Talk:Heard County, Georgia
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[edit] Heard County Rangers
One of or the Confederate soldier units from this area was called the Heard County Rangers, which saw service across a wide area from Mississippi to Virginia. It was esp composed of local farmers who supplemented farming with hunting in local woods of deer, turkey etc making them excellent sharpshooters.
Unrelated to this unit, was an excursion during the later days of the war of 2,000 union cavelry through this area. During their movements the locals kept well back in the woods, but fired on them often until they lost half of their strength of 2,000 from this sniping....
One of these union soliders, road up to a well at Glenn, Ga (Heard Co) to stop and get a drink and died apparently of exhaustion or a stroke and is buried at the cemetary there , and he no had papers giving his name and so no known name,etc
As the movie (Gangs of New York) showed, many union soldiers were conscripts and younger men with no stake or interest in the war but were signed up to get a small salary and three meals a day, being immigrants from e.g. Ireland. And sharpshooters soldiers, in the Conferate units esp grew tired of firing and killing so many of these "fine boys". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.250.203.180 (talk) 23:53, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
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