In January 1861 a state convention voted by a narrow margin to
secede from the Union. Thus did the state of Georgia begin its
often rebellious participation in the Civil War. While Georgia
troops fought far away, back at home Governor Joseph Emerson Brown,
a strict advocate of states' rights, increasingly bristled at the
centralizing impulses of the Confederate government. In this
popular treatment of the Civil War in Georgia, F. N. Boney tells
the story of how the strain of this modern, total war relentlessly
ravaged the state's resources and weakened its resolve to fight for
the Confederate cause. Heavy casualties on the battle field and
accelerating inflation on the home front combined to undermine the
morale of the Confederacy and the citizens of Georgia.
Boney vividly describes these effects and shows how in response
Governor Brown and other Georgia leaders clashed more frequently
and more bitterly with President Jefferson Davis. Following their
governor's lead, white Georgians complained about Confederate
policy decisions they believed were destroying their chances of
winning the war. As Northern armies knifed through their state,
whites feared the devastation the Yankees left in their wake. At
the same time Georgia's slaves, almost half the total population,
grew increasingly restive as they greeted the bluebellies' arrival
as the coming of liberation and the day of Jubilee.
Narrating Sherman's pivotal capture of Atlanta on 2 September
1864 and his crushing march to the sea, which ended with the fall
of Savannah in late December, the author recounts the effects of
this slow death of the Confederacy on the psyche of Georgians black
and white. In the process, Boney shows howrebel Georgia gradually
overcame its grief and was eventually reunited with the north in a
national reconciliation.
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