St. Marys, Camden County, Georgia, Oak Grove Cemetery Inscriptions
Author : Saint Marys Womans Club
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Page : 170 pages
File Size : 32,91 MB
Release : 1954
Category : Cemeteries
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Author : Saint Marys Womans Club
Publisher :
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 32,91 MB
Release : 1954
Category : Cemeteries
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Author : Arthur N. Skinner
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 18,35 MB
Release : 2011-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0820342955
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 : Walter E. Ziebarth
Publisher : john ziebarth
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 43,77 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780966167504
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 12,94 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Georgia
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Author : Daughters of the American Revolution. Georgia State Society
Publisher :
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 39,17 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Archives
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Author : Federal Writers' Project
Publisher : Trinity University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 20,81 MB
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1595342095
During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors—many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures—were commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state’s unique flavor. The WPA Guide to Georgia describes the rich historical and cultural background of America’s Peach State. With varied and interesting photos, the guide gives readers a real taste as to what sweet southern living was like in the 1940’s, all the way from the top of the Blue Ridge Mountains down to the roaring Mississippi River valley.
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Page : 642 pages
File Size : 41,9 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Southern States
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Author : Daughters of the American Revolution. Library
Publisher :
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 29,37 MB
Release : 1986
Category : United States
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Author : James M. Rose
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 38,95 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780806317359
Designed with both the novice and the professional researcher in mind, this text provides reference resources and introduces a methodology specific to investigating African-American genealogy. In the second edition, information has been reorganized by state. Within each state are listings for resources such as state archives, census records, military records, newspapers, and manuscript collections.
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Page : 1516 pages
File Size : 26,28 MB
Release : 1979-02
Category : Delegated legislation
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