| Georgia (Pierce County), Blackshear — 113-2 — Confederate Prison Camp | | | Here stood a Confederate prison camp for Union prisoners of war. Established about November 18, 1864, the camp held more than five thousand prisoners until the first week of January, 1865. These prisoners were brought here from camps at Millen and probably Andersonville to avoid the possibility of their being liberated by Sherman's troops who were then moving southward. The camp was at one time under the command of Colonel H. Forno. Other prisoners from Millen were transferred to camps at Savannah and Florence. — Map (db m1501) | | Georgia (Pierce County), Blackshear — General Blackshear's Military Road | | | Gen. David Blackshear
Ordered this military road
cut to Darien and on to
St. Marys July 1st. 1814 — Map (db m24736) | | Georgia (Pierce County), Blackshear — 113-1 — Pierce County | | | This County, created by Act of the Legislature December 18, 1857, is named for Franklin Pierce, New Hampshire Democrat and fourteenth President of the United States, 1853 to `57. He was a General in the Mexican War. Blackshear, incorporated December 16, 1859, is named for General David Blackshear, noted Georgia Indian fighter. Among the first County Officers were: Sheriff John Donalson, Clerk of Superior and Inferior Courts David Rowell, Ordinary Aaron Dowling, Tax Receiver John Sugg, Tax . . . — Map (db m24037) |
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