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)

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Legacy

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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 215-216)