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Ancestral Burial Sites• Bell• Family Stories• Grayson• Yesterday
Laurel Grove Cemetery, Savannah, GA
A tour of family plots in a picturesque cemetery
Ancestral Burial Sites• Bell• Family Stories• Yesterday
Historic St. Peter’s Churchyard, Beaufort, SC
A story of two wives, a broken gravestone, and Catholic Beaufort.
I did it. I just uploaded my book manuscript. Better said, WE did it. It's a great feeling, even if it doesn't win a Pulitzer Prize.
The South Carolinians, "taken completely by surprise, fled precipitously in the utmost confusion."
The men marched north to join with the Army of Tennessee for what would be the last stand of the Confederacy.
"I’ve seen wheat and oats go down before the scythe, and that is the way the ranks fell before the hail of bullets.”
The BVA was assigned to guard the railroad, They would spend the next three-plus years out of doors.
The men of the BVA "gaily prepared for the coming conflict with patriotic fervor."
Our ancestors were slaveholders. That's a difficult thing to write.