Georgia in the Confederacy, 1861-1865
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1932
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Bass, James Horace
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Students of Southern History have made studies of the Secession and Reconstruction periods in the several Confederate states, but they have neglected the Civil War period proper; also most Confederate History has been written from the Richmond perspective and not from the viewpoint of the individual states which composed the Confederacy. This study assumes to investigate the behavior of a Southern state with reference to its membership in the Confederacy during the Civil War. Georgia was not selected as a typical Southern state, but it was perhaps as representative as any other state. There were no typical Southern states; they were all different. Whatever merit the study has lies in the fact that it takes the state government and not the central government as a perspective. The problem has been largely one of collection and synthesis of materials, most of which are readily available to the scholar. A conscious effort has been made to avoid details and movements that would have been normal had Georgia remained at peace in the Union, and a degree of discrimination has been employed in selecting materials which are pertinent to Georgia's changed allegiance and to the affiliation with the Confederacy during the war which ensued