William A Bowers

Broschiertes Buch

HISTORY of the 27th GEORGIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY REGIMENT CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY

Beschreibung

At the battle of Olustee, Florida, Colonel Zachry's command greatly distinguished itself--acting the most part in achieving that brilliant victory. Near the close of that eventful day, when the tide of battle seemed to turn, alternately, from one side to the other of the contending hosts, General Colquitt sent one of his staff officers to show the Twenty-Seventh Georgia into position in the line of battle and to remind Colonel Zachry that everything depended on his command. The reply of Colonel Zachry showed that he was of the stuff of which a soldier is made. As he rode at the head of his regiment with the fire of battle in his eye, he said: "Major, tell the General that I will do my best--not only he but the enemy shall know it when we are in line." This was no vain boast for, soon the enemy were in full retreat, leaving their dead and wounded in the field.

Autor

William A. Bowers, Jr. was born August 5, 1947, in St. Augustine, Florida to William Alfred Bowers Sr. and Lora Elizabeth Tuten. When he was young, his family returned to Baxley, Appling County, Georgia, where he lived, was raised and educated. He is a 1965 graduate of Appling County High School, an Eagle Scout and is retired from the Georgia Department of Transportation as an Area Engineer in South Georgia. Worked as a Consultant Engineer with EMC Engineering for ten years after retiring from the DOT. He is married to Anna Deloris Willis of Toombs County. He is a member of the First Church in Baxley, Georgia. William has given speeches and performed living histories at State and National Parks, Historical Societies and other organizations for several years in Georgia, Florida and South Carolina. He resides still in Appling County and has served as a Boy Scout leader for over 30 years, a charter member and officer in the Appling Grays Camp #918 Sons of Confederate Veterans, the Appling County Board of Education, the First Church Administrative Board and the Appling County Heritage Center Board of Directors. He has published three Confederate regimental histories with the History of the 47th Georgia Volunteer Infantry being published in May 2013 and the History of the 27th Georgia Volunteer Infantry being published in February 2014. In 2016 he published the History of the 54th Georgia Volunteer Infantry. This completed the trilogy of Confederate Regimental Histories which encompasses the four companies of Confederate Infantry which originated in Appling County, Georgia. In 2017 he published the Bowers Genealogy, the Descendants of Benjamin Bowers, Sr., of Pitt County, North Carolina. And his first novel Two Rebels from the Altamaha.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Swampfox Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 524
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 750g
• ISBN-13: 9780984653690
• ISBN-10: 0984653694
• Artikelnr.: 40455179