The Twenty-ninth Georgia Infantry Regiment answered the second call for troops by the Confederate government and mustered an additional eight companies authorized by Governor Joseph Brown at Big Shanty, Georgia September of 1861. Two companies had been raised earlier that year and were assigned to  Georgia Infantry fighting at Manassas. Shortly after its formation the Regiment was assigned to the Department of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. The Regimental officers were Col. Randolph Spaulding, Lt. Col. Thomas Williamson Alexander, Major Levi J. Knight and Adjutants Lt. Greenlee Butler and George McRae. It was dispatched to Port Royal and arrived to take part in the Battle. There is little documentation but it is believed that eight companies were positioned on the beach to defend against a landing party while the other two companies were in Fort Walker manning the guns. With the fall of Fort Walker the Regiment made a hasty withdraw back to Savannah.

     1862 found little to document out side of being stationed in Savannah and Charleston. Elements of the 29th Georgia were engaged in the Battle of Secessionville in June. It was noted that 2 men were killed and 5 wounded at Pine Mountain, Tennessee in September. The year closed with 8 companies being sent to Jacksonville, Florida to engage a landing party of Federal troops in the city. Upon arriving, the Federals had evacuated the town and left the area unoccupied. The Regiment returned to Savannah but several were injured in a train accident.

     1863 was a notable year. The Regiment was sent to Cape Fear in January to prepare to an attack by a massive Federal fleet under Admiral Dupont. They were quickly returned to Charleston once the threat had passed. At that point Charleston seemed the more likely target, which was the case when the fleet attacked in April.  During the conflict, the Regiment was sent to Fort Sumter for its defense.     

    May 8 companies of the Regiment received orders to report to General Johnston in Mississippi and were assigned to that Army. They arrive outside of Jackson and began a march to relieve besieged Vicksburg. They were only a few miles from the city when word of its surrender was received. A reverse march was ordered back to Jackson.  They were only in Jackson a short time before they were attacked by an Army under Gen. Sherman. Though Gen. Johnston evacuated the city, the campaign ended after the Federal Army returned to Vicksburg.

    In August, the Regiment was ordered to Georgia where it was placed into the newly formed Army of Tennessee under Gen. Bragg. On September 19, the 29th Georgia was one of the first Infantry Regiments on the field for the opening of the Battle of Chickamauga. In two days of fighting the Regiment suffered 28 killed, 31 wounded. The losses are believed to be slightly higher however. The remainder of the year found the Regiment on Missionary Ridge before leaving with Gen. Longstreet on his Knoxville Campaign. The Regiment was recalled back to Chattanooga during the march and arrived the day before the Battles around Chattanooga. The Regiment played a notable role in rearguard actions with Cleburne’s Corp, saving the Army from total destruction.

    The Regiment went on a furlough December 31 and reformed in Dalton in late January along with the long detached companies. During the year  1863, the detached Companies were stationed apart, one company seeing action in Savannah, while Company served in Battery Gregg defending Fort Wagner against the attack led by the 54th Mass in July. Later they withdrew to Battery Cheves. There they spent time shelling Fort Wagner preventing Federal troops from repairing the fort.

     In 1864 for a brief time they were consolidated with the 30th Georgia until the detached Companies report back the Regiment. In the May the season open with Sherman’s Campaign to Atlanta. The Regiment took part in a number of the engagements during the Campaign; Resaca, Cassville, New Hope, Lost and Pine Mt. (GA), Kennesaw Mt., Marietta, Peachtree Creek, Atlanta, and Jonesboro. With the fall of Atlanta, the Regiment moved with Gen. Hood to the ill-fated Nashville campaign fighting at Murfreesboro, Franklin, Nashville, and Columbia Pike. The losses at Nashville exceeded 75, most of which being captured in a delaying action. Again allowing the Army to escape total destruction. The Regiment reformed in Mississippi and reported to General Johnston in North Carolina over the winter. It fought one last battle at Bentonville before being surrendered at Durham Station, on April 28, 1865 by Gen. Johnston as a Company in the 1st Consolidated Georgia Regiment. There were only 28 known men left in the ranks.