April 24th.—Volunteered at Chattanooga, Tenn., in Company F, 39th Georgia Regiment of Infantry. Privileged to stay at home until May 10th. (Note: picture is of an unidentified Confederate soldier.)
Robert M. McGill
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American Civil War Chronicles
Robert M. Magill – Personal Reminiscences of a Confederate Soldier Boy, 39th Georgia Regiment of Infantry
Slavery in Northern Georgia
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Writing in the early 1900s, Robert M. McGill, a former “Confederate Soldier Boy” recalls slavery in North Georgia. Note: Robert M. McGill’s diary begins in April 1862. The 463 entries in it will be published here day-by-day with each entry posted 160 years after the original entry. Slavery in this North Georgia was a very [...]