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Tag Archives: Phillips Georgia Legion
Regimental Histories: The Phillips Georgia Legion
To Honor These Men is the latest regimental history of a unit that fought at Fort Sanders. The rare portrait contains many diary and letter quotes from the veterans, maps and also a complete roster. The decimated legion led the … Continue reading
Attacking in column
The decimated Phillips Georgia Legion and the Seventeenth Mississippi led the two columns of Rebel infantry that attacked Fort Sanders. The arrangement, with the PGL at the head of the left column and the 17th leading the right one, was … Continue reading
The real Dalton Guards
Private Eugene Terrill Kingsley, 19, one of the real Dalton Guards of the Phillips Georgia Legion, who did not participate in the attack on Fort Sanders at Knoxville in 1863. This son of a Dalton, Georgia merchant (who is not … Continue reading
Rich man’s war, poor man’s fight
In a letter to his wife on Oct. 1, 1863, shortly before his division marched for Knoxville, Gen. Lafayette McLaws told how Gov. Brown of Georgia, who was then running for reelection, visited the Georgia troops in Gen. William Wofford’s … Continue reading
The Phillips Georgia Legion
The decimated Phillips Georgia Legion and the Seventeenth Mississippi led the two columns of Rebel infantry that attacked Fort Sanders. The arrangement, with the PGL at the head of the left column and the 17th leading the right one, was … Continue reading
