by F. Nash Boney

In January 1861 a state convention voted by a narrow margin to secede from the Union. Thus did the state of Georgia begin its often rebellious participation in the Civil War. While Georgia troops fought far away, back at home Governor Joseph Emerson Brown, a strict advocate of states' rights, increasingly bristled at the centralizing impulses of the Condederate government. In this popular treatment of the Civil War in Georgia, F. N. Boney tells the story of how the strain of this modern, total war relentlessly ravaged the states' resources and weakened its resolve to fight for the Confederate cause. Heavy casualties on the battlefield and accelerating inflation on the home front combined to undermine the morale of the Condederacy and the citizens of Georgia.

Boney vividly describes these effects and shows how in response Governor Brown and other Georgia leaders clashed more frequently and more bitterly with President Jefferson Davis. Following their governor's lead, white Georgians complained about Confederate policy decisions they believed were destroying their chances of winning the war. As Northern armies knifed through their state, whites feared the devastation the Yankees left in their wake. At the same time Georgia's slaves, almost half the total population, grew increasingly restive as they greeted the bluebelliies' arrival as the coming of liberation and the day of Jubilee

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