Editing Lowndes County, Georgia (section)

===Civil War===

No battles during the [[American Civil War]] were fought in Lowndes County. Several regular Confederate Army companies were raised from the population. Those included:
* Company I "Lowndes Volunteers", 12th Regiment Georgia Infantry.
* Company G, 26th Regiment Georgia Infantry. Also known as New Company G, 13th Regiment Infantry.
* Company D, "Berrien Minutemen", 29th Regiment Georgia Infantry.
* Company D, "Valdosta Guards", [[50th Georgia Infantry Regiment|50th Regiment Georgia Infantry]].

State Guard units included:
* Company B, "Lowndes Mounted Infantry" 11th Regiment Cavalry, Georgia State Guards.

In addition, two [[Georgia Militia]] companies were partially raised from the population in early 1864 following the reorganization of the militia.<ref>{{cite book |last1= Scaife|first1= William R.|last2= Bragg|first2= William Harris|title= Joe Brown's Pets: The Georgia Militia 1861-1865 |year= 2004|location= Macon, Georgia|publisher= Mercer University Press|pages= 304, 310|isbn=978-0865548831}}</ref> Those included:
* Company I, 11th Regiment Georgia Militia (which was also partially raised from the population of [[Ware County, Georgia]])
* Company I, 12th Regiment Georgia Militia (which was also partially raised from the populations of [[Mitchell County, Georgia]] and [[Talbot County, Georgia]])

Lowndes County also had a home guard unit, but it was only called into action once in the fall of 1863. In that instant some soldiers' wives in [[Thomasville, Georgia]] were threatening to break into a Confederate Government Commissary to feed their starving children. In April 1864 a group of women rioted at [[Stockton, Georgia]] after a local store owner refused to take [[Confederate States dollar|Confederate money]] in exchange for yarn. They took all the yarn in his store. At the same time, armed women stole a wagon load of bacon from a government warehouse. A mob of women also went on a rampage for similar reasons in [[Naylor, Georgia]] at about the same time.<ref>{{cite book |last1= Williams|first1= David|last2= Williams|first2= Teresa Crisp|last3= Carlson|first3= David|date= 2002|title= Plain Folk in a Rich Man's War: Class and Dissent in Confederate Georgia |location= Gainesville, Florida|publisher= University of Florida Press|pages= 85–87|isbn= 978-0813028361}}</ref>

In February 1864 members of Company I "Woodson Guards", 32nd Regiment Georgia Infantry camped overnight in Valdosta at an area south of the railroad while on their way to [[Battle of Olustee]] in northern Florida. It was to be the closest fighting came to Valdosta during the Civil War. Valdosta became a home for many refugees fleeing into south Georgia due to [[Sherman's March to the Sea]]. Among those refugees was the family of [[Doc Holliday]]. Other refugees came by the railroad from Savannah and the [[Sea Islands]].<ref>{{cite book |last= Shelton|first= Janes|date= 2001|title= Pines and Pioneers: A History of Lowndes County, Georgia 1825-1900|location= Valdosta, GA |publisher= Lowndes County Historical Society|pages= 142–149|isbn=9780877970347}}</ref>