Unknown Confederate Veteran
Plum Orchard Cemetery McIntosh County, Georgia Plum Orchard is a very isolated cemetery in rural McIntosh County, not far from Fort Barrington Park and Cox. Rozier is the most common surname in the...
View ArticleCaptain Daniel Webster Davis, St. Andrew’s Cemetery
Darien, Georgia 4 August 1825 (Charlestown, Massachusetts) – 15 February 1882 (Darien, Georgia) This is another bizarre gravesite at St. Andrew’s. Research I’ve done indicates that Captain Davis was...
View ArticleChurchill-Wilcox Mausoleum, St. Andrew’s Cemetery
Darien, Georgia This is the grand mausoleum of the Churchills, who came to Darien from England and whose daughter Edytha married William A. Wilcox, who came to the coast from Irwin County. He was an...
View ArticleRafaello Romanelli’s Christ, Bonaventure Cemetery
Savannah, Georgia Brigadier General Alexander Robert Lawton, CSA (5 November 1818-2 July 1896) General Lawton was also a President of the Augusta and Savannah Railroad, a President of the American Bar...
View ArticleLieutenant Charles. H. Law, CSA
Sunbury, Georgia This headstone was placed at Sunbury Cemetery by the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
View ArticleFort McAllister
Located near the mouth of the Ogeechee River in Bryan County, Fort McAllister was a Confederate earthwork fortification. Named for Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Longworth McAllister, who owned the...
View Article150th Anniversary of the Burning of Darien
Reenactors of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Encampment On June 11, 1863 the seaport of Darien was vandalized and burned by Federal forces stationed on nearby St. Simons Island. The town...
View ArticleFort Pulaski, 1847
President James Madison called for the construction of a fort on Cockspur Island as a reaction to the War of 1812. Though construction wouldn’t begin until 1829, the need to protect Savannah from...
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