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A Boy Soldier in the Berrien Minute Men
When Georgia seceded from the United States on January 19, 1861, Benjamin A. Pickren was just a boy of 13 on his father’s farm in Muscogee County, GA. By the time of the 1864 Census for the...
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A Boy Soldier in the Berrien Minute Men (continued)
Benjamin A. Pickren served in the Berrien Minute Men during the Battle of Atlanta, July 22, 1864. Forty years after the Civil War, Benjamin A. Pickren reflected upon his time in battle with the...
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Berrien County Men Perished on Rocky Shore of Machrie Bay, Islay, Scotland
Twenty-five Berrien County men perished in the wreck of the HMS Otranto near the end of World War I. The Otranto sank on October 6, 1918 . The Rocky Shore of Machrie Bay, Islay, Scotland, where the...
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Otranto Survivor Early Steward Departs Islay
Updated When the WWI troopship HMS Otranto broke up on the rocks off of the isle of Islay, Early Steward, of Nashville, GA was one of the hundreds of American soldiers who went into the stormy sea,...
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George Bruce Faircloth Died in Otranto Disaster
On October 27, 1918 the US War Department released the names of 200 victims of the sinking of the troopship HMS Otranto. Among the Otranto dead were 72 Georgia soldiers. Berrien County suffered a...
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Jonathan Perry Knight Runs for Congress
Jonathan Perry Knight, a prominent citizen of Berrien County, was born on March 14 1872 in Ray’s Mill (now Ray City), GA. A son of John Graham Knight and Mary A. Davis, he was the middle of three...
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Berrien Minute Men at the Battle of Chickamauga
Note: This article includes graphic descriptions of battlefield casualties, violence, and war themes. The Battle of Chickamauga, September 18-20, 1863, was the largest Civil War engagement to be...
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Bennie Owens, QMC
Modified: During World War I, African Americans volunteered and participated in droves to fight for their country, just as they have done in every military conflict in the history of the United...
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1844 Tariff Debate at Troupville
By 1844, Troupville, GA, county seat of old Lowndes County, was a bustling town of 500 citizens and large enough to attract candidates in the congressional campaign of that year. Thomas Butler King,...
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Reverend James C. Wilkinson, Principal of Oaklawn Academy
Dr. James C. (“Dr. Jim”) Wilkinson was the first Principal of Oaklawn Academy at Milltown (now Lakeland), GA serving from 1906 to 1911. Perry Thomas Knight, of Ray City, GA, would become one...
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