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The 6th Georgia Infantry Regiment was a regiment of the Confederate States Army from Georgia which was active from 1861 to 26 April 1865. Raised in Hancock, Dade, Houston, Butts, Crawford, Mitchell, Taylor, Baker, Twiggs, and Oglethorpe Counties and organized at Macon, the 6th Georgia was commanded by Colonel Alfred H. Colquitt, and it was attached to the Army of Northern Virginia. The regiment fought at the Battle of Fredericksburg, the Battle of Antietam, the Battle of Chancellorsville, and the Battle of Olustee, and it surrendered to the Union Army in North Carolina at the end of the war.

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