8th Battalion, Infantry
Roster
(Surnames)
8th Infantry Battalion was organized with six
companies during the early spring of 1862 at Savannah, Georgia.
Some of the men were from Adairsville and Thornburgh, and Gordon
County. For a time the unit served in the Department of South
Carolina, Georiga, and Florida, then it was assigned to Gist's
Brigade, Army of Tennessee. After the operations in North Mississippi,
it fought with the army from Chickamauga to Nashville and ended
the war in North Carolina. This battalion contained 232 men and
183 arms in December, 1863, and was included in the surrender
on April 26, 1865. The field officers were Lieutenant Colonels
Asahel Littlefield, Leroy Napier, Jr., J.T. Reid, and Zachariah
L. Watters; and Majors John W. Gray, B.F. Hunt, and Edward F.
Morgan.
Previous
Page