A pair of markers denoting where some of my ancestors fought during the Battle of Chickamauga.
Chickamauga, 15th Georgia
Tag: Soldiers
Greatest Generation
2 January 2020, Moultrie, Colquitt County, Georgia.
A Soldier’s Story
My great-grandparents, James David and Sarah Ella (Harp) Lupo. In all probability, my great-grandfather had no memory of his father, who died in the Civil War at age 25, when my great-grandfather was three.Note: This essay has been updated and expanded in Words Words Words, available from Amazon and Barnes and Noble. An earlier draft … Continue reading A Soldier’s Story
A Soldier’s Story
Note: This essay has been updated and expanded in Words Words Words, available from Amazon and Barnes and Noble. On the freezing morning of Sunday, 29 November 1863, Union soldiers defending Fort Sanders in Knoxville, Tennessee, leveled their rifles at advancing Confederate soldiers, and fired, killing or wounding more than eight hundred, and thus set … Continue reading A Soldier’s Story