MUSCOGEE COUNTY, GA - EARLY MILITIA

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Definitions (approximate):
Army = 2-3 Corps
Corp = 3 Divisions
Division = 3 Brigades
Brigade = 4-5 Regiments
Regiment = 300-1000 men
Company = 100 men


(Original) MUSCOGEE COUNTY 1827

9th DIVISION  (Major Gen Samuel Armstrong Bailey)

2nd BRIGADE  (Brigadier General James Neill Bethune)
(Harris, Talbot, Muscogee, Marion, Lee)

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Approval Date: Assented to, Dec. 1, 1832.

ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE State of Georgia, PASSED IN MILLEDGEVILLE AT AN ANNUAL SESSION IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, 1832.
[missing title]
MILITARY.
1832 Vol. 1 -- Page: 137
Sequential Number: 091
Full Title: AN ACT to lay out a new Division of Georgia Militia out of the second Brigade of the ninth Division.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the State of Georgia in General
Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority
of the same, That from and after the passage of this
act, the counties of Harris, Talbot, Muscogee, Stewart,
Randolph, Lee, Sumter, Marion, Early and Baker form a
new Division of Georgia Militía, to be called the tenth
Division.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the counties of
Harris, Muscogee, Stewart, Randolph and Early form the
first brigade of the tenth division.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the counties of
Talbot, Marion, Sumter, Lee and Baker form the second
brigade of the tenth division.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all laws and
parts of laws militating against this act be, and the
same are hereby repealed.

ASBURY HULL,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
THOMAS STOCKS,
President of the Senate.
WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor.
Approval Date: Assented to, Dec. 1, 1832.



1st BRIGADE
(Coweta, Carroll, Troup, and Meriwether)


66th REGIMENT, Georgia Militia. (1828)
(Col Ulysses Lewis July 1828)

1832
10th Division

1st brigade
Harris, Muscogee, Stewart, Randolph and Early 

Two BATTALIONS
1)153rd  


2)166th Battalion


GM District  668   

Holland, James C.  Capt 1827
(see notes below)


Beall, Robert  Capt 1828


Rutledge, John Capt 1829


Flynn, Patrick W.  Capt ?


Jones, Morgan Capt 1835



From the North American IGI (LDS Church):


James Cale HOLLAND, b. 27 DEC 1804 Hancock Co, GA, d. 31 OCT 1853 Russell Co, AL, son of Isaac & Amelia (BREWINGTON) HOLLAND from Gaston Co, GA [sic - probably Gaston Co, NC], m. 01 SEP 1790 in TN? - nine other children listed for this couple, who resided for a time in Putnam Co, GA.


In 1828, James C. HOLLAND was sheriff of Muscogee Co, GA. [MARTIN, p. 15]


"Dec. 10, 1938 [sic - read "1838"], Jas. C. HOLLAND, Hardy C. SAPP, and Manoah D. ROBISON [were] Justices of the Inferior Court [in Muscogee Co, GA]."  ["History of Chattahoochee Co, GA," by Nancy Kate ROGERS (1933), p. 23.]


1860 federal census of Muscogee Co, GA:

HOLLAND, Hattie, Miss, p. 243