The Georgia 1st Cavalry Regiment was essentially gathered from the counties of Meriwether, Floyd, and Lumpkin Counties in the fall of 1861, and organized at Rome, Ga. These men ended up fighting on their own farms and in their own homes as Sherman's troops ransacked northwest Georgia twice, once in the early spring of 1864, and again in the fall as he initiated the March to the Sea. Read the account of O. P. Hargis of Cassville on our werbsite. His farm was just adjacent to where I live a bit northwest of Cartersville. Companies, A, B, and C were organized and mustered into Confederate service on 4 MAR 1862 (28 May 1862). Following early skirmishes in East Tennessee, they took an active part in Bragg's Kentucky Campaign. Later they served in Pegram's Davidson's J. J. Morrison's Iverson's and C. C. Crew's Brigade. They fought at Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Knoxville, Atlanta, Savannah, and the Carolinas Campaign. They were surrendered with less than 50 officers and men by General Joseph E. Johnston at Durham Station, Orange County, NC on 26 APR 1865.