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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. ...
A Georgia bar owner has sparked outrage by displaying a sign outside his establishment calling Barack Obama a ‘n***er’. Patrick Lanzo, of Paulding County, insists that the sign beside the Georgia Peach Oyster Bar is not racist and is simply a political protest over the President’s policies. Yet the owner advertises his drinking hole as a...
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...
Learn to fight in the Civil War as a reenactor this Saturday, April 21, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the Framingham Centre Common. The training is in advance of the Civil War encampment scheduled for May 4-6 on the Framingham Centre Common. Sponsored by the 12th Georgia Volunteer Infantry and the Framingham...
Did you know that the first Memorial Dayin America was held in the South in honor of both the soldiers of Union Blue and Confederate Gray? Some folks call the War Between the States, 1861-1865, a lost cause but stories of the heroic- brave men and women who stood for Southern Independence...
April is Confederate History and Heritage Month. This proclamation was signed by former Georgia Governor Perdue as well as the Senate and House of Representatives in Senate Bill #27. That bill was signed in 2009 and took effect for the first time in April 2010. “One Hundred and Fifty One years ago the State...
RICHMOND HILL, Ga. — As Fort McAllister fell to the Union Army of Gen. William T. Sherman days before Christmas in 1864, one of his artillery officers seized the Confederate flag of a vanquished company of Georgia riflemen. The officer carried the silk banner home to Maine as a souvenir, and it stayed in his...
KENNESAW — A rare Confederate battle flag recently returned home to Cobb County following repairs in West Virginia. In February 2010, the 65th Georgia Infantry flag — complete with 41 bullet holes and blood stains — first came into the possession of Kennesaw’s Southern Museum of Civil War & Locomotive History. After a thorough...
Residents in a Suburban Georgia town were in for a surprise when they recently found, not the daily paper, but a flyer recruiting for the Ku Klux Klan in their yard. The flyers were left in plastic bags in a Newnan subdivision. It featured a drawing of a Klan member in a hood and read, “Neighborhood...
The final resting place of some of the city’s most distinguished citizens is getting a facelift — along its back side. Up until recently, historic Linwood Cemetery has been surrounded on two sides by black wrought iron fencing, topped with sharp spires. And since 1957, the back two sides of the cemetery, which run...
