In a book called Footprints Along The Ohoopee page 100, it states....In early 1862 the Confederate Army needed aditional troops for the strggle in Virginia. On February 13, 1862, The Georgia Adjuntant General's office issued a call for all white male citizens between the ages of eighteen and forty-five not already in the srevice to volunteer by March 4 or be subject to the draft. This led to the formation of the "Emanuel Guards" also known as the "McLeod Volunteers". It was headed by Captain Neil McLeod, who stayed with the company until he resigned October 29, 1862. The company later became Company H , 48th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers Infantry. It surrendered with General Lee in 1865.
McLeod was a justice of the Inferior court of Emanuel...
I don't know if this will help or not but thought I would throw it out there!! Candace Smith