Support Services - Provost Guard

[M E Wolf]

O.R.-- SERIES I--VOLUME XXXIV/3 [S# 63]
UNION CORRESPONDENCE, ORDERS, AND RETURNS RELATING TO OPERATIONS IN LOUISIANA AND THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI STATES AND TERRITORIES, FROM APRIL 1, 1864, TO MAY 22, 1864.--#10
LITTLE ROCK, ARK., April 21, 1864.
Maj. Gen. F. STEELE, Camden, Ark..
Your orders of the 17th and 18th instant received the morning of the 20th. I sent messengers to you on the 12th and 14th, with dispatches in relation to the supplies ordered by you on the 7th. Staff officers have been and are still hard at work arranging for trains, &c. I issued an order to Captain Carr to seize all horses and mules required to mount cavalry and fill up transportation, to pay loyal people, and exempt planters putting in crops as much as possible. Quite a large number of horses and mules will be brought in. The scarcity of animals caused by taking them for the train of 153 wagons sent from Pine Bluff required this order. Captain Carr thinks he will only be able to send between fifty and sixty wagons.

The Twelfth Michigan, Sixty-second and One hundred and sixth Illinois Infantry, and Fifth and Eleventh Ohio Batteries are designated by General Kimball as the troops to accompany the train, and will be commanded by General West, unless I get orders from you to the contrary before they start. Two hundred cavalry from Pine Bluff will be here to-morrow noon to accompany General West to Camden. This will make about 2,200 in all--infantry, artillery, and cavalry. I ordered them to start from here with five days cooked rations in haversacks, and ammunition and subsistence stores will be sent in proportion to the amount of transportation furnished by the quartermaster. Cannot send all carbines in arsenal.


All the transportation you can spare should be sent to Little Rock at once. Captain Cantine thinks, owing to uncertainty of navigation in the Arkansas, supplies should be sent from here. General West shows much zeal and energy, and I think he will take the troops and train through in good shape. They will get away Sunday morning. General Kimball wrote me a note this morning which I sent by Captain Dunham without comments. Dunham was asleep or resting all the time he was here, and had not time to see General Kimball, of which he spoke himself. I am hard at work all the time, but when anything comes from you I give my whole attention to it, in which I am ably and cheerfully seconded by all the staff officers.

The following explains itself:
Major-General STEELE:
Things are not going on here, I know, according to your liking. Send Manter here if you Can't come with him yourself.
C. P. BERTRAND.

The telegraph line has been down for some ten or twelve days. Your telegram to General Halleck was sent by express from Clarksville to Van Buren, and copies by mail to General Halleck and General Sherman. Veterans are impatient to go home; a few are going on individual furloughs. The Third Wisconsin Cavalry will start in a day or two, and will guard the Confederate prisoners now here, nearly 400, to some depot in the North.
Very respectfully, &c.,
W. D. GREEN,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS No. 19.
HDQRS. DETACH. 7TH ARMY CORPS,
Little Rock, Ark., April 21, 1864.
I. The Sixty-second Illinois, Twelfth Michigan, and One hundred and sixth Illinois Infantry Regiments and the Fifth and Eleventh Ohio Batteries will prepare to march at once, with five days' rations and 160 rounds of ammunition for the infantry and 400 rounds for the artillery to each piece. Each regiment will be allowed two wagons for transportation, and each battery one wagon. One hundred and twenty rounds of the ammunition for infantry and 200 rounds for artillery will be hauled in the train.

II. The Sixty-second Illinois, Twelfth Michigan, and One hundred and sixth Illinois Volunteer Infantry and the Fifth and Eleventh Ohio Independent Batteries will be designated a detachment of the Second Division, Seventh Army Corps. Brig. Gen. Joseph R. West is assigned to the command of the detachment. Commanding officers of the regiments and batteries above named will report to General West for orders without unnecessary delay.

By order Brig. Gen. N. Kimball:
E. D. MASON,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
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[M E Wolf]

O.R.-- SERIES I--VOLUME XXXIV/3 [S# 63]
UNION CORRESPONDENCE, ORDERS, AND RETURNS RELATING TO OPERATIONS IN LOUISIANA AND THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI STATES AND TERRITORIES, FROM APRIL 1, 1864, TO MAY 22, 1864.--#12
GENERAL ORDERS No. 12.
HDQRS. DETACH. 7TH ARMY CORPS,
Little Rock, Ark., April 26, 1864.

I. Pursuant to paragraphs IX and X of Special Orders, No. 85, from headquarters Department of Arkansas, dated the 25th instant, the undersigned hereby relieves Brig. Gen. Nathan Kimball, U.S. Volunteers, and assumes command of the "troops along and north of the line of the Arkansas River."

II. The following staff officers are announced: First Lieut. Samuel T. Brush, Eighteenth Illinois Infantry, acting assistant adjutant-general; First Lieut. Orland W. Barrett, One hundred and sixth Illinois Infantry, acting assistant quartermaster, chief quartermaster; First Lieut. John S. McClintock, Twenty-second Ohio Infantry, acting commissary of subsistence, chief commissary; First Lieut. Charles E. McDougall, Sixty-first Illinois Infantry, acting assistant inspect-or-general; Surg. Henry W. Davis, Eighteenth Illinois Infantry, chief of medical staff; First Lieut. J. Francisco Guirado, First Cavalry, California Volunteers, aide-de-camp; First Lieut. Eben C. Litherland, Fifteenth Illinois Cavalry, acting aide-de-camp. Communications to these headquarters will be addressed to Lieut. Samuel T. Brush, acting assistant adjutant-general. Communications on business relating to the staff departments must be addressed to the respective officers above announced to receive attention.

III. Orderly hours for citizens on business will be from 2.30 to 4 p.m. daily, Sundays excepted.
J. R. WEST,
Brigadier-General, U. S. Volunteers, Commanding.
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[M E Wolf]

O.R.-- SERIES I--VOLUME XXXIV/3 [S# 63]
UNION CORRESPONDENCE, ORDERS, AND RETURNS RELATING TO OPERATIONS IN LOUISIANA AND THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI STATES AND TERRITORIES, FROM APRIL 1, 1864, TO MAY 22, 1864.--#16
HDQRS. DETACHMENT SEVENTH ARMY CORPS,
Little Rock, Ark., May 1, 1864.
Col. DANIEL ANDERSON, Comdg. Post, Little Rock, Ark.:
COLONEL: The commanding general instructs me to say to you that you will cause Capt. Benjamin B. Pegram, One hundred and sixth Illinois Infantry, and 80 men from same regiment, to be sent out to the tan-yard to-morrow morning at 8 o'clock. They will remain there until otherwise ordered.
I am, colonel, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
SAM. T. BRUSH,
First Lieut., Eighteenth Illinois Infy., A. A. A. G.
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O.R.-- SERIES I--VOLUME XXXIV/3 [S# 63]
UNION CORRESPONDENCE, ORDERS, AND RETURNS RELATING TO OPERATIONS IN LOUISIANA AND THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI STATES AND TERRITORIES, FROM APRIL 1, 1864, TO MAY 22, 1864.--#20
LITTLE ROCK, May 7, 1864.
Col. O. WOOD,
Brownsville Station:
The One hundred and sixth Illinois Infantry, from Little Rock, and 60 cavalry from Devall's Bluff, are ordered to report to you.
Respectfully,
W. D. GREEN,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
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O.R.-- SERIES I--VOLUME XXXIV/3 [S# 63]
UNION CORRESPONDENCE, ORDERS, AND RETURNS RELATING TO OPERATIONS IN LOUISIANA AND THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI STATES AND TERRITORIES, FROM APRIL 1, 1864, TO MAY 22, 1864.--#28
HDQRS. SECOND DIVISION, SEVENTH ARMY CORPS,
Brownsville Station, May 20, 1864.
Col. W. H. GRAVES,
Commanding First Brigade:
COLONEL: The part of this division now here will move to-morrow morning at 6 o'clock, in the following order: The detachment of the Eighth Missouri Cavalry, under Lieutenant-Colonel Lisenby, is instructed to form front, flank, and rear guards. Infantry and artillery will move in column thus: Pioneer corps, with two companies of Twelfth Michigan Infantry as advance guard; the Twelfth Michigan Infantry, Marr's battery, the Fifty-fourth and Sixty-first Illinois Infantry, supply train of eight wagons, the One hundred and sixth Illinois Infantry, with two companies as rear guard.

You are charged with forming all the column, except the cavalry; that the command moves promptly at 6 a.m.; that company commanders, when the column is at the route step, march at the rear of their companies; that no straggling is permitted on any pretense whatever; that the usual halts are made for rest; that flankers of infantry are thrown out whenever necessary: that regimental ambulances accompany their regiments, and, finally, that the command be kept well together, ready at all moments for offense and defense.

I particularly enjoin upon you on all occasions to enforce quiet and to suffer no loud talking by the men. I do not fear the enemy, but I do disorder among ourselves; repress that and we have secured success.
I am, colonel, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
J. R. WEST,
Brigadier-General, Commanding.
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NOTE: This is unique as it documents "enforced quiet."

 

[M E Wolf]

O.R.-- SERIES I--VOLUME XXXIV/4 [S# 64]
UNION CORRESPONDENCE, ORDERS, AND RETURNS RELATING TO OPERATIONS IN LOUISIANA AND THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI STATES AND TERRITORIES, FROM MAY 23, 1864, TO JUNE 30, 1864.--# 6
BROWNSVILLE, ARK., May 31, 1864.
Capt. C. H. DYER,
Assistant Adjutant-General:
Be sure and send the One hundred and sixth Illinois to-day. There is fun ahead if the information that I have received is correct. One hundred of my men are just starting out, 10 a.m.
O. WOOD,
Colonel, Commanding.
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O.R.-- SERIES I--VOLUME XXXIV/4 [S# 64]
UNION CORRESPONDENCE, ORDERS, AND RETURNS RELATING TO OPERATIONS IN LOUISIANA AND THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI STATES AND TERRITORIES, FROM MAY 23, 1864, TO JUNE 30, 1864.--#20
HDQRS. SECOND DIVISION, SEVENTH ARMY CORPS,
Little Rock, Ark., June 21, 1864.
Lieut. Col. W. D. GREEN,
Assistant Adjutant-General:
COLONEL: I have the honor to request that the Third Regiment Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, the Sixty-second Illinois Volunteer Infantry, the Eleventh Ohio Battery, now at Pine Bluff also the One hundred and sixth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, now at Devall's Bluff, be ordered to this place. I make this request with a view of getting as much of the Second Division as practicable brought together. The division is now almost entirely detached and scattered, so that out of an aggregate of 11,000 troops not men enough are left under the orders of the division commander for a headquarters guard. And being aware that verbal requests of this nature have heretofore been without effect, I feel called upon to accompany the application with the following remarks: General Orders, No. 4, dated headquarters Division of West Mississippi, Natchez, Miss., May 23, 1864, provide that--

Commanders of departments and districts, after providing adequately for the security of the posts it is necessary to hold, are charged with the duty of organizing as large a reserve force for service in the field as possible. The troops to be employed on this duty will be selected from those that front organization and discipline will be the most effective, and will be organized and equipped with as little delay as possible.

The inference from this is that the troops selected for service in the field will be those that are the best organized and disciplined (which is perfectly reasonable), and that a character for superiority will, as a consequence, be attached to them. It is also highly probable that troops that are already stationed at detached posts and that remain will, by the force of circumstances if nothing else, be required to continue at such posts and not participate in the proposed "service in the field." A movement will likely be at short notice, and there will be little opportunity then to relieve troops at remote stations. These considerations, therefore, are conclusive in favor of this application, if it is proposed to include any of this division in the "reserve force for service in the field." Further than this, I will base my application on the ground of simple justice.

The Second Division, after hard service and great exposure in the Yazoo Valley, during the siege of Vicksburg, many of the regiments veterans already from Fort Donelson and Shiloh, came up to Arkansas and participated in the expedition which led to the capture of Little Rock. Its previous services entitled it to some consideration. But the most of it was very soon detached, and it has been kept detached at different posts, as many as six, ever since. All this time, only one regiment of the Third (now the First) Division has been detached. The consequence has been that the Second Division has not had its just and fair opportunities for organization, instruction, and discipline. When, therefore, inspectors and important military personages have visited the army, the Second Division has not been able to do justice to itself nor to its commander. So uniformly to keep this division detached, and so studiously to preserve the First Division together and intact, gives rise to the belief that this division does not stand with the commander of the department in good favor.


The fact that when the Third (now the First.) Division lost a brigade in the late campaign, one of the best brigades was taken from this division to supply its place, is an indication that this division is to be subordinate and secondary to that division, and that the First Division is to prosper at the expense of this. To have troops most efficient, they should be together some period of time in order to acquire an interest and pride in their organization. The good of the service, as well as justice, requires, therefore, that as many troops should be detached from one division as from another. In detaching troops from the Second Division, the rule has not been followed of keeping even a brigade together, but brigades have been widely detached. I will cheerfully submit to all the inconveniences which the exigencies of the service and the natural and reasonable course of things require, but I cannot patiently submit to what I regard as a systematic policy which is injurious to this division, and which has all the effects of injustice.

I earnestly hope that this application may receive favorable attention, and am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
C. C. ANDREWS,
Brigadier-General, Commanding.
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O.R.--SERIES I--VOLUME XLI/2 [S# 84]
UNION CORRESPONDENCE, ORDERS, AND RETURNS RELATING TO OPERATIONS IN LOUISIANA AND THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI STATES AND TERRITORIES, FROM JULY 1, 1864, TO AUGUST 31, 1864.--#8
DEVALL'S BLUFF. July 14, 1864---8 a.m.
Capt. C. H. DYER,
Assistant Adjutant General, Little Rock:
The One hundred and sixth Illinois left on cars for Brownsville at 5 a.m. Colonel Trumbull, with between 200 and 300 men, at the same hour started for the road leading from Brownsville to De Witt.
C. C. ANDREWS,
Brigadier-General.
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O.R.--SERIES I--VOLUME XLI/2 [S# 84]
UNION CORRESPONDENCE, ORDERS, AND RETURNS RELATING TO OPERATIONS IN LOUISIANA AND THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI STATES AND TERRITORIES, FROM JULY 1, 1864, TO AUGUST 31, 1864.--#32

SPECIAL ORDERS No. 61.
HDQRS. DISTRICT OF LITTLE ROCK,
Little Rock, Ark., August 21, 1864.
I. The One hundred and sixth and One hundred and twenty-sixth Illinois Infantry, under command of Maj. John M. Hurt, One hundred and sixth Illinois Infantry, will proceed to Pine Bluff and report to Col. Powell Clayton, commanding post.
By order of Brig. Gen. E. A. Carr:
C. H. DYER,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
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[M E Wolf]

O.R.--SERIES I--VOLUME XLI/2 [S# 84]
UNION CORRESPONDENCE, ORDERS, AND RETURNS RELATING TO OPERATIONS IN LOUISIANA AND THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI STATES AND TERRITORIES, FROM JULY 1, 1864, TO AUGUST 31, 1864.--#33
LITTLE ROCK, ARK., August 24, 1864.
Lieut. Col. G. MOYERS,
Commanding, Brownsville, Ark.:
I send Colonel Engelmann with 700 infantry. He is a reliable officer and will of course assume command of the cavalry, if, as I presume, you are the senior officer of that arm, and move out and attack the enemy. The Ninth Kansas Cavalry will reach you early in the morning, commanded by a lieutenant-colonel whose date is in October, 1861. It numbers 700, said to be good fighters. I will send 300 or 400 Tenth Illinois and Third Michigan Cavalry, to start at daylight and go on the north side of the railroad to Brownsville, under orders issued in anticipation of the present state of affairs. General Andrews will march with his whole disposable force and attack the enemy vigorously. We must do the same from this side. Load the train now at Brownsville with non-combatants, particularly the sick of the One hundred and sixth [Illinois], and send it in on the arrival of Engelmann's train. The enemy may not improbably try to attract your attention in front, while they get between you and us. If they move off they must be pursued with vigor.
E. A. CARR,
Brigadier-General, Commanding.
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NOTE: Seems that a sickness took hold of the 106th Illinois.

 

[M E Wolf]

O.R.--SERIES I--VOLUME XLI/3 [S# 85]
UNION CORRESPONDENCE, ORDERS, AND RETURNS RELATING TO OPERATIONS IN LOUISIANA AND THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI STATES AND TERRITORIES, FROM SEPTEMBER 1, 1864, TO OCTOBER 15, 1864.(*)--#13
LITTLE ROCK, ARK., September 23, 1864--7 p.m.
Brig. Gen. POWELL CLAYTON,
Pine Bluff:
Brigadier-General Andrews reports that a detail for teamsters which was referred to the One hundred and twenty-sixth Illinois and One hundred and sixth Illinois Infantry, by Lieutenant-Colonel Thrall, commanding brigade, was countermanded by you and that you directed that the order should not be complied with. The brigadier-general commanding wishes to know if such are the facts. The detail for teamsters must be filled at once.
By order of Brig. Gen. E. A. Carr:
C. H. DYER,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
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O.R.--SERIES I--VOLUME XLI/4 [S# 86]
UNION CORRESPONDENCE, ORDERS, AND RETURNS RELATING TO OPERATIONS IN LOUISIANA AND THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI STATES AND TERRITORIES, FROM OCTOBER 16, 1864, to DECEMBER 31, 1864.(*)--#24
GENERAL ORDERS No. 1.
HDQRS. 2D BRIG., 2D DIV., 7TH A. C.,
Little Rock, Ark., November 16, 1864.
1. In obedience to Special Orders, No. 178, from headquarters Second Division, Seventh Army Corps, the undersigned hereby assumes command of the Second Brigade of said division, with headquarters temporarily at Little Rock, Ark.
2. First Lieut. E. J. Tremble, Sixty-second Illinois Veteran Volunteer Infantry, is hereby announced as acting assistant adjutant-general, and First Lieut. S. H. Blanc, One hundred and sixth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, as brigade quartermaster. They will be obeyed and respected as such.
3. Commanders of regiments and detachments will forward their reports to the acting assistant adjutant-general at this place until otherwise ordered.
THOMAS H. BENTON,
Colonel Twenty-ninth Iowa Infantry Volunteers.
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Reorganization .....

O.R.--SERIES I--VOLUME XLVIII/1 [S# 101]
UNION CORRESPONDENCE, ORDERS, AND RETURNS RELATING TO OPERATIONS IN LOUISIANA AND THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI STATES AND TERRITORIES, FROM JANUARY 1, 1865, TO MARCH 31, 1865.(*)--#14
GENERAL ORDERS No. 14.
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS,
Little Rock, Ark., February 1, 1865.
The following organization of the infantry of the Seventh Army Corps is announced, viz:

FIRST DIVISION.
Headquarters at Little Rock. Brig. Gen. F. Salomon, commanding.
First Brigade.--Ninth Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers, Thirty-sixth Iowa Infantry Volunteers, Fortieth Iowa Infantry Volunteers, Forty-third Illinois Infantry Volunteers.

Second Brigade.--Eleventh U. S. Colored Infantry, Fifty-seventh U.S. Colored Infantry, Eighty-third U.S. Colored Infantry, One hundred and thirteenth U.S. Colored Infantry, Fifty-fourth U.S. Colored Infantry, Seventy-ninth U.S. Colored Infantry, One hundred and twelfth U.S. Colored Infantry.

SECOND DIVISION.
Headquarters at Devall's Bluff. Brig. Gen. A. Shaler, commanding.
First Brigade.--Third Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, Fifty-fourth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, Twelfth Michigan Volunteer Infantry.

Second Brigade.--Sixty-second Illinois Volunteer Infantry, One hundred and twenty-sixth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, One hundred and sixth Illinois Volunteer Infantry.

THIRD DIVISION.
Headquarters at Fort Smith. Brig. Gen. J. M. Thayer, commanding.

First Brigade.--Eighteenth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, Second Arkansas Volunteer Infantry, Thirteenth Kansas Volunteer Infantry, First Arkansas Volunteer Infantry, Twelfth Kansas Volunteer Infantry.

Second Brigade.--Second Kansas Volunteer Cavalry (dismounted), Fourteenth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry (dismounted), Sixth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry (dismounted), First Arkansas Volunteer Cavalry (dismounted).

Third Brigade.--First Indian Home Guard, Third Indian Home Guard, Second Indian Home Guard.

Detached Brigade (Brig. Gen. E. A. Carr, commanding; headquarters in the field).--Fiftieth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, Twenty-seventh Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, Twenty-eighth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, Twenty-ninth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, Thirty-third Iowa Volunteer Infantry, Seventy-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

By command of Maj. Gen. J. J. Reynolds:
JOHN LEVERING,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
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No more shows up about the 106th Illinois. Seems to me the 106th Illinois was most versatile. Provost Guards, railroad guards, lovestock and tanning yard guards, post guards, going on expeditions, traveled most times by railroad. Had good officers for the most part. Mainly out in Arkansas -- a battle theater that doesn't get much attention.

M. E. Wolf

 

[Barnesville Blues]

Very interesting subject. I had a very distant cousin who was 2nd Junior Lieutenant in Company B, 25th Battalion Georgia Infantry (Provost Guard)...I have never bothered to research them because I have to much other items on my plat but would be interested to know which division/Corps/brigade they served.

 

[M E Wolf]

Barnsville_Blues:

O.R.-- SERIES I--VOLUME XIV [S# 20]
CORRESPONDENCE, ORDERS, AND RETURNS RELATING SPECIALLY TO THE OPERATIONS ON THE COASTS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA, AND MIDDLE AND EAST FLORIDA FROM APRIL 12, 1862, TO JUNE 11, 1863.
CONFEDERATE CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.--#1
Military organizations in the Department of South Carolina and Georgia, April 30, 1862; Maj. Gen. John C. Pemberton, C. S. Army, commanding.(*)
DISTRICT OF GEORGIA.
Brig. Gen. ALEXANDER R. LAWTON commanding.
First Brigade.
Brig. Gen. W. D. Smith.
31st Georgia.
38th Georgia.
39th [30th] Georgia.
4th Georgia Battalion.
7th Georgia Battalion.
2d Georgia Cavalry Battalion. Georgia Hussars, Company B.
4th Louisiana Battalion.
Chatham (Ga.) Artillery.
Terrell (Ga.) Artillery.

Second Brigade.
Brig. Gen. H. W. MERCER.
1st Ga. (Vols.), Lieut. Col.W.S. Rockwell.
13th Georgia, Col. Marcellus Douglass.
25th Georgia, Col. C. C. Wilson.
26th Georgia, Col. C. W. Styles.
29th Georgia, Col. William J. Young.
50th Georgia, Col. W. R. Manning.
3d Ga. Cav. Bat'n, Maj. D. L. Clinch.
8th Georgia Battalion, Capt. Isaac Davis.
11th Georgia Battalion, Lieut. Col. G.W.M. Williams.
Savannah Volunteer Guards, Capt. W. S. Basinger.
Chatham Light Horse, Capt. R. F. Akin Effingham Hussars, Capt. Edward Bird. Hardwick Mounted Rifles, Capt. J. L. McAllister.
Georgia Lt. Art., Co. D, Capt. Jacob Read.
Staunton Hill (Va,) Art., Capt. C. Bruce.
Maj. E. C. Anderson's command.
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O.R.-- SERIES I--VOLUME XIV [S# 20]
CORRESPONDENCE, ORDERS, AND RETURNS RELATING SPECIALLY TO THE OPERATIONS ON THE COASTS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA, AND MIDDLE AND EAST FLORIDA FROM APRIL 12, 1862, TO JUNE 11, 1863.
CONFEDERATE CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.--#5
MILITARY DISTRICT OF GEORGIA.
Brig. Gen. H. W. MERCER commanding.
8th Georgia Battalion, Lieutenant-Colonel
25th Georgia (company), Captain Smith.
39th [30th] Georgia, Col. D. J.] Bailey.
47th Georgia, Company I, Captain Hines.
50th Georgia, Col. W. R. Manning.
54th Georgia, Col. C. H. Way.
[32d] Georgia, Col. [G. P.] Harrison.
Battalion Savannah Guards, Maj. J. Soreyen.
Liberty Guards, Captain Hughes.
Tatnall Guards, Captain Davenport.
2d Battalion Georgia Cavalry, Lieutenant-Colonel Bird.
De Kalb Rifles, Captain Hartridge.
Effingham Hussars, Captain Strobhar.
Hardwick Mounted Rifles, Captain McAllister.
Lamar Rangers, Captain Brailsford.
Liberty Independent Troop, Captain Walthour
Mcintosh Cavalry, Capt. O. Hopkins.
Partisan Rangers (battalion), Major Millen.
Partisan Rangers (company), Captain Banks.
Cavalry south of Altamaha, Major Clinch.
13th Georgia Battalion, Maj. [G. A.] Gordon.
Chestatee Artillery, Captain Bomar.
Columbus Light Artillery, Captain Croft.
Joe Thompson Artillery, Captain Hanleiter.
Light Battery Artillery, Captain Martin.
Light Battery, Company D, First Georgia Regulars, Captain
Terrell Light Artillery, Captain Dawson.
River batteries, Lieutenant-Colonel Anderson.
Fort Jackson, Captain Anderson.
[Irish Jasper Greens, Company B, Captain O'Connor.)
Troops, Carston's Bluff, Colonel Wilson
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O.R.-- SERIES I--VOLUME XXX/2 [S# 51]
AUGUST 16-SEPTEMBER 22, 1863.--The Chickamauga Campaign.
No. 323.--Report of Col. Claudius C. Wilson, Twenty-fifth Georgia Infantry, commanding brigade.
HEADQUARTERS WILSON'S BRIGADE,
Mission Ridge, October 1, 1863.
CAPTAIN: It was not until 1 o'clock on Friday night, the 18th instant [ultimo], that my brigade succeeded in crossing Shallow Ford, on the Chickamauga River, the road having been blocked up by the wagons and artillery trains of the brigades and divisions which preceded us on the march. We bivouacked on the west side of the river that night prepared to follow our division on the next day's march.

The ordnance train of the division not having succeeded in crossing Friday night, I was directed by special order from division headquarters to remain with the train, holding my brigade as a guard until it had crossed, and then to rejoin the division. I immediately detached the Thirtieth Georgia Regiment and sent it to the ford as a guard to that portion of the train that had not crossed, and to furnish fatigue parties to help forward disabled or stalled wagons, having first reconnoitered the position and thrown out two companies on each road leading to the ford to guard against surprise by the enemy.

About 9 a.m. the whole train had crossed and was put in motion, with the Twenty-fifth Georgia Regiment and a section of the battery ahead as an advance guard and the rest of the brigade in rear. In this order we had marched about 2 miles from the ford to the intersection of the road from Alexander's Bridge with the road to Lee and Gordon's Mills, when I received from one of General Forrest's staff an order from division headquarters directing me to go with General Forrest and obey his orders. The train was thereupon sent forward alone, and the brigade filed to the right on the Alexander's Bridge road, conducted by the staff officer who had brought me the order. One company, however, of the Thirtieth Georgia Regiment, which had been thrown out as skirmishers from the ford, had not yet overtaken the regiment, and did not until the fight was over, but fell in on the left of General Ector's brigade and behaved gallantly, as I am informed, during the engagement of that day. This was Company B, Capt. R. M. Hitch.

[excerpt]
This brigade entered the fight with an effective force of 1,200 men, and lost during the two days' fighting 99 killed, 426 wounded, and 80 missing. Of the number missing many were wounded and fell into the enemy's hands, but were recaptured with the field hospital he had established near the battle-field. Of the number wounded several have since died, among them Lieut. Col. A. J. Williams, commanding the Twenty-fifth Georgia Regiment, a brave and gallant officer, to whom much praise is due for his conduct on the field. He fell at his post and in the efficient discharge of his duties.

A list of killed and wounded officers having been furnished, I deem it unnecessary to embody it in this report. I may be permitted to say, however, that among them were numbered the bravest, the truest, and the best.

Where all behaved so well it would be invidious to draw distinctions. I know of no instance in which any officer shrunk from the discharge of his duty, and in mentioning a few who fell under my own observation, I do not mean to disparage those who did not.

I notice as worthy of commendation the cases of Capts. A. W. and A. H. Smith, of the Twenty-fifth Georgia Regiment, and Captain Spencer, of the Twenty-ninth Georgia Regiment; Lieuts. Alfred Bryan and N. B. Sadler, First Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters, who, notwithstanding they were wounded, remained with their commands through the fight and discharged their duties to the end.

[extensive excerpt - not germane to 25th Georgia, Co. "B"]

I am, captain, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
C. C. WILSON,
Colonel, Commanding Brigade.
Capt. Jos. B. CUMMING,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
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O.R.-- SERIES I--VOLUME XXXVIII/4 [S# 75]
CONFEDERATE CORRESPONDENCE, ORDERS, AND RETURNS RELATING TO OPERATIONS IN THE ATLANTA CAMPAIGN, FROM MAY 1, 1864, TO JUNE 30, 1864.--#6
SPECIAL ORDERS No. 147.
ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Richmond, June 24, 1864.
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XI. The Fifty-fourth Regiment Alabama Volunteers, of Col. Thomas M. Scott's brigade, of Loring's division, is transferred to Brig. Gen. Alpheus Baker's brigade, of Stewart's division, Army of Tennessee.
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XXIII. The Twenty-fifth Georgia Battalion (provost guard), commanded by Lieut. Col. G. W. Lee, is disbanded. The men liable to conscription will be turned over to the nearest enrolling officer, and those liable to enrollment in the reserve force will be turned over to Maj. Gen. Howell Cobb, commanding reserves.

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By command of the Secretary of War:

SAML. W. MELTON,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
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O.R.--SERIES IV--VOLUME III [S# 129]
CORRESPONDENCE, ORDERS, REPORTS, AND RETURNS OF THE CONFEDERATE AUTHORITIES FROM JANUARY 1, 1864, TO THE END.--#13
HEADQUARTERS GEORGIA RESERVES,
Macon, April 19, 1864.
General S. COOPER,
Adjutant and Inspector General, Richmond, Va.:
GENERAL: In accordance with directions from the Adjutant and Inspector General's Office, I have the honor to inform you that the regiments and battalions on the inclosed list herewith returned, with the exceptions of the First, Second, and Twenty-third Battalions, formed the late Georgia State Guard, and were mustered out of service on or about the 4th day of February, 1864, their term of enlistment having expired. The First and Second Battalions are accounted for on the list. The Twenty-third is composed of the employes at the Athens Armory, and has never formed a part of my command. Brig. Gens. A. Iverson and H. R. Jackson served with me and reported through me to the Department on March 3, 1864, as my letter to you of that date will show. General Iverson has since been assigned to the command of a brigade of cavalry in the Army of Tennessee, and General Jackson was assigned to duty with my present command on April 6, 1864, by orders from your office.
I am, general, very respectfully and truly, yours, &c.,
HOWELL COBB,
Major-General, Commanding.
[Inclosure.]
List of Georgia State organizations.
1st Regiment Infantry, Col. W. H. Dabney.
2d Regiment Cavalry, Col. John B. Willcoxon.
3d Regiment Cavalry, Col. Robert Toombs.
4th Regiment Cavalry, Col. Robert White.
5th Regiment Infantry, Col. W. L. Salisbury.
6th Regiment Infantry, Col. W. A. Lofton.
7th Regiment Infantry, Col. G. N. Lester.
8th Regiment Infantry, Col. J. T. Henderson.
9th Regiment Infantry, Col. P. H. Mell.
10th Regiment Cavalry,Col. J. J. Floyd.
11th Regiment Infantry, Col. A. T. McIntyre.
12th Regiment Infantry, Col. W. H. Robinson.
Floyd Legion, Col. James G. Yeiser.
Cherokee Legion, Col. James E. Rusk.
1st Battalion Infantry, Lieut. Col. J. B. Oliveros.(a)
2d Battalion Infantry (no field officers).(a)
3d Battalion Infantry, Lieut. Col. G. W. Lee.
4th Battalion Infantry, Maj. A. Whitehead.
5th Battalion Infantry, Maj. W. A. Wilson.
6th Battalion Cavalry, Lieut. Col. A. B. Culberson.
7th Battalion Cavalry, Maj. Linton Stephens.
8th Battalion Cavalry, Maj. J. T. Stephens.
9th Battalion Cavalry, Maj. William Phillips.
10th Battalion Mounted Infantry, Maj. H. F. Price.
11th Battalion Infantry, Maj. John Cooper.
12th Battalion Cavalry, Maj. T. R. Stewart.
13th Battalion Infantry, Maj. C. C. Yarborough.
14th Battalion Infantry, Maj. J. E. Jones.
15th Battalion Cavalry, Lieut. Col. E. T. Jon
16th Battalion Cavalry, Maj. D. M.West.
17th Battalion Infantry, Maj. J. W. McGee.
18th Battalion Infantry, Lieut. Col. Charles A. Piatt.
19th Battalion Infantry, Lieut. Col. D. B. Thompson.
20th Battalion Infantry, Maj. H. G. Wright.
21st Battalion Infantry, Maj. J. B. Kenedy.
22d Battalion Infantry, Lieut. Col. N. A. Carswell.
23d Battalion Infantry, Maj. F. W. C. Cook.
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It may very well be, that under Lieutenant-Colonel G. W. Lee that the 25th Georgia Infantry being in Richmond, was detailed as Provost Guard until they were mustered out in February 1864.

M. E. Wolf