GA - Military - Civil War 3rd GA Reserves Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Doug Carter dlcarter@bellsouth.net Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm The 3rd Georgia Reserve Infantry Regiment was formed in April, 1864. They were guards at Andersonville Prison until August, 1864 when they were sent to Macon, where they may have participated in the defense of that city during Stoneman's raid. At the end of August they returned to Andersonville. Sometime in September they were transferred from Andersonville. My gr-grandfather, Jesse Taliafero Carter, was in Company F. The muster roll for Co. F for Sept-Oct 1864, lists their location as "Camp Lawton". Camp Lawton was a prison camp in Millen, Ga. Unfortunately, that was the last muster roll on microfilm at the State Archives in Atlanta. According to several sources including the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion, the 3rd Ga Reserves fought at The Battle of Tullifiny Station aka The Battle of Coosawhatchie, S.C. on Dec. 9, 1864. They also fought in the Salkahatchie River Campaign in South Carolina during Feb., 1865 and they fought at the Battle of Columbus on Easter Sunday, April 16, 1865. I have read approximately 6 pension applications of soldiers who served in the 3rd Ga Reserves and at least 3 of them mention Columbus. My gr-grandfather wrote in his application that he was in Columbus when his unit disbanded. Joe Bledsoe [pension application] wrote that he was wounded by a shell during the Battle of Columbus which resulted in the amputation of his leg . Charles Kennon Henderson, of Company F, wrote that he left his command in Columbus, Ga. on April 16th, 1865 because "Gen. Wilson routed us. The war was over & all went home." Henderson is quoted in "The Cedartown Standard" newspaper article dated Feb. 4, 1937, on file at the State Archives, as follows "For some months we helped to guard the Andersonville prison, near Americus, Georgia. Thence we were transferred to General Hardee's Corps. This regiment was in seven engagements fighting Sherman. I do not claim all these battles. My regiment was sent into South Carolina, and in April 1865, the regiment was brought from South Carolina following Sherman to Columbus, Ga. There, on the Alabama side of the Chattahoochee river, we were in battle line all day Sunday, April 16, 1865....I was captured by the Federals after the battle and my gray mare, worth $600, was taken from me, and I was given a mule. Upon this mule I rode late at night through General Wilson's army, encamped atWaverly Hall, Harris County, Georgia, and went to bed at Uncle John Kennon's. I am now commanded[sic] of Camp 169 United Confederate Veterans of Fulton County." In bound volumes of letters and bound volumes of transcripts published by the UDC at the State of Georgia Archives I found companies G,F,and I mentioned regarding the engagements in South Carolina. The pension applications on file at the state archives will probably be the best resource for specific info on Companies A abd B. John Mallory Land (e-mail retrofit@flash.net) is seeking the identity of approximately 20 soldiers killed in the Battle of Columbus who are in Clapp's Cemetery on the banks of the Chattahoochee in Columbus. RESOURCES: Sources of info for the 3rd Georgia Reserve Infantry Regiment ( 3rd Georgia Reserves ) 1) Message posted by Ricky Ray on May 5, 2000 on the message board of the Yahoo Group named "georgiacivilwar" 2) The website "Sherman's March Through South Carolina" www.members.aol.com/x69xer/sherman2.html - Specifically in the following 3 areas of that website: " A list of engagements of Sherman's March through SC"----"A Order of Battle for Sherman's March Through SC"----"Engagements in South Carolina indirectly related to Sherman's March" 3) Official Records of the War of the Rebellion, Series 1, Vol 44, Part 1 (Savannah) pages 441-448 4) Bound volumes labeled "Reminiscences and Letters" published by the UDC and located at the State of Georgia Archives 5) Bound volumes labeled " Transcripts" published by the UDC and located at the State of Georgia Archives 6) Personal Papers File of Charles Kennon Henderson , Co. F, 3rd Ga Reserves, on microfilm roll 283/27 at the State of Georgia Archives 7) Compiled Service Records 8) Pension Applications on file at the State of Georgia Archives 9) Confederate Veterans Magazine, Vol 14, page 413 10) Book entitled " The Young Lions: Confederate Cadets at War" by James Lee Conrad ---pages 119-123. This book is primarily about cadets from the Georgia Military Institute, VMI, The Citadel, and the University of Alabama. However, it contains some excellent info on the 3rd Ga Reserves in the engagement at Tullifiny Station (also known as Coosawhatchie) Additional Information: Eileen McAdams has on-line: Company B Roster posted at http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ga/county/baldwin/3rdgareserves.html As well as a list of casualities at Coosawhatchie Station http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ga/county/baldwin/3rdwounded.html