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11th
Georgia Volunteers Infantry Regiment organized in the spring of 1861
and mustered into service in July 1861. The regiment obtained
men
from Fannin, Gilmer, Hall, Houston, Lee, Murray, Quitman and Walton
counties. The regiment was sent to Virginia and served first in the
Potomac District, then was assigned to the Army of Northern
Virginia. .The
regiment's winter quarters were at Center Hill, Virginia.
There was a great deal of illness that winter. Some
of the men were lost due to death and discharge.
11th Georgia fought in the various campaigns of the Army of
Northern Virginia, from the Seven Days Battles to Cold
Harbor,
excepting the period when it was with Longstreet at Suffolk, in Georgia
and at Knoxville. The regiment did not participate in the
Battle
of Chickamauga. After taking part in the siege of Petersburg,
Virginia south and north of the James River the 11th was active in the
conflicts around Appomattox. The regiment contained 573
effective
fighting men in April 1862, had 140 at Sharpsburg, and lost
65
percent of the 310 men engaged at Gettysburg. From 14 April to 6 May
the regiment sustained 110 casualties. From 1 August to 31
December 1864 there were 51 disabled.
The regiment surrendered
with 9 April 1865 having 16 officers and 176 men. Field Officers were
Colonels George T.
Anderson, and Francis Little; Lieutenant Colonels Theodore L. Guerry
and William Luffman and Majors Charles T. Goode, Henry D.
McDaniel, and Western R. Welsh. |
11th
Georgia Volunteers
From: The Georgia State Capitol Collection. |
This
flag was made in the spring of 1861 for the Walton Infantry, which
became Company H. The men's mothers, wives and
girlfriends
lovingly sewed the banner. In a ceremony on the courthouse
lawn
in the town of Monroe, young Hester Felker presented it, and 24 year
old Henry McDaniel accepted the gift on behalf of the company.
When the 11th Georgia Infantry was organized, its members
chose
the flag as the regimental color. McDaniel later sent it home
to
his father.
McDaniel served as governor of Georgia in the mid-1880s.
Among his accomplishments was creation of a
commission which oversaw construction of the State Capitol. |
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According to Walton County historian Anita Sans:
When
the Confederate monument on the courthouse lawn in Monroe was dedicated
June 1, 1907, sentimental veterans requested a re-enactment of the 1861
flag ceremony. Once again Hester Felker, then Henry
McDaniel's
wife, presented the cherished relic to him. This time their six year
old grandson, Henry McDaniel Tichenor was on hand to hold aloft the
historic banner.
Tichnenor's descendants donated the
flag to the State of Georgia in 1975.
*The picture of the flag and the
comments are excerpted from Confederate Flags in the
Georgia State Capitol Collection Editor, Paul
Ellingson, Office of Secretary of State
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