His John Hancock is rarer than John Hancock’s. Born in England in 1735, Button Gwinnett came to Savannah 30 years later. He bought St. Catherine’s Island and became a planter. In 1776 he was elected commander of Georgia’s Continental Army Battalion during the American Revolution. When political opponents- including Lachlan McIntosh- challenged his election, he […]

Vocabulary – Button Gwinnett-Lachlan McIntosh Duel Commander Noun An officer commanding a military unit Opponents Noun People who disagree with a person or idea and actively try to stop the person or idea they are against Continental Congress Noun the congress of delegates from the American colonies held before, during, and after the American Revolution. […]

Learn More – Button Gwinnett- Lachlan McIntosh Duel Harvey H. Jackson, Lachlan McIntosh and the Politics of Revolutionary Georgia (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1979). Charles Francis Jenkins, Button Gwinnett: Signer of the Declaration of Independence (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1926) Kenneth Coleman, The American Revolution in Georgia, 1763-1789 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1958). […]

Daily Activities – Button Gwinnett – Lachlan McIntosh Duel The daily activities created for each of the Today in Georgia History segments are designed to meet the Georgia Performance Standards for Reading Across the Curriculum, and Grade Eight: Georgia Studies. For each date, educators can choose from three optional activities differentiated for various levels of […]

He was a Revolutionary leader involved in the most famous duel in Georgia history. Lachlan McIntosh was born in Scotland in 1727 and came to Georgia with a group of Highland Scots to defend the colony’s southern border. He grew up in the Scots settlement of Darien and became a prosperous rice planter. During the […]

A man who killed a political opponent in a duel nearly became the first president from Georgia, long before Jimmy Carter. William Crawford began his political career in 1803 as a state legislator from Oglethorpe County. Even though he killed a political enemy in a duel in 1802, Crawford’s political star kept rising, with service […]

Vocabulary – Lachlan McIntosh Duel Noun a prearranged combat, especially in former times, between two people armed with lethal weapons, usually to settle a disagreement over a matter of honor Highland Scots Noun Scottish immigrants from the highlands region of Scotland. They had a reputation for being good soldiers Settlement Noun a place that has […]

Learn More – James Jackson William Omer Foster Sr., James Jackson, Duelist and Militant Georgia Statesman, 1757-1806 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1960). George R. Lamplugh, “‘Oh the Colossus, the Colossus’: James Jackson and the Jeffersonian Republican Party in Georgia, 1796-1806,” Journal of the Early Republic 9 (1989). George R. Lamplugh , Politics on the […]

Daily Activities – Lachlan McIntosh The daily activities created for each of the Today in Georgia History segments are designed to meet the Georgia Performance Standards for Reading Across the Curriculum, and Grade Eight: Georgia Studies. For each date, educators can choose from three optional activities differentiated for various levels of student ability. Each activity […]

Daily Activities – William Crawford) The daily activities created for each of the Today in Georgia History segments are designed to meet the Georgia Performance Standards for Reading Across the Curriculum, and Grade Eight: Georgia Studies. For each date, educators can choose from three optional activities differentiated for various levels of student ability. Each activity […]