List of Georgia Confederate Civil War units

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

Infantry[edit]

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[edit]

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
  • 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[edit]

  • 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[edit]

  • 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[edit]

  • 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[edit]

  • 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
  • Smith's Legion
  • Wright's Legion

Other units[edit]

  • 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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  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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