I MENTIONED PREVIOUSLY THAT A 400 ACRE AREA ALONG EBENEZER CREEK HAS BEEN BOUGHT AND IS BEING ADDED TO OUR STATE PARKS SYSTEM..IT IS THE LARGEST STAND OF VIRGIN CYPRESS IN THE EAST AND THE PROPERTY HAS MUCH HISTORIC VALUE IT IS VERY NEAR THE SECOND SETTLEMENT IN GA..EBENEZER SETTLED FROM AUSTRIA...IT IS ALSO THE SITE OF ONE OF THOSE EMBARASSING EVENTS OF HISTORY MENTIONED AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE IN THE BOOKS BYTHE TIME SHERMAN REACHED GUYTON HE HAD 600,000 TROOPS FOLLOWING HIM THEY WERE SPREAD OUT TO THE ALABAMA LINE AND BEHIND THE SEGMENT PASSING THROUGH HERE HEADED TOWARDS EBENEZER CREEK THERE WAS A FOLLOWING OF SOME 600 FREED SLAVES FOLLOWING THE TROOPS EXPECTING TO BE FED AND CARED FOR...RATHER A CUMBERSOME GROUP..... WHEN THEY REACHED THE CREEK IT WAS FLOODED AND SHERMAN HAD HIS ENGENEERS BUILD TWO BRIDGES SO THE TROOPS COULD CROSS..AS SOON AS THEY CROSSED HE HAD THE ENGENEERS TEAR DOWN THW BRIDGES SOME SLAVES TRIED TO CROSS AT THAT TIME..THEN THE TROOPS PULLED OUT LEAVING THE EX SLAVES BEHIND IT IS STATED THAT SOME THREE HUNDRED DROWNED TRYING TO CROSS THE FLOODED CREEK..... LETS FACE IT....S SHERMAN DIDNT NEED THEM HE WAS TRYING TO GET TO SAVANNAH...BUT YOU WORDER WILL THEY PLACE A HISTORIC PLAQUE ON THE SITE OF THE CROSSING..OR WILL IT BE OVERLOOKED......YOU GIVE YOUR ANSWER...ITS A PART OF HISTORY...NOT A GOOD PART BECAUSE ...SO MAYBE WE BEST FORGET IT IN THE NAME OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS.. JUST THOUGHT I WOULD PASS ALONG WHAT I HAVE HEARD...AINT READ NOTHING ABOUT IT YET...LET ME TAKE A LEFT FOOTED STAND...LIKE A NEWSPAPER...I WILL REMAIN ANON-AMOUS ON THE GROUNDS OF I AINT SURE...THE HAWK HAS FLOWN....MY LOVE TO YOU.. IM COOKING FISH STEW AGAIN TRYING TO GET THE FLAVOR JUST RIGHT... SOMETIMES I WISH I HAD NEVER TASTED THAT IN CHARLESTON IT IS PROBABLY NOT AS GOOD AS I REMEMBER ANYHOW.....LOVE BILLJ
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 20:37:01 +0000
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