Three days after the Confederacy fires upon Union forces at Fort Sumter, U. S. Abraham Lincoln issues a proclamation against the Confederate States of America, calling for the raising of a United States militia to respond to the hostile actions of the CSA: Whereas the laws of the United States have been for some time…
A speech that Governor Joseph Brown of Georgia recently gave to military officers and soldiers in Macon is printed in today’s Southern Recorder newspaper. The Baptist politician’s words echo familiar southern secessionist themes, rallying white citizens to the defense of the South’s slave culture (“domestic affairs”), advocating freedom and equality only for whites, and invoking…
Georgia’s Baptist governor, Joseph Brown (illustration), continues to systemically take over federal lands and buildings in his state. Today, he orders the state militia to take possession of the United States Mint in Dahlonega. The north Georgia mountain town is the place were gold was first discovered in America. Also today, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln,…