War Between the States

[BassRaider]

West & Milk - both incorrect. If no guesses by tomorrow, I will post answer.
Another hint: The answer can be found in "Generals In Gray".

 

[westcobbdog]

Have that book but toss out another hint...we got nowhere important to be!

 

[Milkman]

I can think of General Ewell but I know his nickname was Old Baldy.

 

[BassRaider]

No one said trivia was easy!

More hints, found more info in Wiki:
Also nicknamed "Old Clubby"
Early service before war, he was Col in 12th GA
He was accused of being somehow complicit in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Nothing came of it.

 

[trad bow]

I know but had to look it up. I’ll refrain from saying for now to let the regulars answer.

 

[BassRaider]

I know but had to look it up. I’ll refrain from saying for now to let the regulars answer.

Trad - spill it.

 

[Milkman]

I will pipe in with one before Bass embarrasses us with another tough one

What event happened at Ebenezer Creek in southeastern Ga in December 1864.

 

[BassRaider]

The answer to "Alleghney", "Old Clubby" is General Edward Johnson. Sorta of a obscure general to the main guys.

 

[westcobbdog]

I will pipe in with one before Bass embarrasses us with another tough one

What event happened at Ebenezer Creek in southeastern Ga in December 1864.

Yankee Cruelty

 

[BassRaider]

Yankee Cruelty

It started with Yankee cruelty but ended with Southern massacre.

 

[trad bow]

Sorry I didn’t respond earlier. But didn’t Wheeler’s cavalry rout the Negros on the western bank of Ebenezer Creek.

 

[Milkman]

Sorry I didn’t respond earlier. But didn’t Wheeler’s cavalry rout the Negros on the western bank of Ebenezer Creek.

Yes. It was a group of freed slaves who were abandoned by a column of yanks that was captured by Confederate Cavalry. Some chose to swim and drowned.

 

[trad bow]

I know who led that column of yanks. Do y’all

 

[Milkman]

That yank could have been mistaken for a Confederate

 

[trad bow]

Actually that was his nickname his troops called him.

 

[trad bow]

Not confederate but reb

 

[Milkman]

While we are chatting I will post up a picture from our SCV Camps CMD activity’s a few years ago. This is a group of unknown Confederate dead in Oconee Hills cemetery near Sanford stadium.

 

[trad bow]

Have quite a few brave souls graves scattered throughout Putnam County

 

[BassRaider]

Closer to home. Prior to becoming a general, he formed the 1st Georgia Sharpshooters Battalion. He was wounded at Browns Mill near Newman and again at Griswoldsville. Who is he?

 

[JustUs4All]

If he was wounded at Griswoldville he was at Macon just before and was moving troops to Augusta when he happened on a portion of Sherman's army but I don't know who it was.

Since this isn't an answer I will call it a start, hopefully in the right direction.