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A. T. Blalock, age 18, Farmer, resident of Clayton, Rabun County, Georgia, enlisted as a Private in Captain Price's Company F, (Rabun Gap Defenders) 30th Battalion, Georgia Cavalry**, May 25, 1864 at Clayton, Georgia, to serve in North Eastern Georgia, last recorded as detailed to Headquarters of the District of N. E. Georgia, Athens, Georgia October 31, 1864, no further records

**This company subsequently became Company F, 11th Regiment Georgia Cavalry.

The 30th Battalion Georgia Cavalry,with the addition of four companies raised under authority of the War Department where the conscript Act could not be enforced, constituted the 11th Regiment Georgia Cavalry, by S. O. No. 271, A. & I. G. O., dated November 14,1864

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11th Regiment, Georgia Cavalry

11th Cavalry Regiment was organized near Athens, Georgia, in November, 1864, by consolidating the newly formed 30th Georgia Cavalry Battalion and four companies raised under the authority of the War Department where the conscript act could not be enforced. The unit was assigned to the Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, and served in M.W. Hannon's and R.H. Anderson's Brigade. It fought at Savannah, but many of the men were captured. In February, 1865, only 90 effectives were present and in April most of these were captured at Macon. Colonel Andrew Young, Lieutenant Colonel H.W. Barclay, and Major Madison Bell were its commanders.
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