By Richard Iobst

Macon is located at the head of navigation on the Ocmulgee River in the center of the state of Georgia. In 1860, on the eve of the Civil War, Macon was a very diverse community. Although the city tended to be homogeneous in its thinking, its population included people from many different states and many countries, especially European. It was, moreover, a business community dedicated to supplying the surprisingly sophisticated needs of its citizens, of the cotton planters who grew the short-staple upland cotton which provided the principal foundation of wealth for the antebellum South in general, and for the people of Middle Georgia in particular. This amazing diversity would serve Macon well in the desperate struggle which was to com.

Now, for the first time in such detail, is the story of Macon, Georgia, during the Civil War. What was life like in Macon during the war? What kinds of industry there were supplying the confederate army? Why did Sherman not come down to Macon? What of Wilson's raid through middle Georgia? These answers and much more fill the pages of Richard Iobst's very readable narrative.

Richard W. Iobst, Chief, Office of History, Warner Robins Air Logistics Center, Warner Robins Air Force Base, Warner Robins, Georgia. Former assistant professor of history from Western Carolina University. Served as Historian for the Office of History, Warner Robins Air Logistics Center and Museum Curator for the Southeastern Museum of Aviation. He earned a doctoral degree in American History from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has written The Bloody Sixth: History of the Sixth North Carolina Regiment, Confederate States of America (North Carolina Department of Archives and History, reprinted by Butternut Press, third printing by Soldiers and Sailors Press) and more than twenty-three articles appearing in various historical records.

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