A friend, Guy Power, doing research on the Georgia Hussars, contacted me wanting information on the Ga Hussars flag. I had the Georgia Hussars listed as Company A, 5th Georgia Cavalry, while he had found information the Hussars were in the Army of Northern Virginia. It turns out the Hussars (a cavalry troop of Savannah, Ga.)divided into two different companies in 1861, with Company A doing service with Jeb Stewart and Company B with Joseph Wheeler. Both companies ended service under Wade Hampton in the Carolina Campaign of 1865. Below is a short service record of Company A. Information from: Pages 268 - 274, "ROLL AND LEGEND OF THE GEORGIA HUSSARS" (1906) BY, ALEXANDER McC. DUNCAN. Information in [ ] added from other sources.

In compliance with Special Order No. 179 under date of Sept. 4, 1861, from the Adjt. and Ins. Gen. Dept. "Co. A" Georgia Hussars, left Savannah for Charleston, S. C.; at which point they were handsomely entertained by the "South Carolina Rangers," Capt. R. J. Jeffords. Left the cars at Petersburg, Va., and encamped at "Fair Grounds," where they remained for three or four days, receiving in that place many kind attentions from the ladies and other citizens. From thence the horses were led to Richmond, the command proceeding by rail, going into camp near the Reservoir, where they remained until Oct. 17, 1861. In consideration of the fact that the company had placed itself in the field thoroughly equipped in every detail (except field transportation) the. government extended to them choice of assignment to one of two regiments of Virginia Cavalry (whose organization was yet incomplete) viz.: the Fourth Virginia Cavalry, Col. Beverley Robertson, and the Sixth Virginia Cavalry, Col. Charles W. Field. The officers of the company were unanimously in favor of the latter and on the 17th of October, 1861, the troop left Richmond and marched via Ashland and Fredericksburg for "Manassas," reporting to Col. Field, at "Camp Letcher," and was designated Co. E of that regiment, and were assigned to the right, of the regiment. Soon thereafter the cavalry attached to the Army (then commanded by Gen. Joseph E. Johnston), viz.: the First Virginia, Fourth Virginia, Sixth Virginia, First. North Carolina and the Jeff Davis Legion, were brigaded under command of Brigadier General J. E. B. Stuart, and the regimental flag of the Sixth Virginia Regiment, and the only Confederate Flag of the occasion, was that of the Georgia Hussars (stars and bars, still in preservation and in possession of the troop), on the first parade and review of the brigade near Centreville, Va. Early in December, viz.: on Dec. 13, 1861, under Special Order No. 260, Adjt. and Ins. Gen., Dept C. S. A., the Hussars were transferred to the Jeff Davis Legion, (Major William T. Martin commanding), composed of three Mississippi companies, viz.: Co. A, the "Adams Troop," Capt. W. E. Connor, from Natchez, Miss..; Co. B, the "Chickasaw Rangers," Capt. [James]2 Gordon, from Chickasaw County, Miss.; Co. C., the [Southern Guards]2 , Capt. Perrin, from Kemper County, Miss.; Co. D., the [Sumter Mounted Guards]2 Capt. John Stone, from Selma, Ala.; Co. E, the [Canebrake Legion]2 Capt. ______ Tayloe, from Marengo County, Ala. The Hussars were designated Co. F, and constituting the battalion, one of six (6) companies secured to Major William T. Martin his promotion to Lieut. Colonel. On December 16, the company was detached for duty with the Infantry Brigade of Gen. R. E. Rodes, near Davis Ford, on the Occoquon river, on right flank of the army commanded by Gen. J. E. Johnston. In January, 1862, the company, was recalled from this service and joined the battalion in Winter quarters at Fauquier, White Sulphur Springs, near Warrenton, Va. In April the battalion left the Springs and proceeded to march via Madison C. H. for Richmond and the peninsular of Virginia; and established camp April ___, 1862, at _______ Mill, near Yorktown, where the various regiments constituting the brigade of cavalry were, for the first time brought together in camp, having prior to this date been severally detached on isolated duty along the front of the army stationed at Centreville.
From this date to the close of the war in May, 1865, the Hussars continued to be a part of the "First Brigade of Cavalry," which became subsequently the First Brigade of the First Division of the Corps of Cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia. The itinerary of the brigade is the itinerary of the company, under its successive commanders Brig. Gen., J. E. B. Stuart, Brig. Gen.. Wade Hampton, Brig. Gem M.. C. Butler, Brig. Gen. P. M. B. Young, and Brig. Gen. Gideon J. Wright.

The first field officers of the Jeff Davis Legion were William T. Martin (formerly Captain of Co. A and Major of the Legion), Lieut. Colonel; and John Stone (formerly Captain of Co. D) Major. Colonel Martin being promoted Brigadier General ____, 1863, and assigned to the "Department of Tennessee, and Major Stone resigning in January, 1863, Captain J. Frederick Waring of Co. F (Georgia Hussars), was promoted Lieut. Colonel, and Wm. E. Connor (Captain of Co. A), was promoted Major. Previous to these promotions Captain Gordon of "B" Co; Captain Perrin of "C" Co., and Tayloe of "E" Co., had resigned. Major Connor was killed at Gettysburg, and was succeeded by Captain Ivey F. Lewis of "E" Co. (who had succeeded Tayloe in command of that company). In the summer of 1864 the Legion was increased to nine companies by the addition of three (3) companies from North Alabama (organized by Gen. Pillow). which became companies G, H and I, Captains Andrew P. Love, B. B. McKenzie and G. A. Roberts. The names of companies and places of locality not remembered. In the, winter of 1864 (on the disintegration of Millen's Battalion, (the Twentieth Georgia), which had arrived in Virginia in May, 1864, the Legion Was still further increased to the number of ten (10) companies by the addition of the second company of the Liberty Independent Troop, Captain Ben. Screven, from that Battalion, and from Liberty County, Georgia, which became Company "K" of. the "Jeff Davis Legion," and constituted with the Hussars, the Georgia Squadron of the Jeff Davis Legion, the other squadrons, the five (5) Alabama and three (3) Mississippi companies. From the date of its organization Richard E. Connor of Natchez, Miss., Was Lieutenant and Adjutant of the Legion. Dr. Wm. M. McPbeeters was its first surgeon, and was succeeded in _____ by Dr. Orrick Metcalf of Natchez, Miss. Dr. Durden; of ______ County, Virginia, was appointed assistant surgeon in _______, 1864. R. Miller McClellan was appointed Captain and A. Q. M. with Zeb Hearst, of Mississippi, as Commissary Sergeant.
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