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Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgements Snovey Jackson: A Lost Voice From Milledgeville's Past General George P. Doles and his Monument in Memory Hill Cemetery Vanished Without a Trace: The Mystery of Agnes Fish, Confederate Soldier Benjamin Ward, Baldwin County's Last Confederate Veteran You Mean There Are Yankees In Here? The Brave and Triumphant March of Sergeant Bates The Misspelled Tombstone of Dr. Andrew J. Foard, CSA, Nearly Causes Him To Be Forgotten James W. Herty, United States Navy and Confederate States Navy The Courageous Captains of the Baldwin Blues, 1861-1865 Looking for Georgia's 1861 Secession Flag Two Milledgeville Men Join the US Navy During the Civil War Women Escape from Milledgeville Penitentiary Eyewitness to Sherman in Milledgeville [#1 of series of 6] The "Funeral" of Governor Joseph Brown [#2 of series of 6] Confederate Cavalry Rescue Women Assaulted by Union Troops [#3 in series of 6] A Doctor Keeps Wartime Smallpox Cases in Milledgeville Secret for Almost Forty Years [#4 in series of 6] Milledgeville Infects Savannah With Smallpox [#5 in series of 6] The Enemy's Plans and a Doctor's Word of Honor [#6 in series of 6] Brigadier General Bryan M. Thomas, CSA, Milledgeville's Forgotten General The Final Resting Place of Edwin Jemison Helen Dorth Longstreet: the Wife of General James Longstreet The Lost Flag of the 4th Georgia Regiment Simon Wheeler, Confederate Yankee Carlos Wilson, Soldier, Inventor, Businessman Women Riot in Milledgeville The Forgotten Confederate Soldiers of Brown Hospital "For Want of a Nail...." Tragedy and Disaster at Griswoldville Rufus Kelly, An Unlikely Hero A Yankee Replaces the Organ at St. Stephens Church Ezekiel Roberts: Physician, Highwayman, Convict and Captain Transporting Dead Bodies During the Civil War Son, That Leg Has To Come Off. The Confederate Monument on Milledgeville's Jefferson Street Georgia Military Institute Cadets Warren A. Moseley, A Confederate Soldier For Over Fifty Years David R. Snelling; A Case of Defection Milledgeville Through Yankee Eyes Index Preface The Civil War and Milledgeville, Georgia are indisputably linked. As Milledgeville was the capital of Georgia from 1804 to 1868, one cannot study the history of Milledgeville and ignore the Civil War. Equally, one cannot study the Civil War without considering the events and individuals connected with Milledgeville. There are aspects of the Civil War, as with all wars, which are objectionable and even offensive. To ignore the distasteful would be dishonest. One must see the good and the bad, the heroism and the cowardice, the altruism and the selfishness. It is my intention to tell the stories of people and events that are not generally covered in history books. They have been overlooked by others sometimes because they were considered too local for a broad sweep of history, or because the stories were unknown and forgotten. Readers of The Baldwin Bulletin will recognize some of these chapters as having appeared, perhaps in a somewhat different form, in my 'Round and About columns. However, many of the chapters were written especially for this volume. While many primary and secondary sources were used, a great deal of the information presented here appeared in the newspapers during and after the war. Much of the material for the chapters on General Sherman and Brown Hospital in Milledgeville came from Dr. Robert J. Massey's articles, which appeared in The Sunny South and The [Atlanta] Constitution in 1901-1905. The reader will not find in this book great truths or earthshaking historical revelations. What one will find is a collection of stories that are likely unknown to the average reader. It is my hope that the stories will be both entertaining as well as enlightening. Perhaps they will even encourage readers to do some historical sleuthing on their own. History can be fascinating and enjoyable. History can also demonstrate that the men and women of our past are not just dim figures on a far off stage. They are very much like ourselves with their own preconceived ideas, their struggles with decisions, big and small, and their living with the consequences of those decisions. Hugh T. Harrington Milledgeville, Georgia Acknowledgements I have been fortunate in having so many people contribute to the creation of this book. Some passed along leads to interesting stories. Others provided much needed encouragement, support and technical or research advice. A few supplied me with source materials and actively helped research some of the topics. I want to particularly thank Nancy Davis Bray, the University Archivist of Georgia College & State University, and Tammy Wyatt, Archival Associate, for their eagerness to supply whatever I needed in the way of sources or images; also, Mary Moore Jones, Head of Inter-Library Loan, for her determined efforts to locate Dr. Robert J. Massey's eyewitness accounts of General Sherman in Milledgeville. James C. Turner, Director, Old Governor's Mansion provided images. Eileen Babb McAdams has contributed many worthwhile suggestions as well as research. Alexa Filipowski worked with me on the Private Edwin F. Jemison chapter. Anne Buckner Burgamy, while acting as my consultant on all aspects of the Civil War, could not have been more helpful or encouraging. Others who have helped in many ways are Louise Horne, Betty Dawson and Floride Gardner. Pam Beer, editor of The Baldwin Bulletin, graciously included my column, 'Round and About in the pages of her newspaper. Most importantly, I want to thank my wife Sue. She proofread and corrected each chapter. She also worked her magic on the images. Her continuous support, help, encouragement and patience enabled this book to become reality. Without her there simply would have been nothing.
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Milledgeville (Ga.) -- History -- 19th century -- Anecdotes.
Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Anecdotes.