Author: Gary Goodson
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ISBN: 9780965098618
Category : Georgia
Languages : en
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The complete battle history of the Georgia Infantry Brigade & nearly 7,000 northern Georgia Confederate soldiers of the 40th, 41st, 43rd & 52nd Georgia Infantry Regiments, commanded by Brig. Generals Seth M. Barton & Marcellus A. Stovall, American Civil War / War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, Army of Tennessee, Confederate States of America.
Author: Gary Goodson
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ISBN: 9780965098625
Category : Georgia
Languages : en
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The complete battle history of the Georgia Infantry Brigade & nearly 7,000 northern Georgia Confederate soldiers of the 40th, 41st, 43rd & 52nd Georgia Infantry Regiments, commanded by Brig. Generals Seth M. Barton & Marcellus A. Stovall, American Civil War / War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, Army of Tennessee, Confederate States of America.
Author: Gary Goodson
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Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Author: Gary Goodson
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Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 107
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Author: Richard Henry Brooks
Publisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780865548404
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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In May 1862, Richard Henry Brooks of Blakely, Georgia, enlisted in the Confederate Army for the duration of the war, serving in Longstreet's Corps. He would see his wife and family only once in the next three years. He would suffer hardship and deprivation, become hospitalized, participate in one of the grandest Confederate victories of the war, and be captured and held prisoner for almost a year. He wrote his wife Telitha regularly. He told her repeatedly to save all his letters, which she did, and they are published in this book. These letters give considerable insight into Confederate homelife in southwest Georgia during the war. Brooks gives Telitha advice on the daily details of running the household. He tells her who to go to for help, how to obtain enough corn and pork for the winter, how to handle their slaves, and what supplies to send him in the field. He advises her on the children and directs the children to behave. These glimpses into the homelife of Confederate Georgia grant us a clearer understanding of how people far from the battlefields were still affected by the war.
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Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 760
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Author: Arthur N. Skinner
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820342955
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
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Spanning nearly a century, the letters in this collection revolve around a central event in the history of a southern family: the death of the eldest son owing to sickness contracted during service in the Confederate Army. The letters reveal a slaveowning family with keen interests in art, music, and nature and an unshakable belief in their religion and in the Confederate cause. William Seagrove Smith was a private in the signal corps of the Eighteenth Battalion, Georgia Infantry. Smith was part of the force defending Savannah until it fell in late 1864, and then marched with General William J. Hardee in his famous retreat out of the city and through the Carolinas. Like so many other soldiers on both sides of the conflict, William Smith fell not at the hands of an enemy but from disease. He died in Raleigh, North Carolina, on July 7, 1865. A parallel and complementary story about William's younger brother, Archibald, also emerges in the letters. As a cadet at Georgia Military Institute, Archibald was (as his parents fervently wished) exempt from service; however, he ultimately saw--and survived--action before the war's end. Scattered among the many lines in the letters that are devoted to the two brothers are a wealth of particulars about agricultural, industrial, and social life in the family's north Georgia community of Roswell, the Smith family's flight from Sherman's invasion force, their lives as refugees in south Georgia, and a final reunion of the Smith brothers outside of Savannah just after the city's fall. Also included are a number of moving exchanges between the Smiths and the family that cared for William in his final days. A brief history of the Smith family through 1863 begins the correspondence, while the letters following the war reveal their fortitude in the face of William's death and the hardships of Reconstruction. The volume concludes with selected letters from the subsequent generation of Smiths, who conjure images of the Old South and revive the memory of William. Like the most distinguished Civil War-era letter collections, The Death of a Confederate introduces a personal dimension to its story that is often lost in histories of this sweeping event.
Author: Arthur Wyllie
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359885926
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 717
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Author: Gary Goodson
Publisher: Goodson Enterprises, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780965098618
Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 90
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The complete battle history of the Georgia Infantry Brigade & nearly 7,000 northern Georgia Confederate soldiers of the 40th, 41st, 43rd & 52nd Georgia Infantry Regiments, commanded by Brig. Generals Seth M. Barton & Marcellus A. Stovall, American Civil War / War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, Army of Tennessee, Confederate States of America.
Author: Alva Benjamin Spencer
Publisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780881460575
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Alva B. Spencer takes you through his personal experiences of grief, love, and the basic humility of things he was forced to do in time of war. Alva, who embraced the Baptist faith at a young age, graduated from Mercer University in Penfield, Georgia, and traveled some 175 miles by a ?two wheeled buggy? to teach in Dooly County, Georgia. Soon after, Alva entered the Confederate Army at the start of the war enlisting as a private in Company C of the 3rd Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry, leaving behind his good friend Margaret Lucinda Cone. This story is more than the Civil War; it is a developing love story. Alva and Margaret correspond from the very beginning. Spencer's letters carry us through the whole experience, from being wounded at South Mills, North Carolina, to the ?Chicimocomico Races? on Roanoke Island to collecting seashells at Nags Head, and the surrender at Appomattox Courthouse. Join Alva in a journey through his letters to his beloved ?Maggie.?
