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Ardent Unionist Alexander Stephens spoke in favor of preserving the Union, however, once Georgia seceded, he accepted the role of Vice-President of the Confederacy. Stephens County is named in his honor.
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Robert Toombs delivers a farewell to the U. S. Senate, almost two weeks before Georgia votes to secede. ... Georgia votes to secede from the Union at a convention held in Milledgeville, Georgia.
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Read the fascinating details of Georgia Secession and the start of the Civil War. ... On the 18th it adopted a resolution declaring - first, that it is the duty of Georgia to secede from the Union; and second, appointing a committee to prepare an ordinance of secession. The resolution was adopted by a vote of 165 to 130.
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Georgia seceded from the Union on January 21, 1861 and was one of the original seven Confederate states.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_(U.S._state)
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During the campaign many Southerners had threatened that their states would secede from the Union if Lincoln was elected because they feared that a Lincoln administration would threaten slavery. Few people in the North believed them. ... Georgia, January 19; Louisiana, January 26; and Texas, February 1. In April,
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The people of Georgia having dissolved their political connection with the Government of the United States of America, ... We must either submit to degradation, and to the loss of property worth four billions of money, or we must secede from the Union framed by our fathers, to secure this as well as every other species...
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They fought with Cornwallis's British troops, twice liberating Augusta, and finally force the British from Savannah in 1782. Georgia seceded from the Union in 1861 and was invaded by Union forces in 1864 under General William Tecumseh Sherman, who after taking Atlanta burned most of the city.
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