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April 21, 2013
Remembering fighters for a cause
Rachel Brown [email protected]
CHATSWORTH — Relating today to life in the South 150 years ago is difficult, retired Northwest Whitfield High School history teacher Elizabeth Hoole McArthur admitted to about 25 people gathered for a Confederate Memorial Service in Chatsworth Saturday morning.
"Our world is vastly different," she said.
Yet it's that world, and those who suffered and died for a variety of reasons in the Confederate cause are worthy of being respectfully remembered, she said. McArthur spoke at a Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp 938 service in Chatsworth in honor of Confederate Memorial Day, which is April 26 in Georgia.
"The average Confederate soldier was 26 years old, about 5 feet eight inches and weighed 143 pounds," she said. "Most had been farmers before the war, not professional soldiers. Most had served in state militias — the forerunner of our National Guard — a service that was required of all able-bodied eligible young men. They were citizen-soldiers, and many went to war wearing homemade uniforms, carrying their own rifles, and if, officers or in the cavalry, riding their own horses."
For the rest, including photos: http://daltondailycitizen.com/local/x1097430421/Remembering-fighters-for-a-cause
Remembering fighters for a cause
Rachel Brown [email protected]
CHATSWORTH — Relating today to life in the South 150 years ago is difficult, retired Northwest Whitfield High School history teacher Elizabeth Hoole McArthur admitted to about 25 people gathered for a Confederate Memorial Service in Chatsworth Saturday morning.
"Our world is vastly different," she said.
Yet it's that world, and those who suffered and died for a variety of reasons in the Confederate cause are worthy of being respectfully remembered, she said. McArthur spoke at a Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp 938 service in Chatsworth in honor of Confederate Memorial Day, which is April 26 in Georgia.
"The average Confederate soldier was 26 years old, about 5 feet eight inches and weighed 143 pounds," she said. "Most had been farmers before the war, not professional soldiers. Most had served in state militias — the forerunner of our National Guard — a service that was required of all able-bodied eligible young men. They were citizen-soldiers, and many went to war wearing homemade uniforms, carrying their own rifles, and if, officers or in the cavalry, riding their own horses."
For the rest, including photos: http://daltondailycitizen.com/local/x1097430421/Remembering-fighters-for-a-cause
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