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As the caravan of carnage neared the University of Virginia, townspeople rushed to the wagons to administer what relief they could to the wounded Confederate soldiers. Groans and incoherent mumblings of delirium rose and ebbed as the wagons bumped and swayed along the rutted road. Aid workers gagged and grimaced, assaulted by the stench...
Ivan Frantz Jr. filled out an application in December to apply for an official government headstone for an unknown Confederate soldier buried in Hellam Township. In the spot for the name, Frantz wrote “Unknown Confederate Soldier.” He put down “unknown” for the date of birth and June 1863 for the date of death. Frantz...
GRAHAM — The Colonel Charles F. Fisher Camp of the Sons of Confederate Veterans will host an observance of Confederate Memorial Day on Court Square on Saturday. The event will begin at 9 a.m. by parading from the County Courthouse to lay a wreath at the memorial wall at the Criminal Courts Building. This...
Confederate History Month, which was celebrated in April, is significant as it is the month the War Between the States began in 1861 and the year it ended in 1865. Gen. Robert E. Lee said, “Duty is the sublimest word in the English language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more....
150 years ago, part of history was written right in our own backyard. “When you think of the Civil War, you think of Virginia and South Carolina, you don’t think of Elmira, NY. But it had a big impact on this community and that state,” said Bob Roe of the Chemung Valley Living History...
Corsicana — The John H. Reagan Camp #2156 of the Sons of the Confederate Veterans, located in Palestine will be hosting three separate Confederate Grave Marker Dedication Ceremonies on Saturday, May 5, 2012 beginning at 10 a.m. at the Bonner Cemetery, then 12:30 p.m. at the Hopson Burleson Memorial Cemetery, and another at 4...
Five of Georgia’s Confederate Generals are buried atAtlanta’s Oakland Cemetery. Three Generals can be found resting in the Confederate Generals section….. John Brown Gordon (1832-1904) was a native of Upson County and Major General, Confederate States Army. It has been said that General Gordon was one of General Lee’s most trusted and outstanding officers. ...
Forsyth County’s Confederate heritage was honored by members of the Col. Hiram Parks Bell Chapter 2641 United Daughters of the Confederacy. On Saturday, members of the organization held a Confederate Memorial Day service in conjunction with the local Sons of Confederate Veterans chapter at Zion Hill Baptist Church in north Forsyth. Several members of...
Members of the Jones County Rosen Hills Color Guard posted the colors Monday on the front lawn of the Lauderdale County court house during Confederate Memorial Day ceremonies. Members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and the United Daughters of the Confederacy remembered those who fell in the Civil War. W. D. Cameron Camp...
Augusta’s West View Cemetery is a resting place for 68 Confederate soldiers. They are not gathered in a tidy group like other places, instead they are scattered about the large public graveyard between Harrisburg and Lake Olmstead. “The soldiers buried here are the survivors,” said Kelli Spearman, a descendent of two Confederate soldiers buried...
