Welcome to 29th Georgia Volunteer Infantry, Company C's website. A member of the Georgia Volunteer Battalion (GVB), our Civil War reenacting unit is an organization of "living historians" who create authentic impressions of soldiers of the War between the States. We are an organization that exists for public education, preservation of our heritage and the enjoyment of our members.
Our members serve as Staff Officers with the 1st Infantry Brigade, Department of the Gulf.
The 1st Infantry Brigade is comprised of two Battalions; the Florida Battalion of Infantry and the Georgia Volunteer Battalion.
In order to stage reenactments with realistic battle ratios, our company also portrays the 16th US Infantry Federal forces. Portraying soldiers from each side gives reenactors a broader perspective of the war and shows the public that we are concerned with historical accuracy in our presentations.
"Comrades, through the years of bloodshed and many marches you were tried and true soldiers. So through years of peace you have been good citizens, and now that we are again united under the old flag, I love it as I did in the days of my youth, and I feel sure that you love it also.”
General Nathan Bedford Forest, C.S.A.
"In great deeds something abides. On great fields something stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear, but spirits linger, to consecrate ground for the vision-place of souls. And reverent men and women from afar, and generations that know us not and that we know not of, heart-drawn to see where and by whom great things were suffered and done for them, shall come to this deathless field to ponder and dream; And lo! the shadow of a mighty presence shall wrap them in its bosom, and the power of the vision pass into their souls."
Who knows but it may be given to us, after this life, to meet again in the old quarters, to play chess and draughts, to get up soon to answer the morning roll call, to fall in at the tap of the drum for drill and dress parade, and again to hastily don our war gear while the monotonous patterns of the long roll summons to battle? Who knows but again the old flags, ragged and torn, snapping in the wind, may face each other and flutter, pursuing and pursued, while the cries of victory fill a summer day? And after the battle, the wounded and slain will arise and all will meet together under the two flags, all sound and well and there will be talking and laughter; and cheers, and all will say,
"Did it not seem real? Was it not as in the old days?…"
Pvt. Berry Benson, 1st South Carolina Rifles Regiment, C.S.A.
Berry Benson's Civil War Book: Memoirs of a Confederate Scout and Sharpshooter*
*Berry Benson's Civil War Book: Memoirs of a Confederate Scout and Sharpshooter
Published in 1992 by the University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia 30602
(c) 1991 by Frances Benson Thompson
Originally published in 1962 by the University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia
