Joseph Haynes
If you have a family connection to Haynes Cemetery in the Scribner’s Mill Community of Maury County, be proud. A few heroes and patriots lie there – including two Revolutionary War soldiers, at least five Confederate veterans, and several who served honorably in more recent wars. There also are those who were just plain, good, wonderful, kind, hardworking, church-going people – and more than a few exceedingly colorful country...
Reunion
A picture hangs on my living-room wall in Columbia, Tennessee, magnificently framed, of which I am especially proud. It is an original 1902 photograph of Confederate veterans gathered for a reunion — friends, relatives, and comrades-in-arms of my great-grandfather James Lewis White, a private in Company F of the 48th Tennessee Infantry, who later enlisted in Company F of the 1st Tennessee Cavalry. The picture is probably taken...
A Tennessee Treasure — Bob Duncan
One of the great county archivists and historians in the South is Bob Duncan of Maury County, Tennessee. Bob is a living encyclopedia on a fascinating middle Tennessee town of antebellum houses, tall tale tellers, and a blossoming arts and music community. photo by Kathie Fuston One of the best articles Bob has written was his tribute to the late Phil Everly — an article published by Columbia’s Daily...
Knox County, Kentucky
One of the best county archives in America — perhaps only equaled by Maury County, Tennessee — is located in Barbourville, Kentucky’s Knox Historical Museum. For years Charles Reed Mitchell has edited a wonderful historical journal chronicling the rich history and unforgettable characters of this once-violent place. The Knox Countian is now accessible online at this new site: http://www.knoxhistoricalmuseum.org/...
Tribute to a Soldier
On a wooded hiking trail on the northwest section of the Chickamauga National Battlefield, stands a monument to a fallen soldier. Dedicated in 1909, the inscription on the base reads… Near this spot Lieut. George W. Landrum 2d Ohio Regiment, Member of the signal Corps., And serving upon The Staff of Gen. Thomas, Fell Sept. 20, 1863, While bearing a message from Gen. Thomas to Gen. Rosecrans. Erected by his family In 1894,...
Albert Ganier
Albert Franklin Ganier (1883-1973) was descended from sugar and cotton planters. He grew up in Madison Parish, Louisiana and Vicksburg, Mississippi. His grandfather Francis was a Frenchman, son of a Revolutionary, who came to Louisiana in 1820 to harvest sugar cane. His father Elie, a sergeant in General Bragg’s 18th Louisiana Infantry, farmed 1,500 acres of cotton. When Hollywood movie producer, Jesse Lasky, came to Tennessee in...