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The main prewar agricultural products of the Confederate States were cotton, tobacco, and sugarcane, with hogs, cattle, grain and vegetable plots. Pre-war agricultural production estimated for the Southern states is as follows (Union states in parentheses for comparison): 1.7 million horses (3.4 million), 800,000 mules (100,000), 2.7 million dairy cows (5 million), 5 million sheep (14 million ...
The transfer was never effected, however, and Georgia was moved to an anchorage 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) below Bordeaux, France. On her arrival, in the spring of 1864 to the port city of Mogador, Morocco , her crew upon landing, was driven off by local Moroccans.
On January 19, 1861, Georgia seceded from the Union, keeping the name "State of Georgia" and joining the newly formed Confederacy in February. White solidarity was strong in 1861–63, as the planters in the Black Belt formed a common cause with upcountry yeomen farmers in defense of the Confederacy against the Union. [ 41 ]
CSS Georgia, also known as State of Georgia and Ladies' Ram, was an ironclad warship built in Savannah, Georgia in 1862 during the American Civil War. [3] The Ladies' Gunboat Association raised $115,000 for her construction to defend the port city of Savannah.
In what were called the Alabama Claims, in 1869 the United States claimed direct and collateral damage against Great Britain.In the particular case of the Alabama, the United States claimed that Britain had violated neutrality by allowing five warships to be constructed, especially the Alabama, knowing that it would eventually enter into naval service with the Confederacy.
The Signal is the official student newspaper of Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. As of 2018, The Signal has a weekly circulation of about 5,000 issues distributed to all Georgia State campuses, including Alpharetta, Atlanta, Decatur, Dunwoody, Newton and a handful of locations in the surrounding area. The paper publishes on ...
About half the U.S. state attorneys general traveled to France in a trip cosponsored by a group mostly funded by companies, including some under scrutiny of the top state lawyers.
Several ships of the Confederate States Navy have borne the name CSS Georgia, after Georgia: CSS Georgia (1862) , a screw steamer acquired in 1863, and captured by the Union Navy in 1864 CSS Georgia (1863) , an ironclad warship built in 1862 and decommissioned in 1864