CO. E 50TH GEORGIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY REGIMENT
THOMAS COUNTY RANGERS
50TH GEORGIA REGIMENTAL FLAG
50TH GEORGIA REGIMENTAL HISTORY
| Semmes-Bryan-Simms Georgia Brigade Army of Northern Virginia |
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| Battles: Second Bull Run South Mountain Antietam Fredricksburg Chancellorsville, Gettysburg Chickamauga Chattanooga Siege Knoxville Siege The Wilderness Spotsylvania Courthouse North Anna Cold Harbor Petersburg Siege Cedar Creek Sayler's Creek Appomattox Courthouse |
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| Regiments-Antietam to end of war 10th Regiment 50th Regiment 51st Regiment 53rd Regiment |
Brigade Staff: Paul Jones Semmes Goode Bryan James P. Simms |
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| 50th Regimental Organization: Company: County: A-Satilla Rangers Pierce B-Ware Volunteers Ware C-Coffee Guards Coffee D-Valdosta Guards Lowndes E-Thomas Co. Rangers Thomas F-Decatur Infantry DeKalb G-Clinch Volunteers Clinch & Echols H-Colquitt Marksmen Colquitt I-Berrien Light Infantry Berrien K-Brooks Volunteers Brooks & Fayette | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
THE 50TH INFANTRY REGIMENT WAS ORGANIZED AT SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, DURING THE SPRING OF 1862. ITS MEMBERS WERE RECRUITED IN THE COUNTIES OF WARE, COFFEE, LOWNDES, THOMAS, DE KALB, CLINCH, COLQUITT, BERRIEN AND BROOKS. AFTER SERVING IN THE DISTRICT OF GEORGIA, THE 50TH MOVED TO VIRGINIA AND WAS ASSIGNED TO DRAYTON'S, SEMMES', BRYAN'S,AND SIMMS' BRIGADE. IT PARTICIPATED IN THE CAMPAIGNS OF THE ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA FROM SECOND MANASSAS TO GETTYSBURG, THEN WAS ORDERED BACK TO GEORGIA. HOWEVER, THE UNIT DID NOT ARRIVE IN TIME TO FIGHT IN THE BATTLE OF CHICKAMAUGA. IT WAS INVOLVED IN THE KNOXVILLE CAMPAIGN AND LATER IN THE OPERATIONS AT THE WILDERNESS, SPOTSYLVANIA AND COLD HARBOR. THER WERE 29 KILLED AND 97 WOUNDED AT SHARPSBURG AND 17 KILLED AND 153 WOUNDED AT CHANCELLORSVILLE. IT LOST 30% OF THE 302 ENGAGED AT GETTYSBURG AND HAD MANY DISABLED AT SAYLER'S CREEK .
