L. Harris Churchwell's Confederate Book, 
Captains At Rest, has garnered several awards including the United Daughters of the Confederacy's National Award, the Jefferson Davis Gold Medal, and the Lowndes County  Historical Society's Keeper of History award.

     Captains at Rest contains descriptions of seventy-seven officers who served in the Twelfth Georgia Regiment which was under the commands of none other than Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson and Robert E. Lee.

    Each officer in the book has listings of his prewar, wartime, and postwar accomplishments.  parents, wives, and children are listed, as well as an existing photograph of the officer and a photograph of his known gravesite.  It took the author two years to research and write this book.

    The Twelfth Georgia Regiment was mustered into Confederate Service on June 26, 1861 and fought until April 9, 1865, when it was surrendered with the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox, Virginia.  The regiment had ten companies of men who volunteered from the Georgia counties of Sumter, Jones, Macon, Calhoun, Muscogee, Dooly, Putnam, Bibb, Lowndes, and Marion.  

    The men, strangers at first, soon bound together into a fighting force that never ran from the enemy in battle, had not a flag captured in battle.  Through the years, famous historians refer to the regiment as the "Gallant Twelfth."

    Harris Churchwell is writing a sequel to Captains at Rest, entitled Seeking Glory: The Men and the Battles of the Twelfth Georgia Regiment.

    The price of Captains at Rest is $39.95 plus 7% sales tax if ordered in Georgia.  Shipping is $5.00 anywhere in the United States.

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