----- Original Message ----- From: Crilley To: GAMUSCOG-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 3:53 PM Subject: [GAMUSCOGEE] Creation of 1st GA Regiment Harris Hill is transcribing some of the news pertinent to the break out of the Civil War...we have more pages posted on-line http://www.rootsweb.com/~gaschley/newscsa.htm This is of such broad interest I wanted to share it....and please pass it along to other county lists or surname lists that would be interested. From the Atlanta Journal Constitution Sunday, April 7, 1861. iz GEORGIA FORMS NEW REGIMENT Macon, Ga.---The First Georgia Regiment, composed of units from all parts of the state, has assembled here on order of Gov. Joseph E. Brown. The Confederacy has decided to send it to Pensacola. Gov. Brown reviewed the troops and addressed them at Ft. Oglethorpe, a new camp, here Friday, declaring: ".....may the God of battles go with you and lead, protect, and defend you till the last foot-print of the invader shall be obliterated from the soil of our common country." The regiment includes the Gate City Guards of Atlanta and units from among other places, Augusta, Dahlonega, Cartersville, Bainbridge, Forsyth, Perry, Newnan, Sandersville, Columbus, Ringold, and Macon. Eight companies left yesterday for Pensacola in the Confederate service. The balance will go tomorrow. They are an interesting lot. The Bainbridge Independent Volunteers wear coarse flannel shirts and rough "Negro cloth," but the members are said to represent a million dollars of wealth. Some units have fancy names--such as the Perry Southern Rights Guard and the Sanderville Washington Rifles. James N. Ramsey of Columbus has been elected regimental colonel. The lieutenant colonel is J.O. Clarke of Augusta. P.H. Larey of Cartersville and George Harvey Thompson of Atlanta were chosen majors. Artillery thundered and 7,000 people shouted farewell at the Atlanta Gate City Guards, Etowah Infantry and Ringold Artillery--340 men in all--left Atlanta for Macon Monday. On the eve of departure of the Quitman Guards of Forsyth, citizens raised $1200 for families of the troops who may be in need during their absence. At Perry, $1200 was raised for additional military supplies. There are said to be 10,700 men in 214 companies in Georgia now. In Atlanta two prominent Georgia secessionists took an oppostie view of the crisis. "We will not have war," Mr. Thomas R.R. Cobb said in an address at the Athenaeum Monday night, unless the "folly" of North or South causes it. (He is not anxious for border states--including Virginia--to enter the Confederacy, he said, because their large abolition elements would endanger the Confederacy's future.) Mr. Benjamin Hill said at the Anthenaeum Thursday night: "The feeling in the North is growing stronger in afvor of peace. There is really no necessity for war, but if war does come we are prepared for it........The prospects of peace are growing brighter every day, and I believe we will have peace......." nd Virginia Crilley ______________________________