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Photo Gallery: "Spalding Grays"
This sign is located at the armory next to the airport. For pictures of
the site, see the marker titled "The Fannin Avengers".
Marker text:
The Spalding Grays, as Co. D. 2nd Batt. Inf., was the first
military unit from Spalding County to be mustered into the Confederate Army.
It was followed by 8 regular and several militia companies. The Spalding
Grays have continued through the years as a unit of the Ga. Nat. Guard,
serving in war and peace, military and civil emergencies. Today it is Co. C,
48th Reconnaissance Batt., 48th Armored Div., Ga. Nat. Guard, whose
headquarters are in this modern armory, completed in 1956. The only earlier
military company from the county was the Fannin Avengers which served in the
Mexican War and has long since passed from existence.
126-7 Georgia Historical Commission 1956
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