CONFEDERATE GEORGIA TROOPS
9th Regiment, Georgia Infantry
- Overview:
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9th Infantry Regiment, organized during the late spring of 1861, contained men from
Wilkinson, Walton, Chattooga, Clay, Talbot, Baldwin, Fayette, Brooks, Troup, and Sumter
counties. Ordered to Virginia the unit was assigned to General G.T. Anderson's Brigade and
remained under his command for the duration of the war. It fought with the Army of Northern
Virginia from the Seven Days' Battles to Cold Harbor, except when it was with
Longstreet at Suffolk, in
Georgia, and at Knoxville. The regiment did not arrive in time to take part in the fight at Chickamauga. It was involved in the Petersburg siege south and north of
the James River and later the Appomattox Campaign. This unit had 411
effectives in April, 1862, lost 8 killed and 41 wounded during the Seven Days' Battles, and had 12
killed and 116 wounded at Second
Manassas. Its casualties at Gettysburg were more than fifty percent of
the 340 engaged. From April 14 to May 6, there were 105 disabled, and from August 1 to
December 31, 1864, it lost 63 killed or wounded. The regiment surrendered with 15 officers and
174 men. Its commanders were Colonels Benjamin Beck, E.R. Goulding, Edward F. Hoge, and
Richard A. Turnipseed; Lieutenant Colonels John C.L. Mounger, Sr., and John G. Webb; and
Majors John W. Arnold and William M. Jones.
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