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  From Lt Francis (“Frank”) Marion Hight, Co D, 48th GA Inf to Parents,
  Transcribed and posted online by William Griffing at Spared & Shared, used here with permission
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  Confederate Military History: a library of Confederate States history, in twelve volumes, written by distinguished men of the South (Vol. 6)
  One of 12 volumes TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAGE. CHAPTER I. The Legislature of 1860—Convention Provided For—Occupation of Port Pulaski—The Secession Convention—Seizure of the Augusta Arsenal and Oglethorpe Barracks 3 CHAPTER II. Organization and Other Events in the State, from Spring until Close of 1861—Early Record of Georgians Outside the State, Previous to Manassas—Coast Operations in Georgia in 1861 (including Port Royal) 18 CHAPTER III. Georgia Troops in Virginia—Laurel Hill, Carrick’s Ford and First Manassas—Death of Bartow—Cheat Mountain, Greenbrier River and Camp Alleghany—Georgians in North Carolina—Events at Pensacola 64 CHAPTER IV. Events of 1862—Naval Operations Below Savannah—Organization for Defense—Lee Succeeded by Pemberton—The State Troops—Fall of Fort Pulaski—Hunter’s Orders—Skirmish on Whitemarsh Island 82 CHAPTER V. Battle of Shiloh—Andrews’ Raid—The Third Infantry at South Mills—The Conscript Act and State Troops—Georgians under Bragg and Kirby Smith—Naval Affaire—Depredations in the Coast Region—War Legislation—Chickasaw Bayou and Murfreesboro 94 CHAPTER VI. Sketches of Georgia Commands 112 CHAPTER VII. Georgia Troops in Virginia in 1862—York town—Seven Pines—The Valley Campaign—Seven Days’ Battles 159 CHAPTER VIII. Cedar (Slaughter’s) Mountain, Second Manassas, South Mountain, Harper’s Ferry, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg 177 CHAPTER IX. Georgia in 1863—Fort McAllister—Destruction of the Nashville—Organization on the Coast in March—The Defenses of Savannah—Loss of the Atlanta—Straight’s Raid and Capture—Distress in the State 201 CHAPTER X. The Battle of Chancellorsville 212 CHAPTER XI. Battle of Champion’s Hill—Siege of Vicksburg—The Gettysburg Campaign 220 CHAPTER XII. The Coast of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, July to December, 1863 236 CHAPTER XIII. The Chickamauga Campaign—Rosecrans’ Advance in Northwest Georgia—Bragg Evacuates Chattanooga—The Maneuvers in the Mountains—The Two Days’ Battle on Chickamauga Creek—Rosecrans Defeated and Penned in at Chattanooga 241 CHAPTER XIV. The Knoxville Campaign—Battle of Missionary Ridge—Battle of Ringgold (Jap—Retreat to Dalton—Gen. J. E. Johnston Given Command—Close of 1863 264 PAGE. CHAPTER XV. The Campaigns of 1864—Battle of Olustee—Operations near Savannah—The Wilderness to Cold Harbor—Georgia Troops Engaged—Early’s Valley Campaign 283 CHAPTER XVI. The Atlanta Campaign—February Fighting near Dalton—Organization of Johnston’s Army—Campaign from Dalton to the Chattahoochee—Resaca, New Hope Church and Kenesaw Mountain—Battles about Atlanta—Wheeler’s Raid—Jonesboro and the Evacuation 296 CHAPTER XVII. The Fate of Atlanta—Hood's Advance in North Georgia—Attack on Allatoona—Sherman's March to the Sea—Fall of Fort McAllister—Evacuation of Savannah —Georgians in the Nashville Campaign 353 CHAPTER XVIII. Final Campaign in Virginia—Georgia Commands at Appomattox—Campaign of the Carolina—Wilson’s Raid 376 BIOGRAPHICAL 387
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  History of the Doles-Cook Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia, C.S.A.; containing muster rolls of each company of the Fourth, Twelfth, Twenty-first and Forty-fourth Georgia regiments, with a short sketch of the services of each member, and a complete history of each regiment, by one of its own members
  4th Georgia Infantry, 12th Georgia Infantry, 21st Georgia Infantry, 44th Georgia Infantry
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  Roll of officers and members of the Georgia Hussars and of the cavalry companies, of which the Hussars are a continuation : with historical sketch relating facts showing the origin and necessity of rangers or mounted men in the colony of Georgia from date of its founding
  Georgia Hussars
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  Four years on the firing line
  21st Georgia Infantry Regiment
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  History of the Eleventh Georgia Vols., embracing the muster rolls
  11th Georgia Infantry Regiment
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  Military memoirs of a Confederate; a critical narrative
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  Heroes and martyrs of Georgia. Georgia's record in the revolution of 1861
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  Major General Ambrose Ransom Wright of Co. G, 3rd Georgia Infantry Regiment and 38th Georgia Infantry Regiment in uniform/ Perkins Gallery, formerly Tucker & Perkins, Augusta, Ga.
  Brigadier General Ambrose Ransom Wright "Rans" (1826 - 1872) Home State: Georgia Command Billet: Brigade Commander Branch of Service: Infantry Unit: Wright's Brigade On the Campaign-Commanded Wright' Brigade in R. H. Anderson's Division of Longstreet's Command. He was wounded in the combat in the Sunken Road, and relieved in command of the Brigade by Col. Robert Jones of the 22nd Georgia.
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  Brig. Gen. William Tatum Wofford, half-length portrait, facing right, in Confederate uniform
  Colonel William Tatum Wofford (1824 - 1884) Home State: Georgia Education: Franklin College, Class of 1840 Command Billet: Brigade Commander Branch of Service: Infantry Unit: Hood's Brigade On the Campaign-Commanded Hood's "Texas" Brigade in Hood's Division of Longstreet's Command.
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  Brigadier General Edward Porter Alexander of Engineer Corps Confederate States Infantry Regiment and Confederate States Infantry Regiment in uniform/ G.W. Minnis, Photographic Gallery, 9th and Main Sts., Richmond, Va.
  Colonel Edward Porter Alexander (1835 - 1910) Home State: Georgia Education: US Military Academy, West Point, NY, Class of 1857;Class Rank: 3 Command Billet: Chief of Ordnance Branch of Service: Engineers Unit: Army of Northern Virginia On the Campaign Of the Campaign Colonel Alexander later wrote: "My reserve ordnance train, of about 80 wagons, had accompanied Lee's headquarters to Hagerstown, and had also followed the march back to Boonsboro. I was now [14-15 Sept] ordered to cross the Potomac at Williamsport, and go thence to Shepherdstown, where I should leave the train and come in person to Sharpsburg. The moon was rising as I started, and about daylight I forded the Potomac, unaware of having had a narrow escape from capture, with my train, by Gregg's brigade of cavalry. This brigade had escaped that night from Harper's Ferry, and crossed our line of retreat from Boonsboro. It had captured and destroyed the reserve ordnance train, of 45 wagons of Longstreet's corps." ".. I have already told of my being sent on the 16th to Harper's Ferry to remove the captured ordnance stores and to bring what was available for use to Sharpsburg. I sent to Winchester 49 field-pieces and 24 mountain howitzers, and quite a lot of artillery ammunition not suitable for our calibres ... in the afternoon [of 17 September] from Bolivar Heights, I could see the smoke of the conflict and the incessant bursting in the air of shells and shrapnel over the field where Burnside made his advance and was beaten back by A. P. Hill. "
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  Howell Cobb, President of the Provisional Confederate States Congress.
  Brigadier General Howell Cobb (1815 - 1868) Home State: Georgia Command Billet: Brigade Commander Branch of Service: Infantry Unit: Cobb's Brigade On the Campaign-He commanded Cobb's Brigade in McLaws' Division of Longstreet's Command. He was at Crampton's Gap (South Mountain), but absent at Sharpsburg.
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  Ambrose Ransom Wright, 1826-1872
  Brigadier General Ambrose Ransom Wright "Rans" (1826 - 1872) Home State: Georgia Command Billet: Brigade Commander Branch of Service: Infantry Unit: Wright's Brigade On the Campaign-Commanded Wright' Brigade in R. H. Anderson's Division of Longstreet's Command. He was wounded in the combat in the Sunken Road, and relieved in command of the Brigade by Col. Robert Jones of the 22nd Georgia.
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  Major General Lafayette McLaws of the 10th Georgia Infantry Regiment and Confederate States Infantry Regiment in unifor
  Major General Lafayette McLaws (1821 - 1897) Home State: Georgia Education: US Military Academy, West Point, NY, Class of 1842 Command Billet: Division Commander Branch of Service: Infantry Unit: McLaws' Division On the Campaign-He commanded McLaws' Division in Longstreet's Command.
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  Brigadier General George Thomas Anderson, 11th Georgia Infantry Regiment in uniform
  Colonel George Thomas Anderson "Tige" (1824 - 1901) Home State: Georgia Education: Emory University Command Billet: Brigade Commander Branch of Service: Infantry Unit: Anderson's (GA) Brigade On the Campaign-Commanded Anderson's (GA) Brigade in D.R. Jones' Division.
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  Recollections of a Confederate staff officer
  Sorrel served as an aide-de-camp and and as AAG on Longstreet's staff until October 1864.
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  History of the 42nd Regiment, Georgia Volunteers, Confederate States Army, Infantry
  42nd Regiment, Georgia Volunteers
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  Two Boys in the Civil War and After
  Fifteenth Alabama regiment and Second Georgia Regiment