According to his daughter’s application to join the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Lemuel Edwards “participated in three battles.” Those battles were the battles of Griswoldville, Honey Hill, and Savannah. In the summer of 2016, I obtained permission from the town of Ridgeland, South Carolina, to explore the breastworks located in the snake-infested woods off Highway 336.…
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In Media Res
Spring comes late to Athens in 1863, and as the war has not yet touched northeast Georgia, the ancient rhythms of the seasons, plowing and harvesting continue much as they have for centuries. Fourteen year old Lemuel Edwards attends church, where rumors swirl of ‘fighting at three places on the Rappahannock,’ and ‘Yankees making another…