RICHMOND COUNTY, GA - MILITARY Richmond Hussars

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"The Last Man's Club of the Richmond Hussars"
(The last man's club was for the Hussars of
WW1.


"From the time that now seems so long ago, when
this nation was struggling to find itself among
the great powers of the world, the perils of
world crises called for men of courage to
preserve and maintain the freedom which had
been bought at so great a price from Bunker
Hill to the trenches of Yorktown. The "Spirit
of '76" was still in the air in the 1790's when
a group of courageous and patriotic fighters
was formed into a unit to be known as -


THE RICHMOND HUSSARS (In later years this unit
became Troop "K" 1st Sqdn. Cav. N.G. Ga. Home
Station - Augusta, Richmond County, Ga.)


Available records indicate THE RICHMOND HUSSARS
were organized in the 1790s as a Troop of
Horse, Troop of Cavalry, Troop of Dragoons and
later were known as THE RICHMOND HUSSARS which
name continued with them until 1917 when the
troop of cavalry was redesignated, on War
Department Orders, as Co. C., 106th Field
Signal Battalion, 31st Division.


During the long period of their existence, THE
RICHMOND HUSSARS served in nearly all the major
and minor wars in which the United States
participated. During the War Between the
States, two units of THE RICHMOND HUSSARS
served in the Confederate States Army. One was
known as Company "A" Georgia Legion Cavalry, or
Cobb's Legion, Georgia Volunteers, and the
other was known as Company "B" Captain Young's
Cavalry, Georgia Legion or Company "I" (Cavalry
Battalion), Cobb's Legion, Georgia Volunteers.


In the Spanish-American War, the Hussars were
not called to service. During peaceful years
the Hussars were employed in time of labor
disputes and strikes. In March 1916, a
devastating fire occurred in Augusta. It
started near Broad and Eights streets and
destroyed practically all the buildings between
Broad St, Eights St. the River and East
Boundary. During and after the fire The Hussars
were called on to guard property and assist the
authorities."


In a Pageant Book for the Augusta Bi-Centennial
in 1935, I found this:


"In 1836 the Richmond Hussars, seventy sabres,
and the Richmond Blues, 106 strong, departed
from Augusta for the Seminole War. They marched
out Washington St. on their way to Savannah,
the town assembled to see them off."


In a History of Augusta book about the 1827
visit of Gen. LaFayette: The military companies
included the Richmond Hussars - Capt. Boisclair
Ga Blues - Capt. McKinne

[Michal F. Boisclair]

Additional notes:

1812 
BOISCLAIR	PETER		1 REGIMENT (JOHNSTON'S), GA MIL.	      PRIVATE		 20602

1830 Richmond Co Census
2     Boisclair      Michael  F                    pg0273.txt
Michael was the Census Enumerator

278  7     Boisclair      Peter F.                      pg0273.txt

1840 Richmond

Boisclair, Peter F.
1 male 40-50
1 male 10-15
1 male 5-10
1 male under 5

2 female under 5
1 female 10-15
1 female 30-40

Richmond marriages
LABUZAH, Barthomolew	Amerilla Forman BOISCLAIR	07 OCT 1813