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FULTON, Georgia in the 1860s: 1 through 6 of 6

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  1. General Sherman Forbids the Entry of Blacks into Army
    date June 3, 1864map FULTON, Georgiatags African-Americans, Race-Relations, War

    After the Emancipation Proclamation, many former slaves sought to join the Union army. However, during the Atlanta campaign that lasted from May-September 1864, General William T. Sherman, a Union commander, forbade the entry of African-Americans into the army. Sherman did not hide the fact that he was a white supremacist. His view represented the views of many of his men, who came from the Midwest,...

  2. Atlanta Burns- The climax of a young girl's wartime journal
    date August 1, 1864 to January 4, 1865map FULTON, Georgiatags Civil War, youth eye witness, Carrie Berry, General Sherman, "March to the Sea"

     Paralyzed by fear she sat in the cellar praying to survive the Union attack on Dixie.  The Berry estate was a sitting duck amongst cross fire between Union and Confederate soldiers as ammunitions echo in the yard.  Carrie Berry describes the daily “shellings” or constant barrage of gunfire as it penetrates the house, ricochets off trees and pierces the ground above.  Sometimes the ammunitions...

  3. The War Through the Eyes of a Child
    date August 1, 1864 to January 4, 1865map FULTON, Georgiatags War

    Ten-year-old Carrie Berry lived with her family in Atlanta, Georgia in 1864 while Union general Sherman tried to capture Atlanta. The diary that Berry kept daily shows the immediate effect of the war on her and her family. Sherman's offensive against Atlanta brought a lot of damage to the city, and made things very difficult for the residents. Berry wrote about the difficulties her family faced. Many...

  4. Scalawag Shares Feelings on Reconstruction
    date January 7, 1866map FULTON, Georgiatags African American Sufferage

    Scalawag, a pejorative term not commonly used, became a commonly spoken slur used to describe Union sympathizers living in the South before, during, and after the Civil War. Some politicians, such as the one interviewed in an article in the January 7, 1866 edition of The New York Times, believed that Reconstruction was, "…a good idea in theory, but in practice, it would prove to be unsuccessful...

  5. Kind Words for Sunday School Children teaches children to live a Christian lifestyle.
    date 1866map FULTON, Georgiatags Church/Religious-Activity, Christianity, Baptists, sunday school

    Once a month, children all over Atlanta, Georgia would rush to the front yard to gather up the newspaper. With their Bibles in hand, they eagerly flipped to their favorite section labeled Kind Words for Sunday School Children. These “kind words” were stories written for the Christian children to read and to take away important lessons that the Bible teaches. These stories were stories from the...

  6. Georgia Democrats in state House of Representatives move to expel blacks from the State Legislature
    date September 5, 1868 to September 9, 1868map FULTON, Georgiatags African-Americans, Race-Relations

    Democrats in the Georgia legislature moved in the first week of September, 1868, to expel black members of the legislature on the grounds that the new state constitution did not guarantee them the right to hold office. On September 5, 1868, Representative R.W Phillips made a speech calling upon all white men to expel blacks. He further condemned the government for giving what he referred to as 90,000...