Confederate Regiment

18th Georgia Infantry

Organized: Cobb County, GA; mustered in 4/22/1861
Disbanded/Mustered out: Appomattox Courthouse, VA 4/9/1865

Commanding Officer on the Sharpsburg Campaign:
LCol. Solon Z. Ruff

This Regiment's Chain of Command:
  Army - Army of Northern Virginia
  Corps - Longstreet's Command
  Division - Hood's Division
  Brigade - Hood's Brigade

Unit history

The unit was organized under Colonel Wofford in April 1861at Camp Brown, Cobb County, Georgia, and entered Confederate States service in August of that year. They were assigned to Hood's Texas Brigade, and served in that unit until after Sharpsburg, when they were transferred to Cobb's Brigade. They were at Seven Pines, Seven Days Battles, Gaines' Mill, and 2nd Manassas before embarking on the Maryland Campaign.

On the Sharpsburg Campaign

The Regiment was lightly engaged at Boonsboro (Crampton's Gap) on 15 September, and heavily in Hood's counterattack into the Cornfield on the northern part of the field at Sharpsburg on the 17th. Most of the unit's casualties were taken in repeated assaults of the guns of the Federal Battery B, 4th US, posted near the Hagerstown Pike in the Cornfield.

Statistics

Initial Strength: 177; Killed in Action (KIA): 27; Wounded (WIA): 64;
Losses, % of Initial Strength: 51.4%

Maps Showing this Unit

Detail Map #1: Hookers First Corps Sweeps Down the Hagerstown Pike (5-7 am)
Detail Map #2: Hood's Division Retakes Miller's Cornfield (7-8 am)

Battlefield Tablets for this Unit

Tablet #303: Longstreet's Command - 14 Sep, 9 PM to 15 Sep, 12 PM
Tablet #309: Hood's Division, Longstreet's Command - 14 Sep, 9 PM to 16 Sep, 11 PM
Tablet #327: Hood's Division, Longstreet's Command - 16 Sep, 2 PM to 16 Sep, 10 PM
Tablet #331: Wofford's Brigade, Hood's Division - 16 Sep, 6 PM to 16 Sep, 10 PM
Tablet #324: Wofford's Brigade, Hood's Division - 17 Sep, 7 AM to 17 Sep, 10 AM
Tablet #304: Longstreet's Command - 17 Sep, 7 AM to 17 Sep, 3 PM
Tablet #310: Hood's Division, Longstreet's Command - 17 Sep, 7 AM to 17 Sep, 9 AM

After the Sharpsburg Campaign

The 18th continued in active service with the Army of Northern Virginia and was engaged at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, and Cold Harbor. Their last battle was at Sayler's Creek, Virginia, on April 6, 1865. The remaining veterans surrendered with General Lee at Appomattox.

References & Notes

Basic information about the unit is from Folsom, James M., Heroes and Martyrs of Georgia, 1864. Personnel data is from Henderson, Lillian, Roster of Confederate Soldiers of Georgia 1861-1865, compiled 1959-64, published in 1984 by the Georgia Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy. Both of these works are extracted online at the excellent 18th Georgia Infantry site.

We have 86 individuals in the AotW database who were on the Maryland Campaign with this unit:

Co.	Rank	Name	Casualty?
A	Pvt	Davenport, Marcus Lafayette	KIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Davenport, William Alexander	KIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Harris, J. B.	POW 09/14
A	Pvt	Hicks, T. A.	MWIA 09/17
A	Lt	Lemon, James Lile
A	Pvt	Pyron, Thomas Jefferson	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Scott, John D.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Phelps, William N.	POW 09/17
B	Pvt	Winburn, H. D.	WIA/POW 09/17
C	Pvt	Bates, F. M.	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Harris, George J.	MWIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Roberts, J. A.	WIA 09/17
C	Corp	Shockley, W. S.	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Slaughter, David W.	WIA/POW 09/17
D	Pvt	Adams, Mat H.	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Clifton, Reddick S.	WIA 09/17
D	Lt	Gilbert, William Gordon	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Jones, Allen	MWIA 09/17
D	Lt	Macon, Gideon H.	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	McCray, John	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Pierce, W. J.	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Rhodes, James R.	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Taylor, J. A.	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Arnold, Martin	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Brooks, John B.	MWIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Caldwell, John W.	WIA 09/14
E	Pvt	Hall, Thomas A.	MIA (n) 09/17
E	Sgt	Holcombe, Absalom	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Lowry, A. J.	WIA 09/17
E	Lt	Putnam, Odin W.	WIA 09/17
F	Corp	Arnold, Larkin B.	KIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Brandon, David P.	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Brock, James M.	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Brooks, Sampson	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Caldwell, J. W.	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Cantrell, Samuel C.	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Dawson, Thomas	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Dickerson, Joseph	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Eaves, L. P.	KIA 09/17
F	Corp	Foster, John D.	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Lumpkin, Jesse M.	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Meeks, W. S.	POW 09/17
F	Sgt	Reynolds, John C.	WIA 09/17
F	Lt	Woolley, Jr., Andrew Feaster	WIA 09/17
G	Sgt	Major, J. E.	KIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Myers, A. L.	WIA 09/17
G	Sgt	Whitten, G. W.	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Atkinson, J. F.	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Burns, B. L.	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Doyal, J. S.	KIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Foster, E. G.	KIA 09/17
H	Lt	Grant, John	WIA 09/17
H	Corp	Holden, Francis Marion	KIA 09/17
H	Pvt	King, J. D.	POW 09/17
H	Pvt	Leak, William B.	MWIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Mann, W. L.	WIA 09/17
H	Corp	Merrell, J. R.	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Stacy, Aaron Oliver	WIA/POW 09/17
H	Pvt	Walters, William Henry Harrison	WIA 09/19
H	Sgt	Windsor, James M.	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Bennett, William Franklin	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Coppedge, John H.	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Everett, Edward N.	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Locke, Joseph T.	MIA (n) 09/17
I	Pvt	Lockerman, John Allen	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Mercer, Jesse W.	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Tatum, Francis A.	MIA (n) 09/17
K	Pvt	Austin, John H.	KIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Brock, J. H.	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Burnett, William P.	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Cleveland, A. B.	WIA 09/17
K	Lt	Cleveland, James M. D.	KIA 09/17
K	Capt	Crawford, John A.	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Drake, B. T.	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Ford, J. G.	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Horne, T. S.	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Ledbetter, Charles	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	McMurray, Albert G.	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Patterson, William E.	WIA/POW 09/00
K	Pvt	Pierce, Chester	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Slaughter, Martin Bolin	MWIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Slaughter, Thomas B.	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Underwood, D. H.	WIA 09/17
K	Lt	Underwood, T. C.	KIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Wheeler, William	WIA 09/17
F&S	LCol	Ruff, Solon Zachariah

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