Camp Davis was one of three Camps of Instruction authorized in January 1862 by Governor Joseph B. Brown of Georgia to enlist men, determine fitness for duty, and train them for the Confederate States of America Army. It opened on March 2, 1862, and trained men from fifty-seven counties at a site 2.5 miles north of Guyton, Georgia, on the Georgia Central Railroad, where as many as 5,000 could drill at one time. Five regiments and one battalion were organized there: the 48th, 49th, 50th, 51st, and 54th Georgia Voluntary Infantry Regiments and the 11th Georgia Infantry Battalion, which became the 47th. The camp was used only three months and was never used again.