The reconstruction of Southern states takes another step forward today when Louisiana delegates assemble in New Orleans to debate the wording of a new constitution that will abolish slavery and restore the state to the Union. Although prior to the war Louisiana claimed some of the richest counties in the nation due to the presence…
The citizens of middle Georgia yet live far from any battlefield action, despite Union encroachments as far south as the state’s coastal islands and, since the fall of 1863, Chattanooga, Tennessee. Accordingly, the town of Macon, the region’s largest city, in recent months has become a hub of hospitalized Confederate soldiers, their numbers growing daily.…
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…