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…
Amidst great excitement, Georgia’s secession convention begins. Yet observers are apprehensive that the vote, to be taken later, will be close (such apprehension would prove to be unfounded). The Christian Index weighs in on the issue of slavery and secession, courtesy of editor Samuel Boykin (pictured). Of slavery: “It is plainly perceptible that slavery is…
Georgia governor Joseph Brown, a Baptist, takes immediate action in light of the state’s vote to hold a secession convention. Sending 134 volunteer Savannah militiamen, under the command of Colonel A. R. Lawton (later, a brigadier general in the Confederate Army), Brown seizes control of Fort Pulaski. The bloodless taking of the fort, located on…