CONFEDERATE GEORGIA TROOPS
13th Regiment, Georgia Infantry
- Overview:
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13th Infantry Regiment [also called Bartow Light Infantry] completed its organization in
June, 1861, at Griffin, Georgia. Its members were recruited in the counties of Pike, Randolph,
Early, Muscogee, Meriwether, Fayette, and Troup. This regiment first served in Western
Virginia, then in December was ordered to Charleston, South Carolina, where it reported to
General R.E. Lee. During the spring it fought at Whitemarch Island and soon moved back to
Virginia. Brigaded under Generals Lawton, John B. Gordon, and C.A. Evans, it served with the
Army of Northern Virginia from the Seven Days' Battles to Cold Harbor. The regiment was then
involved in Early's Shenandoah Valley operations and the Appomattox Campaign. The unit lost 9
killed and 19 wounded at Second
Manassas, had 48 killed and 166 wounded at Sharpsburg, and sustained 13 casualties at
Second Winchester. Of the 312
engaged at Gettysburg, more than forty percent were disabled. It surrendered 12 officers and 161
men. The field officers were Colonel John H. Baker, Marcellus Douglass, Walton Ector, and
James M. Smith; Lieutenant Colonels S.W. Jones and Richard Maltbie; and Majors James A.
Long and John L. Moore.
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