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According to info found in Harriet Bey Mesic’s book, Cobb’s Legion Cavalry; A History and Roster of the Ninth Georgia Volunteers in the Civil War, Archer Avery was from Columbia County, GA. He enlisted as a private in company A on 10/01/1864 at Augusta. He served previously as a private for six months in the State Guards, 10th Georgia Cavalry Regiment, company A. He was surrendered by Gen. Joseph E. Johnston on 04/26/1865 and paroled at Greensboro, NC on 05/01/1865. After the war he became a druggist in Atlanta. He died sometime before 1880.

You can see additional info about him on Find a Grave at http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=avary&GSfn=archer&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=68773426&df=all&. This shows he was born on 5 Oct 1947 and died on 12 Sep 1937.

After searching the records of the 10th Georgia Cavalry Regiment (State Guards), commanded by Lt. Col. John J. Floyd, I found Archer Avary listed as a private in company A, which was commanded by Capt. Milton A. Candler. Found in Avary’s CSR for the 10th Georgia Cavalry State Guards is the following:

This regiment served as local defenders for the portion of Georgia lying north of a line commencing at a point on the Chattahoochee River where the line between the counties of Muscogee and Chattahoochee strikes the river, running across the state along the Muscogee railroad to Macon; thence in a direct line to that point on the Savannah River where the line between the counties of Richmond and Burke strikes the river. Avery was enlisted into the State Guards by a Capt. J. D. Williams on 4 Aug 1863 at Decatur, GA. He mustered-out of the State guards on 2 Feb 1864 near Rome, GA.

Archer Avary’s Confederate Georgia Pension Application records can be seen at http://cdm.georgiaarchives.org:2011/cdm/search/collection/TestApps/searchterm/avary/order/title.

There was also a James C. Avary in company A of the 10th Georgia Cavalry Regiment (State Guards). I believe this man may have been Archer’s father, because if you look at the above Web site for Find a Grave, you’ll see that James Corbin Avery was the name of his father. If not, he was probably a brother or possibly a cousin.

The battle flag carried by Cobb's Legion Cavalry Battalion during the war is on display at the Augusta (GA) Museum of History (http://www.augustamuseum.org/).

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