...friends.My great, great, great (don't know exactly how many greats) grandfather Lott Ross enlisted in the Confederate Army in 1862 and served in the Army of Northern, Va., arriving there just after the second battle of Fredericksburg...
...northaugusta.net Confederate Powderworks ChimneyAt the beginning of the Civil War gunpowder supplies for the Confederate armies were insufficient. In 1861 Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, charged Colonel George Washington Rains...
...National Flag of the Confederacy, known also as the Stars and Bars. The government asked him also to design the Confederate Army uniform, which he did. Thus did Marschall play an unusual but significant role in the history of our country.I...
...McDonald (1847-1941) of the 4th Georgia Cavalry, and was no doubt helped by the fact that his father joined the Confederate army at age 13 and was mustered out in 1865 at age 16. TODAY'S JOKE: Here's one from Bill Wood in Hephzibah.A...
...committed to slavery -- was commemorated Thursday with the dedication of a new historical marker installed near the Confederate Army headquarters in north Georgia where Cleburne publicly floated the idea.It's one of roughly a dozen new markers...
...people are buried in other sections of the cemetery, including Nathaniel Savage Crowell, the medical director of the Confederate Army, and John Troup Shewmake, a member of the Confederate Congress.There is a section dedicated to 183 Union prisoners...
...with all 31 paintings by Conrad Wise Chapman, an American artist who grew up in Italy and later served with the Confederate Army.Launching the site culminates a decade-long, $25,000 effort to conserve the paintings and make them available...
...Connecticut in the mid-1800s and opened a bookstore in Elberton until the Civil War broke out and he joined the Confederate army.After the war, Whitney came to Augusta and became a cotton factor -- helping farmers grow and transport their...
...the mid-1800s and opened a book store in Elberton."He sold books, and when the war broke out, he joined the Confederate Army," Whitney said. "One of the things he was able to do was cross over the line with his Yankee accent and bring...
...is also false. In 1861, black abolitionist Frederick Douglass said, "There are ... many colored men in the Confederate army ... as real soldiers having muskets on their shoulders, bullets in pockets, ready to shoot down loyal troops...
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