The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-16
TWELVE MEN CUT OFF.
THIRD GEORGIA VETERANS.
A Delegation to Arrive in Savannah
Tonight En- Route North.

A Delegation to Arrive in Savannah
Tonight En- Route North.
A delegation Of survivors of the famous
Third Georgia regiment will arrive in
Savannah to night in charge OF Col
Claiborne Snead of Augusta and Maj R.
L. McWhorter Of Greene county, en- route
to New York to attend the annual reunion
of the Hawkins Zouaves the Ninth New
York regiment which takes place in that
city April 10.
The delegation will consist of representa-
tives of the various companies composing
the Third Georgia, about twenty in all
1t will be remembered that this
regiment entertained delegation
Of the ZOuaves at Its Fort Valley reunion, In
1889, and the veterans go to return the visit.
The Zouaves and Third Georgia met in the
field Of battle several times during the war,
where they learned to respect each other i,
and since the return Of peace a close friend
ship has existed Gen. e. NJ Sorrei Of this
city commanded the brigade Of which the
Third Georgia formed part.
The veterans will stop at the Screven
house while here, and tomorrow morning
they will sail for New York on the City of
Augusta. Capt. A. a, VIM, secretary Of
the Third Georgia Veterans Association,
extends cordial invitation to the confeder-
army of the republic to call on the surviV-
ors Of the gallant old regiment.
The Houayes, whom passing through as
the Third GeOrgia's guests, were honored,
and Capt VIM wants tho veterans to be
able to say Hencock post did not allow them
to go through unnoticed.
The Third Georgia regiment has a proud
history. 1t was mustered into service
April &C. 1861. 1t was among the first
to E,o,, F,o
soil. For some months this regiment was
stationed at the navy yard at Portsmouth,
then on Roanoke Island and ChicamicoDico,
and at South Mills, N. G.. At the latter
place, on April 10, 1862 they first made the
acquaintance of the Hawkins ZouaYes.
Gen. Burnside ordered Gen. Reno to fit
out au expedition to cross from Elizabeth
City and proceed by the way of Camden
and South Mills. n. c., for the purpose of
blowing up the locks of the Dismal Swan D
canal. Gen. Reno selected five regiments,
with artillery and cavalry, for this purpose,
and placed Col. Rush G. Hawkins Of the
Ninth New York Volunteers the Hawkins
Zouave5), in command,
Col Ambrose b. Wright, then command
ing the Third Georgia regiment, had with
him mis- own regiment, one battery OF artil~
lery, company Of North Carolina infantry
and cavalry, both unframed militia. This
was the only force to oppose the federal
invasion, but it proved to be q
stubborn one. Col. Wright, as soon as
Informed that the enemy were marching
on South Mills from Camden, Sc
lected five companies of the Third
Georgia and marched about three miles out
from South Mills, chose a position AID
quietly awaited the approach of the enemy.
Without any entrenchmens or breast
works, these five companies of the Third
Georgia, supplemented later by another
company from the same regiment, kept at
bay the full brigade of federals, and finally
forced them TO retire from the field and
abandon the expedition. This was named
by Col. Wright the battle OF Sawyer's Lane
by the federals the battle Of Camden.
The Zouaves and the Third Georgia met
on other fields, the most notable being
Sharpsburg, where both commands, con-
tending for the possession OF a stone wall,
met with severe loss.