Augustus M. Reinhardt

Capt. Augustus M. Reinhardt

Captain Augustus M. Reinhardt (1842–1923)^[1] was the namesake of Reinhardt University in Waleska, Georgia and a founder of Atlanta's Gate City Street Railroad Company. He was a Confederate war veteran, and had been a lawyer, city councilman and mayor pro tem.^[2]

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