Perry Lee Hickox, born in 1840 in Wayne County, Georgia, is from a large Baptist family in south Georgia, one of twenty-one children, fifteen of whom survive infancy. Perry’s father, David, is from Connecticut. He moved South upon obtaining a land grant in south Georgia, and married Sarah Altman of Wayne County (this was David’s…
As the North tries to absorb the shock of the Union rout at the First Battle of Manassas/Bull Run, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and the U.S. Congress act decisively and quickly. Using the defeat as a wake up call to recruit more volunteers for a war northern politicians fear will drag on without an adequate…
Days prior to the first major battle of the Civil War at Manassas, nearly a thousand Confederate soldiers are encamped on the grounds of Virginia’s Frying Pan Baptist Church. Confederate soldier J.W. Reid, with the Fourth Regiment of the South Carolina Volunteers, sitting on the church grounds, writes a letter declaring that “I do not…