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The Battle of Griswoldville was the first battle of Sherman's March to the Sea, fought November 22, 1864, during the American Civil War.A Union Army brigade under Brig. Gen. Charles C. Walcutt fought three brigades of Georgia militia under Brig. Gen. Pleasant J. Philips, at Griswoldville (an industrial town), near Macon, Georgia, and continued its march toward Savannah.
Captives in Blue: The Civil War Prisons of the Confederacy (2013) pp. 119–66; Rhodes, James, History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850, vol. V. New York: Macmillan, 1904. Silkenat, David. Raising the White Flag: How Surrender Defined the American Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. ISBN 978-1-4696 ...
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.
Sherman's March to the Sea (also known as the Savannah campaign or simply Sherman's March) was a military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia from November 15 until December 21, 1864, by William Tecumseh Sherman, major general of the Union Army.
Indecisive naval battle during U.S. Civil War. May 5 –7, 1864: Battle of the Wilderness: Virginia: A: Inconclusive: Grant and Lee meet inconclusively. May 6 –7, 1864: Battle of Port Walthall Junction: Virginia: C: Union: Union forces destroy railroad May 7 –13, 1864: Battle of Rocky Face Ridge: Georgia: C: Union
The Battle of Lovejoy's Station was fought on August 20, 1864, near what is now Lovejoy, Georgia, in Clayton County, during the Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War. The two sides had arrived at something of a stalemate , with the Union army half-encircling Atlanta and the Confederate defenders staying behind their fortifications .
The Battle of Peachtree Creek was fought in Georgia on July 20, 1864, as part of the Atlanta Campaign in the American Civil War. [3] It was the first major attack by Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood since taking command of the Confederate Army of Tennessee . [ 4 ]
The Battle of Columbus, Georgia (April 16, 1865), was the last conflict in the Union campaign through Alabama and Georgia, known as Wilson's Raid, in the final full month of the American Civil War. Maj. Gen. James H. Wilson had been ordered to destroy the city of Columbus as a major Confederate manufacturing center.