21st Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry
Army of Northern Virginia, C.S.A.
Sketches of Regimental Officers

Colonel J. Cooper Nisbet

J. COOPER NISBET organized and was made captain of Company H at Trenton, Dade county, and entered the service July 2, 1861. He remained with his company in the capacity until 1863, when he and Captain A. S. Hamilton organized the Sixty-sixth Georgia Regiment and Captain Cooper (sic) was made colonel of it. He remained colonel of the Sixty-sixth Georgia until the close of the war and surrendered at Columbus, Ga. He is still living an honored and respected citizen of Dade county.

JOHN B. COUNTESS enlisted as a private and was promoted to the captaincy when Captain Nisbet resigned, and served in that capacity during the war. He was a man who feared nothing on earth and was always a leader when danger threatened. No better soldier served the Confederacy than John B. Countess and no better citizen lives in Georgia to-day than he who is still living in Trenton, Dade county.

Copied from: Henry W. Thomas, History of the Doles-Cook Brigade Army of Northern Virginia, C.S.A. (Atlanta: Franklin Printing and Publishing Company, 1903), pp. 371, 425.