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.
The Fortieth regiment Georgia volunteers had the following officers: Col. Abda Johnson, Lieut.-Col. Robert M. Young, Maj. Raleigh G. Camp, Adjt. G. W. Warwick; Capts. (A) John H. Matthews, (B) John U. Dobbs, (c) Z. B. Hargrove, (D) Francis H. Hall, (E) J. F. Grooves, (F) John Middlebrooks, (G) Thomas J. Foster, (H) Joseph L. Nell, (I) Abda Johnson, (K) Alexander Murchison. On the organization of the regiment Captain Johnson was elected colonel. The Fortieth was assigned to service first in Tennessee, then in Mississippi; was engaged with distinction in the bat-the of Chickasaw Bayou in December, 1862, and shared the battles and hardships of the Vicksburg campaign, forming part of the garrison which surrendered with Pemberton. Exchanged in time to participate in the battle of Missionary Ridge, it bore an honorable part in the Atlanta and Tennessee campaigns. In the spring of 1865 it was consolidated with the Forty-first and Forty-third Georgia, retaining its own number, and after taking part in the campaign of the Carolinas, surrendered with General Johnston.
Company Organization of the 40th Regiment
Company A: Paulding County men
Company B: Bartow County men-Bartow Sentinels/Howard Guards
Company C: Floyd County men
Company D: Gordon County men-Calhoun Blues
Company E: Gordon County men-Gordon Infantry
Company F: Paulding County men-Paulding Washington Guards
Company G: Haralson County men-Haralson Defenders
Company H: Bartow County men-Veach Guards
Company I: Bartow County men-Bartow Rangers
Company K: Haralson County men-Haralson Invincibles
Bibliography-40th Georgia Infantry
Bogle, Joseph. Historical Sketches of Barton's (Later Stovall's) Brigade, Army of Tennessee, C.S.A. Dayton, OH: Morningside, 1984. Reprint of 1900 ed.Camp, Raleigh S. "Major Raleigh S. Camp's History of the 40th Georgia Infantry in the Vicksburg
Campaign." CW Regts Vol. 5, No. 1: pp. 45-91Confederate Military History, Extended Edition. Vol. 7: Georgia. Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot,
1987. See pp. 117-18 for a brief unit history.Crute, Joseph H., Jr. Units of the Confederate States Army. Midlothian, VA: Derwent Books,
1987. Ref. See pp. 107-08 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. 4. Hapeville, GA: Longino & Porter, 1959. pp. 341-425. Unit roster.
Herring, Dorothy H. Company A, of the Fortieth Georgia Regiment in Confederate Service.
Jonesboro, GA: By the Author, l988.Jones, Charles E. Georgia in the War, 1861-1866. Atlanta, GA: Foot & Davies, 1909. See p. 30 for an incomplete list of unit officers.
Sifakis, Stewart. Compendium of the Confederate Armies:...Georgia. NY: Facts on File, 1995.
pp. 251-52
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