John C. Inscoe, Albert B. Saye Professor of History and University Professor, has edited The Civil War in Georgia: A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion.
Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in terms of how the Civil War has come to be studied, documented and analyzed.
This companion includes information on Sherman’s March to the Sea, naval encounters and guerrilla warfare, prisons and hospitals, factories and plantations, politics and policies-all of which provided critical support to the Confederacy’s war effort. The book also explores home-front conditions in depth, with an emphasis on emancipation, dissent, Unionism and the experience and activity of African Americans and women.
