Thaddeus Oliver GHM 076-2
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N 32° 18.855 W 083° 38.068
17S E 251975 N 3578318
Located on GA 26 at Loggins Rd across the road from Green Grove Baptist Church
Waymark Code: WMPTYR
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 10/20/2015
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Thaddeus Oliver, who wrote "All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight," and his wife, the former Sarah Penelope Lawson, are buried here, in what was once the family burying ground on the Hugh Lawson plantation. Thaddeus Oliver, son of William Oliver and Dorcas Harrison Oliver, was born in Twiggs County Dec. 25, 1826. He went to Marion County in 1850 and taught for two years in Buena Vista Academy. Studying law under Judge Mark Blanford he was admitted to the bar in 1852 and was serving as Solicitor General of the Chattahoochee Circuit when he joined the Confederate Army April 15, 1861. His first service in Virginia was with the Buena Vista Guards, Co. I, Seventh Ga. Infantry. Later, he organized Co E, 63d Regiment, in Marion County, and was elected Captain. He served in the Army of Tennessee (CSA) until he died of wounds in a Charleston S.C. hospital Aug. 21, 1864. Thaddeus Oliver wrote his famous poem while stationed at Aqula Creek, Va. in August 1861. His sons, Rev. Hugh Forsyth Oliver and Admiral James Harrison Oliver, were "the two in the low trundle bed" in the famed song.
Type of Marker: Other
Marker #: 076-2
Date: 1955
Sponsor: Georgia Historical Commission
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