Confederate Regiment

23rd Georgia Infantry

Organized: Big Shanty, GA; mustered in 9/1861
Disbanded/Mustered out: Goldsboro, NC 4/26/1865

Commanding Officers on the Sharpsburg Campaign:
  Col. W. P. Barclay
  LCol. E. F. Best
  Maj. J. H. Huggins

This Regiment's Chain of Command:
  Army - Army of Northern Virginia
  Corps - Jackson's Command
  Division - D. H. Hill's Division
  Brigade - Colquitt's Brigade

Unit history

The unit was formed at Camp McDonald from men of Bartow, Henderson, Floyd, Pickens, Cherokee, Union, and Walker counties with Colonel Thomas Hutcherson, first commander. They were significantly engaged at Seven Pines (May 1862) and in the Seven Days fighting (June/July 1862).

On the Sharpsburg Campaign

They were engaged on South Mountain at Turner's Gap on 14 September, and in the vicinity of the Cornfield at Sharpsburg on the 17th. Colonel Barclay was killed in action at Sharpsburg while in command of the regiment, his relief, Lt Colonel Emory Best was wounded, the command devolving on Major James H. Huggins, who was also wounded in action.

Statistics

Initial Strength: not known; Killed in Action (KIA): 14; Wounded (WIA): 64;

Maps Showing this Unit

Detail Map #3: Mansfield's Twelfth Corps Attacks into Miller's Cornfield (7-9 am)
Detail Map #6: French's Division Hits the Sunken Road (9-10 am)
Detail Map #9: Richardson's Division Attacks the Sunken Road (10-11 am)

Battlefield Tablets for this Unit

Tablet #332: D. H. Hill's Division, Jackson's Command - 14 Sep, 10 PM to 16 Sep, 9 PM
Tablet #384: D. H. Hill's Division, Jackson's Command - 14 Sep, 10 PM to 16 Sep, 9 PM
Tablet #303: Longstreet's Command - 14 Sep, 9 PM to 15 Sep, 12 PM
Tablet #315: Jackson's Command - 17 Sep, 5 AM to 17 Sep, 10 AM
Tablet #339: Colquitt's Brigade, D. H. Hill's Division - 17 Sep, 6 AM to 17 Sep, 5 PM
Tablet #333: D. H. Hill's Division, Jackson's Command - 17 Sep, 7 AM to 17 Sep, 1 PM
Tablet #304: Longstreet's Command - 17 Sep, 7 AM to 17 Sep, 3 PM
Tablet #385: D. H. Hill's Division, Jackson's Command - 17 Sep, 7 AM to 17 Sep, 5 PM
Tablet #365: Colquitt's and Garland's Brigades - 17 Sep, 8 AM to 17 Sep, 3 PM

After the Sharpsburg Campaign

The Regiment was at Fredericksburg (December 1862) and Chancellorsville (May 1863), where Colonel Best was the only serving officer who avoided capture, then served with the rest of the brigade in North Carolina and in the defenses of Charleston, South Carolina. In February 1864 they were in Florida for the Battle of Olustee. After further service in South Carolina, they returned to Virginia in the Spring of 1864.They were at Drewry's Bluff, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg, and surrendered in North Carolina with General Johnston's Army of Tennessee in 1865.

More on the Web

See more about a Walker County family whose sons served in the Regiment, and the Regiment itself, at the Goodson family history site.

References & Notes

Source: a brief history of the regiment from Thomas R. Fasulo on his Battle of Olustee website; and
Sifakis, Stewart, The Compendium of the Confederate Armies, South Carolina and Georgia, Facts on File, 1995, and Crute, Joseph H. Jr. Units of the Confederate States Army, Midlothian (VA): Derwent Books, 1987 - both extracted online by Eastern Digital Resources on their Civil War in Georgia site.

We have 85 individuals in the AotW database who were on the Maryland Campaign with this unit:

Co.	Rank	Name	Casualty?
A	Lt	Alexander, B. J.	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Brewster, William	MWIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Buice, Joshua	KIA 09/14
A	Pvt	Chitwood, John	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Culver, H. G.	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Dobbs, Thomas	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	McElwee, Thomas	MWIA 09/17
A	Sgt	Patterson, A. J.	KIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Collins, James P.	MWIA 09/14
B	Pvt	Day, Jackson C.	POW 09/17
B	Pvt	Hight, James M.	KIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Lowe, William M.	KIA 09/14
B	Pvt	Stiles, William M.	KIA 09/14
B	Pvt	Woody, John H.	WIA/POW 09/14
C	Capt	Ballenger, Marcus R.
C	Pvt	Brewer, Martin Van Buren
C	Pvt	Fowler, John B.	KIA 09/17
C	Sgt	Kennon, Henry T.
C	Pvt	Potts, John P.	WIA 09/14
C	Pvt	Thomas, W. M.	KIA 09/14
C	Sgt	Vaughan, James C.
C	Pvt	Williams, Gaines Thomas	KIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Bailey, William F.	MWIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Cloninger, William R.	KIA 09/14
D	Pvt	Corbin, Erby R.	KIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Davis, George Washington	MWIA 09/17
D	Lt	Hallum, Vincent H.	MWIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Jones, Alexander H.	MWIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Jones, Columbus Therengton	MWIA 09/14
D	Pvt	Jones, William L.	MWIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Kilby, Archibald	KIA 09/14
D	Pvt	Long, James A.	MWIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Roberts, Peter F.	WIA 09/17
D	Lt	Steele, James Mortimer	KIA 09/14
D	Pvt	Thomas, John	KIA 09/14
E	Pvt	Cox, George Washington	MWIA 09/00
E	Pvt	Everett, Nathan	POW 09/17
E	Pvt	Ferguson, William	MWIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Hammontree, Stephen L.	KIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Hazlewood, Isaac	POW 09/17
E	Pvt	Jackson, Joseph P.	MWIA 09/17
E	Pvt	McBee, John	MWIA 09/17
E	Sgt	Price, E. P.	WIA 09/14
E	Pvt	Quinton, Burton	KIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Wetherby, John W.	KIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Willbanks, Cuthbert B.	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Anderson, Francis A.	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Cagle, Jacob J.	WIA 09/14
F	Pvt	Duncan, William R.	MWIA 09/17
F	Corp	Green, James E.	KIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Kemp, Aaron D.	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Orr, William Henry Harrison	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Sergent, Peter K.	KIA 09/14
G	Pvt	Black, Harrison	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Brooke, Elijah N.	WIA 09/17
G	Sgt	Edwards, Alfred	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Humphreys, L. H.	KIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Keeter, Alexander Nathaniel	MWIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Pugh, James W.	KIA 09/17
G	Capt	Sharp, John James Augustus	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Stegall, J. B.	KIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Burns, Jeremiah	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Harmon, S. H.	WIA 09/17
H	Capt	Hazlerig, Thomas R.A.	KIA 09/17
H	Corp	Keenum, Stephen Stone	MWIA 09/14
H	Pvt	Keown, James Harvey	KIA 09/14
H	Pvt	Late, -----	MWIA 09/17
H	Lt	Neal, Reese B.
H	Pvt	Partain, Henry C.	KIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Seabolt, McKinney	KIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Tate, John Milford	MWIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Underwood, J. M.	KIA 09/14
I	Pvt	Costner, Julius A.	KIA 09/17
I	Sgt	Covington, A. M.	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Fuller, Joseph B.	KIA 09/14
I	Corp	Fuller, Oliver C.	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Fuller, Vinson W.	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Parker, L. W.	MWIA 09/14
I	Pvt	Young, Burrell L.	MWIA 09/17
K	Sgt	Ezell, William F.	KIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Neely, Thomas J.	KIA 09/17
F&S	Col	Barclay, William P.	KIA 09/17
F&S	LCol	Best, Emory Fisk
F&S	Maj	Huggins, James Howard
F&S	Surg	Ware, Edward A. O.	POW 09/17

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