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Georgia was one of the original seven slave states that formed the Confederate States of America in February 1861, triggering the U.S. Civil War.The state governor, Democrat Joseph E. Brown, wanted locally raised troops to be used only for the defense of Georgia, in defiance of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, who wanted to deploy them on other battlefronts.
The Civil War in Georgia: A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 9780820341828. Miles, Jim To the Sea: A History and Tour Guide of the War in the West: Sherman's March Across Georgia, 1864 Cumberland House Publishing, (2002) Mohr, Clarence L.
From Slave South to New South: Public Policy in Nineteenth-Century Georgia (University of North Carolina Press, 1987) online edition Archived 2004-09-11 at the Wayback Machine; Wetherington, Mark V. Plain Folk's Fight: The Civil War and Reconstruction in Piney Woods Georgia (University of North Carolina Press, 2005) 383 pp. online review by ...
In a pattern seen across the South after the Civil War, many freedmen moved from plantations to towns or cities for work, including Atlanta; Fulton County went from 20.5% black in 1860 to 45.7% black in 1870. [32] [33] Atlanta, Georgia -- the Commercial Centre, 1887
After the War, Augusta and Georgia were both under martial law during the period known as Reconstruction. During this time, African American civil rights were expanded. [7] Following the end of Reconstruction, the European American majority population of Georgia and other Southern U.S. states enacted Jim Crow laws to limit the rights of African ...
The Union Party was a political group that supported removing the Indians and opening the area to white settlers, and is the probable reason for the county's name. [4] The western part of Union County was annexed by Fannin County on January 12, 1854, and in 1856 the southern tip was given to Gilmer County and an eastern section went to Towns ...
Civil War Era: 1849–1865 ... Their first settlement was founded in 1784 by Grigory Shelikhov. [41] ... Georgia initially failed to prosper, but the restrictions ...
Union (American Civil War) monuments and memorials in Georgia (U.S. state) (2 P) Units and formations of the Confederate States Army from Georgia (U.S. state) (26 P) Units and formations of the Union army from Georgia (U.S. state) (1 P)