Event Information - 3rd Georgia Infantry Regiment

Once again this year at Stanford Hall we will be forming The campaign company along the same lines as we did last year, with great success. This year will be Eastern Confederate, the company will be Company C the Dawson Grays Third Georgia Regiment and in keeping with the ACWS format for this year, the setting will be during the Seven days 1862.

I would that my voice could reach every veteran of the old Confederacy, aye, I would that it might ride on the wings of the wind and penetrate the confines the earth itself, and I would appeal to all mankind to come and see what I have seen and feel what I have felt.

From the Address by COL. Clairborne Snead at the Reunion of the Third Georgia Regiment, at Union Point on the 31st of July 1874.

The 3rd Georgia Infantry Regiment was assembled at Augusta, Georgia, in April, 1861. Its companies were recruited in the counties of Clarke, Burke, Dawson, Dade, Madison, Baldwin, and Oconee. This regiment served in the Departments of Norfolk, North Carolina, and Middle and Eastern Florida before being assigned to the Army of Northern Virginia. Here it was under the command of General A.R. Wright and after November, 1864, General Sorrell.

It participated in many of the difficult campaigns of the Confederate Army in the East from Seven Pines to Cold Harbor, then was involved in the Petersburg siege north and south of the James River and various conflicts around Appomattox.

The unit reported 25 killed, 110 wounded, and 22 missing at Malvern Hill and had 10 killed and 129 wounded at Chancellorsville. It lost more than forty-five percent of the 441 engaged at Gettysburg, and there were 75 casualties at Manassas Gap.

The 3rd surrendered in April, 1865, with 12 officers and 236 men. Its commanders were Colonels Edward J. Walker and Ambrose R. Wright; Lieutenant Colonels A.B. Montgomery, R.B. Nisbet, James S. Reid, and Claiborne Snead; and Majors George E. Hayes, John F. Jones, Augustus H. Lee, and John R. Sturges.

Three members of the 3rd Georgia pictured in the winter of 1861-62 whilst camped near Richmond. Pictored (left ro right) Columbus C. Taylor, James D. Jackson and James H. Porter, Taylor and Jackson were subsequently killed during the fighting at Malvern Hill.

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