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The history of Georgia in the United States of America spans pre-Columbian time to the present ... Augusta, Georgia, 1860–1890 (University of Georgia Press, 2000 ...
The 1860 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 6, 1860, as part of the 1860 United States presidential election. Georgia voters chose 10 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College , who voted for president and vice president .
Georgia was one of the original seven slave states that formed the Confederate States of America in February 1861, triggering the U.S. Civil War.The state governor, Democrat Joseph E. Brown, wanted locally raised troops to be used only for the defense of Georgia, in defiance of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, who wanted to deploy them on other battlefronts.
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Georgia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. [1] [2] [3]
1859–1860 Appling Appling H. R. Fort 1861–1863 3rd Appling, Silas Overstreet 1865–1866 3rd Appling, Elisha D. Graham 1868–1869 3rd Appling, Merritt Henderson 1870 3rd Appling, John C. Nicholls 1871–1874 3rd Appling, Daniel G. Hopps 1875–1877 3rd Appling, Gideon J. Holton 1878–1879 3rd Appling, Lemuel Johnson 1880–1881, 1884–1885
Importing slaves to Georgia was illegal from 1788 until the law was repealed in 1856. [22] Despite these restrictions, researchers estimate that Georgians "transported approximately fifty thousand bonded African Americans" from other slave states between 1820 and 1860. [23] Some of these imports were legal transfers, others were not.
1860s Georgia (U.S. state) elections (3 C, 1 P) Pages in category "1860s in Georgia (U.S. state)" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
At the beginning of Reconstruction, Georgia had over 460,000 freedmen. [1] In January 1865, in Savannah, William T. Sherman issued Special Field Orders, No. 15, authorizing federal authorities to confiscate abandoned plantation lands in the Sea Islands, whose owners had fled with the advance of his army, and redistribute them to former slaves.