Georgia seceded from the Union 19 Jan. 1861 and furnished to the Confederate army 94 regiments and 36 battalions, embracing every arm of the service. On Georgia soil were fought the battles of Chickamauga, Ringgold, Resaca, New Hope Church, Kennesaw Moun tain, Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta, Jonesboro, Allatoona and numerous smaller engagements and skirmishes. At the close of the Civil War, Georgia resumed her enterprises in every indus trial line, not waiting even for her re-entrance into the Union, which occurred in 1870. Dur ing the Spanish-American War Georgia fur nished more volunteers in proportion to popu lation than any other State.
Among prominent Georgia citizens have been Gen. Joseph Wheeler, William H. Craw ford, John McPherson Berrion, George M.
Troup, George R. Gilmer, Herschel V. John son, Howell Cobb, Robert Toombs, Alexander H. Stephens, Joseph E. Brown, John B. Gordon, Alfred H. Colquitt, Benjamin H. Hill, Sidney Lanier, Frank Starton, Charles Hubner, James R Randall, Dr. F. 0. Ticknor. Some of the above list of prominent Georgians were born in other States, but they belong to the list of Georgia citizens. Dr. J. Crawford Long, the
discoverer of anmsthesia; Bishop George F. Pierce, and a long list of able governors too numerous to name here. Between 1868 and 1870, in Augusta, pupils of the author of this sketch, included Woodrow Wilson, now Presi dent of the United States; Joseph R. Lamar, late justice of the United States Supreme Court, and Pleasant Stovall, former United States Minister to Switzerland.
The following is a complete list of the gov ernors of Georgia: Governor Wright fled the colony, when in 1776 the patriots seized the reins, but soon after the capture of Sa vannah on 29 Dec. 1778. returned as royal governor for all that part of Georgia in the hands of the British. He remained in that capacity until 11 July 1782, when Savannah was formally surrendered to the Americans who had, recovered all upper Georgia on 5 June 1781. when Pickens, Lee and Clarke captured Augusta and its British garrison.
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