Tag Archives: {The Civil War in South Georgia}
Confederate Headstones, New Hope Cemetery
Private David Reed Rowell, Clinch’s Battery, Georgia Light Artillery 1845 – 1915 S. W. Lynes 29 April 1842 – 28 March 1921 (CSA Iron Cross/Southern Cross of Honor) E. B. Jones (CSA Iron Cross/Southern Cross of Honor) 23 March 1847 … Continue reading
Filed under --BRANTLEY COUNTY GA--, Hickox GA
I-75 Lollygaggers, Tift County
This is just off I-75 at the Sunsweet Exit. For an older view: http://vanishingsouthgeorgia.com/2008/12/21/southern-goods-willis-still-road/
Filed under --TIFT COUNTY GA--
Iron Cross of Private Henry T. Rogers
Pleasant Grove Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, Moultrie 1 January 1842 – 22 September 1903 Company A, 11th Battallion, Georgia Artillery “Sumter Flying Artillery”
Filed under --COLQUITT COUNTY GA--, Moultrie GA
Gravesite of Confederate Brigadier General Robert Lawton
Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah Alexander Robert Lawton (5 November 1818-2 July 1896). Mr. Lawton was a President of the Augusta and Savannah Railroad, Brigadier General in the Confederate Army, and a President of the American Bar Association. The sculpture was created … Continue reading
Filed under --CHATHAM COUNTY GA--, Savannah GA
Gravesite of Confederate Brigadier General Robert Lawton
Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah Alexander Robert Lawton (5 November 1818-2 July 1896) Mr. Lawton was a President of the Augusta and Savannah Railroad, Brigadier General in the Confederate Army, and a President of the American Bar Association. The sculpture was created … Continue reading
Filed under --CHATHAM COUNTY GA--, Savannah GA
Confederate Brigadier General Robert Houston Anderson Monument
Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah 1 October 1835 – 8 February 1888 An 1857 West Point graduate, Robert H. Anderson served at a New York state garrison and at Fort Walla Walla as an infantry lieutenant. At the time of Georgia’s secession, … Continue reading
Filed under --CHATHAM COUNTY GA--, Savannah GA
Crystal Lake, Irwin County
This postcard image shows the pavilion and beach at Crystal Lake in its early days as a tourist attraction, circa 1964. Well known to locals since the 1860s, Crystal Lake was originally known as Bone Pond, for Willis Bone, a … Continue reading
Filed under --IRWIN COUNTY GA--
Old Campground Cemetery, Toombs County
Founded Circa 1820 as a meeting place for circuit riding ministers, Old Campground added a cemetery in 1853. It contains some of the oldest graves in Toombs County. There are three Confederate veterans buried here, including Lt. Gordon K. Fort, … Continue reading
Filed under --TOOMBS COUNTY GA--
Zion Lutheran Church, 1872, Effingham County
http;//www.zionlutheranga.com/about-zion/history-of-zion/ On 8 December 1864, Major General William T. Sherman headquartered in this historic churchyard.
Filed under --EFFINGHAM COUNTY GA--
