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Names of 584 Civil War dead who were buried in Macon unearthed in old news clipping
By Joe Kovac Jr.
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The other day in Soldiers Square, a panoramic hillside burial plot at Rose Hill Cemetery, I was looking for an angle on a Memorial Day story — maybe a piece about a little-known hero or perhaps a take on the hallowed setting overlooking the Ocmulgee River — when a dead soldier’s name caught my eye: Nathan Angel.
It had a valiant ring and sounded straight from the Civil War, which it was.
All Pvt. Angel’s tombstone said was that he served in a Confederate regiment from Kentucky. His grave bore no date of birth or death.
Read more here: http://www.macon.com/news/local/article152716979.html#storylink=cpy
By Joe Kovac Jr.
[email protected]
The other day in Soldiers Square, a panoramic hillside burial plot at Rose Hill Cemetery, I was looking for an angle on a Memorial Day story — maybe a piece about a little-known hero or perhaps a take on the hallowed setting overlooking the Ocmulgee River — when a dead soldier’s name caught my eye: Nathan Angel.
It had a valiant ring and sounded straight from the Civil War, which it was.
All Pvt. Angel’s tombstone said was that he served in a Confederate regiment from Kentucky. His grave bore no date of birth or death.
Read more here: http://www.macon.com/news/local/article152716979.html#storylink=cpy