Mint 1/6th Plate Ambrotype of a 5th Georgia Infantry Armed Confederate Soldier
Spectacular Mint 1/6th Plate Ambrotype of a very likely 5th Georgia Inf Reb! Talk about wow! This is the holy grail of Confederate Image collecting! Double armed Reb with extremely likely tie to the 5th Georgia Infantry!
The 5th Infantry Regiment was organized in May, 1861, and for a time served at Pensacola. Its members were recruited in the counties of Clinch, Spalding, Dawson, Camden, McDuffie, Schley, and Upson. During the war it served under the command of J.K. Jackson, Talliaferro, and G.P. Harrison. The 5th participated in the campaigns of the Army of Tennessee from Murfreesboro to Atlanta, then served at Savannah and fought in North Carolina. This unit lost thirty-seven percent of the 173 engaged at Murfreesboro and fifty-five percent of the 317 at Chickamauga. It totalled 227 men and 137 arms in December, 1863, and had 256 effectives in March, 1865. In April it surrendered.