CONFEDERATE GEORGIA TROOPS
60th Regiment, Georgia Infantry
- Overview:
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60th Infantry Regiment was organized during the spring of 1862 at Savannah, Georgia, by
adding four companies to Stiles' 4th Georgia Battalion. Ths battalion had been formed during the
summer of 1861 with six companies and served at Hilton Head. The men were recruited in the
counties of Walker, Fannin, Whitfield, Bartow, Gilmer, and Dooly. Ordered to Virginia in May, it
was placed under the command of Generals Lawton, John B. Gordon, and C.A. Evans. The 60th
was active in the campaigns to the Army of Northern Virginia from the Seven Days' Battles to Cold Harbor, then was involved in
Early's Shenandoah Valley operations and the Appomattox Campaign. This regiment
reported 42 casualties at Second
Manassas, 59 at Sharpsburg, 78 at Fredericksburg, and 35 at Chancellorsville. It lost 6 killed and 16
wounded at Second Winchester
and about fifteen percent of the 299 at Gettysburg. On April 9, 1865, it
surrendered with 5 officers and 85 men. The field officers were Colonels Waters B. Jones and
William H. Stiles, Sr., and Lieutenant Colonel Thomas J. Berry.
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