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Organized in 1836 under the command of Col. J. E. Brown, the Fort Gaines Guards was for 74 years one of the best and later the oldest military organization in western Georgia. Kept intact between wars, the Guards fought in the Indian and Mexican Wars. In 1861, 120 men under Capt. B. A. Turnipseed, as Co. D, 9th Ga. Regiment, Tige Anderson’s Brigade, Longstreet’s Corps, fought gallantly through the War Between the States, and of the original 120, only 13 remained to surrender at Appomattox. Reorganized in 1868, a detachment of the Guards under Lt. E. A. Greene volunteered service in 1898 in the Spanish-American War. The Guards were disbanded about 1910.
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Fort Gaines, Georgia · United States
