It wasn't so civil...we've all got to remember. War is war.
I recently read a beautiful but harsh book "When the Crows Took Their Eyes" by Vicki Lane, another blogger. She is an accomplished mystery writer from nearby Marshall, NC. This book is historic fiction about the Shelton Laurel Massacre during the Civil War...with wonderful characterization of some of the real people who lived and died in that area, as well as one fictional character. It is griping, and I couldn't stop reading it, and indeed, I want to reread it again soon.
I'm reposting a post of 2017 in which I looked at the area of Georgia some of my relatives came from. My great grandmother (Zulieka Granger Phillips Swasey (Dear Nan)(1858-1935)was born in Fort Gaines GA, though her parents were settling in the east Texas area on the Sabine River called Town Bluff TX.
Fort Gaines GA ancestors
The Queen City loaded with bales of cotton, near a covered bridge, Chattahoochee River at Fort Gaines |
I've been researching how my ancestors from the south lived and died during the years of the Civil War and following.
So to talk a bit about Fort Gaines GA, where my ancestors the William Phillips Sr. and Samuel Gainer family lived as of 1850. Before looking at 1850, here's some background of the location.
The Fort at Fort Gaines, and to the right, the railing overlooking the Chatahoochee River/ |
Frontier village restoration at Fort Gaines GA |
The Second Fort: In May of 1836 the 88th Regiment of the Georgia Militia built a small fort in anticipation of an attack by the Creek Indians. The Steamer Georgian had arrived crowded with women and children fleeing from the Indian uprising at Roanoke upriver. The Steamer, Anna Calhoun was pressed for 5,000 pounds of bacon and 8 barrels of flour in order to feed the refugees and militia.
The uprising was quelled before the fighting reached Fort Gaines. This was one of the last major insurgences of the Creeks before their removal to the West by Andrew Jackson. That was also known as the Trail of Tears.
A covered bridge near The Queen City loaded with bales of cotton |
Coheelee Creek Covered Bridge, Early County GA |
Today's quote:
Be humble for you are made of Earth. Be noble for you are made of stars. |
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