The Other Roswell Incident – Today In Southern History
10 July 1864
10 July 1864
On this date in 1864…
Mill workers from Roswell, New Manchester and Marietta, Georgia were charged with treason by federal troops. Without a trial and shortly thereafter, 400-500 mostly women and children were deported to the north by federal General William Tecumseh Sherman. Most were never seen or heard from again.
One such worker was Adeline Bagley Buice:
(Virginia Flaggers) - Working at the Roswell Mill while her husband Joshua was serving in the Confederate Army, Adeline Bagley Buice was a pregnant seamstress when Union forces burned her place of work. Deported north with the other women, she traveled all the way to Chicago. In August, she gave birth to a daughter she named Mary Ann. Over the next five years, Adeline and Mary steadily made their way toward Georgia, mostly on foot.
In the meantime, Joshua Buice returned to Roswell at the end of the war, and discovered that his wife had been deported with the other mill workers. As the years passed and Adeline did not return, he could only assume that she had died, and he remarried. Many of the men who came home from the war to find their wives and families missing followed suit.
There is precious little information about what happened between Adeline and Joshua after she returned to Roswell.
Other Years:
1739 – The War of Jenkins’ Ear began between Great Britain and the Spain. The British would confirm their control of southern Georgia when colonists commanded by James Oglethorpe defeated an invasion force of Spanish regulars on St. Simons Island.
1832 – President Andrew Jackson vetoed legislation to recharter the Second Bank of the US
1836 – Nine hundred Creek resisters from Emathla’s band were captured and shipped west in shackles to Indian Territory.
1861 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln wrote to Kentucky’s government and promised that federal troops will not enter that state. Obviously, Honest Abe lied because federal troops would occupy a camp outside Lexington less than a month later.
1925 – The Scopes “Monkey Trial” began jury selection in Tennessee.
1938 – Aviation legend Howard Hughes of Humble, TX flew around the world in 91 hours
1962 – Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested during a demonstration in Georgia.
1967 – Bobbie Gentry of Woodland, MS recorded “Ode to Billie Joe,” a hit which went on to win four Grammy awards
1972 – The Democrat National Convention opened in Miami Beach, Florida and chose George McGovern for its presidential candidate after front-runner George Wallace of Alabama was disabled in an assassination attempt.
1978 – ABC World News Tonight premieres on ABC with Max Robinson of Richmond, VA as the first Black anchor on a network newscast
1985 – After one of history’ worst marketing blunders, Coca-Cola Co. announced it would resume selling old-formula Coke
2005 – Hurricane Dennis struck the Florida Panhandle causing billions of dollars in damage.
2015 – The Confederate Battleflag is taken down for the last time from its compromise location at the memorial on the South Carolina Capitol grounds 1 day after the state legislature ordered its removal
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