Allen S. Cutts

Allen Sherrod Cutts (December 4, 1826 – March 17, 1896) was an American soldier who served as a colonel of artillery in the American Civil War, fighting for the Confederacy.

Cutts was born in Pulaski County, Georgia on December 4, 1826. He was the twelfth and last child of Major Cutts, a farmer born in North Carolina, and Elizabeth Linsey Cutts, born in Indiana. Raised on his father's farms, he received a basic education before serving in the Mexican-American War as a sergeant in an artillery unit, from 1846 to 1848. Serving under Winfield Scott, he fought in bpth the Battle of Vera Cruz and the Battle of Cerro Gordo. After returning from the war he became a merchant in Oglethorpe, Georgia, moving to Americus in 1854. On December 17, 1854, Cutts married Fannie O. Brown of Monroe County, Georgia. They had six children: Claude, Clarence, Earnest, Allen, Inez and Eldridge. Outside of his business as a merchant, Cutts was a member of both the Freemasons and the Oddfellows. In 1861, he was a brigadier general for the Georgia Militia 2nd Brigade.

At the outbreak of the Civil war, Cutts raised a battery of Artillery in Georgia, known as the Sumter Artillery. The battery arrived in Virginia after the First Battle of Bull Run, and saw action at the Battle of Dranesville. In 1862 Cutts expanded the battery to a battalion, the 11th Georgia Artillery Battalion, becoming its commander. This work was rewarded with promotions to the ranks of major (May 22, 1862), lieutenant colonel (May 26, 1862) and colonel (April 22, 1864). The Battalion served in the Artillery Reserve of the Army of Northern Virginia under William N. Pendleton in the Seven Days Battles. It remained near Richmond, Virginia for a time, missing the Second Battle of Bull Run. Cutts' battalion fought in the battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, again in the Artillery Reserve; They also fought at Gettysburg, without Cutts.

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