CONFEDERATE GEORGIA TROOPS
10th Regiment, Georgia Infantry
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10th Infantry Regiment was organized at Jonesboro, Georgia, in June, 1861, and in July
moved to Virginia. Its companies were recruited in the counties of Clayton, Chattahoochee, De
Kalb, Wilcox, Bibb, Richmond, Fayette, and Pulaski. During the war it was assigned to General
Semmes', Bryan's, and Simms' Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia. The 10th fought on many
battlefields of the army from the Seven Days' Battles to Gettysburg, then moved with Longstreet to
Georgia but was not engaged at Chickamauga. After the Knoxville Campaign it returned to
Virginia and saw action at The
Wilderness, Spotsylvania,
and Cold Harbor. Later the
regiment was involved in Early's Shenandoah Valley operations and the Appomattox Campaign. It lost seventeen
percent of the 345 engaged at Savage
Station, thirty-four percent of the 174 at Crampton's Gap, and fifty-six percent of
the 148 at Sharpsburg. Its
casualties were 23 killed and 105 wounded at Chancellorsville, and of the 303 who saw
action at Gettysburg, thirty-two percent were killed, wounded, or missing. Only 2 officers and 48
men surrendered in April, 1865. The field officers were Colonels Alfred Cumming, Willis C.
Holt, Andrew J. McBride, and John B. Weems; Lieutenant Colonel Charles C. Kibbee; and
Majors Richard R. Hawes and Philologus H. Loud.
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