Contains information about the Battle of West Point, Georgia fought April 16, 1865, at the end of the Civil War, and about Fort Tyler, which protected West Point. Includes both Union and Confederate eyewitness accounts of the battle, as well as firsthand accounts by women of the area, lists of participants in the battle, and a list of the prisoners captured there. Describes how the battle has been commemorated over the years, including the reconstruction...

Peter Starnes was born in South Carolina in 1781 but later moved to Alabama. He married Mary, who was the mother of Nancy, Margaret, Anna, Eleanor, Bazil and Peter. John Starnes was born in 1787 in South Carolina, the younger brother of Peter Starnes. He married three times. The name of John's first name is unknown, but she was the mother of seven of his children: Margaret, Phriba, Isham, William, John, Peter and Hannah. His second wife was Elizabeth...