's Brigade	Wofford's Brigade	Wofford's Brigade
17th Georgia Volunteer Infantry	Benning's Brigade		Benning's Brigade
18th Georgia Volunteer Infantry	Cobb's Brigade	Wofford's Brigade	Wofford's Brigade	led by William T. Wofford
19th Georgia Volunteer Infantry	Archer's Brigade	Colquitt's Brigade		Lt.Col. Tilghman W. Flynt
20th Georgia Volunteer Infantry	Benning's Brigade		Benning's Brigade
21st Georgia Volunteer Infantry	Hoke's Brigade	Doles' Brigade	Doles' Brigade
22nd Georgia Volunteer Infantry	Wright's Brigade	Wright's Brigade	Wright's Brigade
23rd Georgia Volunteer Infantry	Colquitt's Brigade	Colquitt's Brigade
24th Georgia Volunteer Infantry	Cobb's Brigade	Wofford's Brigade	Wofford's Brigade
26th Georgia Volunteer Infantry	Early's Brigade	Gordon's Brigade	Gordon's Brigade
27th Georgia Volunteer Infantry	Colquitt's Brigade	Colquitt's Brigade
28th Georgia Volunteer Infantry	Colquitt's Brigade	Colquitt's Brigade
31st Georgia Volunteer Infantry	Early's Brigade	Gordon's Brigade	Gordon's Brigade
35th Georgia Volunteer Infantry	Thomas' Brigade	Thomas' Brigade	Thomas' Brigade
38th Georgia Volunteer Infantry	Early's Brigade	Gordon's Brigade	Gordon's Brigade
42nd Georgia Volunteer Infantry				Historical fiction account, Entangled In Freedom was published in 2010. Atlanta's Fighting 42nd: Joseph Johnston's Old Guard, 2020. Mercer University Press.
43rd Georgia Volunteer Infantry	Barton-Stovall's Georgia Infantry Brigade
44th Georgia Volunteer Infantry	Doles' Brigade	Doles' Brigade	Doles' Brigade
45th Georgia Volunteer Infantry	Thomas' Brigade	Thomas' Brigade	Thomas' Brigade
47th Georgia Volunteer Infantry
48th Georgia Volunteer Infantry	Wright's Brigade	Wright's Brigade	Wright's Brigade
49th Georgia Volunteer Infantry	Thomas' Brigade	Thomas' Brigade	Thomas' Brigade
50th Georgia Volunteer Infantry	Semmes' Brigade	Semmes	Semmes
51st Georgia Volunteer Infantry	Semmes' Brigade	Semmes	Semmes
53rd Georgia Volunteer Infantry	Semmes' Brigade	Semmes	Semmes
57th Georgia Volunteer Infantry				Mercer's Brigade;a regimental history, Hell's Broke Loose in Georgia, was published in 2005
59th Georgia Volunteer Infantry			Anderson's Brigade
60th Georgia Volunteer Infantry	Early's Brigade	Gordon's Brigade	Gordon's Brigade
61st Georgia Volunteer Infantry	Early's Brigade	Gordon's Brigade	Gordon's Brigade
Cobb's Legion	Cobb's Brigade	Wofford's Brigade	Wofford's Brigade	led by Luther Glenn
Phillips' Legion	Cobb's Brigade	Wofford's Brigade	Wofford's Brigade

References

^ Waters, Zack C., and Garry Fisher. " The Damnedest Set of Fellows": A History of Georgia's Cherokee Artillery. Mercer University Press, 2020.

External links

http://www.civilwarhome.com/chancellorsvilleanv.htm
http://www.civilwarhome.com/anvfredericksburg.htm
4th Georgia Cavalry at the Battle of Olustee, Florida
Chatham Artillery (Captain John F. Wheaton commanding) at the Battle of Olustee, Florida
Guerard's Artillery at the Battle of Olustee, Florida
28th Georgia Artillery Battalion at the Battle of Olustee, Florida
1st Georgia Regulars at the Battle of Olustee, Florida
6th Georgia Volunteer Infantry at the Battle of Olustee, Florida
19th Georgia Volunteer Infantry at the Battle of Olustee, Florida
23rd Georgia Volunteer Infantry at the Battle of Olustee, Florida
28th Georgia Volunteer Infantry at the Battle of Olustee, Florida
32nd Georgia Volunteer Infantry at the Battle of Olustee, Florida
64th Georgia Volunteer Infantry at the Battle of Olustee, Florida

[1] Waters, Zack C., and Garry Fisher. " The Damnedest Set of Fellows": A History of Georgia's Cherokee Artillery. Mercer University Press, 2020.

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List of Georgia Confederate Civil War units

Contents

Infantry

Cavalry

Artillery

State Guards

State Troops

Legions

Other units

Artillery

Cavalry

Infantry

See also

References

External links