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A Doctor, His Enslaved Man, and Georgia’s Union Circle (part two)
The devastation and upheaval created in the neighborhood near the Battle at Resaca gave people like Dr. Gideon’s enslaved man, Owen, their first viable opportunity to aid the Union cause. Owen Gideon was born into slavery about 1834 in Hall … Continue reading
A Doctor, His Enslaved Man, and North Georgia’s Union Circle (part one)
Dr. Berry Gideon, his wife, and seven daughters watched helplessly as flames devoured their home next to the Western and Atlantic Railroad, between the towns of Calhoun and Resaca, on June 18, 1864. Union soldiers allowed the family fifteen minutes … Continue reading
Posted in Antebellum South, Common Soldier, Slavery, USCT
Tagged Battle of Resaca, Georgia, Slavery
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Enemy on the Georgia Home Front
Wesley Shropshire returned home from the secession convention in Milledgeville, Georgia dejected and distressed. Once final passage of the secession ordinance was certain, most Union delegates changed their votes to give the measure more force, but not Shropshire. He departed … Continue reading
Posted in Antebellum South, Civilian, Western Theater
Tagged Georgia, homefront, Rome Georgia, Secession Crisis, Unionist
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Saving History Saturday: New Archaeology At Georgia Battlefields
Dr. Ryan McNutt, an anthropology professor at Georgia Southern University, will be leading a project to explore two skirmish sites from Sherman’s March in Jenkins and Burke counties. Up to this time, little archaeology work has been done at sites … Continue reading
‘Til Secession Do Us Part: A Citizen of Rome, Georgia Faced A Schism In Business, Life, and Marriage
ECW welcomes back guest author David T. Dixon The two-day pursuit ended in northwest Georgia’s Floyd County in early December 1864. Peter Sheibley lay writhing in pain, courtesy of a blow to the head from a Spencer rifle wielded by … Continue reading
Posted in Civilian
Tagged Georgia, Jack Colquitt, Judith Sheibley, Peter Sheibley, Rome Georgia, Unionist
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Book Review: “The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865”
nLet me say right up front that The War Outside My Window is NOT the feel-good book of 2018. In fact, it is just the opposite. The war is lost, the boy dies, and animals are harmed in the passing … Continue reading
The Final Resting Place of Lee’s “Old Warhorse”
Gainesville, Georgia, a town of 36,306 people at the last census, sits in North Georgia perched on the banks of Lake Lanier and straddling Interstate-985. Yet, in this Georgia town, lie the remains of James Longstreet, affectionately known during his … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Campaigns, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Confederate, Memory, Monuments, Ties to the War
Tagged Battle of the Wilderness, Confederate generals, Gainesville, General James Longstreet, Georgia, Gettysburg, Memory, Mexican-American War, Old Warhorse, Republican Party, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, West Point
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Battle of Kennesaw Mountain & Baseball
On a recent tour of Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park in Georgia, I toured the museum in the visitor center. Near the end of the exhibits was a wall of faces of people who fought at the July 27, 1864 … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Common Soldier, Emerging Civil War, Memory, National Park Service, Photography, Western Theater
Tagged 18th Texas Cavalry (Dismounted) Regiment, 35th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Abraham H. Landis, Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, Camp Chase, Commissioner Major League Baseball, Georgia, Kenessaw Mountain Landis, Kennesaw Mountain, Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park, major league baseball, Malcolm M. Hornsby, National Baseball Hall of Fame, National Park Service, Rogers Hornsby
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The Night That Decided the Confederate President
In February 1861, delegates from the six seceded states—South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana met in Montgomery, Alabama to craft a new nation. In order to do so, a leader, a provisional president, would be elected as the … Continue reading
Posted in Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Confederate, Memory, Personalities, Politics, Ties to the War
Tagged Alabama, Alexander Stephens, Confederate President, Confederate States of America, Florida, Georgia, Howell Cobb, Jefferson Davis, Mississippi, Montgomery, Robert Toombs, South Carolina, The Union That Shaped the Confederacy, Thomas Cobb, William C. Davis
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Modern Photography: A Trip to Ringgold, Georgia
Fans of General Patrick Cleburne go here all the time: Ringgold, Georgia – a historic borough in north Georgia, just a few miles below the Tennessee. Last summer I went there with Jack Melton, publisher of Civil War News and … Continue reading
