Walking Dead Wiki

Attention! Please be aware that spoilers are not allowed on the wiki and a violation of this policy may result in a ban. Information (character deaths/fates, screenshots, etc.) from episodes released early on AMC+ may not be added to the wiki until the episode officially airs at 9pm EST on the Sunday it is scheduled for. Thank you.

READ MORE

Walking Dead Wiki
Advertisement
Walking Dead Wiki


Kill them all.
Philip Blake to his militia as they attack the prison[src]

The Governor's Militia was a group of about thirty survivors from Martinez's camp formed to take the West Georgia Correctional Facility from Rick Grimes' group. They served as the primary antagonistic group for the first half of Season 4.

Pre-Apocalypse[]

Little is known about the members. Most of them are assumed to have lived in Georgia prior to the outbreak.

Post-Apocalypse[]

The group was initially formed by members of the U.S. Army Reserve that survived the fall of Fort Benning to the undead, including the ex-soldiers Pete, Mitch, and Alisha.

After the defeat of the Woodbury Army and desertion of Martinez and Shumpert, the latter started to become reckless and ended up getting killed by walkers, later being put down by his friend Martinez.

Martinez later encountered Pete, Mitch and Alisha's group, eventually becoming their leader. He did his best to manage the group and was doing well thus far, digging pits around his camp akin to Woodbury and sending out supply runners to keep the camp provisioned.

Two members of the group, the Dolgen brothers, became his main supporters and his right hand men. Mitch Dolgen, a former ice cream truck driver turned tank operator, stole a tank from the military base he was at and reconvened with his brother Pete where they would later be recruited by Martinez.

One day, while scavenging, Martinez, Mitch, Pete and Alisha came across Philip and a young girl trapped in one of the pits. The former lieutenant helped the pair out and brought them to his newly established camp. The two former Woodburians worked well with one another for a short time and soon began to come to grips with one another.

As time passed, the man under the guise of Brian Heriot began to have dark thoughts on the leadership of the camp and would later kill Martinez and Pete to gain the leadership of the group. Both deaths revealed to the members of the camps as accidents: Martinez was drunk and fell into one of the pits and Pete was lost in a supply run.

Philip would shortly after inform Pete's brother, Mitch, about his death and made him his right hand man, vowing that the two of them would do anything to keep the camp safe. The body of Pete was chained to a cinder block and dumped into a local pond, unbeknownst to Mitch, and he would reanimate submerged in the same way as the severed heads he had kept in Woodbury in aquarium tanks. A likely intentional way to reminisce and store the victims of the deranged, tyrannical Governor.

Time passed and with an incident at the camp which almost led to the death of Meghan, the Governor realized the camp was no longer safe and turned his attention to the prison. Philip would then tell the members of the group of how the group at the prison were liars and thieves and that they killed his daughter and burned down his camp that he and Martinez were at. He then revealed that he had captured two members of their group and that negotiations could be made with the group.

Though Lilly Chambler, the mother of the girl who was found in the pit with the Governor, was skeptical of the plan to attack the group, her sister, Tara, along with her lover, Alisha, agreed to attack along with many others and soon another spot for the camp was chosen for those unable to fight while the rest went out to assault the prison. Negotiations failed and a siege ensued, where they failed to take the prison. This was because most of their members were killed and hundreds of walkers were drawn to the scene. However, the prison defenders were forced to leave nonetheless, essentially causing mutual defeat. The militia's remaining members likely scattered, if there were any. Tara is the only known survivor.

Members[]

Formerly[]

Deaths[]

Killed Victims[]

Appearances[]

TV Series[]

Season 4[]

Advertisement