Revolutionary War ceremony

(video frames included below)

at Tallapoosa (Bethany Baptist Church, 420 Bethany Church Road)
Starts on June 2, 2007 at 2:00PM
Ends on June 2, 2007 at 4:00PM
Pomp and circumstance will be the order of the day at this august and yet colorful ceremony sponsored by the Casimir Pulaski Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution. Attendees from several surrounding states might swell total attendance to 200.

An avenue of about 30 colonial flags will decorate the field, joined by a color guard unit. A mock Revolutionary War militia unit will fire a musket volley salute as the gravesite receives both a flush-ground grave marker and a bronze SAR monument. Hear a government proclamation and several short speeches, including a biography of Revolutionary War soldier Goggans. Musicians will include two bagpipers and a bugler, who will sound taps. The SAR, DAR and various local historical societies will decorate the gravesite with wreathes.

For full details, read the flyer here, or watch an enlightening short video featuring retiring Georgia SAR president George Wheeless speaking on this ceremony, the SAR and other local Revolutionary Era events here.

Writer Dr. John Ferling is professor emeritus of history at our local University of West Georgia, where he taught for thirty-three years. A scholar of the American revolutionary era, he is the author of ten books (and editor of others) including from the venerable Oxford University Press. He has enjoyed the signal honor of being interviewed about his professional work on national television for a full three hours, constituting an episode of the BookTV program In Depth, which you can view in its entirety via the related Web page here.

(Note: The captioned times in the video frames above are one hour too early)

While they often incite passionate interest in the events of the past, films made to provide entertainment often consciously do so at the expense of historical fidelity, rationalized by the justification of "artistic license".
The controversial 2000 film, "The Patriot", depicts the American independence war in South Carolina, setting of the real-life adventures of Mr. Goggans. Multiple excerpts from the movie can be seen online at the collections of links here.