CONFEDERATE GEORGIA TROOPS
6th Regiment, Georgia Infantry
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6th Infantry Regiment was organized at Macon, Georiga, in April, 1861, and soon moved
ot Virginia. Its companies were recruited in the counties of Bibb, Crawford, Butts, Baker,
Twiggs, Gilmer, Taylor, and Mitchell. Assigned to General Rains' Brigade, the regiment totalled
703 men in April, 1862, and was active at Williamsburg and Seven Pines. Later it transferred to General
Colquitt's Brigade and remained under his command for the balance of the war. The 6th served
with the Army of Northern Virginia from the Seven Days' Battles to Chancellorsville, then was ordered to North
Carolina, South Carolina, and Florida where it fought at Olustee. During the spring of 1864 it
returned to Virginia, participated in the conflicts at Drewry's Bluff and Cold Harbor, and endured the battles and
hardships of the trenches at Petersburg. Sent to North Carolina the unit
saw action at Bentonville and
surrendered with the Army of Tennessee. It lost 38 killed, 167 wounded, and 3 missing during
the Seven Days' Battles and reported 43 casualties at Chancellorsville and 61 at Olustee. The
field officers were Colonels Alfred H. Colquitt and John T. Lofton; Lieutenant Colonels Charles
D. Anderson, William M. Arnold, Wilde C. Cleveland, Sampton W. Harris, and James M.Newton;
and Majors James M. Culpeper and Phil Tracy.
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