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The Civil War in Georgia : a new Georgia encyclopedia companion /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Inscoe, John C., 1951- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Section 1: Prelude to war: Slavery
  • Wanderer
  • Georgia in 1860
  • Sectional crisis
  • Georgia platform
  • Secession
  • State constitution of 1861
  • Milledgeville
  • Old Governor's Mansion
  • Section 2: The war years: For Pulaski
  • Union blockade and coastal occupation
  • Savannah
  • USS Water Witch
  • Naval war on the Chattahoochee River
  • Guerrilla warfare
  • Andrews raid
  • Black troops
  • Battle of Chickamauga
  • Atlanta Campaign
  • Battle of Resaca
  • Battle of Pickett's Mill
  • Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
  • Sherman's march to the sea
  • Griswoldville
  • Wilson's raid
  • Capture of Jefferson Davis
  • Confederate gold
  • Civil War photojournalist: George N. Barnard
  • Military support: Georgia Military Institute
  • Confederate hospitals
  • Industry and manufacturing
  • Atlanta as Confederate hub
  • Roswell Mill Women
  • Prisons
  • Andersonville Prison
  • Home front: Newspaper
  • The countryman
  • Unionists
  • Desertion
  • Dissent
  • Women
  • Nancy Harts Militia
  • Welfare and poverty
  • Emancipation
  • Sherman's field order no. 15.
  • Section 3: The war's legacy: Postwar identity: Reconstruction
  • Lost cause religion
  • Confederate veteran organizations
  • United Daughters of the Confederacy
  • Commemorative sites and activities: Cemeteries
  • Confederate monuments
  • Cyclorama
  • Fitzgerald
  • Stone Mountain
  • Civil War Heritage trails
  • National Civil War Naval Museum at Port Columbus
  • Civil War Centennial
  • Reenacting
  • Archaeology
  • Literary and cinematic perspectives: Journals, diaries, and memoirs
  • Slave narratives
  • Macaria
  • "Marching through Georgia"
  • On the plantation
  • The general
  • Gone with the wind (Novel)
  • Gone with the wind (Film)
  • The great locomotive chase
  • The Andersonville trial (Play) and Andersonville (Film)
  • Jubilee
  • The wind done gone
  • Fictional treatments of Sherman in Georgia.