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Daniel Appling is known as Georgia’s most prominent soldier in the War of 1812. His reputation stemmed from an action at the Battle of Sandy Creek on Lake Ontario in upstate New York in 1814. There, Appling’s command of around 130 riflemen and a similar number of Oneida Indians effectively ambushed and prevented a force of approximately 200 British marines from seizing naval stores and guns that the American navy was moving by boat to the Sackets Harbor shipyard.

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Desertion plagued Georgia regiments during the Civil War (1861-65) and, in addition to other factors, debilitated the Confederate war effort. Deserters were not merely cowards or ne’er-do-wells; some were seasoned veterans from battle-hardened regiments. The most significant wave of desertion among Georgia soldiers occurred from late 1863 through 1864 in the wake of the Battle of Chickamauga and of Union general William T. Sherman’s Atlanta campaign. The proximity of the army to soldiers’ homes following those battles, Sherman’s advance through the state, and Georgians’ sense of duty to alleviate the social and economic hardships endured by their families and communities encouraged Confederates to abandon the ranks and return home.

Don  Cooper was born in 1944 in Belton, Texas. He grew up in Georgia and subsequently received his training from the University of Georgia in Athens, earning a B.F.A. degree and then an M.F.A. degree in drawing and painting.  After teaching at West Georgia College (later University of West Georgia) in Carrollton, he moved in 1976 to Atlanta, where he taught at the Atlanta College of Art from 1994 to 2005. Cooper has showcased his work in exhibitions around the world, from the Olivier Gallery in London, England, to Atlanta’s High Museum of Art.