CONFEDERATE GEORGIA TROOPS
1st Regiment, Georgia Cavalry
- Overview:
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1st Cavalry Regiment was assembled during the fall of 1861 at Rome, Georgia. Many of its
members were recruited in the counties of Meriwether, Floyd, and Lumpkin. The unit skirmished
in East Tennessee and later took an active part in Bragg's Kentucky Campaign. During the war it
served in Pegram's, Davidson's, J.J. Morrison's, Iverson's, and C.C. Crews' Brigade. It fought at
Murfreesboro and Chickamauga, was active in the Knoxville
and Atlanta Campaigns, then participated in the defense of Savannah and the campaign of the
Carolinas. When the regiment surrendered with the Army of Tennessee, it had fewer than 50
officers and men. Its field officers were Colonels Samuel W. Davitte and James J. Morrison;
Lieutenant Colonels A.R. Harper, James H. Stickland, and George T. Watts; and Major John W.
Tench.
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