Showing posts with label Georgia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Georgia. Show all posts
Sunday, July 26, 2026

Yankee cavalry torched Sope Creek paper mill above Atlanta. Now a nonprofit aims to preserve the stone wall of ruins in federal park along the Chattahoochee River

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Ruins: Chattahoochee National Park Conservancy, map from NPS, marker by David Seibert, HMdb.org In the days before Union Maj. Gen. William T...
Tuesday, July 7, 2026

At national battlefields, you can be a finder, but not a keeper. Kennesaw Mountain staff educates public about importance of precious artifacts -- and potential hazards

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Bullet found by James Pratt; Jake Boling with Napoleon shell, assorted artifacts, crowd at Gritters Library (Picket photos) A couple weeks b...
Wednesday, June 10, 2026

Atlanta History Center hopes to make an emotional connection with patrons through immersive 'More Perfect Union' Civil War exhibit, opening in mid-July

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Frock coat of  Benjamin Schumpert, a 17-year-old Georgia fatally shot in the head at Chickamauga in 1863; commemorative locket with a photog...
Wednesday, May 13, 2026

A trip to the lab: It was a thrill to briefly hold a conserved Enfield rifle and see one going into a preservation tank at Georgia state park. These weapons and 18 others were found in a blockade runner wreck. The goal is to put them on exhibit

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Josh Headlee prepares to place an Enfield in preservative dolution (top right); at bottom are a brass trigger guard and a piece of the woode...
Tuesday, May 5, 2026

Tossed from the saddle: RaceTrac's battle to build a gas station and convenience store at Georgia Civil War cavalry site loses second round at planning commission

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Work last month on the McAfee house at its new home in Cherokee County, Ga. (Civil War Picket photo) Concerns about gas vapors and traffic o...
Sunday, April 19, 2026

Quick hits: National Civil War Naval Museum director Brandon Gilland explains work on ironclad CSS Jackson's fantail in four 30-second videos. Check 'em out!

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Museum chief Brandon Gilland looks over pieces of the Jackson's fantail armor (Picket photo) Longtime followers of this blog know I have...
Friday, April 17, 2026

Georgia Battlefields Association meets at 'Great Locomotive Chase' depot in Dalton. Nonprofit based there will showcase its importance to commerce, culture and history

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Iconic Western & Atlantic Railroad depot in downtown Dalton (Picket photo) and locomotive General in town in early 1960s for the Civil W...