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A post office called Griswoldville was established in 1849, and remained in operation until 1928. [3] Variant names are "Griswold" and "Griswoldsville".
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 Battle of Griswoldville was the first battle of Sherman's March to the Sea, fought November 22, 1864, during the American Civil War.A Union Army brigade under Brig. Gen. Charles C. Walcutt fought three brigades of Georgia militia under Brig. Gen. Pleasant J. Philips, at Griswoldville (an industrial town), near Macon, Georgia, and continued its march toward Savannah.
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Bibb County Courthouse and Confederate Monument in Macon, GA c.1870s Montezuma: Macon County Confederate Monument (1911). [86] "The first Macon County monument is currently located in Fannie Carmichael Park and faces east. It is a soldier with both hands on his grounded rifle. There are lion heads on each side.
The Cannonball House is a historically significant Greek revival house located at 856 Mulberry Street in Macon, Georgia, United States. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [2] It earned its name after sustaining damage from a Union Army cannonball strike on July 30, 1864, in the American Civil War. [3]
It is located in the southwest part of the state, approximately 60 miles (97 km) southwest of Macon on the Central of Georgia railroad. During the American Civil War, it was the site of a prisoner-of-war camp, which is now Andersonville National Historic Site. Andersonville is part of the Americus micropolitan statistical area.
Macon County was created in 1837 from parts of Houston ("house-ton") and Marion counties, effective December 14 of that year. The 91st county, it was named for the then-recently deceased General Nathaniel Macon [4] of North Carolina, who served in the U.S. Congress for 37 years and ran for U.S. vice president.