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researched and written by Dr. Pam Wilson, Reinhardt University and Cartersville Downtown Development Authority History Task Force NOTE: More than 6000 historical African American profiles from Cartersville and Bartow County have been added to the Geni family tree database, but I've only tagged heads of family or notable family members (see list below) as part of this project. Many, many other n...
The Battle of Sandersville was a minor battle of the American Civil War November 25-26, 1864. It consisted of two skirmishes.On the eve of the Civil War, Sandersville was a dusty village nestled in east-central Georgia. With a population of about five hundred people, the hamlet was a typical small Georgian settlement with roots in the colonial period.When Sherman arrived in the village on Novem...
June of 1864, the Confederate Army imprisoned five generals and forty-five Union Army officers as human shields against federal artillery in the city of Charleston, South Carolina, in an attempt to stop Union artillery from firing upon the city. In retaliation, United States Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton ordered fifty captured Confederate officers, of similar ranks, to be taken to Morris Is...
Wikipedia =Great Locomotive Chase=The Great Locomotive Chase or Andrews' Raid was a military raid that occurred April 12, 1862, in northern Georgia during the American Civil War. Volunteers from the Union Army, led by civilian scout James J. Andrews, commandeered a train and took it northward toward Chattanooga, Tennessee, doing as much damage as possible to the vital Western and Atlantic Railr...
by B. H. Levy & Rabbi Arnold Mark BelzerCongregation Mickve Israel was founded by 42 Jews who arrived in Savannah, in the new colony of Georgia, on July 11, 1733. Having left London, England, five months earlier, the brave band of mostly Portuguese Jews and two German Jewish families sought freedom and opportunity in the New World.The first communal act upon landing in Savannah was the initiati...
Crawford Cemetery, Blue Ridge, Fannin County, Georgia, USA: ?
Elijah Clark State Park, Lincolnton, Lincoln County, Georgia, USA: Clarke Memorial State Park, 2959 McCormick Highway Lincolnton, GA 30817. Located 7 miles northeast of Lincolnton on U.S. Hwy. 378. The graves of Elijah and Hannah Clarke were first moved from their original burial places near Graball, Georgia (10 miles North) to a site on the Community House Grounds in Lincolnton, Georgia in 195...
The Evening Star Sank on October 3, 1866 ==== .........283 Parished ==Evening Star – On 3 October 1866, the Evening Star sank after sailing into a hurricane 180 miles east of Tybee Island, GA. Of the approximately 300 aboard, 283 perished. The ship contained lifeboats for only 60 people and not enough life vests for all on board. One group of survivors were picked up by a passing vessel and tak...
United States Senators from GeorgiaList of United States Senators from Georgia (from the U.S. Senate web site--no links) of United States Senators from Georgia (with wikipedia links)
The Second Battle of Dalton,August 14–15, 1864 :
Georgia Veterans Memorial Cemetery is located in Glennville, Georgia. Find a Grave