18th Georgia Infantry
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- April 25,1861 - Organized
- ? - Mustered into Confederate Service for the war
- 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 14, 1862 - South Mountain
- September 17, 1862 -
Battle of Antietam, Maryland
- December 13, 1862 - Fredericksburg
- May 1-4, 1863 -
Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia
- July 1-3, 1863 -
Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
- September-November 1863 - Siege of Chattanooga
- November-December 1863 - Siege of Knoxville
- May 5-6, 1864 - Wilderness
- May 8-21, 1864 -
Battles of Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia
- May 22-26, 1864 - North Anna River
- June 1-3, 1864 - Cold Harbor
- June 1864-April 1865 - Siege of Petersburg
- August 16, 1864 - Front Royal
- October 19, 1864 - Cedar Creek
- April 6, 1865 - Sayler's Creek
- April 9, 1865 - Appomattox Court House
- Surrendered
DESIGNATIONS
- Department of North Carolina (October 1861)
- Department of Northern Virginia / Whiting's/G.W. Smith's/Whiting's Division / Texas Brigade (November 1861-March 1862)
- Army of Northern Virginia / Whiting's Division / Texas Brigade (March-June 1862)
- Department of Northern Virginia / Valley District / Whiting's Division / Texas Brigade (June 1862)
- Army of Northern Virginia / 2nd Corps / Whiting's Division / Texas Brigade (June-July 1862)
- Army of Northern Virginia / Whiting's Division / Texas Brigade (July 1862)
- Army of Northern Virginia / 1st Corps / Whiting's/Hood's Division / Texas Brigade (July-November 1862)
- Army of Northern Virginia / 1st Corps / McLaws' Division / H. Cobb's/T.R.R. Cobb's/Wofford's Brigade (November 1862-September 1863)
- Army of Tennessee / Longstreet's Corps / McLaws' Division / Wofford's Brigade (September-November 1863)
- Department of East Tennessee / McLaws'/Kershaw's Division / Wofford's Brigade (November 1863-April 1864)
- Army of Northern Virginia / 1st Corps / Kershaw's Division / Wofford's Brigade (April-August 1864)
- Department of Northern Virginia / 1st Corps / Kershaw's Division / Wofford's Brigade (April-August 1864)
- Army of Northern Virginia / Valley District / Kershaw's Division / Wofford's Brigade (August-October 1864)
- Army of Northern Virginia / 1st Corps / Kershaw's Division / Wofford's/DuBose's Brigade (November 1864-April 1865)
Regimental Roster
- First Commander: William T. Wofford (Colonel)
- Joseph Armstrong (Colonel)
- W.G. Calahan (Major)
- Francis M. Ford (Lieutenant Colonel)
- John C. Griffis (Major)
- Jefferson Johnson (Major)
- Solon Z. Ruff (Lieutenant Colonel, Colonel)
- Joseph A. Stewart (Major)
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Notes
Sources
- Folsom, James Madison, Heroes and Martyrs of Georgia in the Revolution of 1861
- Sifakis, Stewart. Compendium of the Confederate Armies. South Carolina and Georgia. New York: Facts on File, 1992. Print. (Pages 217-219)
- Simpson, Harold B., Hood's Texas Brigade: Lee's Grenadier Guard