50th Georgia
The 50th Georgia was a regiment of volunteer infantry raised by the state of Georgia to fight in the American Civil War. It was taken into Confederate service on March 4, 1862, and served throughout the war and surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse on April 9,1865. For the most part of the war, it served with the First Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia. They went south when James Longstreet took his Corps to Georgia and Tennessee in the fall of 1863. The regiment was from southwest Georgia. Some of the battles that the regiment took part in were: Crampton's Gap, Battle of Antietam, Battle of Chancellorsville, Battle of Gettysburg, Knoxville, Petersburg, Battle of Cedar Creek, and Sayler's Creek.
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