John B Cumming

Home State: Georgia
Command Billet: Commanding Regiment
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 20th Georgia Infantry

see his Battle Report

Before the Antietam Campaign:
"The original field officers of the 20th Georgia Infantry were Colonel William Duncan Smith, Lieutenant-Colonel John B. Cumming, and Major John Augustus Jones. Colonel Smith was promoted to brigadier-general and ordered to Charleston, S.C., where he died of fever in October 1862. He was succeeded by John B. Cumming as Colonel of the Regiment".1

Burial Place: Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon (Bibb Co.), GA

Notes

1 Griffin, John, 20th Georgia Volunteer Infantry, Published 2003, first accessed 01 May 2005, <http://www.nwinfo.net/~jagriffin/20th.htm> [AotW citation 297]

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