"A project of the New Georgia Encyclopedia"

Darling, I never wanted to gow home as bad in my life as I doo now and if they don’t give mee a furlow I am going any how. Written in December 1862 by Private

The Civil War was arguably the watershed event in the history of the United States, forever changing the nature of the Republic and the relationship of individu

In an examination of the effects of the Civil War on the rural Southern home front, Mark V. Wetherington looks closely at the experiences of white "plain folk--