![]() The boys would hunt for Civil War relics. It was just piney woods with cattle roaming around. There were two old battlefields in Baldwin County right across the bay and they could ride their bicycles there. They were all Civil War buffs and Mobile was a great place to be a Civil War buff. It was heaven on Earth to all of his friends because they would ride horses across 40 acres that went back to a creek. Most of the out buildings were still in existence including the old slave buildings. The Sledge family did not alter it but decorated it with antiques. ![]() In his first year of high school, the family moved out to Springfield Avenue in a beautiful old home named Georgia Cottage. Sledge missed two years of grade school because of rheumatic fever. Eugene lived two blocks away on Montawk Avenue. Sidney Philips was born and raised in Mobile, Alabama.
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