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13th Georgia (322 officers & men): Col James Milton Smith; 26th Georgia (320 officers & men): Col Edward N. Atkinson; 31st Georgia (260 officers & men): Col Clement A. Evans; 38th Georgia (350 officers & men): Cpt William L. McLeod; 60th Georgia (305 officers & men): Cpt Waters B. Jones; 61st Georgia (293 officers & men): Col John H. Lamar
Interregnum under revolutionary control from 1776 until 1778; see List of governors of Georgia (7) General Sir Archibald Campbell: governor: 29 December 1778: July 1779: Head of military administration [2] (8) Jacques Prevost: Provisional governor: July 1779: September 1779 (9) Lieutenant Colonel James Wright: Governor: September 1779: 11 July 1782
In 1864, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman's armies invaded Georgia as part of the Atlanta Campaign. The burning of Atlanta (which was a commercially vital railroad hub but not yet the state capital) was followed by Sherman's March to the Sea , which laid waste to a wide swath of the state from Atlanta to Savannah in late 1864.
Speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives (1822), State Senator, namesake of Danielsville and Fort Daniel (1813) Robert Milner Echols, 11th Division, 1833. [6] Samuel Elbert, 1782, Georgia State Navy, future governor. [7] William Ezzard, 1st Brigade of the 11th Division, 1830–1840, future mayor of Atlanta. [8]
Savannah, GA: Frederic C. Beil, ISBN 0-913720-93-3; Duncan, Alexander McC, 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.
Captain William Tucker (b. 1588 – d. 1643) was an English-born colonist. He settled in Jamestown of the Colony of Virginia in the early 17th century. He was a military commander. [5] In 1623, in retaliation for the Indian massacre of 1622, Tucker offered a toast during a supposed negotiation with members of the Powhatan tribe.
The Georgia Line was a formation within the Continental Army. The term "Georgia Line" referred to the quota of one infantry regiment which was assigned to Georgia at various times by the Continental Congress .
William Washington Gordon II was born in Savannah, Georgia, on October 14, 1834, the eldest son of Senator William Washington Gordon of Georgia. [1] He graduated B.A. from Yale University in 1854, before returning to Savannah to become a cotton and rice broker, forming the firm of Tison & Gordon in 1856.