Times That Prove People's Principles

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Times That Prove People's Principles
Civil War in Georgia A Documentary History
Edited By Mills Lane
Hardcover, 275 pp

From the Publisher,
Four years of life in Georgia during the Civil War are described with first-person excitement in this collection of some thirty documents, or groups of shorter documents. Governor Joseph E. Brown exhorts the people of Georgia to arm themselves against Northern "aggression." The young Savannah lawyer George Mercer begins the defense of the coastal islands. Ordinary citizens, sometimes ardently patriotic, fearful or sceptical, write to Governor Brown with reports of their problems. William Howard Russell, correspondent for the London Times, sails down the Savannah River to inspect the defenses of Fort Pulaski. Soldier letters describe the bombardment and surrender of Fort Pulaski. A newspaper reporter describes the "Great Railroad Chase," in which a band of Northern "spies" stole a locomotive in northern Georgia. Sallie Lovett and Alpha Edge write longingly to their absent husbands-turned-soldiers. Dr. Joseph Jones views the horrors of Andersonville prison, where so many Northern soldiers died. Citizens in Rome, Marietta, Atlanta and Covington describe the devastation of Sherman's march. Alexander H. Stephens, Vice President of the Confederate States, chronicles his arrest and imprisonment.

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