Confederate Regiment

53rd Georgia Infantry

Disbanded/Mustered out: Appomattox Court House, VA 04/09/1865

Commanding Officers on the Sharpsburg Campaign:
LCol. Thomas Sloan
Capt. S. W. Marshborne

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

Unit history

This regiment was formed in May 1862 at Griffin, GA, and was sent to Virginia in time to take part in US General George McClellan's Peninsula Campaign that summer. On reaching Virginia it was assigned to General Paul J Semmes' Brigade.

On the Sharpsburg Campaign

The regiment attacked through Miller's Cornfield early in the morning of 17 September 1862 at Sharpsburg. Their commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Sloan was mortally wounded, and command went to Captain Sam Marshborne of Company C. Captain Marshborne wrote the unit's after-action report of the battle.

Statistics

Initial Strength: 276; Killed in Action (KIA): 12; Wounded (WIA): 63;
Losses, % of Initial Strength: 27.2%

Maps Showing this Unit

Detail Map #4: Greene's High-Water Mark in the West Woods (9am-noon)
Detail Map #5: Sedgwick is Flanked in the West Woods (9-10am)

Battlefield Tablets for this Unit

Tablet #357: McLaws' Division, Longstreet's Command - 16 Sep, 11 AM to 18 Sep, 9 PM
Tablet #359: Semmes' Brigade, McLaws' Division - 17 Sep, 6 AM to 18 Sep, 9 PM

After the Sharpsburg Campaign

Except for General Longstreet's 1863 expedition to Georgia and Tennessee, the 53rd Georgia served with the Army of Northern Virginia until it's surrender at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

We have 56 individuals in the AotW database who were on the Maryland Campaign with this unit:

Co.	Rank	Name	Casualty?
A	Pvt	Barfield, William T.	WIA 09/17
A	Lt	Barnett, John A.	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Colwell, Glenn Otis	POW 09/17
A	Pvt	Colwell, James Burke	MWIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Doyal, John Hardin	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Harlan, Zachariah R.	WIA/POW 09/17
A	Pvt	Kelley, John J.	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Kilgore, Johnson Nicholson	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Latta, John Pierson	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Tolleson, Burel M.	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Wall, Moses Rosser	MWIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Eddleman, David J.	KIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Hutcherson, James H.	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Knowles, Joseph T.	WIA/POW 09/17
C	Capt	Marshborne, Samuel William
C	Pvt	Willoughby, Harrison J.	KIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Banks, Jacob Berry	WIA 09/17
D	Corp	Carmical, Robert J.	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Cruce, Stephen Oliver	KIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Hagan, John Clark	MWIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Smith, Ellis H.	KIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Urquhart, William N.	MWIA 09/17
E	Lt	Brown, Coleman C.	MWIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Edge, John	KIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Fincher, Simeon Chenon	POW 09/17
E	Pvt	Freeman, John W. G.	WIA/POW 09/17
E	Pvt	Gaissert, Jr., John M.	MWIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Helms, George Washington	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	McCart, Samuel R.	WIA 09/17
E	Sgt	McGinnis, John W.	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Wallace, Henry Thomas	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Wright, William J.	MWIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Crowell, James W.	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Guest, Benjamin Franklin	KIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Massey, Thomas Jefferson	WIA/POW 09/17
F	Pvt	Robinson, Samuel E.	WIA/POW 09/17
F	Pvt	Walden, John Thomas	WIA/POW 09/17
G	Pvt	Bowers, Joel	KIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Cunningham, M. H.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Dingler, William H.	WIA 09/17
G	Lt	Hollon, William Randolph	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Linch, Benjamin G.	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Barker, WIlliam Thomas	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Crowell, Leonidas Hoyt	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Dunlap, W.	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Martin, E. C.	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Martin, W.	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	McGahey, John T.	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Smoot, Andrew Jackson	MWIA 09/17
H	Mus	Stubbs, Peter H.	WIA/POW 09/17
I	Pvt	Crawley, James Levi	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Hale, William Franklin	WIA/POW 09/17
K	Pvt	Hill, Robert W.	KIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Tate, James A.	MWIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Vardeman, Joseph A.	WIA/POW 09/17
F&S	LCol	Sloan, Thomas	MWIA 09/17

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