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In 24th Georgia (also called the Irish Legion) you can expect experienced leaders that likes to have fun above brainless training's or historical accuracy.
We will of course have trainings but they wont be mandatory if you ain't a recruit then you need to have 2 instructional training's before you get accepted into the regiment. In the 24th Georgia we want to be more of a community then a one game based clan, meaning we will be playing tons of different games and anyone in the clan will obviously be allowed to play with us. Because in the 24th Georgia we will put fun above all else and we will never leave anyone outside of the fun.
[shadow=black,right][size=20pt][glow=black,5,500]History[/glow][/size][/shadow]
The 24th Infantry Regiment with their 10 companies, was organized during the summer of 1861. It recruited its members from White, Banks, Towns, Rabun, Gwinnett, Elbert,Habersham, and Hall counties. The field officers were Colonels Robert McMillan and C. C. Sanders; Lieutenant Colonels Joseph N. Chandler and Thomas E. Winn; Majors Robert E. McMillan and Frederick C. Smith. After serving in the Department of North Carolina, the unit moved to Virginia where it was brigaded under Generals H. Cobb, T. R. R. Cobb, and W. Wofford. The regiment consisted mostly with people of Irish descent.
[size=11pt]Service Record[/size]
The 24th Infantry Regiment fought in the difficult campaigns of the Army of Northern Virginia from the Seven Days Battles to Gettysburg, then moved to Georgia with Longstreet. The 24th was not engaged at Chickamauga, but did see action in the Knoxville Campaign. The regiment returned to Virginia and participated in the conflicts at The Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Cold Harbor, and was active in the Shenandoah Valley. The end of the war found the regiment at Appomattox.
Soon after being mustered into Confederate service the regiment was moved to Lynchburg, Virginia. Within a week of arriving there, however, it was ordered to Goldsborough, North Carolina. There it joined the Department of North Carolina. The unit remained there until early in 1862. Returning to Virginia, the unit was placed in the Army of Northern Virginia. It served in that army until the summer of 1863. At that time it was moved to Georgia where it served in the Army of Tennessee. It next saw service in the Department of East Tennessee. In the spring of 1864 the regiment returned to the Army of Northern Virginia, remaining in that army until mid-summer 1864. It then moved to the Shenandoah Valley where it served in the Army of the Valley District. Finally, in December 1864, the unit returned to the Army of Northern Virginia, serving in that army for the remainder of the war.
[size=11pt]Colonel Robert McMillan, 24th Georgia Infantry: ‘A Gallant Irishman at Fredericksburg’[/size]
The Battle of Fredericksburg is best known from an Irish perspective for the doomed advance of the Irish Brigade. But a number of Irishmen faced their more famous countrymen from behind the stone wall at Marye’s Heights, dressed in Confederate grey. Chief among them was Colonel Robert McMillan of the 24th Georgia Infantry, who played a key role in repelling the Union assault. Robert McMillan was not a young man at Fredericksburg, having been born in Antrim on 7th January 1805. Prior to the conflict he had worked as a grocer and dry goods merchant in Elbert County, Georgia, and had served as a State Senator between 1855-56. He had been appointed Colonel of the 24th on 30th August 1861; his son also went to war with him, acting as the unit’s Major. After Fredericksburg McMillan unsuccessfully ran for Confederate Congress, and would eventually resign his commission on 9th January 1864. His military career wasn’t finished, however. He was later to serve as Colonel of the 4th Georgia Militia during the 1864 Atlanta Campaign. The Antrim native died on 6th May 1868 in Clarkesville, Georgia, where he is buried in the Old Cemetery.
Fredericksburg had been Robert McMillan’s finest hour. The Southern Press were quick to identify his performance in the battle, his Irish nativity and his role in repelling the Union assault. Less than two weeks after the engagement, on 26th December 1862, the Richmond Whig ran the following story about his performance in the fight:
[size=11pt]A GALLANT IRISHMAN AT FREDERICKSBURG[/size]
The following extract from a private letter will show that Meagher met his match at Fredericksburg in a gallant son of the Emerald Isle, Colonel Robert McMillan, of the 24th Georgia. We should like to see McMillan at the head of the lamented Cobb’s brigade, pitted against Meagher or Corcoran in an open field:
“But the rejoicing ceased for a time, and mourning sat on every countenance, as four grief-stricken litter bearers passed down the lines, bearing the heroic Cobb, who had fallen in the first charge of the enemy. Lieutenant Colonel Cook, commanding Phillip’s Georgia Legion, was killed at this period of the action. A fixed resolution seemed at once to possess every heart, to avenge the death-wound given to their General, and it devolved upon Col. Robert McMillan, of the 24th Georgia Regiment, to lead them in the effort. An opportunity now offered. A column, stronger and heavier than the first, was seen to advance. Flash after flash was seen upon the opposite river bank. Shell after shell fell around us, which were responded to from the heights in our rear. Colonel McMillan directed the small arms to cease until the enemy should come within musket range. The artillery continued its thunder, the musketry remaining silent, till the enemy came within fire of our shortest range guns. Soon leaden hail commenced pouring from the clouds of smoke before us. The Colonel passed along the lines surveying the movements of the enemy, when suddenly, at his command, the brigade rose and sent a volley into the ranks of the foe, which carried ruin in its way. Again and again was the assault renewed, and again and again was it repulsed, with tremendous slaughter. For the troops, the position chosen was an admirable one, but on the part of the officer who did his duty, there was required the utmost coolness and courage. This, Colonel McMillan certainly manifested. While he was passing along the line, waving his sword, and encouraging his men, they seemed to catch the spirit of their leader, and redouble their efforts, while his own regiment turned, in the thickest of the fight, and gave him three hearty cheers. He possesses the confidence of his troops. They love him, and, if need be, will follow him to the death. In the battle of Fredericksburg, he won a laurel wreath, to which fresh leaves will doubtless be added, when the tocsin shall again summon him to the field.”
[shadow=black,right][size=20pt][glow=black,5,500]Code of Conduct[/glow][/size][/shadow]
[size=12pt]The Code of Conduct are guidelines that all our members regardless of rank must follow.[/size]
- [li]Always listen to your officers during events and do not speak over them.[/li]
[li]Trolling of any kind will result in a permanent ban from the regiment.[/li]
[li]Be polite and respectful to all members of the regiment, including other regiments.[/li]
[li]During events, you should never kill or wound any member of the regiment or any other friendly regiment on purpose for any reason.[/li]
[li]No retaliation whatsoever. Any conflicts are to be reported to an officer.[/li]
[li]Also make sure to have fun![/li]
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Lieutenant - Lt
Second Lieutenant - sLt 
Sergeant Major - SgttMaj
Sergeant - Sgt
Corporal - Cpl
Lance Corporal - LCpl
Private First Class - Pfc
Private - Pvt
Volunteer - Vol
Musician - Mus
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