23rd Georgia Infantry

== Regimental History and Service Record ==
* August 31, 1861 - Organized 
** ? - Mustered into Confederate Service for the war
* April 1862 - Siege of Yorktown
* May 5, 1862 - Williamsburg
* May 31-June 1, 1862 - Seven Pines
* June 25-July 1, 1862 - The Seven Days Battles before Richmond, Virginia
* June 27, 1862 - Gaines' Mill
* July 1, 1862 - Malvern Hill
* September 17, 1862 - Battle of Antietam, Maryland
* December 13, 1862 - Fredericksburg
* May 1-4, 1863 - Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia
* August-September 1863 - Charleston Harbor
* February 20, 1864 - Olustee
* May 16, 1864 - Drewry's Bluff
* June 1-3, 1864 - Cold Harbor
* June 1864-April 1865 - Siege of Petersburg
* July 30, 1864 - The Crater
* September 29-30, 1864 - Fort Harrison
* January 13-15, 1865 - 2nd Fort Fisher
* February-April 1865 - The Carolinas Campaign
* March 19-21, 1865 - Bentonville
* April 26, 1865 - Surrendered by General Joseph E. Johnston at Durham Station, Orange County, North Carolina
DESIGNATIONS
* Department of Georgia (August-November 1861)
* Department of South Carolina and Georgia (November 1861)
* Department of the Peninsula (January-February 1862)
* Department of Northern Virginia / D.H. Hill's Command / Rain's Division / Rain's Brigade (April-May 1862)
* Army of Northern Virginia / D.H. Hill's Division / Rain's Brigade (June-September 1862)
* Army of Northern Virginia / 2nd Corps / D.H. Hill's Division / Colquitt's Brigade (September 1862-May 1863)
* Department of North Carolina / Colquitt's Brigade (May-August 1863)
* Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida / 1st Military District of South Carolina / 3rd Sub-Division (August-September 1863)
* Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida / 1st Military District of South Carolina / 1st Sub-Division (September-October 1863)
* Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida / 7th Military District of South Carolina / Western Division / Colquitt's Brigade (October 1863-January 1864)
* Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida / 7th Military District of South Carolina / Colquitt's Brigade (January-February 1864)
* Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida / District of East Florida / Colquitt's Brigade (February 1864)
* Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida / District of Florida (February-May 1864)
* Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia / Colquitt's Division / Colquitt's Brigade (May 1864)
* Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia / Hoke's Division / Colquitt's Brigade (May-October 1864)
* Army of Northern Virginia / 4th Corps / Hoke's Division / Colquitt's Brigade (October-December 1864)
* Department of North Carolina / Hoke's Division / Colquitt's Brigade (December 1864-March 1865)
* Hardee's Corps / Hoke's Division / Colquitt's Brigade (March-April 1865)
* Army of Tennessee / 1st Corps / Hoke's Division / Colquitt's Brigade (April 1865)
== Regimental Roster ==
* First Commander: Thomas Hutcherson (Colonel)
* Marcus R. Ballenger (Major, Lieutenant Colonel, Colonel)
* William P. Barclay (Lieutenant Colonel, Colonel)
* Emory F. Best (Major, Lieutenant Colonel, Colonel)
* William J. Boston (Major)
* James H. Huggins (Major, Lieutenant Colonel, Colonel)
* John J.A. Sharp (Major, Lieutenant Colonel)
== Regiment Statistical Information ==
== Legacy ==
== Notes ==
== Sources == 
* Folsom, James Madison, Heroes and Martyrs of Georgia in the Revolution of 1861
* (Pages 215-216)
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