A large crowd assembles in the Masonic Hall in Savannah, Georgia to hear the reading of an essay written by local hero and popular orator George Anderson Gordon, a colonel in the 63rd Georgia Regiment. Gordon’s regiment is charged with defending the Georgia and South Carolina coasts, whose waterways are now largely blockaded by the…
Meeting in Milledgeville, Georgia’s Secession Convention votes, 208-89, to remove the state from the United States of America: AN ORDINANCE to dissolve the union between the State of Georgia and other States united with her under a compact of Government entitled “The Constitution of the United States of America.” We, the people of the State of…
In the pages of the Primitive Baptist (the newspaper of Primitive Baptists in south Georgia and north Florida), editor Burwell Temple breaks from the ranks of most of his fellow Primitive brethren by publicly addressing the issue of secession. Temple expresses foreboding for the new year, but remains hopeful that all “true” Primitive Baptists –…