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The Last Confederate Prison

The Editors | Fall 2010

Archaeologists in Georgia have found the location of the prison that served as an overflow facility for Andersonville.

"November 17, 1864—Three of our men were frozen to death last night in the stockade!

The Showplace of Thomasville, Georgia

Carla Davidson | November/December 2002

IN THE 1870S, WEALTH FROM THE NORTH TRANSFORMED THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA

1946 Fifty Years Ago

December 1996

Putsch Comes to Shove

On December 21 Eugene Talmadge, a virulent white supremacist who had just been elected governor of Georgia, died at the age of sixty-two. Since Talmadge had not yet been inaugurated, no one was sure what to do next.

Good Fences

Alexander O. Boulton | February/March 1987

The first settlers marked the borders of their lives with simple fences that grew ever more elaborate over the centuries

Good fences make good neighbors,” wrote Robert Frost, and he meant that fences did more than just enclose space; like his woods and roads, they bounded a social and psychological landscape.

God, Man, Woman, And The Wesleys

Peggy Robbins | April/May 1984

In early Georgia, the founders of Methodism got off to a terrible start

THE SUCCESS OF John and Charles Wesley in founding Methodism is well documented, but what is seldom mentioned is that they started their ecclesiastical careers with a period of unrelieved bungling.

Hell And The Survivor

October/November 1982

Charles Hopkins received the Congressional Medal of Honor for gallantry at the battle of Gaines’ Mill, but his toughest fight was trying to survive at the Andersonville prisoner-of-war camp. He left this never-before-published record.

The Best Girl Scout Of The Mall

Martha Saxton | June/july 1982

How Juliette “Daisy” Low, an unwanted child, a miserable wife, a lonely widow, finally found happiness as the founder of the Girl Scouts of America

In 1911 Juliette “Daisy” Low taught her first seven female Girl Guides to raise chickens and to spin wool.

From Atlanta To The Sea

James Royal Ladd | December 1978

A newly discovered Union diary shows that Sherman’s march was about as Ruthless as Southerners have always said it was

The Great Locomotive Chase

Stephen W. Sears | December 1977

It was called “the most extraordinary and astounding adventure of the Civil War”

On the pleasant Sunday evening of April 6, 1862, the men of Company H, 33rd Ohio Infantry, were relaxing around their campfires near Shelbyville, Tennessee, admiring the Southern springtime and trading the latest army rumors.

“We Are Going To Do Away With These Boys …”

Pete Daniel | April 1972

The black laborers on John Williams’ plantation never seemed to leave or complain. It took some digging to find out why

Private Fastness: Tales Of Wild

William W. Winn | April 1972

CUMBERLAND ISLAND AND HOW MODERN TIMES AT LAST HAVE REACHED IT

One of the good things that happened in America in 1970—a year otherwise noted for spreading oil slicks, raging forest fires, mercury in rainbow trout, and burgeoning pipelines in the tundra—was the decision by the National Park Service to purchase Cumberland

F.D.R: The Last Journey

James MacGregor Burns | August 1970

Roosevelt, like Lincoln and Wilson, died fighting for his ideals.

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