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Fifth Sgt. to First Sgt.; 6th Regiment, GA Cavalry; M226 Roll 9; Unit Activity: Chickamauga and Knoxville, defense of Savannah

Colonel William G. Deloney founded and commanded a cavalry company in the Cobb Legion of the Army of Northern Virginia from 1861-1863, before being killed in action.

Chester P Adair was a private with the U.S. Army and served with the American expeditionary forces during World War I. He contracted pneumonia while in Toule, France and died in a French hospital on September 18, 1918 at the age of 25. He was the son…

William Anderson Bain was a veteran of the Civil War, killed in Athens while working as a pattern maker at the Athens Foundry.

Mary Dorothy Lyndon, a vastly educated woman, was the first woman to receive a degree from the University of Georgia. As Associate Professor of Education and Dean of Women at the University of Georgia, she was able to implement a number of programs…

The death of Alonzo S. Church was mourned by many in the Athens and University of Georgia communities, as Church had great influence in both. As a Presbyterian minister, Church often assisted poor churches who could not afford a minister by offering…

George Baber Atkisson was born on September 14, 1843 in Virginia. He attended school at UGA, class of 1861. He enlisted into the Confederate military artillery unit called Troup Artillery.
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George Anderson Mell, husband of Daisy Beatrice Mell, was a banker born in Liberty Country, Georgia who died in Athens in 1931