A chance to help record our local history



From: psommer psommer@bellsouth.net
To: 'psommer' psommer@bellsouth.net
Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 4:00 PM
Subject: a chance to help record our local history

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You will probably hear about this in the paper but if any of you have connections with the Troop Artillery or know of anyone who is this is your chance to hear about and add to our local history records.
Peggy
 
A Confederate artillery company from the Athens area will be the subject of the program at the meeting of the Brig. Gen. T.R.R. Cobb Camp No. 97 Sons of Confederate Veterans September 5 at 7:00 pm at the Watkinsville Community Center, VFW Drive.  William S. Smedlund of Marble, NC will present "Battery of Brothers, Troup Artillery, Athens, GA."  The Troup Artillery was organized in Athens, went to Virginia in 1861 and saw action in most of the important engagements there until the end of the war.  Smedlund has compiled a roster of the men in the Troup Artillery, with biographical notes and a list of casualties (http://www.jackmasters.net/troup/index.html).  There are many descendants of some of these men now living in Clarke and Oconee Counties, and Smedlund  asks that any descendants or people with information, pictures or artifacts related to the Troup Artillery please attend.  Having authored an earlier book titled "Camp Fires of Georgia Troops, 1861-1865," he is preparing a book on the Troup Artillery.
 


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