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Milledgeville, as the capital of Georgia, played a significant role during the Civil War. Governor Joseph E. Brown resided in the Executive Mansion, the Secession Convention met at the capital, and William T. Sherman stopped in Milledgeville on his March to the Sea, but Sherman and Brown were not the only ones who had parts to play in the theater of war. The war touched the lives of every resident of Milledgeville, but for a hundred and fifty years their voices have been unintentionally silent. Now they can speak to us through their writings and the other materials they created during this trying time. The documents and materials in this online exhibit document life in Milledgeville and in the South during the tumultuous years of the Civil War. The manuscripts, rare books and photographs tell the story of the South During the Civil War; a story of hardship, struggle and of human emotions. Visit the below galleries to expirence some of them.
Visit our physical civil war exhibit at Georgia's Old Capital Museum. This exhibit will run from September 2011 through August 2012.