Civil War: Rich Man's War (Columbus: university, population, percent)

[Will Dockery]

Here's the book I mentioned which goes into depth the situations Columbus Georgia found itself in during the Civil War era. The book is filled with factual revelations, this one perhaps the most important:

Rich Man's War:
Class, Caste, and Confederate Defeat in the Lower
Chattahoochee Valley
By David Williams
Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1998. $34.95

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"Georgia's very decision to secede
from the Union was never put to a popular vote.
Rather, it was made by secession delegates, 87 percent
...of them slaveholders in a state where only 37 percent
of the electorate owned slaves... After all, more than half the South's
white population, three-quarters of whom owned no
slaves, opposed secession."

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Red Lipped Stranger / Will Dockery & The Shadowville All-Stars:
http://youtu.be/qBhcN1WK144

[General-Zod]

Interesting read...