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General Barton & Stovall History~Heritage Association

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:
Weldon (Mike) Griggs, President at wmikegriggs@comcast.net

In 1999-2000, descendants of the officers and men of the five Confederate  Regiments making up the Georgia Brigade began passing e-mail messages about  forming an association devoted to these soldiers. In January 2001, the General  Barton & Stovall Historical/Heritage Association (G.B.S.H.H.A.) was  established, and Gary Ray Goodson, Sr. was asked to serve as first president. As  a historian and award-winning author of the Georgia Confederate 7,000 Series,  Gary Goodson comes well qualified. Goodson, a descendent of 40th Georgia  regimental drummer, Pvt. Marion W. Goodson, was awarded the Bonnie Blue Society  Award from the Sons of Confederate Veterans for his three-book expose about the  Barton and Stovall Brigade
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The first annual G.B.S.H.H.A. Congress was held at  the Waverly Galleria Center in
Marietta, GA Labor Day Weekend, 2002. The  association has since selected Labor Day Weekend for all future Congresses,  which will be held in or near sites where the Brigade fought their biggest  battles. Now, almost 140 years after the close of the War for Southern  Independence/Civil War, we come together formally to honor and recognize the  officers and men of Brig. Generals Seth Barton and Marcellus Stovall's Georgia  Brigade: Georgia 40th, Georgia 41st, Georgia 42nd, Georgia 43rd, and Georgia  52nd.
Membership in the association is open to all descendants and interested  persons of arguably one of the finest, most feared and famous Confederate  Georgia Infantry Brigades to fight in the war for Southern independence. As our  name clearly states, we are devoted to history and heritage, and are not a  political organization. The association is breathing life back into dusty,  forgotten records and the bygone remembrances of the heritage and family  histories of the mostly young, north Georgia farmers who made up the Brigade.

The G.B.S.H.H.A web-site is established and maintained to honor our Georgia Brigade ancestors by the “Power of the Pen” and thus to promote this power by promoting ongoing research into our shared Confederate history and heritage. Therefore, the G.B.S.H.H.A will publish at no charge to the authors/researchers of all books, pamphlets, essays, letters, diaries, memoirs and pictures that pertain directly to the officers, men women and their families of the same Georgia Brigade of Seth Barton and Marcellus Stovall serving in the “War for Southern Independence” 1861-1865.
The G.B.S.H.H.A. will publish no materials submitted for publication that contains commercials, advertisments, or promotions of commercially related personal agendas.