Civil War and Military Activity

Perceptions of the Great Locomotive Chase – Nikolas Kekel

2024-01-29T16:06:21-05:00

[1] The Memory of the Great Locomotive Chase from Atlanta to Chattanooga Nikolas Kekel   Abstract The Great Locomotive Chase is a prominent feature of the interpretive landscape in North Georgia. This paper examines the cause of the Chase’s popularity as well as how public historians have used the Chase [...]

Perceptions of the Great Locomotive Chase – Nikolas Kekel2024-01-29T16:06:21-05:00

Patriotism and Place: Community, Commemoration, and Confederate Identity in Civil War Bartow County – Matthew Gramling

2024-01-29T16:06:55-05:00

By Matthew Gramling The namesake  of a community can provide profound insights into the communal identity of its early residents and their relationship to the landscape in which they lived. Place names often describe a topographical feature, signify a kinship relationship to a particular locale, or commemorate a person, place, [...]

Patriotism and Place: Community, Commemoration, and Confederate Identity in Civil War Bartow County – Matthew Gramling2024-01-29T16:06:55-05:00

6 – Reconstruction Bartow County Following the Civil War – Dr. Keith Hebert

2024-02-26T13:50:34-05:00

Reconstruction Bartow County Following the Civil War By Dr. Keith Hebert, Assistant Professor, Auburn University At the end of the Civil War, John King, a Bartow County soldier who had served in the 40th Georgia Infantry Regiment and spent the last months of the war in a northern prison camp, [...]

6 – Reconstruction Bartow County Following the Civil War – Dr. Keith Hebert2024-02-26T13:50:34-05:00

5 – The Union Occupation of Bartow County – Trey Gaines

2024-02-26T13:48:29-05:00

The Union Occupation of Bartow County by Trey Gaines Throughout the summer and fall of 1864, Bartow County experienced firsthand the devastation of the Civil War.  Just weeks before, in May, Union and Confederate forces cut a path of destruction through the heart of the county, when over 150,000 troops [...]

5 – The Union Occupation of Bartow County – Trey Gaines2024-02-26T13:48:29-05:00

General William T. Wofford (1824 – 1884) – Joe F. Head

2024-01-29T15:59:41-05:00

The son of William Hollingsworth Wofford and Nancy M. Tatum William Tatum, Wofford was born June 28, 1823. He had two sisters, Rachel and Martha. The family ancestors were Revolutionary War heroes who had migrated to north Georgia to settle in the Habersham County area.  William’s father died when he [...]

General William T. Wofford (1824 – 1884) – Joe F. Head2024-01-29T15:59:41-05:00

General Pierce Manning Butler Young (1836 – 1896) – Joe F. Head

2024-01-26T16:48:13-05:00

General Pierce Manning Butler Young  (1836 – 1896) Pierce Manning Butler Young was the son of Carolina parents, Dr. Robert Maxwell Young and Caroline Jones both descendants of Revolutionary War patriot families. Pierce was born in South Carolina, but raised in Cass County, Georgia.   Dr. Young inherited his father’s South [...]

General Pierce Manning Butler Young (1836 – 1896) – Joe F. Head2024-01-26T16:48:13-05:00

1 – The Civil War Reaches Bartow County – Joe F. Head

2024-02-26T13:48:40-05:00

The Civil War Reaches Bartow County, Article 1 By Joe F. Head  (A Civil War Sesquicentennial Article Series by the Etowah Valley Historical Society in cooperation with the Bartow History Museum)  The Civil War first entered Bartow County on April 12, 1862, exactly one year to the day following the [...]

1 – The Civil War Reaches Bartow County – Joe F. Head2024-02-26T13:48:40-05:00

General Ormsby – Mitchel-David Dundee

2024-01-26T16:38:36-05:00

General Ormsby Mitchel The Unknown Mastermind Behind the Great Locomotive Chase By David Dundee Even though I am not a historian but an astronomer I have always been interested in history. Plus I have always had a love of trains. So I stumbled on a story that involves both astronomy [...]

General Ormsby – Mitchel-David Dundee2024-01-26T16:38:36-05:00

4 – The Civil War in Bartow County, The Battle of Allatoona Pass – Joe Head

2024-02-26T13:48:48-05:00

The Civil War in Bartow County The Battle of Allatoona Pass   By: Joe Head (A Civil War Sesquicentennial Article Series by the Etowah Valley Historical Society in cooperation with the Bartow History Museum) Bartow experienced a scattered patchwork of guerrilla raids, skirmishes, [...]

4 – The Civil War in Bartow County, The Battle of Allatoona Pass – Joe Head2024-02-26T13:48:48-05:00

1 – Bartow Burns and an Old Flame Remembered – Joe F. Head

2024-02-26T13:48:10-05:00

Bartow Burns and an Old Flame Remembered (A Civil War Sesquicentennial Article Series by the Etowah Valley Historical Society in cooperation with the Bartow History Museum)  Contrary to popular belief not all of Bartow was burned and not all of the burning was done by Union forces. Perhaps the greatest [...]

1 – Bartow Burns and an Old Flame Remembered – Joe F. Head2024-02-26T13:48:10-05:00
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