40th Georgia Infantry

Regimental History and Service Record

March 19, 1862 - Organized
- ? - Mustered into Confederate Service
June 17-18, 1862 - Cumberland Gap
December 27-29, 1862 - Chickasaw Bayou
May 16, 1863 - Champion Hill
May-July 1863 - Vicksburg Campaign
May-July 1863 - Siege of Vicksburg
July 4, 1863 - Vicksburg
- Surrendered
- Paroled at Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi later that month
- September 12, 1863 - Declared exchanged
September-November 1863 - Siege of Chattanooga
November 23-25, 1863 - Chattanooga
May-September 1864 - The Atlanta Campaign
May 5-11, 1864 - Rocky Face Ridge
May 14-15, 1864 - Resaca
- May 25-June 4, 1864 - New Hope Church
- June 25-27, 1864 - Dallas
- June 27, 1864 - Kennesaw Mountain
- July 20, 1864 - Peach Tree Creek
- July 28, 1864 - Ezra Church
- July-September 1864 - Atlanta Siege
- July 22, 1864 - Atlanta
August 31-September 1, 1864 - Jonesboro
November 30, 1864 - Franklin
December 15-16, 1864 - Nashville
February-April 1865 - The Carolinas Campaign
February 7, 1865 - Edisto Railroad Bridge
February 9, 1865 - Binnaker's Bridge
February 12, 1865 - Orangeburg
- March 19-21, 1865 - Bentonville
April 9, 1865 - Consolidated at Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina with the following units:
- 41st Georgia Infantry
- 43rd Georgia Infantry
- Re-designated as the 40th (Consolidated) Georgia Infantry Battalion

DESIGNATIONS

Department of East Tennessee / Knoxville (April 1862)
Department of East Tennessee / Barton's Brigade (April-July 1862)
Department of East Tennessee / Stevenson's Division / Barton's Brigade (July-December 1862)
Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana / 2nd Military District / Barton's Brigade (December 1862-January 1863)
Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana / 2nd Military District / Stevenson's Division / Barton's Brigade (January-April 1863)
Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana / Stevenson's Division / Barton's Brigade (April-July 1863)
Army of Tennessee / Stevenson's Division / Barton's/Gardner's Brigade (October-November 1863)
Army of Tennessee / 2nd Corps / Stewart's/Clayton's Division / Gardner's/Stovall's Brigade (November 1863-April 1865)

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Bogle, Joseph, Some Recollections of the Civil War
Sifakis, Stewart. Compendium of the Confederate Armies. South Carolina and Georgia. New York: Facts on File, 1992. Print. (Pages 251-252, 255)