Quantcast
Channel: Vanishing Coastal Georgia Photographs by Brian Brown » The Civil War on the Georgia Coast
Browsing all 8 articles
Browse latest View live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

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 Article



Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Captain 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 Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Churchill-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 Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Rafaello 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 Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Lieutenant Charles. H. Law, CSA

Sunbury, Georgia This headstone was placed at Sunbury Cemetery by the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Fort 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 Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

150th 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 Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Fort 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...

View Article

Browsing all 8 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images