The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-29
THE SIXTH GA. RESERVES.
How the Regiment Was Organ
lied.

lied.
The Morning News: Please allow one
who was with the command from start to
finish to point out a few minor errors in
your otherwise correct account of the
Sixth Georgia Reserves in your issue of
the Path.
The regiment was organized under a
Confederate call for troops. not a state
law of any kind, but for state defense.
therefore was not under the control of
Gov. Brown.
The three first companies organized was
known as siege artillery and formed a bat
talon under the command of Maj. w. r.
Symons; these three companies were in
cluded in the list of companies published
in the Morning News of the 22nd and were
sworn into the Confederate service for the
war by Lieut.. Tappy, the then conscript
officer, a the corner of Broughton and
Bull streets.
In a short time other companies were
organized in this section of the state and
were added 20 this battalion, which be-
came the Sixth Georgia Reserves, Mai.
Symons being elected colonel of the regi-
ment The letters of the companies were
changed. of course, as officers were pro-
NOTED, Maj. Cunningham having been
| elected major. his old command became
* of the regiment, under Capt J. r.
Johnson; under this officer the writer
served.
Those who were in Gen. Johnston
army remember that in North Carolina
the skeleton regiments were CONSOLIDATE
ed under an act of the Confederate Con-
| gress.
The Sixth Georgia Reserves, and if my
memory serves me correctly the Forty
seventh Georgia. Maj Bonaus battalion,
and some other battalion were merged in
| to the First Georgia Regulars The Off
| GERS of the Sixth Georgia Reserves, who
| were not assigned TO a position in the
regulars and some others of the regi-
ment were ordered to report at Augusta
and perhaps the end came before this rem
nant of the command reached their ma
| tive state.
At Branchville. in South Carolina, Capt.
| JohnSons company-k- was detailed as
the provost guard of McLaws' division,
and continued to discharge this duty until
| the breaking up of the regiment at Smith
| field, as mentioned above. In addition 10
the companies captured at Fort McAllis-
| ter and at the magazine, il was the lot of
| one-half of Company K 10 be captured by
| Kfpatrick's scouts near Fayetteville. in
North Carolina. We were in the pen"
one night only, for during the night Gen.
| Wheeler surrounded the enemy, and sur
prised the sleeping federals the next morn
! ing The prison camp in which we
we're confined was on the road that the
| Fifth Georgia Cavalry charged up, though
between the fire Of two armies we all
| escaped safely l believe | am the only
one now alive OF Company K who wit
messed that fight
Perhaps it may be of service to some old
command or historian to say that I have
| in an old war scrap book the roll of the
| following companies: Oglethorpe Light In
fantry. Companies A. 3; Georgia Forces
| tiers. Capt w W. Bnlupp; Berrien Minute
Men. Capt. L. j. Knight; Townsville
| Guards. Capt. c. s. Rockwell; Ochlocknee
! Light Infantry. Capt w. L Young; Macon
| Guards, Capt L. NJ. Lamar; Hancock
Volunteers, Capt. T. s Smith; Mcintosh
| County Guards. Capt r. Cogdale; Sidney
| Brown Infantry Capt William Arnold
| Ogeeehee Rifles, Capt. A. j. Williams
| Wayne Rangers Capt. T. S. Hopkins
| Liberty Guards. Capt. William Hughes.
abel, Ca. George A. Blount.