Victoria Bryant State Park hosted the Georgia 24th Infantry Regiment reenactors over the weekend. This state park is located a few miles from Royston, Georgia near the South Carolina state line. This beautiful park provides activities for local residents as well as featuring camping facilities.

Two members of the Georgia 24th Infantry Regiment reenactors were there over the weekend with a typical Civil War camp setup to provide historical stories of this regiment as well as demonstrating the use of black powder weapons used during the Civil War and camp life of those soldiers. Roger Boles (left) has been with this group for seven years, and Frank Poole (right) has been a reenactor for seventeen years. Each year they spend a weekend at the park to allow the public to see what life was like for typical Civil War soldiers. 

  The Georgia 24th Infantry Regiment was originally organized during the summer of 1861 and recruited its members in White, Banks, Towns, Rabun, Gwinnett, Elbert, and Hall counties. It fought in the difficult campaigns of the Army of Northern Virginia from the Seven Days' Battles to Gettysburg , then moved to Georgia with Longstreet. It saw action during the Knoxville campaign before returning to fight in Virginia. There it participated in the conflicts at The Wilderness , Spotsylvania , and Cold Harbor , was active in the Shenandoah Valley, and ended the war at Appomattox.

In April, 1862, this regiment members numbered 660 effectives, lost forty-three percent of the 292 engaged at Crampton's Gap, and had 4 killed, 39 wounded, and 2 missing at Sharpsburg . It sustained 36 casualties at Fredericksburg , reported 14 killed and 73 wounded at Chancellorsville , and of the 303 at Gettysburg, seventeen percent were disabled. Many were captured at Sayler's Creek and only 4 officers and 56 men surrendered on April 9, 1865.  

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