EVENT SCHEDULE
August 18-20 Wheeler County, GA Drill/Fishing/Live Fire Encampment
September 8-10 Tunnel Hill, For those who come there will be a brief work day at the Mahan's site on Saturday morning.
October 7-8 Andersonville Encampment
October 13-15 Jonesboro Living History
October 20-21 Pickett's Mill, Candlelight Living History
October 27-29 Loudoun County, Virginia Preservation March
November 10-12 Lafayette, GA Mahan's Outpost
Members need to contact Jerry Gouge regarding their desire to participate in the above listed events. We need to begin registering now. Some of the events require a registration fee. Let's register as a group for each of these events rather than have individuals sending in their monies. Contact Jerry Gouge at 800-824- 8083 days, 843-757-3689 evenings or at [email protected]. Information regarding future events will be published in the future newsletters.
PROPOSED CANDIDATES
If anyone has a man they feel would fit into what we are trying to accomplish, feel free to mention his name to Jerry Gouge who will publish his candidacy in the next newsletter.
Proposed Candidates
Jeff Jue
Mark Wynn
If you feel that these men do not fit with our group call me. If I do not receive 2 negative votes for any of them then they will be mailed invitations around the end of July.
Outstanding Invitations
Peter Bonner
Shane Karney
Ron Kelly
Mark Pollard
Wheeler County Encampment
This will be an authentic campaign encampment. Planned activities include: live fire competition, fishing competition, drill, foraging, marches, etc. A map to the site is attached. Once you park your car you are to come to the camp site with only what you can carry on your back in one trip (light marching order). If you have a shelter half, please bring it just in case. Bring no modern items. No cigarettes, no cigarette lighters, no modern wrapped food, no soft drinks, no modern food (ie. bring only hardtack, cornmeal, rice, dried beans, sweet potatoes, salt pork, etc.) I will bring cornmeal, coffee, salt pork to share. If you have any ammunition for your musket bring that as well. Do not bring any heavy loaded cartridges (60 grains only).
Notes on Light Marching Order
By Mark Popish
" In fact a soldier on the march resembles a pack mule" Pvt. Washington Ives 4th Regt., Florida Volunteer Infantry
"We can get along without anything but food and ammunition. The road to glory can not be followed with too much baggage." Brigadier General Richard S. Ewell, C.S.A., during Jackson's Valley Campaign, 1862.
". . . an army is efficient for action and motion exactly in the inverse ratio of its impedimenta." General William T. Sherman, Memoirs, 1875
Reduced to its essentials, light marching order consists of leather accouterments, musket, haversack, canteen, tin 'dipper' or boiler, and a blanket roll. The American veteran infantryman of the 1860s, no matter what flag he fought for, was able to live tolerably, even comfortably with these essentials for months on campaign. It is just as possible for a reenactor to do so.
Haversack - Only food and eating utensils should be carried in the haversack, as that is its sole purpose - see last month's article on period rations (also an insert to the Handbook).. If you need to carry more items than will roll in a blanket or fit in your pockets, you need a knapsack.
A tin plate ( a good one, not a pie plate) with a split green stick as a handle can double as a fry pan - likewise, a canteen half (which several merchants sell) was the veteran's answer to both a tin plate and a fry pan and adds a certain charm to your impression.
Poke bags should be used to keep the different foods that you carry separate. Alternately, you can use brown paper.
A small period jackknife for is essential for cutting meat and as a general camp tool.
A good covered tin boiler or dipper (cup) will do you good for a coffee boiler ,stew pot, or to store leftovers.
Blanket Roll - Inside your blanket you can roll a spare shirt, socks, drawers, housewife, and musket cleaning kit . Lay your blanket flat on your gum blanket, then fold the sides up to keep the blanket and your gear inside dry. Then roll it up and secure the ends with light cotton or sisal rope making a sling. The roll should not exceed 10 pounds. You can use this if you do not have a knapsack. Whether it is worn right shoulder to left hip or left shoulder to right hip seems to have been a matter of personal choice.
Sleeping
For clear, warm weather just lay your gum blanket down white side up to keep you off the ground.
For wet weather construct a "she- bang" using your gum blanket and or shelter half. In wet weather it is a good idea to work with a pard, as then you can use one gum blanket to lay on the ground and the other as the shelter.
In cold weather, sharing your blankets with a pard is the simplest way to stay warm. Lay one gum blanket down on the ground (preferably over some insulation, like straw), then lay one blanket down. Cover yourselves with remaining blankets & greatcoats and put the second gum blanket on top black side facing out to protect from a heavy dew. A flannel cap or a scarf wrapped around your head will help keep you warm (you lose a lot of body heat through your head). Obviously you are going to sleep near the fire. Veterans reported that they were more comfortable arranged like the spokes of a wheel, with their feet to the fire. Take your shoes off, but don't let them get too close to the fire (leather is skin, and it gets burns). Veterans often spoke of "sharing their blankets" and resorted to "spooning" during cold weather. The reality of their lives really points out the difference when you consider the "typical" heavy camping unit, where privates have a spacious tent, cot, boxes, carpet, lanterns, &c.
Mess mates - A four man mess provides an equitable way of dividing responsibilities for cooking, tending the fire, rations, &c. Ideally, you'd be a set of "comrades in battle" so you can stay together on picket duty. One man needs to carry a sharp hatchet. One man can carry a small folding lantern.
"It is necessary from time to time to inspect the baggage and force the men to throw away useless gear. I have frequently done this. One can hardly imagine all the trash they carry with them year after year. . . It is no exaggeration to say that I have filled twenty wagons with rubbish I have found in the review of a single regiment." Field Marshal Maurice, Comte de Saxe, My Reveries, 1732.
Both historic and modern experience shows that the infantryman kit should be light as possible. Look at all your gear that you drag to an event and just ask yourself if you really need it or not. Have you used it at the last three events you've been to?
Could you leave it in your car so that you'd have it if it suddenly became "essential?"
Experiment with blanket rolls. Put your kit on and adjust for comfort and remember - your traps should be worn high.
Sources (many of these are available in local public libraries)
John D. Billings, Hardtack and Coffee, (Lincoln, NE: Univ. Of Nebraska Press, 1993). Reprint in paperback.
Gregory A Coco, The Civil War Infantryman; In camp, on the march, and in battle, (Gettysburg, PA: Thomas, 1996).
Carlton McCarthy, Detailed Minutea of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 (Lincoln, NE: Univ. Of Nebraska Press, 1993). Reprint in paperback.
Sam R. Watkins"Co. Aytch" - A Side Show of the Big Show (reprinted Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Co., 1987). Widely available in paperback.
Bell I. Wiley, The Life of Billy Yank (reprinted Baton Rouge, LA: LSU Press, 1983)
Bell I. Wiley, The Life of Johnny Reb (reprinted Baton Rouge, LA: LSU Press, 1983)
Notes on Charge- Bayonet
Being a Supplement to Parade, Inspection and Basic Evolutions of the Infantry Battalion by Dom Dal Bello 1998 Dom Dal Bello
1. Charge-Bayonet - Reenacting Practice It is a common practice in some reenacting companies that during a Charge, the rear rank comes to Right Shoulder Shift while the front rank comes to Charge Bayonet. Why this is the case is a bit of a mystery, as no where is it prescribed in the manuals. In both Hardee's and Casey's Infantry Tactics, instructions for Charge Bayonet are only found in the "School of the Soldier;" neither manual gives any practical instruction for when a company or battalion is to actually Charge. Another questionable procedure on the reenacting battlefield is giving the command "Charge - Bayonet" when the unit is at a halt; this may be true when instructing the men, but makes no sense in "combat." In short, these procedures are questionable. 2. Charge-Bayonet - Theoretical Instruction The "School of the Soldier" (and higher schools), are just that, instructional manuals to give the officers and men the basic understanding of moving troops on the field and developing discipline. If and when the time comes for actual service, practical movements may be made using the drill that should ideally be second nature. This is where the military science becomes art. Since the "School of the Soldier" is instructional, Hardee teaches his recruits in one rank (Paras. 193-4); nothing is ever said of the rear rank in either of Hardee's two volumes. As for instructing the men in two or more ranks, Scott says: Charge - BAYONET. One time and two motions. 188. (Second motion.) Bring down the piece with the right hand into the left, the latter seizing it a little in advance of the tail-band, the barrel up, the left elbow near the body, the right hand supported against the hip the point of the bayonet at the height of the eye. The recruits of the centre and rear ranks will take care not to touch their file leaders with the points of their bayonets. Also, referring to the smaller The Soldier's Guide, we again find that the "School of the Soldier" instructs: The men in the rear rank will take care to avoid touching the men in the rank before them with their bayonets. Again, it should be emphasized that these are INSTRUCTIONAL manuals. When instructing the men, they all perform the same movement - they are learning the basic principles of drill, and are taught in a stationary line. Scott even includes a plate of the three ranks, all at Charge Bayonet. If drilling the men in two ranks, both should likewise Charge Bayonet. But do all the ranks come to "Charge-Bayonet" in an actual charge? Moving rapidly (charging) would likely hurt more of the attackers than anyone else. 3. Charge-Bayonet - Practical Instruction One wants instruction on how to conduct a proper BAYONET CHARGE. As is often the case, we must look to the old warrior, Winfield Scott, this time in the 1830 Abstract of Infantry Tactics. The work was an abridgment of the 2-volume 1825 Infantry Tactics so that the Militia and Volunteers would be able to more readily learn the basics; it was reprinted as late as 1861. The Abstract instructs: Remarks on Arms Port, Charge Bayonet and Trail Arms 466. When a battalion or line is to charge bayonet, the whole are, in the first instance, to come to Arms-port, and advance at a firm, quick step, but in the most perfect order possible, until they reach the enemy. (See No. 545.) 467. It is at that instant [reaching the enemy] that the front rank are necessarily to bring their firelocks down to the charging position, and the whole are to press forward with the utmost energy. The enemy being routed, it will depend on the officer commanding to give the word Halt; when the front rank will resume the position of Arms-port, and proceed as may be afterwards directed. But the word Halt is on no account to be given during a charge, or as preparatory to the front rank bringing the firelock to the charge position. It is, therefore, to be understood, that, in the charge, or quick attack upon the enemy with fixed bayonets, either previous to, or after firing, (which usually commences at a distance of one hundred or one hundred and fifty yards, as the ground may permit,) the charging position of the front rank is to be assumed only at the instant of attack or defense. So, here it is - PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION on how to make a Charge. In short: 1. a line moves forward at Arms-Port, and 2. only when the line reaches the enemy does the front rank, and only the front rank, come to Charge Bayonet. Note that the attackers do not assume the position of Charge Bayonet from a halted line. Common sense tells us that when we close with the enemy, we want as much "shock" as possible, so it is at that time that the front rank comes to Charge Bayonet; you do not want to expend that sudden high-energy push before you even move. The rear rank should be ready to assist the front with their bayonets, and this is best done from the position Arms-Port. 3.The command of "Charge-Bayonet" does not even have to be given in an actual Charge - the front rank coming to Charge Bayonet when they meet the enemy (not necessarily all at the same time). In practice, could the men here the command anyway? 4. Rear Rank at Right Shoulder Shift - Why? Why, in the reenacting world, has the rear rank come to Right Shoulder Shift? To this author's knowledge, few War-time images or paintings show this method; pictures of charges do show BOTH ranks at an Arms-Port-type position, or the weapons at Charge Bayonet at the lines close. Two pards suggested a possible source: Confederate General John B. Gordon description of the action at Antietam.
The men in blue filed down the opposite slope, crossed the little stream (Antietam), and formed in my front, an assaulting column four lines deep. The front line came to a "charge bayonets," [Arms-Port?] and the other lines to a "right shoulder shift." The brave Union commander, superbly mounted, placed himself in front, while his band in rear cheered them with martial music. It was a thrilling spectacle. ... As we stood looking upon that brilliant pageant, I thought, if I did not say, "What a pity to spoil with bullets such a scene of martial beauty!" ...
To oppose man against man and strength against strength was impossible; for there were four lines of blue to my one of gray. Those who read this passage without a full understanding of its implications may assume it to mean that only the front rank came to a Charge, instead of the first line of battle. Gordon was in fact describing an attack column - four lines deep, each line being of two ranks - attacking his one line of battle. A recent book by John Michael Priest, Antietam, The Soldiers Battle, unfortunately continues to perpetuate this myth in at least two cases. Where Priest gets his description from is unknown to this author; it is likely another misunderstanding of Gordon's narrative. No where in the primary or secondary sources that Priest cites in the two sections in which he describes the Charge does it talk about "ranks" at different arms positions. "Lines" of battle are discussed in the sources, but that is about all. It is the opinion of this correspondent, and others, that Priest has concluded much more than he can justify in describing the battle - taking one incident, likely mis-interpreted, and applying it to other sections. 5. Some Practical "Advice" for Reenactors In combat, carrying the piece at Right Shoulder Shift keeps it out of action until it is brought first to the front, and then forward. At Arms-Port, the rear rank is immediately ready to step into action should his file leader fall. Arms-Port is also a natural position to carry the piece when moving quickly. Right Shoulder Shift may be "justified" (wrongly) by some as a sort of "safety" feature. However, the position of Arms-Port is safer than either Charge Bayonet or Right Shoulder Shift. Trying to move across the field at Charge Bayonet is not as well balanced as at Arms-Port; and if you trip in the rear rank, you have better control of the piece at Arms-Port than if it were at Right Shoulder Shift. Safety is a paramount concern in reenacting. When the lines close, bringing the piece down to a Charge, even without bayonets, is very dangerous. It is recommended that, if and when the lines do close, the front rank should remain at Arms-Port so that hand-to-hand combat may be at least "safely" simulated. Perhaps this practice should be adopted throughout the hobby. 6. The Color Guard When marching in line of battle, the Color Rank and general guides are six paces in front of the battalion. However, when a line is to close with the enemy, the Color Rank retires to the front rank, as noted in Para. 1320 of Scott's Abstract of Infantry Tactics: 1320. When a battalion or line advances to the charge, at the distance of ___ paces from the enemy, the colors, general guides and staff, if in front, will be ordered to resume their places in line. (see Nos. 466, 467). The number of "paces from the enemy" is left blank in the Abstract; this distance will depend on the nature of the ground, the forces involved, weapons, &c. But when the command is to close with the enemy, there is no sense for the Color and general guides to be precariously out in front - the need for the line to remain straight now being secondary to striking hard and quickly. FOOTNOTES 1. Scott, Winfield, Infantry Tactics, New York: Harper and Bros, 1840 (originally published 1835), Para. 188. 2. The Soldier's Guide, Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson and Bros., 1861. 3. Scott, Winfield, Abstract of Infantry Tactics, Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little and Wilkins, 1830; Philadelphia: Moss, Brother & Co., 1853; 1861, Paras. 466-7. In 1826, Scott's 1825 Infantry Tactics would be abridged for the Volunteers and Militia, resulting in the Abstract. The Abstract is essentially what one really needs to know as far as the 1825 Tactics are concerned. Paragraphs deemed non-essential (e.g., detailed explanations and complicated or higher evolutions) were eliminated, the Abstract being "about four-sevenths of the prototype." Paragraph numbers were retained to refer to the original work, leaving gaps in the Abstract's numbering. In 1829, Congress ordered 60,000 of these printed for distribution. It was reprinted as late as 1861. 4. Gordon, John B., Reminiscences of the Civil War, New York: C. Scribener's Sons, 1903, pgs. 84-6. Bob Braun (33d Wisc.) and Jaime Bain (Texas Rifles) pointed me in this direction. Joe Walker (7th Tex.), in June, 1996's Camp Chase Gazette, informs us that he suggested this 10 years since in Jack King's 1st Confederate Brigade. At the time, however, how many attack columns were regularly seen on the reenacting field? Not many. 5. Priest, J.M, Antietam, the Soldiers' Battle, Shippenburg, PA: White Mane Publishing Co., 1992. The only primary source cited in the two descriptions of the charge is Rufus Dawes' (6th Wisc.) description, and the 6th is simply moving forward at Right Shoulder Shift. And, while the other sources are secondary, none describes a charge with the rear rank at Right Shoulder Shift. 6. Safety is built into the tactics. But how many times have some reenactors thought that removing the spent cap before loading was "safer" than following the prescribed methods? Experience then and now shows that air allowed into the barrel through the nipple keeps any embers burning, leading to a premature discharge of the weapon.
FOOTPRINTS
Jerry Gouge has multiple copies of Footprints of a Regiment by William Andrews, 1st Sgt. Co. M, this is the history of the 1st Georgia Regulars, if you have not read it and would like to borrow a copy get in touch with him. If you have a borrowed book out on loan please return it as soon as possible so that others can borrow it.
MAHAN'S OUTPOST
We have paid for 15 slots for the Mahan's event. So far I have received payment from but a few of you. I have word from a number of you who have said that they are going but I have not received your $5 yet. Some of you have not committed yet as you are not sure you have the proper Federal gear. If you want to go we will get you the equipment, do not let that put you off. Let us help you. Please make a list of your extra equipment and bring it to the Wheeler Co. Encampment.
Rations for Events
By Mike Murley
"1191. The ration is three-fourths of a pound of pork or bacon, or one and a fourth pound of fresh or salt beef; eighteen ounces of bread or flour, or twelve ounces of hard bread, or one and fourth pound of corn meal; and to the rate, to one hundred rations, of eight quarts of beans, or, in lieu thereof, ten pounds of rice, or, in lieu thereof, twice per week, one hundred and fifty ounces of desiccated [dried] potatoes, and one hundred ounces of mixed vegetables; ten pounds of coffee [which works out to one-tenth of a pound per man per day], or, in lieu thereof, one and one- half pound of tea; one pound of sperm candles, or one and one-half pound of adamantine candles, or one and one-half pound of tallow candles; four pounds of soap, and two quarts of salt."
"1193. On a campaign , or on marches, or on board of transports, the ration of hard bread is one pound."(1)
Ration items available in local groceries:
Common (Federal and CS)
Salt pork(2); "country" (or smoke cured) slab bacon, fresh beef or pork; soft bread (home baked style loaves, not "Wonder bread"), rice, beans ("white" or "Navy"), corn meal, potatoes (small, red potatoes and sweet potatoes), onions, salt, coffee (either ground or bean is fine), tea (loose - not tea bags!), sugar ("Turbinado" or raw sugar is best), plain white candles (rare for CS), vinegar (issued but not listed), molasses (issued in lieu of sugar).
Confederate Substitutes
Corn bread for soft bread or hard bread, goober peas, parched corn ( make your own by 'parching' organic [no pesticides or herbicides] seed corn in bacon fat in a hot skillet - the end result should look and taste like un-flavored "Corn NutsTM"). House of Times Past, a vendor, sells parched corn in « and one pound bags for $1.75 and $3.00. (201 E. Pickens Street, Abbeville, SC 29620. 864-459-0325; e-mail: [email protected]). They also sell twist tobacco, green coffee beans and unrefined sugar.
Foraged items? Corn on the cob (in the shuck) and other period vegetables in season; period type apples (in season), 'country ham', eggs (will keep a week w/o refrigeration), bake biscuits at home and put in haversack, &c.
Items from home? Pickles (gherkins), jams or preserves, block cheese (more Federal than CS - no fancy imports), mustard, &c.
Federal Hard Bread ("Hard Tack", "Hard Crackers"):
1. Very good looking (but far too salty) hard bread is available from Mechanical Baking Company, Box 513, Perkins, IL 61555-0513, telephone (309) 353-2414. Pricing: 1 - 6 65› each plus $2.80; 7 - 12 55› plus $3.75;13 - 24 45›plus $5.80; 25-up 40› plus $7.80 ($8.00 for 100).
2. A very good cracker (but with a more rectangular shape) is the pilot bread made by G. H. Bent & Co., 7 Pleasant St., Milton, MA, 02186 - telephone (617) 698-5945 for $6.75 (post paid) for 10 (no quantity discount). Order "Civil War Crackers".
3. A hard tack cutter is available from Village Tinsmith Box 539, Hamptonville, NC 27020; 910-468-1190 - V/MC, with recipe. Home made hard bread will not look or taste right - you need commercial cracker flour.
Packaging
1. No plastic! Ever!
2. Muslin "poke" bags for dry items / salt pork.
3. Brown paper or reproduction newspapers.
4. Period glass jars (found at antique shops) with zinc screw-on caps (this is good for 'from home' stuff when doing Federal!).
5. Stoneware bottles or crocks. Crocks should be covered with paper or oilcloth and sealed with wax.
6. Glass container with cork.
1. Page 243 of the Revised Regulations for the United States Army, Philadelphia: J.G.L. Brown, 1861 and paragraphs 1107 and 1109, page 191 of the Regulations for the Army of the Confederate States, Richmond, J.W. Randolph, 1863 - the CS Regulations modify the ration to be a pound of beef or a half pound of bacon or pork, with flour and meal not to exceed a pound and a half.
2. Modern 'salt pork' is salted for taste only. This is a period farmer's recipe for salt meat:
"It is best to cut the meat into 4 to 6 lb pieces. Have barrel ready and spread a layer of salt on the bottom. Rub each piece of meat with a mixture of salt and pepper and pack down in layers, covering each with a layer of salt. The top layer should be of salt. Let stand overnight.
"In the morning pour on the following brine: For 25 lbs of meat: 3 lbs Salt, « tablespoon Saltpeter, « cup Brown Sugar, Packed Or Molasses, « tablespoon Baking Soda, 2 Gallons Water
"Dissolve the ingredients in 2 gallons water, stir until salt is dissolved. Test with an egg; if it floats, fine if not, add more salt. Pour over the packed, salted meat and if necessary, pour on more water to cover the meat. Invert a dish over it and put a heavy weight on it, to be sure that the meat will not float. It may be used in 2 to 3 weeks. For 100 lbs of meat, double all ingredients.."
Little Giffen
Out of the focal and foremost fire,
Out of the hospital walls as dire,
Smitten of grape-shot and gangrene
(Eighteenth battle, and he sixteen!)
Specter! such as you seldom see,
Little Giffen, of Tennessee!
"Take him -- and welcome!" the surgeons said;
"Little the doctor can help the dead!"
So we took him and brought him where
The balm was sweet on the summer air;
And we laid him down on a wholesome bed --
Utter Lazarus, heel to head!
And we watched the war with bated breath --
Skeleton Boy against skeleton Death.
Months of torture, how many such!
Weary weeks of the stick and crutch;
And still a glint in the steel-blue eye
Told of a spirit that wouldn't die,
And didn't. Nay, more! in death's despite
The crippled skeleton learned to write.
"Dear Mother," at first, of course; and then
"Dear Captain," inquiring about "the men."
Captain's answer: "of eighty-and-five,
Giffen and I are left alive."
Word of gloom from the war one day:
"Johnston's pressed at the front, they say!"
Little Giffen was up and away;
A tear -- his first -- as he bade good-by,
Dimmed the glint of his steel-blue eye.
"I'll write, if spared!" There was news of the fight;
But none of Giffen -- he did not write.
I sometimes fancy that, were I king
Of the princely Knights of the Golden Ring,
With the song of the minstrel in mine ear,
And the tender legend that trembles here,
I'd give the best, on his bended knee,
The whitest soul of my chivalry,
For Little Giffen, of Tennessee.
Francis Orrery Ticknor (1822-1874)
This poem was probably inspired by the battle of Shiloh in southwestern Tennessee on April 6, 1862. Albert Sidney Johnston, perhaps the most able Confederate commander, was killed just after he had successfully urged a reluctant Tennessee regiment to charge into a peach orchard held by Federal troops. The poem would vindicate Tennesseans at one of the bloodiest battles of the war.
Marching Still
A woman's mad grief for the madness of war.
She is old, and bent, and wrinkled,
In her rocker in the sun,
And the thick, gray, woolen stocking
That she knits is never done.
She will ask the news of battle
If you pass her when you will,
For to her the troops are marching,
Marching still.
Seven tall sons about her growing
Cheered the widowed mother's soul;
One by one they kissed and left her
When the drums began to roll.
They are buried in the trenches,
They are bleaching on the hill;
But to her the boys are marching,
Marching still.
She was knitting in the corner
When the fatal news was read,
How the last and youngest perished, --
And the letter, ending, said:
"I am writing on my knapsack
By the road, with borrowed quill,
For the Union army's marching,
Marching still."
Reason sank and died within her
Like a flame for want of air;
So she knits the woollen stockings
For the soldier lads to wear,
Waiting till the war is ended
For her sons to cross the sill;
For she thinks they all are marching,
Marching still.
Minna Irving (b. 1872)
Wheeler County Directions
Get off I-16 at GA Hwy 19, head south. There is a blinking light at the intersection of GA Hwy 19 and GA Hwy 46. There is a small grocery there on the corner where you can get a snack if you need one. Go through the intersection and travel an additional 4 miles (approximate). You will see to a fenced in lot with grain cylos and small buildings on the left. Look for a painted sign "FGR" on the fence or side of the road. If you get to Glenwood you have missed it. Drive through the gate bearing to the right and park in the yard down toward the little house. Attempt to park well away from the house and not in the drive. When facing the house there is a water outlet on the left. There will be maps there directing you to the camp site. Walk back to the road heading back toward I-16 and approximately 100 yards is a dirt road to the right which will take you to the campsite. There is a chain across this road so do not attempt to drive down it. If you are coming east on US 280 then at Glenwood turn right on GA 19 and the place will be about 4 miles north on the right.