Hi Everybody I want to say welcome to all of you who have joined yesterday and today. We just keep adding new members. I hope all of you that are new will post a note and let us know a little about who you are and who you are searching. This is so much fun. All of you are really bringing back memories for me. My husband thinks I am loosing it, I will read your notes and shout out oh that reminds me of Polly (Surname) we use to have so much fun and David (Surname) BOY could he make your heart throb! LaGrange was a small town and a wonderful place to grow up. I never realized how much I miss living there. I hope we can make some connections. Quite a few of your surnames are still listed in the phone book there. So you may even try writing to some of them, and see if they can give you any information. Speaking of the phone book I was looking over some posts this am and comparing them to the listings, when I saw this story in the front and thought I would share it with you. It was the spring of 1865. An earthen fort had been painstakingly built across from the Chattahooche River two years before, to protect the Chattahoochee River bridges and strategic railroad junction at West Point from Union invasion. The town was quiet and the river flowed peacefully around its bends. Supplies were plentiful, thanks to the railroad and local farmers. West Point was a strategic store house for the Confederacy, and so was targeted by the Union forces. Several Confederate hosiptals were full or recuperating soldiers, some of whom would soon be elevated to hero status - at least those who survived. The earthen fort was about 35 yards square and consisted of a four-and-a-half-foot high parapet of packed clay, fronted by a ditch 12 feet wide by 10 feet deep. In the last dying breaths of the Confederacy, fort Tyler held out to the very last. Early in the morning on Easter Sunday, April 16, the Federals attacked - 3,500 of them. Commanded by Brigadier GENERAL ROBERT C. TYLER, a garrison of about 120 convalescing soldiers from local hospitals and civilian volunteers banded together with a small unit of soldiers from LaGrange to defend the fort and town. All day the town was barraged by cannon fire, and Mrs. A. W. GRIGGS, a wife of a Confederate surgeon, led the women of the town in giving aid and shelter to the wounded from both armies. by afternoon, the fort had fallen to the Federals, and GENERAL TYLER was dead. Following the battle, federal troops destroyed 19 confederate engines and 340 railroad cars located with supplies, cotton goods, machinery and leather at the Freight Depot in West Point. The fort was named in honor of Tyler, quatermaster for the Confederacy. His background remains a mystery and no family has ever been known to visit his grave. In 1895, a reservoir was built on the hill to preserve the southeast section of the earthworks. Today fort Tyler is open for quiet reflective walks. Do we have any that are searching the Tyler name? This is what I mean when I see a name and date I get so sidetracked, so I book mark it purchased a flex file and will stick it in the T's. Looking forward to more of those post. Has anyone connected yet. Happy Labor Day and don't work to hard. Hilda