Noah Smith Culpepper enlisted in the “Franklin Volunteers”, Company G, 7th Georgia Infantry as a Private on May 29th, 1861 at the beginning of hostilities between North and South. He was present and engaged at the Battle of 1st Manassas, where a great portion of the 7th Georgia’s leadership became casualties. Noah rose up through the ranks until he was promoted captain of his company in February 1863. For the majority of the war, the 7th Georgia belonged to a brigade of Georgians commanded by General George Anderson, nicknamed “Tige”. When Longstreet’s Confederate Corps was sent to Georgia to aid the Confederate Army of Tennessee during the Chickamauga Campaign, “Tige” Anderson’s Georgians also made the journey.  By late November, Noah and the 7th Georgia were engaged in eastern Tennessee. On November 29th, 1863, Noah was shot in the left shoulder while his regiment assaulted Fort Saunders near Knoxville, Tennessee. He would recover only to be wounded again in the left shoulder in August 1864 at the 2nd Battle of Deep Bottom near Richmond, Virginia. Noah’s second injury to his shoulder kept him absent from the regiment until February 1865, but was present leading Company G, 7th Georgia during the Appomattox Campaign. At Appomattox Court House, following General Lee’s meeting with General Grant in McLean’s parlor, Noah was one of the 24 officers who surrendered with 164 men who remained in the 7th Georgia Infantry.