EDWARD PORTER ALEXANDER, soldier, civil engineer, railway magnate and author; born at Washington, Georgia, May 28, 1835.  He was educated at West Point (United States Military Academy).  He resigned from the United States army and, entering the service of the Confederate States, became chief of artillery of Longstreet's Corps Army of Northern Virginia.  He was, after the war, a great railway developer.  He published in two volumes an interesting and authentic history under the title, "The Memoirs of a Confederate," which came from the press of Charles Scribner's Sons in 1907.
Source: The Standard History of Georgia & Georgians - Vol. III - By Lucian Lamar Knight - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago : New York - Publ. 1917 - Page 1748

ELIZA FRANCES ANDREWS, botanist, teacher and author; born at Washington, Georgia, Aug. 10, 1840.  She was graduated from La Grange College in 1857.  She has paid much attention to botany, was for several years a teacher at Wesleyan Female College, Macon, Georgia, is interesting as a lecturer, and has written on a variety of subjects, some humorous; has also written short stories, poems, criticisms and novels, many of them published in magazines and periodicals.  Among her writings are:  "A Family Secret,"  "A Mere Adventure,"  "Prince Hall: How He Was Tempted,"  "The Story of an Ugly Girl,"  "The Mistake of His Life,"  "Botany All the Year 'Round,"  "The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl."
Source: The Standard History of Georgia & Georgians - Vol. III - By Lucian Lamar Knight - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago : New York - Publ. 1917 - Page 1748