Attempting to disrupt Union General William T. Sherman‘s operations in Georgia, the Confederate’s Army of the Tennessee takes advantage of the absence of Federal troops at Kennessaw and Big Shanty by seizing the rail lines and commencing operations to destroy the rails, hence cutting off the Federals’ supply route between Atlanta and Nashville. Unamused, Sherman…
Elijah J. Marrs today enlists in Company L, 12 U.S. Colored Artillery. The story of how Marrs arrives at this moment is quite remarkable. Marrs was born January 1840 in Shelby County, Kentucky, to a free black father and an enslaved mother. Since his mother was a slave, Elijah was born into slavery. “Where I…
Sam Richards, Atlanta businessman, former Unionist and member of the city’s Second Baptist Church, today writes of how “it is strange to go about Atlanta and see only Yankee uniforms.” “The enemy,” he continues, “behave themselves pretty well except in the scramble for tobacco and liquor during which every store in town nearly was broken…