Longstreet memorial service Sunday

The Sons of Confederate Veterans #1860, the Blue Ridge Rifles, and the Longstreet Society will remember Gen. James Longstreet on Sunday, Jan. 6. The annual memorial service is set for 2 p.m. at Alta Vista Cemetery in Gainesville, Ga., where the general lived his last years until his death in 1904. The public is welcome to the event and an open house that follows at the Longstreet Society's headquarters, the old Piedmont Hotel, 827 Maple St., Gainesville, after the service. Refreshments will be served. Call 770-539-9005 for more information. • More about the Longstreet Society

SCV camp installs Stone Mtn. headstones

For years, unknown Confederate soldiers who died of disease and wounds at hospitals in the village of Stone Mountain, Ga., rested under stones that became weathered or in disrepair.

The Sons of Confederate Veterans' Confederate Memorial Camp No. 1432 in recent months has been placing new granite markers in the historic Stone Mountain Cemetery east of Atlanta.

At this Tuesday evening's annual Confederate Memorial Day service, those in attendance will see the 144 markers put in so far. The camp plans to install 58 more. There are about 280 known and unknown Confederates in the city cemetery. The April 26 service starts at 6:30 p.m. at the cemetery.

The effort has been led by camp commander Jeff Bailey.

The 46 members' next goal is installing a Southern Cross of Honor on the graves of 80 known veterans.