The Civil War in Georgia : a new Georgia encyclopedia companion / edited by John C. Inscoe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Inscoe, John C., 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Georgia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

Georgia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 war­fare, 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.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

OVERVIEW: The Civil War in Georgia

SECTION 1: Prelude to War

Slavery

BOX: Wanderer

Georgia in 1860

Sectional Crisis

BOX: Georgia Platform

Secession

State Constitution of 1861

Milledgeville

BOX: Old Governor's Mansion

SECTION 2: The War Years

MILITARY ACTIONS

Fort Pulaski

Union Blockade and Coastal Occupation

BOX: css Savannah

BOX: 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

BOX: Griswoldville

Wilson's Raid

Capture of Jefferson Davis

BOX: Confederate Gold

Civil War Photojournalist: George N. Barnard

MILITARY SUPPORT

Georgia Military Institute

Confederate Hospitals

Industry and Manufacturing

Atlanta as Confederate Hub

BOX: Roswell Mill Women

Prisons

Andersonville Prison

HOME FRONT

Newspapers

BOX: The Countryman

Unionists

Desertion

Dissent

Women

BOX: 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

Georgia Civil War Commission

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

Selected Bibliography

Contributors

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

R

S

T

U

V

W.

Notes:

"A project of the New Georgia Encyclopedia".

"Published in association with the Georgia Humanitites Council and the University System of Georgia/GALILEO".

Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-286) and index.

ISBN:

1-283-30368-X

9786613303684

0-8203-4182-7

OCLC:

756502358