It seems that there are no other links on the internet to information about this regiment. I am posting some brief information from Confederate Military History and a bibliography on this regiment. I do this in honor and remembrance of the men who served with this regiment, lest they be forgotten.
Of the Sixty-sixth Georgia regiment, the following officers are all of whom a record has been obtained: Col. J. C. Nisbet; Capts. A. H. Reid, Company F; G. V. Hall, Company G, and J. Thornton, Company I. But Capt. Thomas L. Langston is mentioned in the reports of July and August, 1864, as ranking captain in command. This regiment served in the Atlanta and Tennessee campaigns, losing heavily in the battle of July 22d, at Atlanta, and again in the battle of Nashville, where with the First Georgia Confederate it was led by Lieut.-Col. James C. Gordon. In the spring of 1865 these two regiments were consolidated with the First battalion sharpshooters and the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth regiments, under the name of the First Georgia Confederate battalion. Under General Johnston it participated in the campaign of the Carolinas, laying down its arms near Goldsboro, April 26, 1865.
66th Regiment drew men from these counties:
Company A: Bibb and other counties
Company B: Dekalb and other counties
Company C: Newton and other counties
Company D: Bibb and Jones Counties-Mangham Infantry
Company E: Dekalb and other counties
Company F: Putnam and other counties
Company G: Greene, Morgan and other counties
Company H: Dekalb and other counties
Company I: Clarke, Madison, and other counties
Company K: Filled with men from miscellaneous counties
Bibliography- 66th Georgia Infantry
This regiment was composed primarily of conscripts taken from the Camps of Instruction at Decatur, Ga., and Macon, Ga. The companies appear to have been organized at various times in August and September, 1863, and formed into a regiment on October 13, 1863. For a time the regiment was at Camp Cobb, Quincy, Fl, but was made a part of General Johnston's Army of Tennessee soon thereafter and served with this command to the end of the war. In February or March 1865, the regiment merged into the newly organized 1st Battalion Confederate Infantry, of which only fragmentary records exist.
Confederate Military History, Extended Edition. Vol. 7: Georgia. Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot,
1987. See p. 133 for a brief unit history.Crute, Joseph H., Jr. Units of the Confederate States Army. Midlothian, VA: Derwent Books,
1987. Ref. See p. 117 for a concise summary of the regiment's service.Georgia State Division of Confederate Pensions and Records. Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of
Georgia, l86l-l865. Vol. 6. Hapeville, GA: Longino & Porter, 1959. pp. 693-771. Unit roster.
Jones, Charles E. Georgia in the War, 1861-1866. Atlanta, GA: Foot & Davies, 1909. See p. 34 for an incomplete list of unit officers.Nisbet, James C. 4 Years on the Firing Line. [Ed. by Bell I. Wiley] Jackson, TN: McCowat- Mercer, 1963.
Sifakis, Stewart. Compendium of the Confederate Armies:...Georgia. NY: Facts on File, 1995.
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