Art Green Honored

In December 2007 the Mobile Bay District of The United Daughters of the Confederacy presented Arthur E. Green the highest award given to a non-member - the Jefferson Davis Historical Gold Medal Award.

Green was honored for "preserving Confederate history by researching, writing and publishing Southerners at War - the 38th Alabama Infantry; Gracie's Pride - the 43rd Alabama Infantry; Too Little Too Late - the 63rd Alabama Infantry CSA with roster of some companies of the 89th, 94th, and 95th Alabama Militia CSA; and Southern Boots and Saddles - the 15th Confederate Cavalry CSA, (1st Regiment Alabama and Florida Cavalry)

These books are available at online book stores or from the publishers: White Mane Publishing Co., Inc. (38th Alabama and the 43rd Alabama) or Heritage Books, Inc. (63rd and the 15th Confederate Cavalry). (In addition to these works Green has transcribed and self published "Miscellaneous Alabama Commands in Confederate Service.")

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See this photo of CSA Veterans taken around 1900.

Eleven men of the 38th were buried at the Camp Chase Cemetery which is the final resting place of more than 2000 Southern soldiers.

See the eleven gravestones photographed by James Leon Windham.

See also: Windham's photos of Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Nashville, Tennessee.

Special Feature - Fontaine Letter

Harvey Jackson, who hails from the Grove Hill, Alabama, area and is head of the History and Foreign Language Department at Jacksonville State University, offered his contribution to Confederate History Month (April 1-30). Read this letter which his great-grandfather, 2nd Lieut. George Fontaine, Company B, wrote to his daughter from the field of battle near the end of the war.