The Civil War in Georgia Commemorating 150 years Civil War Georgia Sesquicentennial

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Carrie Berry

Carrie Berry (Photo Courtesy of The Atlanta History Center)

  • Carrie Berry
  • Horace King
  • Wesley Olin Connor
  • Mary Gay's book, Life in Dixie During the War, published in 1893, was thought to have inspired Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone With The Wind.
  • Susie King Taylor was the only African American woman to publish a memoir of her wartime experiences.
  • Kate Cumming is best known for her dedicated service to sick and wounded Confederate soldiers as a nurse in hospitals throughout Georgia.
  • Born into slavery, Tom Bethune had extraordinary musical talents and became a celebrated composer and performer.
  • Fort Benning, near Columbus, is named for Henry L. Benning, associate justice of Supreme Court of Georgia and a brigadier general during the Civil War.
  • Helen Dortch Longstreet, the second wife of General James Longstreet, is remembered as a Confederate memorialist, Progressive reformer, and local librarian and postmistress.
  • Lemuel Grant was a railroad engineer who designed the fortifications for Atlanta during the Civil War. He later donated much of the land for the city's first park, which is named in his honor.
  • Joseph E. Brown was the Civil War governor of Georgia and one of the most successful politicians in the state's history.
  • Henry McNeal Turner was a pioneering church organizer, missionary and eventual bishop for the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) in Georgia. He was also an active politician and Reconstruction-era state legislator from Macon.
  • Edward Porter Alexander served in 12 major battles and campaigns of the eastern theater of the Civil War. He rose to the rank of brigadier general, and after the war, he became a scholar, a businessman, and a writer.
  • Born in 1806 at New Echota in the Eastern Cherokee Nation of present-day Gordon County, Ga., Stand Watie was both a Cherokee Chief and Conferederate General.
  • This monument in Rex, Georgia, is dedicated to Melvinia Shields, a slave during the Civil War and the great-great-great grandmother of Michelle Obama.
  • William H. Carney, a sergeant in the 54th Massachusetts and the first African American to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor
  • Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy
  • Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Vice-President of the Confederate States
  • Robert A. Toombs
  • Edwin Francis Jemison
  • Howell Cobb
  • Brigadier General James H. Wilson
  • The Nancy Harts’ Captain Nancy Brown Morgan
  • Brigadier General Judson Kilpatrick
  • Major General John Schofield
  • General John B. Hood
  • Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston
  • Alfred Waud
  • Major General Joseph Hooker
  • General James Longstreet
  • W.H.T. Walker
  • Neptune Small was a slave from Glynn County in coastal Georgia, who accompanied members of the Thomas Butler King family to fight in the Civil War.
  • James Dunwoody Bulloch (1823-1901), the primary naval agent of the Confederacy in Europe and uncle of Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th U.S. president
  • Photo of John Wisdom, Georgia's Paul Revere
  • Eliza Frances Andrews (1840-1931) was a writer, newspaper reporter, editor, columnist, social critic, scientist, and educator.
  • Photo of John McIntosh Kell, taken at New Orleans, 1861, the day before the CSS Sumter sailed