Today, Sunday, the 3rd Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry seeks a suitable place on the upper North Carolina coast to construct a battery. The effort is part of larger campaign by Confederate forces to hurriedly secure their coastlines in the face of a superior Union Navy. Alva Spencer, a Mercer University graduate, records a rather humorous…
Archibald Harrison Holland of Georgia, who turned 17 three weeks ago, today attends an enlistment rally for the Confederate Army—a turning point for him and a juncture of anguish for his mother who refuses to let her oldest son go gently into the war environs. “He became so enthused on this occasion that he immediately…
Stationed at Portsmouth, Virginia with Company C of the 3rd Georgia Regiment, Private Alva B. Spencer, a recent graduate of Georgia Baptists’ Mercer University, writes to his friend, “Maggie” (Margaret Lucinda Cone), expressing his feelings of Confederate patriotism: Many, very many, precious souls have been launched before God’s throne since the commencement of the…