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Augusta's Role in the Civil War
For the next four years our nation will be observing the 150th anniversary (sesquicentennial) of the American Civil War. No city was more intimately involved in the events of that dramatic conflict than our own. From the city’s secession convention on Christmas Eve 1860, to the arrival of Union occupation troops in May 1865, Augusta saw everything except actual combat. The peaceful surrender of the U.S. Arsenal in January 1861; the construction and operation of the Confederate Powder Works, 1862-1865; and the shameful parading through the streets of Confederate President Jefferson Davis in chains, took place here. Florence Fleming Corley captured it all in her landmark retrospective,
Confederate City: Augusta, Georgia, 1861-65,
first published in 1960 and reprinted in 1995. Copies are available for sale from the ARCHS office at Reese Library. The ARCHS office may still have copies of biographies of two Augusta Civil War heroes, Berry Benson and Gen. W.H.T. Walker, also.
On this website in the past six years we have published more than a half-dozen “Moments” related to the Civil War and Reconstruction. Readers can review brief descriptions of such diverse topics as “The Bishop-General,” “The Confederate Printer,” or “The Cenotaph.” As time and energy permit, more wartime-related items may be added in coming months. In addition, our ARCHS journal hopes to print one or two Civil War-themed articles per year during the sesquicentennial observance. Stay tuned.
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