The Decision to Abandon Cassville and Fall of Bartow By Joe F. Head (A Civil War Sesquicentennial Article Series by the Etowah Valley Historical Society in cooperation with the Bartow History Museum) As the war moved into north Bartow County, records show Confederate General Joseph Johnston retreating from Resaca. His [...]
A Quest to Locate Etowah’s Camp Foster Governor Joe Brown’s Bridge Guard Army By Joe F. Head Long forgotten and faded from the county’s landscape is a former Civil War camp that once existed to guard the Etowah River Bridge. Governor Brown stationed select troops at key bridges to prevent [...]
The Midnight Collision of the Chiefton and Senator By Joe F. Head The Great Train Wreck of Sunday, September 1863, may be more of Emerson’s exclusive claim to Civil War railroad fame than the celebrated 1862, Great Locomotive Chase that once raced through the old iron ore mining community. [...]
Uriah Stephens Kingston’s Voice of Resistance The Great Locomotive Chase Sesquicentennial Celebration by: Joe F. Head Copyright 2012 It might be argued that the Great Locomotive Chase” of April 12, 1862 was the first intrusion of the American Civil War onto Georgia soil, the first certainly into Bartow [...]
The Great Locomotive Chase Sesquicentennial Celebration It might be argued that the Great Locomotive Chase” of April 12, 1862 was the first intrusion of the American Civil War onto Georgia soil, the first certainly into Bartow County. It was the earliest event of a prolonged struggle between the north and [...]
The Heart of the Chase The Great Locomotive Chase in Bartow County By: Joe F. Head The General On April 12, 1862 Bartow County was first introduced to the American Civil War when the famed locomotive, The General raced through the county commandeered by Union Spies on a [...]
The Yonah Blows Again By Joe F. Head Those familiar with the April 12, 1862, Great Locomotive Chase know that the first of the three locomotives used to chase the General was the Yonah, a native American name assigned to the ninth engine put into service on the W&A RR. [...]
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Cartersville, GA 30120
Phone: 770-606-8862
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