| Group asking to save chimney The caretaker of the Confederate Powderworks chimney wants to be its owner, too, and is asking the city to either turn it over or spend about $134,000 during a tough budget year repairing the 147-year-old smokestack. Click here for more information |
| From the May, 1893 issue of Confederate Veteran
It is a matter of history that Mrs. Chas. J. Williams, of Columbus, Ga., instituted the beautiful custom of decorating soldiers' graves with flowers, a custom which has been adopted throughout the United States. Mrs. Williams was the daughter of Maj. John Howard, of Milledgeville, Ga., and was a superior woman. She married Maj. C. J. Williams on his return from the Mexican War. As colonel of the First Georgia Regulars, of the Army in Virginia, he contracted disease, from which he died in 1862, and was buried in Columbus, Ga.
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