Georgia 1st Cavalry Battalion Reserves
HISTORICAL NOTES:
These men were primarily older men and young boys who were “honorably” a part of the 1st Battalion in peace time, but unfit for service when the war came.
When the 1864 State Militia census was performed, many of these names appear.
… In 1861 actual hosti1ities began, & early in the summer all volunteer companies seeing the necessity for active preparation, the Troops went into an encampment at Hester's Bluff, near Sunbury in the month of August [1861] for the purpose of drilling, & doing picket duty on the coast.
The reserve units were called out in advance of Sherman’s invasion in 1864 and they are named often in the battles around Atlanta, Stoneman’s Raid, Griswoldville, Waynesboro, Savannah, and the Carolina’s Campaign. Many of these records are quite spotty and the particular units are not identified, but it is clear that they served arduous duty for that last year and a half of the war and they surrendered with Johnston in North Carolina in April, 1865.
FIELD OFFICERS:
ASSIGNMENTS:
SERVICE:
The Atlanta Campaign
The Carolinas Campaign
ROSTERS:
Roll # CSR-7 Surnames M-Z
Sifikas states that this battalion consisted of four companies. The men were from the counties of Effingham, Screven, Liberty, Bulloch, Lamar, and McIntosh.
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REFERENCES:
Dornbush - Military Bibliography of the Civil War
Sifakis - The Compendium of the Confederate Armies