Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a
variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New
Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection
chronicles the diversity of Georgia's Civil War experience and
reflects the most current scholarship in terms of how the Civil War
has come to be studied, documented, and analyzed.
The Atlanta campaign and Sherman's March to the Sea changed the
course of the war in 1864, in terms both of the upheaval and
destruction inflicted on the state and the life span of the
Confederacy. While the dramatic events of 1864 are fully
documented, this companion gives equal coverage to the many other
aspects of the war--naval encounters and guerrilla war-fare,
prisons and hospitals, factories and plantations, politics and
policies-- all of which provided critical support to the
Confederacy's war effort. The book also explores home-front
conditions in depth, with an emphasis on emancipation, dissent,
Unionism, and the experience and activity of African Americans and
women.
Historians today are far more conscious of how memory--as public
commemoration, individual reminiscence, historic preservation, and
literary and cinematic depictions--has shaped the war's multiple
meanings. Nowhere is this legacy more varied or more pronounced
than in Georgia, and a substantial part of this companion explores
the many ways in which Georgians have interpreted the war
experience for themselves and others over the past 150 years. At
the outset of the sesquicentennial these new historical
perspectives allow us to appreciate the Civil War as a complex and
multifaceted experience for Georgians and for all southerners.
A Project of the New Georgia Encyclopedia; Published in
Association with the Georgia Humanities Council and the University
System of Georgia/GALILEO.
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