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Church, Kennesaw Mountain, Peachtree Creek, two fierce battles
at Atlanta, Jonesboro, and numerous smaller engagements and
skirmishes. Sherman©s march to the sea, when almost the entire
military force of the State was absent in Virginia or Tennessee,
scattered ruthless destruction along its path, and the final disas
trous close of the long-continued war wrecked the hopes and
fortunes of her people."
Dark days followed the war in Georgia, as in the entire South;
but men there were of pluck, energy and perseverance who soon
wrought the redemption of their state. Theirs are household
names, and the record of their strength of purpose and wise
counsel, during the times that tried men©s souls, constitute the most
precious annals of the people. "They did not yield in base sub
mission to oppression and wrong," says Prof. Derry, "but main
taining their rights in every legitimate way, shared at length in
the final triumph of the whole South, in the courts and Congress
of the Nation."
Gradually the inertia that followed the catastrophe was over
come in spite of tremendous odds and there dawned in earnest a
new era of home building, of town and city building, and of state
building. So was born that "Georgia Spirit," which binds all sec-
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