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    24th Georgia Company B




    24th GEORGIA COMPANY B

    INFANTRY REGIMENT











    European based with a mature attitude within the community, historical and large battle events offered, preferred age above 25. When you're playing this game with our company you are representing who we are so please conduct yourself in a fitting way. You Must have a WoR identity company tool to submit an application to join. Some of our events do require set training and organization to maximize the experience. There are also times where we hold events for a more laid back experience.







    When a event has Been arranged dates and times will be sent though company tool and posted on discord, along with the type of even and all relevant information
    U.K time zone
    Saturday - 22:00
    Sunday - 22:00
    The training dates and time will increase in the near future
    The type of training will be decided by officers on the day, this may be rifle drills, marching drills, or anything we think we need to improve on.
    Also the numbers that attend a drill will depend on what we can do.







    The Georgia 24th Infantry Regiment, organized during the summer of 1861, recruited its members in White, Banks, Towns, Rabun, Gwinnett, Elbert, and Hall counties. 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, Wofford, and DuBose. It 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. Returned to Virginia it participated in the conflicts at The Wilderness , Spotsylvania , and Cold Harbor , was active in the Shenandoah Valley, and ended the war at Appomattox . In April, 1862, this regiment totalled 660 effectives, lost forty-three percent of the 292 engaged at Crampton's Gap, and had 4 killed, 39 wounded, and 2 missing at Sharpsburg. It sustained 36 casualties at Fredericksburg , reported 14 killed and 73 wounded at Chancellorsville , and of the 303 at Gettysburg, seventeen percent were disabled. Many were captured at Sayler's Creek and only 4 officers and 56 men surrendered on April 9, 1865.




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