From the November 19, 2014, Goldsboro (NC) News-Argus, AP.
It was the death throes of the Confederacy 150 years ago as Grant had Lee pinned at Petersburg in Virginia and Union General William T. Sherman was in the midst of his scorching march through Georgia from Atlanta to Savannah.
Sherman's first objective on the march was Georgia's capital at the time, Milledgeville. Stories of Sherman's "foragers" sweeping through are still told in this part of te country. They are generally just referred to as "Sherman's men."
Amy Wright gestured to the spot where in 1861, Georgia's leaders had voted to secede from the United States. in the legislative room of the old capitol. Sherman's me burst into the room when they arrived and drunkenly convened a mock assembly and "repealed " secession.
A Hard Time in the State of Georgia 150 Years Ago. --Old Secesh
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