Author: William S. SmedlundPublisher:
ISBN: 9780964576407
Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Camp Fires of Georgia's Troops, 1861-1865
Author: William S. SmedlundPublisher:
ISBN: 9780964576407
Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Camp Fires of Georgia's Troops, 1861-1865
Author: William S. SmedlundPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Of all the works relating to the War Between the States, not one is designed to record the camps of the men who spent most of their time in bivouac or encampments. More men died in various camps of disease and wounds from battle than died on the battlefield. Thousand of letters were written in these camps. Many have survived fires, floods, and the indifference of generations since they reached the homes of anxious friends and relatives. They record family history, the battles, the mood of the army, troop movements, activities in camp, the sickness, the death, and the sad and happy times whenever a letter was received form home. This book is an attempt to record the camps of Georgia's troops that were named in honor of the martyrs for the lost cause, prominent citizens, past and present leaders and those who gave of their time and resources to assist the men and boys in camp. Some were named for their location, and others reflected their moods or environment.
Remembering Georgia's Confederates
Author: David N. WigginsPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738518237
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Found on monuments throughout the South, the sentiment "Lest we forget!" represents the theme of Remembering Georgia's Confederates. Dedicated to the men and women who served Georgia when her heart belonged to the Confederate States of America, this volume remembers the state's Confederate past--a time of passion, devotion, honor, courage, faith, perseverance, sacrifice, and loss. Georgia, rich in its heritage, boasts numerous locales to visit, learn about, and remember its role in the Confederacy: the battlefields and their interpretive centers, the coastal forts, the prison camp, the world's largest painting, the world's largest Confederate memorial, a pair of locomotive engines, a number of Confederate cemeteries, and various homes, museums, and history centers.
Griswoldville
Author: William Harris BraggPublisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780881461688
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
"The story of the industrial village founded in central Georgia by Samuel Griswold, its antebellum prosperity and role in the war effort of the Confederate States of America, and its destruction during the march to the sea, together with accounts of the military operations conducted in Griswoldville's vicinity during the summer and fall of 1864."
Joe Brown's Pets
Author: William Robert ScaifePublisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780865548831
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
At the beginning of the Civil War, Georgia ranked third among the Confederate states in manpower resources, behind only Virginia and Tennessee. With an arms-bearing population somewhere between 120,000 and 130,000 white males between the ages of 16 and 60, this resource became an object of a great struggle between Joseph Brown, governor of Georgia, and Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy. Brown advocated a strong state defense, but as the war dragged on Davis applied more pressure for more soldiers from Georgia. In December 1863, the state's general assembly reorganized the state militia and it became known as Joe Brown's Pets. Civil War historians William Scaife and William Bragg have written not only the first history of the Georgia Militia during the Civil War, but have produced the definitive history of this militia. Using original documents found in the Georgia Department of Archives and History that are too delicate for general public access, Scaife and Bragg were granted special permission to research the material under the guidance of an archivist and conducted under tightly controlled conditions of security and preservation control.
Going Back the Way They Came
Author: Richard M. CoffmanPublisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 0881461873
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Details the organization of the Philips Georgia Legion Cavalry Battalion unit and its combat odyssey. This book tells the story of this battalion.
Requiem for a Lost City
Author: Sarah Conley ClaytonPublisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780865546226
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Requiem for a Lost City shows us the reality of Civil War Atlanta from the eve of secession to the memorials for the fallen, through the memories of a participant. Sallie Clayton would have been the same age as the fictional Scarlett O'Hara during the Civil War. Sallie Clayton's memoirs, however, are not a work of fiction but bittersweet reminiscences of growing up in a doomed city in the midst of losing a war. Although her memoirs provide invaluable detail on Civil War Atlanta, they also tell of her personal experiences on a plantation in Montgomery, Alabama, and in postwar Augusta and Athens. Sallie Clayton belonged to one of Georgia's wealthiest and most prominent families. Her memoirs are colored by the losses suffered by her family. Robert Davis's introduction to this work illustrates the background of the Claytons, Sallie's writings, and Civil War Atlanta, providing a balanced account of life at "the crossroads of the Confederacy." The introduction also provides a corrective to the popular, Gone With the Wind view of Civil War Atlanta.
A Southern Soldier's Letters Home
Author: Samuel Augustus BurneyPublisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780865548169
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Samuel A. Burney, born in April 1840, was the son of Thomas Jefferson Burney and Julia Shields Burney. He graduated from Mercer University (then at Penfield, Georgia) in 1860. He joined the Panola Guards, an infantry component of Thomas R. R. Cobb's Georgia Legion, in July 1861. For the next four years he served in the Army of Northern Virginia both in Virginia and in Tennessee. Burney was wounded at Chancellorsville in May 1863, and as a result of his wound he was placed in disability in March 1864 and served the remainder of the war on commissary duty in southwest Georgia. After the war, Burney returned to Mercer's school of theology, was ordained into the Baptist ministry, and served as pastor of several churches in Morgan County. He was pastor of the Madison Baptist Church until shortly before his death in 1896. These letters of a college graduate written to his wife, Sarah Elizabeth Shepherd Burney are lyrical and beautifully written. Burney describes battles, camp life, theology, and the day-to-day dreariness of life in the army. This is an astounding collection of letters for anyone interested in the Civil War, or the South.
Civil War Savannah: Savannah, immortal city
Author: Barry SheehyPublisher: Greenleaf Book Group
ISBN: 1934572705
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
An epic iv volume history : a city & people that forged a living link between America, past & present.
To Honor These Men
Author: Richard M. CoffmanPublisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780881460605
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Details the organization of a 'legion' and its combat odyssey. This book takes the reader through most of the major battles in the eastern theater of the Civil War.