C. S. A. - 2nd GA Reg., Wiregrass Minute Man
Excerpt from "Confederate States of America, Military Telegraph, Oak Grove Cemetery" document:
"The other 7 [buried within the coping, Confederate Section] were members of the 2nd Georgia Regiment encamped at Brunswick, in 1861, prior to going to Virginia where they saw active service. An epidemic of measles broke out in the camp and these men were victims. One of these men G. D. Williamson of Banks County, was the first Confederate soldiers[sic] to die in Brunswick and so far as can be learned, was the first Confederate soldier to die in Georgia.
These soldiers were first buried in the extreme Western part of the cemetery and their graves were marked with wooden markers, made with cypress boards, painted white and with black lettering. When Cochran Ave. was widened so as to make room for the Birmingham Railroad, the bodies were moved to their present resting places and new stones erected by Clement A. Evans Chapter [defunct Brunswick, GA] U.D.C. took the place of the wooden markers, even though some of the markers still remain next to the new stones."
~ Bio compiled by Meredith Drew Trawick
Excerpt from "Confederate States of America, Military Telegraph, Oak Grove Cemetery" document:
"The other 7 [buried within the coping, Confederate Section] were members of the 2nd Georgia Regiment encamped at Brunswick, in 1861, prior to going to Virginia where they saw active service. An epidemic of measles broke out in the camp and these men were victims. One of these men G. D. Williamson of Banks County, was the first Confederate soldiers[sic] to die in Brunswick and so far as can be learned, was the first Confederate soldier to die in Georgia.
These soldiers were first buried in the extreme Western part of the cemetery and their graves were marked with wooden markers, made with cypress boards, painted white and with black lettering. When Cochran Ave. was widened so as to make room for the Birmingham Railroad, the bodies were moved to their present resting places and new stones erected by Clement A. Evans Chapter [defunct Brunswick, GA] U.D.C. took the place of the wooden markers, even though some of the markers still remain next to the new stones."
~ Bio compiled by Meredith Drew Trawick
C. S. A. - 2nd GA Reg., Wiregrass Minute Man
Excerpt from "Confederate States of America, Military Telegraph, Oak Grove Cemetery" document:
"The other 7 [buried within the coping, Confederate Section] were members of the 2nd Georgia Regiment encamped at Brunswick, in 1861, prior to going to Virginia where they saw active service. An epidemic of measles broke out in the camp and these men were victims. One of these men G. D. Williamson of Banks County, was the first Confederate soldiers[sic] to die in Brunswick and so far as can be learned, was the first Confederate soldier to die in Georgia.
These soldiers were first buried in the extreme Western part of the cemetery and their graves were marked with wooden markers, made with cypress boards, painted white and with black lettering. When Cochran Ave. was widened so as to make room for the Birmingham Railroad, the bodies were moved to their present resting places and new stones erected by Clement A. Evans Chapter [defunct Brunswick, GA] U.D.C. took the place of the wooden markers, even though some of the markers still remain next to the new stones."
~ Bio compiled by Meredith Drew Trawick
Excerpt from "Confederate States of America, Military Telegraph, Oak Grove Cemetery" document:
"The other 7 [buried within the coping, Confederate Section] were members of the 2nd Georgia Regiment encamped at Brunswick, in 1861, prior to going to Virginia where they saw active service. An epidemic of measles broke out in the camp and these men were victims. One of these men G. D. Williamson of Banks County, was the first Confederate soldiers[sic] to die in Brunswick and so far as can be learned, was the first Confederate soldier to die in Georgia.
These soldiers were first buried in the extreme Western part of the cemetery and their graves were marked with wooden markers, made with cypress boards, painted white and with black lettering. When Cochran Ave. was widened so as to make room for the Birmingham Railroad, the bodies were moved to their present resting places and new stones erected by Clement A. Evans Chapter [defunct Brunswick, GA] U.D.C. took the place of the wooden markers, even though some of the markers still remain next to the new stones."
~ Bio compiled by Meredith Drew Trawick
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