A native of Williston, South
Carolina, Mikell Harper is a
graduate of The Citadel and The University of South Carolina School of
Law. He is a Vietnam veteran, and since his retirement and relocation
from Beaufort, South Carolina to Rabun Gap, Georgia, has been engaged in
independent research and writing in the United States and Northern
Ireland with and emphasis on his Scots-Irish heritage. He is a member of
The Augusta Genealogical Society, The Longstreet Society and The
Scots-Irish Society of the United States.
The Second Georgia Infantry Regiment As told through the unit history of Company D: Burke
Sharpshooters
2006 Benjamin Franklin Award Finalist
Well
researched, The Second Georgia Infantry Regiment is a compilation
of first hand accounts of those who fought or those who loved the soldiers
of Burke's Sharpshooters, the color company (Company D) of the Second
Georgia Infantry Regiment. You taste the salt of their tears, touch the worn
leather of their diaries and marvel at their ragged courage in historian
Mikell Harper's andante symphony of voices once fresh and hopeful for swift
victory and finally war-weary and despairing.
Company D of The Second Georgia Infantry Regiment
was composed of units from nine Georgia counties: Banks, Burke, Meriwether,
Muscogee (2), Fannin, Cherokee, Whitfield, Marion and Stewart. They
participated in the battles at Manassas, Antietam, Rohrback Bridge,
Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Chicamauga, and finally the siege of
Knoxville.
There is great humanity in the pages of the journals kept
by Pvt. James Harper (February 1864 - April 1865) and by Catherine Whitehead
Rowland (the wife left at home by Charles Rowland who served from October
1863 - January 1865) and in the history of the Regiment written by Mrs. Lucy
Blount shortly after the War. The writers take us close enough to the Civil
War to smell the musket fire and shiver with the barefoot Confederates
through a frigid Tennessee winter.
Authentic photography, battle maps, period illustrations
and military correspondence are deftly
interwoven into the short, terse diary entries, transporting the reader to
the front lines of the Civil War theater.
Diary Excerpts:
James Harper, Foot Soldier,
August 14, 1864
"Today is the Sabbath. How discordant are the sounds
which greet the ear. The mellow peals of the solemn church bell heard in the
distance is disenchanted in a great measure of its pleasing associations by
the sharp crack of the rifle, the loud whiz of the parrott shell & the heavy
boom of the mortars telling in unmistakable terms of the deadly feud
existing between man and man."
Catherine Whitehead Rowland, wife of Regimental Officer,
"Mrs. Rogers sent Mother word that she had the
original battle flag of the 2d Regiment if she would like to see it so we
stopped by this afternoon just before leaving Waynesboro. It made my heart
ache when I looked at what remained of it for it is shot almost to pieces &
I thought of my darling noble brother who was the first to fall in bearing
that flag. Oh! Would that his life could have been spared, but God who doeth
all things well knew what was best for us."
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The Civil War Journal of Catharine Whitehead Rowland
Presented
here are the letters from Sgt. Charles A. Rowland (Charlie), a confederate
soldier from Burke County, Georgia to his wife, Catharine Whitehead Rowland
at Ivanhoe Plantation intertwined with her contemporaneous journal entries.
The letters and journal are eloquent expressions of a thoughtful man's
experience from October 1863 to the Spring of 1865 - the end of the war.
Catharine chronicles her family's life events, of the faithfulness of her
servants, her six-week visit to be with her "beloved Charlie" with The
Amy of Tennessee at Dalton, Georgia in the Spring of 1864 and the terrifying
moments at Ivanhoe during Sherman's March. Her mastery of language offers
compelling pictures of the time and its people.
Charlie's letters portray the events of his unit's defense
against Sherman in Georgia and Tennessee before The Army of Tennessee's
defeat and march to Bentonville, North Carolina for defeats in 1865.
Although the accounts are fascinating historically,
the real story is the longing of Catharine and Charles to spend their lives
together in peace. So on the deepest level, this is a love story. How
one couple endured the war to its conclusion, is the heart of this work,
told in their own words.
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Well
researched, The Second Georgia Infantry Regiment is a compilation
of first hand accounts of those who fought or those who loved the soldiers
of Burke's Sharpshooters, the color company (Company D) of the Second
Georgia Infantry Regiment. You taste the salt of their tears, touch the worn
leather of their diaries and marvel at their ragged courage in historian
Mikell Harper's andante symphony of voices once fresh and hopeful for swift
victory and finally war-weary and despairing. 
interwoven into the short, terse diary entries, transporting the reader to
the front lines of the Civil War theater.
Buy Second Georgia Now
