Thanks, Greater Orlando Civil War Round Table, for the pleasant reception you gave my wife and me Thursday night, March 23. My talk was on the 12th Virginia Infantry, the Petersburg Regiment, on August 19, 1864, during the battle of Globe Tavern. Mahone's brigade, of which the 12th was a part, squared off against White's (formerly Ledlie's) division of IX Corps in a very intense fight east of the main struggle.
We had arrived the day before at Winter Park, just north of Orlando, after stays at Jekyll and Little St. Simon's Islands. Winter Park is a very pleasant town that has a museum which includes the largest existing collection of the work of Louis Comfort Tiffany, who made the stained glass windows that commemorate the Confederate dead in Petersburg's Blandford Church--the brick church on Crater Road (formerly Jerusalem Plank Road). One of my wife's ancestors contested title to some of the church's property prior to the Revolutionary War, but lost.
We had arrived the day before at Winter Park, just north of Orlando, after stays at Jekyll and Little St. Simon's Islands. Winter Park is a very pleasant town that has a museum which includes the largest existing collection of the work of Louis Comfort Tiffany, who made the stained glass windows that commemorate the Confederate dead in Petersburg's Blandford Church--the brick church on Crater Road (formerly Jerusalem Plank Road). One of my wife's ancestors contested title to some of the church's property prior to the Revolutionary War, but lost.
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