Would like to know what Lt. Col. Guyton accomplished to place as the top Field Grade Officer. He was a member of the Georgia Legislature and commanded two sorties along Halls Ferry road during the Vicksburg siege for which he was mentioned in dispatches. Nothing else I can see.

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Lieutenant Colonel Guyton, Cincinnatus Saxon-Elected Captain of Co. C, 2d Regiment,1st Brigade, Ga. State Troops October 12,1861 ; Major February 12, 1862. Elected Lieutenant Colonel of the 57th Regiment Ga. Inf. May 24, 1862. Captured at Vicksburg, Miss. July 4, 1863. Paroled there July 7, 1863. Present as Inspector and Mustering Officer January -February 1864. Member of Board of Examiners near Tupelo, Miss. January 22,1865.
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Missing from Military District of Georgia October 28 to December 7, 1863 attending Geo. Legislature as a Member

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At the redoubts on the Halls Ferry road, however, they had approached much neared, and were in possession of the foot of the slope on which one of the redoubts was constructed, about 70 yards distant, at which point they were shielded by the configuration of the ground from the fire of the work. Sorties were made upon this point at two different times. Lieutenant-Colonel [C. S] Guyton, FIFTY-seventh Georgia, commanding on each occasion, and on each a degree of success was attained, in the SECOND the enemy being badly beaten, leaving 8 or 10 dead on the field, and losing about the same number (one a lieutenant-colonel) in prisoners. It was finally deemed advisable, however, to leave the point to be occupied by them. At the time of the capitulation they had commenced to mine at this point, as also at another in front of the FIFTY-sixth Georgia. At the first named of these points we were constructing a counter-mine.
OR V24 Pt. 2 Ser. p. 107

ca June 22, 1863, Salient Point along Hall’s Ferry Road