The 13th Georgia Volunteer Infantry

Company C, 13th Regiment

A Regimental History

13^th Georgia Volunteer Infantry

Confederate States of America (CSA)

A Regimental History

 

Mustered into service, July 8, 1861 at Griffin, GA, served with Floyd's Brigade in West Virginia, reassigned to Lawton's Brigade at Savannah, arriving January 1, 1862, reorganized May 1862.

Company A - Confederate Guards (Pike County)

Company B - Meriwether Volunteers (Meriwether and Troup Counties)

Company C - Ringgold Rangers (Ringgold, Georgia and Spalding County)  [muster roll]

Company D - Upson Volunteers (Upson County)

Company E - Randolph Volunteers (Randolph and Terrell Counties)

Company F - Fayette Rangers (Fayette County)

Company G - Early Guards (Early County)

Company H - Panola Rifles (Terrell County)

Company I - Stark Volunteers (Spalding County)

Company K - Evans Guards (Troup County)

When the Thirteenth regiment of Georgia volunteers was organized as follows:

• Walker Ector - colonel

• Marcellus Douglass - lieutenant-colonel

• James M. Smith - major

• O.K. Walker - adjutant

• J. H. Mangham - commissary

• M. Gormerly - quartermaster

The captains were:

•  J. H. Mitchell - Company A

• James McCallay - Company B

• J. L. Moore - Company C

• W. W. Hartsfield - Company D

• W. A. Clark followed by B. P. Brooks - Company E

• S. W. Jones - Company F

• J. T. Crawford - Company G

• Richard Maltby - Company H

• E. W. Robinson - Company I

• J. A. Long - Company K

This regiment served in 1861 in West Virginia; in December of that year was sent to Gen. R. E. Lee, then commanding at Charleston; in the spring of 1862 served on the Georgia coast with distinction on Whitemarsh Island, and was sent back to Virginia with Lawton's brigade in time to take part in the Seven Days' battles. From that time it served in the army of Northern Virginia until the close of the war. Upon the death of Colonel Ector early in 1862, Marcellus Douglass was appointed colonel. He was killed at Sharpsburg while gallantly leading his regiment and was succeeded by James M. Smith. John H. Baker, at that time major of the regiment, was promoted to lieutenant-colonel and afterward was commissioned colonel.

Bibliography -13th Georgia Infantry

Confederate Military History, Extended Edition. Vol. 7: Georgia. Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot,
1987.  See pp. 35-36  for a brief unit history.

Crute, Joseph H., Jr. Units of the Confederate States Army. Midlothian, VA: Derwent Books,
1987. Ref. See pp. 93-94 for a concise summary of the regiment's service.

Georgia State Division of Confederate Pensions and Records. Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, l86l-l865. Vol. 2. Hapeville, GA: Longino & Porter, 1959. pp. 245-338. Unit roster.

Jones, Charles E. Georgia in the War, 1861-1866. Atlanta, GA: Foot & Davies, 1909. E559.4J76.
See p. 26 for an incomplete list of unit officers. 

Scaife, William R. The Georgia Brigade. Atlanta, GA: By the Author, 1988.

Sifakis, Stewart. Compendium of the Confederate Armies:...Georgia. NY: Facts on File, 1995.
pp. 210-12