Now to be on the wall was the cane she used to get around that was very important for her. Toward the end of her life, she was bedridden for much of her time. There is a wonderful photo of her drinking out of this drinking cup here. It was given to her by her very dear friend mary mercer. ,it has her name engraved on it. That was something she kept at her bedside throughout her life. Carson was married to reeves mccullers. Soldier stationed at fort benning that she met when she went here. They had a very tumultuous relationship. Tragedyately ended in when reeves committed suicide. There is a lot of emotional misunderstanding and infidelity on both sides throughout their relationship. There was also a real love their and something that connected them with their love of literature and writing. So, these are two books that reeves gave her. In particular, this one you see here says christmas 1936 two o carson, these books and my deepest affection, reeves. Even though the relationship was n
For nearly a century. Fort benning was established on macon road in columbus, georgia, on approximately 85 acres of land in october of 19 18th 1918. On that day the war came to a close and there was talk of closing fort denning. Many officers who had served in the American Expeditionary forces to france went before congress to testify that had our soldiers had better training they would not have suffer the casualties that they did in just 210 days of actual combat, so it was determined by congress that we would keep fort benning on a smaller scale and luckily for us, it survived. But first, go on board the css jackson, one of only four surviving ironclads dating back to the civil war. We are in the National Civil war naval museum on the banks of the chattahoochee river. The purpose of the naval museum is to tell the stories of the navys during the civil war. We are the only facility that focuses entirely on that particular story. We are in a unique place, right here inside the museum a
No other group of americans has given more in defense of this country than the United States infantry. 11 00 we have lost more eyes, more arms, more legs and more lives on the battlefield than any other group of americans. And its all because they were willing to go out and give their lives in defense of the country. Fort benning was established on macon road in columbus, georgia, on approximately 85 acres of land in october of 1918. Caroline benning, the daughter of henry lewis benning, for whom the fort was named, raised the First American flag over the camp. They knew 85 acres of land was not going to be enough for training modern infantry soldiers. They talked with a local businessman who owned a lot of land around here and he agreed to sell it to the army and we eventually moved out here in 1919. In world war i, the infantry played a key role on the battlefield for all those participating in the war. It was determined that had we had better training, we would have lost fewer soldi