5th Regiment
Georgia Volunteer Infantry
Army of Tennessee
C. S. A.
Field & Staff
5th Infantry Regiment was organized in May, 1861,
and for a time served at Pensacola. Its members were recruited
in the counties of Clinch, Spalding, Dawson, Camden, McDuffie,
Schley, and Upson. During the war it served under the command
of J. K. Jackson, Talliaferro, and G. P. Harrison. The 5th participated
in the campaigns of the Army of Tennessee from Murfreesboro to
Atlanta, then served at Savannah and fought in North Carolina.
This unit lost thirty?seven percent of the 173 engaged at Murfreesboro
and fifty?five percent of the 317 at Chickamauga. It totalled
227 men and 137 arms in December, 1863, and had 256 effectives
in March, 1865. In April it surrendered. The field officers were
Colonels William I Black, C. P. Daniel, John K. Jackson, and Samuel
W. Mangham; Lieutenant Colonels Thomas Beall, Charles B. Day,
and John F. Iverson; and Majors David H. Ashley, W, B. Hundley,
John F. Kiddoo, and W. L. Salisbury.
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