George Washington Emmons was a member of the General Clanton Camp United Confederate Veterans and lived in the Wallace, Alabama area.
As mentioned in earlier articles over the years, the Confederate veterans who came to Escambia County after the war built many of the local institutions we know so well. Detractors attempt to paint these brave men as racists, traitors and in other ways worthy of contempt. Yet it is both foolish and misguided to judge a generation by contemporary social mores and norms. It is also very short-sighted from a historical perspective to take one perceived aspect of an era and apply it to an entire generation.
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