![]() ![]() Nisbet, and Robert Toombs, advocated secession. Benning, Governor Brown, Howell Cobb, Thomas R. The majority of Georgia’s political leaders at this point, including Francis S. Brown, appropriated $1 million for military expenses and called for the election of delegates to a state convention to discuss secession. The Georgia legislature, however, following a directive from Governor Joseph E. When Lincoln’s election to the presidency triggered the secession crisis in the winter of 1860-61, most Georgians initially hoped for yet another sectional compromise. president Abraham Lincoln’s subsequent reelection. Perhaps most important, one can argue that the Civil War’s outcome was decided in Georgia with the Atlanta campaign and U.S. Some of the most important battles of the war were fought on Georgia soil, including Chickamauga, Resaca, and Kennesaw Mountain, while the battles of Peachtree Creek, Bald Hill ( Atlanta), Ezra Church, and Jonesboro were significant turning points during the Atlanta campaign of 1864. Georgia’s agricultural output was critical to the Confederate war effort, and because Georgia was a transportation and industrial center for the Confederacy, both sides struggled for control of the state. Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
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