The Women Will Howl: The Union Army Capture of Roswell and New Manchester, Georgia, and the Forced Relocation of Mill Workers Books
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 355.00975823
EAN: 9780786431687
ISBN: 0786431687
Label: McFarland & Company
Manufacturer: McFarland & Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 189
Publication Date: November 30, 2007
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Studio: McFarland & Company
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In July 1864, Union General William T. Sherman ordered the arrest and deportation of over 400 women and children from the villages of Roswell and New Manchester, Georgia. Branded traitors for their work in the cotton mills which supplied much needed material to the Confederacy, these civilians were shipped to refugee-laden cities in the North and left to fend for themselves. This work details the little known story of the hardships these women and children endured before and - most especially - after they were forcibly taken from their homes. Beginning with the founding of Roswell, it examines the prevalent atmosphere in the area and the pre-war circumstances which created this class of women.
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"The Women Will Howl" rips away the facade of the Union Army as benevolent liberators. General Sherman, determined to fulfill his promise of "making Georgia howl" shipped the innocent non-combatants - elderly men, mothers with children, young girls, and children - away on trains to the north as prisoners. Their crime? Working at a cotton mill that made material for Confederate uniforms.
Their stories have been ignored by historians, and limited to a few accounts by families of lost loved ... Read More
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Corn whiskey is why the Confederates were starving at war's end.
OK, maybe not.
Biofuels drive up corn prices today, right? Well, something similar happened during the Civil War. Roswell Guards Capt. Tom Edward King was wounded in the ankle while teaching his Yankee counterparts the Bull Run Quick Step at Bull Run. He was hospitalized at Richmond and then returned to Roswell, Georgia, to recuperate. Never one to be idle, he began writing Jeff Davis. Apparently some Confederates ... Read More
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