From Confederate Military
History: The Fifty-ninth
regiment Georgia volunteers was organized with Jack Brown, colonel; C. J.
Harris, lieu-tenant-colonel; Bolivar H. Gee, major; W. A. Sparks, commissary;
B. F. Bruton, assistant quartermaster; H. Marshall, adjutant. The captains
were: (A) B. H. Gee, (B) John G. Collins, (c) W. H. Ficklin, (D) D.C. Smith,
(E) M. G. Bass, (F) James M. Rouse, (G) G. F. Brown, (H) Jack Brown, (I) E.
Cain (died), (K)C. J. Harris. The regiment served in the department of South
Carolina, Georgia and Florida, part of the time guarding stores and prisoners
at Macon; in 1863 was ordered to Virginia and assigned to Gen. G. T.
Anderson's brigade in time to participate in the battle of Gettysburg; was
then sent to Charleston, and soon after to Longstreet at Chattanooga, going
with him through the Knoxville campaign. Returning to Virginia in the spring
of 1864 it served from the Wilderness to Appomattox. The successors to the
original officers were: Lieut.-Col. B. H. Gee, Majs. C. J. Harris, M. G. Bass
and W. H. Ficklin, Adjt. M. F. Bass; Capts. (D) B. H. Miller, (E) B. L. Brown,
(H) F. M. Robinson and W. W. Train, (I) John W. Hutchinson, (K) F. W. Johnson and S. H. Gates. Col. Jack Brown started out
with the regiment and surrendered with it at Appomattox.
Bibliography-58th Georgia Infantry
- Confederate
Military History, Extended Edition.
Vol. 7: Georgia.
Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot,
1987.
for a brief unit history.
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- Crute,
Joseph H., Jr. Units of
the Confederate States Army. Midlothian,
VA: Derwent Books,
1987. for a concise summary of the
regiment's service.
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- Georgia.
State Division of Confederate Pensions and Records.
Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of
Georgia, l86l-l865. Vol.
4. Hapeville, GA: Longino & Porter, 1959.
Unit roster.
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- Jones,
Charles E. Georgia in the
War, 1861-1866. Atlanta,
GA: Foot & Davies, 1909. for
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