May 26, 1835

1835 Military leader, businessman, and historian Edward Porter Alexander was born in Washington, Ga.

May 26, 1838

1838 Gen. John Floyd and nine companies of the Georgia Militia crossed the Coosawattee River and began the roundup of Cherokee Indians in Georgia. Because U.S. troops from Florida had not yet arrived, Gen. Winfield Scott three days earlier had mustered the Georgia militiamen into federal service to begin the roundup.

May 26, 1861

1861 Gen. Robert E. Lee wrote Georgia governor Joseph E. Brown saying that many Georgia volunteer companies had arrived in Virginia without weapons and asked if Georgia could send any firearms or equipment.

May 26, 1861

1861 Savannah’s Oglethorpe Light Infantry became the first Georgia group to respond to Jefferson Davis’s call for arms,

May 26, 1861

1861 Pres. Jefferson Davis left Montgomery to travel to Richmond, Va., the new capital of the Confederacy.

May 26, 1864

1864 West of Marietta, the Battle of New Hope Church continued.

May 26, 1913

1913 Despite intense questioning by detectives, Jim Conley stuck to his story that he wrote the notes found near the body of Mary Phagan, but at the order of Leo Frank.There was little doubt that he did write the notes, but police continued to investigate the circumstances under which they were written.