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Attack on Aumuculle (Chehaw)
Lott Warren became judge at the Lowndes County Grand Jury of 1833. The people of the Native American village of Aumuculle had a long history of friendship with the American government and white...
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Lott Warren and the Arrest of Obed Wright
The Chehaw Massacre and Lott Warren The Chehaw Expedition Attack on Aumuculle Lott Warren and the Arrest of Obed Wright When Georgia militia troops attacked the friendly Aumuculee (Chehaw) Indian...
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Ned Holmes and Civil War Epidemics
Edward “Ned” HOLMES, was a soldier of the 25th Georgia Regiment, which shared garrison duties with the Berrien Minute Men and the 29th Georgia Regiment several camps around Savannah, GA in the spring...
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Daily Routine at Battery Lawton
In 1862, Captain Levi J. Knight, Jr was detailed to take Berrien Minute Men Company C to Battery Lawton, where they joined the Brunswick Rifles manning artillery defenses of Savannah, GA. The Berrien...
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Confederate Cures in the Civil War
In the Civil War, the death rate from contagious diseases and illnesses were very high. “In the Federal armies, sickness and disease accounted for 7 of every 10 deaths. One authority has estimated that...
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The Berrien Minute Men and the 1861 Expedition Hurricane
The Expedition Hurricane 1861 Two companies of men sent forth in the Civil War from Berrien County, Georgia were known as the Berrien Minute Men. For the most part, both companies of Berrien Minute Men...
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Images of Nashville, GA 1977
Nashville, GA 1977 Courthouse, Nashville, GA. June 13, 1977. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_17342_1/ View from Courthouse, Nashville, GA. June 13, 1977. Image source: Thomas A. Adler....
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Drive-In For Nashville
Drive-In For Nashville In the 1920s, 30s and 40s many small towns like Ray City, GA had their own movie theater. There were plans to open a theater in Ray City in 1929. The Ilex Theater in Quitman, GA...
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Nashville’s Whiskey Distillery
Just days before the passage of the National Prohibition Act, a writer to the Pearson Tribune reminisced about a whiskey distillery that once operated in Nashville, GA. The National Prohibition Act was...
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Owen Clinton Pope, Reconstruction Teaching and Preaching
Owen Clinton Pope (1842-1901) came to Berrien County, GA during Reconstruction. He was a Confederate veteran who before the War was a rising pastor in the Baptist ministry. He may have come to Berrien...
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Benjamin Thomas Allen
Benjamin Thomas Allen was born February 23, 1852 at the Metcalfe community, near Thomasville, GA. He grew up during the Civil War and Reconstruction. In 1861 his father enlisted in a company from...
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Berry Infantry, 29th Georgia Regiment at the Battle of Port Royal
The Berry Infantry of Floyd County, GA, along with the Berrien Minute Men of Berrien County, GA, were among the companies forming the 29th Georgia Infantry Regiment in the Civil War… Eight months after...
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Tebeauville, Old No. Nine
Previously: General Levi J. Knight ~ Railroad Tycoon General Knight’s Railroad Rolls Into Civil War Tebeauville, Old No. Nine Prior to the Civil War General Levi J. Knight, of present day Ray City, GA,...
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Neigh of the Iron Horse
When the very first train rolled into the newly laid out town of Valdosta, GA, the state newspapers reported the “neigh of the Iron Horse” was heard. Valdosta was Station No. 15 on the Atlantic &...
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1862 Train Schedule for Valdosta, GA
Previously: Neigh of the Iron Horse When the very first train rolled into the newly laid out town of Valdosta, GA, the state newspapers reported the “neigh of the Iron Horse” was heard. Valdosta was...
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Nathan Byrd
Nathan W. Byrd Nathan W. Byrd was one of the mail carriers for the post offices of Old Berrien County, GA. He carried mail on the postal route between Nashville, GA and Milltown (now Lakeland, GA) in...
View ArticleThere Is Nobody Killed But A Private Or Two
On Wednesday, June 22, 1864 both companies of Berrien Minute Men were in the line of battle at Marietta, GA. It was a hot summer day. That morning John W. Hagan, of Berrien County, GA, wrote his wife...
View ArticleA Brief History of Beaver Dam Baptist Church
In 1874 when Mercer Association missionary Reverend J. D. Evans came to Ray’s Mill, Thomas M. Ray was deeply moved by the baptist’s message. Evans and Ray were both Confederate veterans and former...
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Enslaved on Independence Day
On the Fourth of July, 1835, a large and respectable number of Lowndes citizens convened at the Court house at the Franklinville, Lowndes County, GA to celebrate. The Independence Day 1835 Jubilee was...
View ArticleThomasville Times Account of 1836 Battle of Brushy Creek
Previous posts have described some of the actions against Indians in the immediate area of Berrien, Lowndes, Brooks, Cook, Thomas, and Lanier counties in the summer of 1836. The Skirmish at William...
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