Historical Sketch And Roster Of The Georgia 4th Infantry Regiment Reserves

The story of the Georgia 4th Infantry Regiment Reserves - and also the 2nd Reserves, 3rd Reserves and the Georgia 55th Infantry Regiment is tied in with the story of Camp Sumter - generally referred to now as Andersonville Prison. Other units that served at the prison, at different times, included the Fifty seventh Georgia Confederate Infantry, local Georgia militia units, the Twenty seventh Alabama Confederate Infantry Regiment, Gamble's/Dyke's Florida Artillery, and Furlow's Militia Battalion. The men of the 4th Reserves were caught up in the movement of the prisoners to Camp Lawton in advance of Sherman's March to the Sea, then to Salisbury, NC. They fought in the Carolina's Campaign and surrendered in North Carolina.