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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910824542403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Athens, : University of Georgia Press, 2011
• ISBN: 1-283-30368-X; 9786613303684; 0-8203-4182-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (319 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): InscoeJohn C. <1951->
• Disciplina: 975.8/03
• Soggetti: Georgia History Civil War, 1861-1865
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "A project of the New Georgia Encyclopedia".; "Published in association with the Georgia Humanitites Council and the University System of Georgia/GALILEO".
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-286) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.