Fain, John Simpson - Colonel.
Elected Captain of Co. G, 1st Regiment Ga. Inf., Regulars, February 1, 1861 . Resigned September 11, 1861 . Elected Captain of Co. K, 8th Regiment Ga. Inf., State Troops, November 7, 1861 ; Lieutenant Colonel December 14, 1861 . Mustered out at Savannah, Ga., May 1862 . Elected Lieutenant Colonel of Inf. Battn., Smith's Legion, Ga. Vols., May 24, 1862 . Transferred to the 65th Regiment Ga. Inf., March 1863 . Elected Colonel March 9, 1863 .
Resigned because of erysipelas of the face and scalp and neuralgia, June 20, 1863 .