Here©s Georgia! LIBRARIES - the Digital Library of Georgia

FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA
Compromise, the dangerous dispute was settled for a time; but
the acquisition of new territory from Mexico in 1848 re-opened
the old quarrel, and slavery, now opposed by some on moral
grounds, but by the great majority for reasons purely political,
became the occasion of the most stupendous conflict of modern
times."
At this writing, in this year of grace, 1916, when all Europe
is engaged in such a gigantic and bloody strife as almost passes
human comprehension, Prof. Berry©s superlative seerns mild, and
by comparison the Civil War of America sinks into insignificant
littleness, but from the point and time of view of this writing
there is no question of its having been "the most stupendous."
Regarding Georgia©s part in the war the Professor continues:
"In this fierce struggle, for which Georgia furnished ninety-four
regiments and thirty-six battalions, embracing every arm of the
service, the blood of her sons was freely poured out on every
battlefield from Pennsylvania to the Mississippi, and from the
Ohio to the Gulf, and (if we include the thousands who had emi
grated to the states west of ©the Father of Waters©), in every im
portant combat through the bounds of the Trans-Mississippi de
partment of the Southern Confederacy. On Georgia©s soil were
fought the great battles of Chickamauga, Resaca, New Hope
TYPICAL NEGRO CABIN HOME IN THE PINEY WOODS