CONFEDERATE GEORGIA TROOPS
61st Regiment, Georgia Infantry
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61st Infantry Regiment [also called 26th Regiment] was assembled at Charleston, South
Carolina, in May, 1862. It was formed by using the 7th Georgia Battalion as its nucleus. The
men were from the counties of Irwin, Tattnall, Brooks, Bulloch, Montgomery, Bibb, Quitman,
and Wilkes. Ordered north in June, the unit arrived at Petersburg, Virginia, with 1,000 officers
and men. During the war it was brigaded under Generals Lawton, John B. Gordon, and C.A.
Evans, Army of Northern Virginia. It participated in many conflicts from the Seven Days' Battles
to Cold Harbor, went with Early
to the Shenandoah Valley, then fought in numerous engagements around Appomattox. This regiment sustained 36
casualties at Gaines' Mill, 63 at
Second Manassas, 114 at Sharpsburg, and 100 at Fredericksburg. It lost thirty-seven percent
of the 288 at Gettysburg and
sixty-five percent of 150 at Monocacy. The 61st surrendered with no
officers and 81 men, of which only 49 were armed. Its commanders were Colonel John H. Lamar;
Lieutenant Colonels Charles W. McArthur and James Y. McDuffie; and Majors Peter Brenan,
Archibald P. MacRae, Henry Tillman, and James D. Van Valkenburg.
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