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PhidThe Civil War period is my main interest. It was the defining period that made the country what it is today. The government changed from a loose Federation of individual self governing states to the centralized all powerful goverment we have today.
From what I remember about this mine, there are numerous booby trap type impediments to explorations.A real mystery 😕 😕
The character played by Mel Gibson was a composite of two Colonials, Frances Marion(The Swamp Fox) and Thomas Sumpter(The Gamecock). The British reprisals against the families of the rebels were brutal affairs. Sherman could have taken lessons from them. Remember the incident where the Brits burned the church with all the people locked inside? Those type things actually took place. There were no POW camps as such for the Rebels to imprison Brits so not many prisoners were taken. BTW Sumpter and Marion both have Ga counties named for them although they fought mostly in SC.
I think you are right, Donnie. I have visited Kolomoki Mounds near Blakely Ga and Ocmulgee Mounds near Macon several times. Also near Eatonton Ga is Rock Eagle Park. There is a huge eagle made of stones laid out on the ground that can only be seen in total from a tower above the rocks. I wonder how they visualized the design from ground level?
That is a good story. Hard to imagine that the mail carrier was able to find the daughter after 90 years,
Jackson was as stated a deeply religious man. He had no tolerance of alcohol, gambling or immorality. He had an ongoing conflict with A.P. Hill and had him arrested twice. He did ,however, respect Hill's military abilities. An interesting fact about Hill is the reason he was absent sick so much during the war. When he was at West Point on one of his leaves he visited a brothel and contracted gonorrhea. This caused recurring prostatitis which incapacitated him at inopportune times. He had to be released from arrest to save the day at Sharpsburg by his timely arrival.
Jackson held the finger up because the tip had been shot off at First Bull Run and it throbbed when held down. He was a hard man on his own troops. He probably had more of his own soldiers shot for various offenses than any other general in the war. He was loved by his men in spite of this. At one point he wanted to have “Black Flag” war with no quarter given. He was overruled on this.
PhidYou were almost right. Morgan was her maiden name.Hart County was named for Nancy Morgan Hart, the "War Woman".During the Revolution, a group of Tory soldiers (differing accounts place the total number between five and seven) came by her house either looking for food or a Whig they were pursuing. The soldiers demanded that she cook them one of the turkeys in her yard before they left. She sent her daughter to the well for water and secretly instructed her to blow a conch shell to warn her husband and neighbors.She agreed to feed the Tory soldiers. As they entered the cabin, they placed their guns by the door and sat down at her table to eat. As they were drinking and eating, she was pushing their guns through the holes in the floor of her log cabin. After they had been drinking a sufficient time, she grabbed one of the guns left and threatened the men not to move. One ignored her and she killed him. Another made a move toward the stacked weapons, and was subsequently killed by Hart also. The remaining Tories were held captive until her husband, Benjamin Hart, and neighbors arrived. According to legend, her husband wanted to shoot the soldiers, but she demanded they hang. They were hanged on a nearby tree. Legend has it that she sang Yankee Doodle as they were hanged.Construction crews uncovered the Tory graves a few years ago.
I think we are already into the beginning of WW3. Except that instead of a nation to nation war it will be a war of terrorism by conflict of ideologies.
Apparently Ben just left his family and was partying in France for five years. He was quite the ladies man by all accounts
The colony of Georgia was definitely split over the revolt. A large number of the population were loyalists and there was a great deal of bloodshed.
I had an old friend, now deceased, who took part in BlackJack Pershings punitive raid into Mexico with the US Cavalry then was sent to Europe in WW1. He said he fired one shot at a German airplane that was strafing a train he was guarding. Another old hunting buddy , much older than me, was in the mechanized cavalry and was issued the obsolete Krag carbine because of it's short length. He “lost” it and had to pay for it. Amazingly he found it in his duffle bag upon returning home. He gave it to me before his death and it hangs on my wall as I write this.
Hard to imagine that people would ride around in a bag full of highly flamable gas with people shooting at them.
