Maj. William C. Preston C.S.A

William C. Preston of the C.S.A. commanded an artillery battalion attached to Alexander P. Stewart’s Corps and was killed in action on July 20th, 1864, during the Battle of Peachtree Creek while supervising the placement of two sections of Selden’s Alabama Battery, commanded by Lieutenant Chas. W. Lovelace, near the Embry House. The battery supported Reynolds’s Brigade as it swept northeast across the Embry Plantation and the road toward the re-entrant angle of the Federal line north of the deep ravine. Preston was a native of South Carolina and was the “Willie Preston” of Mary Boykins Chestnut’s A Diary of Dixie.

Atlanta, Georgia · United States