22nd Georgia Infantry: The Rest of the War

Lt. Nesbit no longer served in the 22nd Georgia after his wounds on the second day at Gettysburg.  But the regiment continued to see action.

1863

July 23:  Manassas Gap     The regiment suffered 50 casualties.

October:  Bristoe Campaign

November-December:  Mine Run Campaign

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1864

May 5-6:  Battle of Wilderness     Lt. JosephW. Alexander captured

May 8-21   Battle of Spotsylvania Court House    Lt. Harrison Broadwell of Company A killed.

May 23-26:  Battle of North Anna

June 1-3:  Battle of Cold Harbor

--Old Secesh

22nd Georgia Infantry-- Part 6: The Battle of Gettysburg

This taken from the Wright Brigade Gettysburg monument.

JULY 2

Formed line here in the forenoon.  Advanced at 6 PM and dislodged Union troops posted near the Codori House capturing several guns and many prisoners.  Pushing on, broke the Union line at the stone wall south of the  Angle and reached the crest of the ridge beyond, capturing more guns.

The supports on the far right repulsed and those on the left not coming up on both flanks assailed converging columns threatening its rear it withdrew, fighting its way out with heavy losses and unable to bring off the captured guns.  

(This was the day William Nesbit was wounded.)

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JULY 3

Advanced 600 yards to cover the retreat of Pickett's Division.    Afterwards was moved  to the right to meet a threatened attack.

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JULY 4

In line here all day.  At dark began march to Hagerstown.

--Old Secesh

22nd Georgia Infantry-- Part 5: The Battle of Gettysburg

This was the battle that ended William Nesbit's service in the Confederate Army.

BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG

The regiment brought 400 men  to the field and lost about 160 casualties.  

Colonel Wasden was killed while leading the regiment in a charge across Emmitsburg Road on July 2.  Lt. Nesbit was wounded on the second day.

Captain George Jones of Company B was wounded and captured.  Captain Jeff  Leonard of Company D was killed.  Captain Joseph D. Foster of Company E was captured.  Captain Joseph  McAfee of Company I was  wounded and captured.

Captain Isaac  W. Callaway of Company  K was mortally wounded and captured.  

Adjutant J.D. Daniel was captured.  Lieutenant William H. Nesbit of Company E was wounded, losing his arm and captured.  (I am not sure Nesbit was captured.)

Lieutenant William J. Hall of Company was wounded and captured.  Lieutenants Oliver H.P. Beall and James L. Shirley of Company H were captured.  Lieutenant Charles  A. McAfee of Company I was killed.

This was a regiment that was very involved in the fighting, obviously.

--Old Secesh

22nd Georgia-- Part 4: Battle of Fredericksburg and Chancelorsville

These were the engagements the regiment was involved in while Lieutenant William Nesbit was with them.

December  13, 1862:  Battle of Fredericksburg  

APRIL 22, 1863:  Colonel Jones resigned due to disability from his three wounds.  Lieutenant Colonel  Wasden was promoted to colonel.

MAY 1-4, 1863:  Battle of Chancelorsville.

Lieutenant Francis M. Heath of Company H is killed.

MAY:  Assigned to Wright's-Girardey's-Sorrel's Brigade, R.H. Anderson's Division, 3rd Corps Army of Northern Virginia.

Captain John Jones of Company G was cashiered.

And, then came the Gettysburg Campaign.

--Old Secesh

Henry Haupt-- Part 3

**  Henry Haupt organized supply and troop movements during the Gettysburg Campaign.

**  He had permission to commandeer Virginia railroads, but now got control over those railroads in Maryland and Pennsylvania.

**  He was a big enemy of Governor Andew of Pennsylvania.

**  After the war, Haupt was involved in an oil pipeline and became very wealthy.

--Old Secesh

MCCWRT Meeting: Henry Haupt-- Part 2: The Railroad Guy

**  Henry Haupt was Lincoln's railroad man.

**  He was appointed to the USMA at West Point at age 14 and graduated at age 18.  He graduated in July and resigned his commission in September.

**  At the Second Battle of Manassas, Union General Pope needed troops.  But the question was, where were those troops.  These troops were with General Samuel Davis Sturgiss.  He kept 10,000 troops out of the action.

**  Haupt knew how to use railroads in a wartime sitiation.  The United States Military Rail Road was formed to make sure the railroads could help the war effort.

**  He rose to prominence during McClellan's Peninsular Campaign

**  He was especially good at building bridges, including the 400 foot long, 100 foot-high trestle over the Potomac Creek in Virginia.

--Old Secesh

MCCWRT October Meeting: Charlie Banks on Herman Haupt

The McHenry County (Illinois) Civil War Round Table (MCCWRT) met Tuesday, October 11 at the Woodstock Public Library.

Round Table News:

**  The MCCWRT attended the Civil War Show in Naperville last month and sold a whole lot of books (with the money going to out student scholarship).  We made $835 and $350 went to other vendors (we were selling them for a real good price).

**  Next month's meeting will not be on Tuesday, November 8 because of elections (voting will be at the library).  Instead, we will meet at 7 pm on Wednesday, November 9.

**  We will be providing Civil War speakers at McHenry County College for their continuing education retired program.  The programs will be on Thursdays at 1 pm.

**  There will be a Civil War living history program at Hainesville, Illinois, this weekend.  There will be Union and Confederate reenactors and the Battle of Shiloh will be recreated.  Lincoln, Grant will be speaking as well as others.  There will be a medical display and an embalmer.

--Old Seceh

McHenry County Civil War Round Table Discussion Group Meets Saturday: Civil War Technologies

 The McHenry County Civil War Round Table (MCCWRT) will meet today at Panera Bread in Crystal Lake on US-14 (Northwest Highway) from 10 am to 11:30.

Today's discussion will center on "Civil War Technologies."

The meeting will be in person and by Zoom.

All are welcome and we actually do stay on topic most of the time.

Come On Down.  --Old Secesh

22nd Georgia-- Part 3: Seven Days, Second Manassas and Antietam

June 25 to July 1, 1862  Seven Days Battles

June 25:  King's School House (Oak Grove)   The regiment lost ten men killed and 77 wounded.

July 1:  Battle of Malvern Hill   Colonel Harris was again wounded.  Lieutenant Samuel Smythe of Company A and Lieutenant Alexander Campbell of Company C were killed.

August 28-30:  Second Battle of  Manassas (Bull Run):  The regiment lost 13 killed and 50 wounded.  Captain Joseph T. Albert of Company K was killed.  Lieutenant  S.B. Treadaway of Company G was mortally wounded.

September 12-15   Siege of Harpers Ferry

September 17:  The Battle of Antietam   The regiment crossed the Potomac River at Blackford's Ford and marched north through the fields to the west of the town of Sharpsburg and took position on the far eastern flank of the Sunken Road.  The regiment may have had only 60 men on the field due to casualties and straggling.

Colonel Robert H. Jones took over the brigade as senior officer when General Wright was wounded, but was shot in the stomach and lung.  Major Lawrence D. Lallerstedt took over the regiment, but was himself wounded.  Neither Jones not Lallerstedt would return to command.

Captain W.F. Jones of Company  G was mortally wounded and captured.

--Old Secesh

22nd Georgia Infantry-- Part 2: Organization to Battle of Seven Pines

From the Civil War in the East site.

The 22nd Georgia organized at Big Shanty, Georgia, on August 31, 1861.  William Nesbit was one of the original enlistees.

It was under the command of Colonel  Robert H. Jones, Lt. Col.  J. Walter Pritchett and Major  Joseph  Wasden.

April-July 1862:  Assigned to Blanchard's Brigade, Huger's Division, Army of Northern Virginia.  They were brigaded with the 44th Alabama and the 3rd and  48th Georgia Infantry.

May 31-June 1:  Battle of Seven Pines

June 2, 1862:  Lt.Col. Pritchett resigned.  Major Joseph Wasden was promoted to lieutenant colonel and Captain Lawrence Lallerstedt of Company A was elected major.  Brigadier General Blanchard was relieved of command due to age and  performance and Col.  Ambrose Wright of the  3rd Georgia was promoted to brigadier general and took command of the brigade.

--Old Secesh

22nd Georgia Volunteer Infantry

This was Lt. William H. Nesbit and Private Albert C. Nesbit's regiment.

 From research online.

This regiment was formed from Schley, Glascock, Bartow, Lincoln,  Washington, Dawson and Henry counties.  Company E, to which they belonged, was formed from Forsyth and Milton counties.

The regiment lost 10 killed and 77 wounded at Oak Grove,

6 killed and 32 wounded and 18 wounded at Malvern Hill,

13 killed and 50 wounded at Second Manassas.

There were 400 engaged at Gettysburg and more than 40% were disabled, including William Nesbit.

It sustained  25 casualties  in the retreat from Pennsylvania and 50 at Manassas Gap.

It surrendered at Appomattox on 9 April 1865 with nine officers and 197 men.

This regiment was in the thick of it.

--Old Secesh

Civil War Days in Hainesville, Illinois, This Weekend

This weekend, a Civil War Encampment and Battle will be held at the Northbrook Sports Club in Hainesville, Illinois.

It will be Saturday, Oct. 15 from 10 am to 4 pm and Sunday, Oct. 16, from 9 am to 3 pm.

Admission and on-site parking is free.

Event highlights include:

**  Narrated military battles with infantry, cavalry and artillery  (They will be doing the Battle of Shiloh.)

**  Military and civilian bivoaucs and encampments

**  Period-dressed military, civilian & presenters

**  Special guests:  Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Lincoln,  Elijah Haines (founder of Hainesville), General Grant,  William Irving Kirk & Thomas Morris Chester.

**  There will be food and souvenir vendors on site.

See You at the War.  --Old Secesh

This Month in the War: Battles of Bristoe Station, Cedar Creek, Ball's Bluff, Mine Creek and John Brown

From the Ameriacan Battlefield Trust 2022 calendar.

OCTOBER 14, 1863

**  Battle of Bristoe Station, Virginia

OCTOBER 16, 1859

**  John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia), begins and lasts three days.

OCTOBER 18, 1859

**  U.S. Marines storm engine house at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia), and capture John Brown.

OCTOBER 19, 1864

**  Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia

OCTOBER 21, 1861

**  Battle of Ball's Bluff, Leesburg, Virginia  (This battle sure reminds me a lot of the Battle of Sheperdstown.)

OCTOBER 25, 1864

**  Battle of Mine Creek, Kansas

--Old Secesh

Private Albert C. Nesbit (William's Brother) Died During the War

From Find-A-Grave.

PVT Albert C. Nesbit

BIRTH:  1844, Georgia

DEATH:  19 July 1862 (aged 17-18)

Richmond, Virginia

BURIAL:  Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia

PLOT:  Soldiers Section,   Lot unknown.

Private, Company E, 22nd Georgia Volunteer Infantry.  Enlisted at Camp McDonald on 31 August 1861.  His CSA file states simply that he died at Richmond (not that he was killed).  He never married.  (He very well may have died from a disease.)

He was Lt. William H. Nesbit's younger brother who served in the same company and regiment.

--Old Secesh

MCCWRT Meets This Tuesday: Topic 'Herman Haupt: Lincoln's Railroad Man'

The McHenry County Civil War Round Table will be meeting Tuesday, October 11 at the Woodstock Public Library in Woodstock, Illinois, at 7 p.m.

Our speaker for the evening will be Charlie Banks on "Herman Haupt:  Lincoln's Railroad Man."

This will be in person and via Zoom.

There will be a pre-meeting meal/snack get together at 3 Brothers Restaurant on Illinois Highway 47 at 5:30.

All invited, so if you have a yen for Civil War stuff, this is where you'll want to be.

--Old Secesh

Lieut. William H. Nesbit-- Part 3: After the War

William Hoyle Nesbit was a lieutenant in Company E of the 22nd Georgia Infantry Regiment, Wright's Brigade.  He lost his arm at the Battle of Gettysburg, July 2, 1863.

He married Martha Curtis Grogan in the village of Alpharetta, Georgia, on December 14, 1865, where he taught school for a few years after the war and was engaged in the mercantile business.  Later he was elected  Clerk of the Court and served Milton County for eight years.  He was then elected  Ordinary and served in that post for sixteen years.

During his last term of office and for several years after, he was owner and editor of the Milton Democrat newspaper.  In this last work, he was associated with his son, G.A. Nesbit, as his publisher.

In 1892, he left Alpharetta and with his family moved to his farm in Cherokee County, where he spent the rest of his life.  Due to the loss of his left arm in the war,  he could not do manual labor, but was very successful  in bee-raising, gardening and stock-raising.

He was devoutly pious and had no fear of death and was buried in Hickory Flat Cemetery in Cherokee, Georgia, with his wife who preceded him.

Not Sure What an Ordinary Is?  --Old Secesh

Lieut. William Hoyle Nesbit-- Part 2: Muster Roll of 22nd Georgia Infantry

From Find-A-Grave.

Muster Roll of Co. E, 22nd Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry, Army of Northern Virginia, C.S.A.

Forsyth and Milton Counties, Georgia.

"Warsaw Rebels"

NESBIT, WILLIAM HOYLE

Private August 31, 1861.  Appointed Sergeant Major December 1861.

Elected 2nd Lieutenant and returned to this company June 21, 1862.

Wounded in left arm, necessitating  amputation, at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 2, 1862.

Resigned on account of wounds November 23, 1863.  Resignation accepted December 8, 1863.

--Old Secesh

This Month in the Civil War: Battles of Green River, Corinth, Perryville and Tom's Brook and First Union Ironclad

From the American Battlefield Trust 2022 calendar.

OCTOBER 3, 1861

**  The Battle of Greenbrier River (Camp Bartow), Virginia (now West Virginia)

OCTOBER 4, 1862

**  Second Battle of Corinth, Mississippi,  begins.

OCTOBER 8, 1862

**  Battle of Perryville, Kentucky

OCTOBER 9, 1864

**  Battle of Tom's Brook, Virginia

OCTOBER 12, 1861

**  The first ironclad in the U.S. navy, the USS St. Louis, launched in Carondolet, Missouri.

--Old Secesh

Lieut.William Hoyle Nesbit

  I wrote about this man losing his arm at the Battle of Gettysburg in the last two posts (in September).  Here is his entry in the Find-A-Grave site:

BIRTH:  12 July 1841, Georgia

DEATH:  28 June 1925, Cherokee County, Georgia (aged 83)

BURIAL:  Hickory Flat Cemetery, Hickory Flat, Cherokee County, Georgia.

William and Martha (his wife 1842-1922, also buried at the cemetery) had children George A, nesbit,  Mary J. Nesbit,  Anna M. Nesbit, Elizabeth  C. Nesbit, John G. Nesbit and Hugh M. Nesbit.

The family first moved to Alpharetta  in what was then Milton County, and later moved to Hickory Flat in Cherokee County.

--Old Secesh