Robert Benjamin Headden (born 1838 in Cassville, Georgia into an Old Line English Baptist family), of Bartow County, Georgia, enlists with Philip’s Legion today. His first major action is in 1862 in the Seven Days Battle and the 2nd Battle of Manassas, at which he is wounded. Recovering, Headden fights in the battle of Fredericksburg…
The Battle of Carthage, also known as the Battle of Dry Fork, takes place in Jasper County, Missouri. In this first “full-scale” battle of the Civil War, some 1,100 experienced federal troops commanded by Colonel Franz Sigel clash with a much larger Confederate force, the Missouri State Guard, numbering over 6,000 (4,000 are armed). The…
Southerners have mixed feelings about celebrating the 4th of July. Julia Stanford, a member of the First Baptist Church of Forsyth, Georgia, captures the mood of the South: “Our great national day – Day on which our forefathers signed the Declaration of Independence. Owing to the involved condition of our County – few very felt…