The Civil War in Georgia: A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion

Acknowledgments

} Acknowledgments There is no scholarly endeavor as inherently collaborative in nature as an encyclopedia. That is certainly the case with this volume, as it is for the larger online project from which it is drawn, the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org). Kelly Caudle, the nge’s project manager and managing editor, and Sarah McKee, the project editor, should by all rights have been listed as coeditors of this volume, given their input in every phase of its development and implementation . The three of us worked closely in determining what content to include, how to organize it, and how to adapt it from our online site to this print version. Sarah deserves special credit for her careful oversight of every phase of the process; her creativity and good judgment are evident throughout, most notably in the brief excerpts scattered throughout the text, which we hope lure readers back to the many other relevant articles in the nge. There are many others, of course, who have contributed to the creation of this book. First and foremost, we thank the more than sixty contributors —including established scholars, students, and history enthusiasts —for their carefully researched and thoughtful entries covering myriad aspects of the Civil War in Georgia. We also thank Stephen Berry, an associate professor of history at the University of Georgia, for shepherding the students in a 2009 graduate class through the writing of several articles, which provide depth and variety to this presentation of Georgia’s Civil War story. We are deeply grateful to the nge’s fact checkers, most of whom are university reference librarians, who have helped to ensure that the information presented in these entries is as accurate and reliable as possible. In particular we would like to recognize Kristin Nielsen and Patrick Reidenbaugh of the University of Georgia Libraries, both for their efforts to complete the fact checking of new entries so that they could be included in this book and most especially for their longtime dedication and invaluable contributions to the encyclopedia as a whole. We are grateful to Nicole Mitchell, the director of the University of Georgia Press, for her enthusiastic support of this volume, as well as for the nge itself over the past decade. She offered welcome advice and direction, as well as copious patience, during the process of revising and xii Acknowledgments organizing our online content into a book manuscript. It was a pleasure to work with Jon Davies, as he shepherded us efficiently and with good cheer through this volume’s production. We appreciate the input at various other stages of production by his colleagues Erin New, Kathi Morgan , John Joerschke, John McLeod, and Pat Allen, as well as the good work of cartographer David Wasserboehr. And finally, we offer our sincere appreciation for the contributions of our project partners, the University System of Georgia/galileo and the Georgia Humanities Council. In particular, we thank galileo director Merryll Penson and her staff, whose technical guidance and support are essential to the success of the nge. We are also grateful to the Georgia Humanities Council, the copublishers of this book and enthusiastic champions of the nge. Council president Jamil Zainaldin and vice president Laura McCarty have been integral to every aspect of developing and implementing the New Georgia Encyclopedia, as well as this volume . Atlanta Savannah Macon Griswoldville Milledgeville Fort McAllister Columbus Camp Lawton Prison Camp Andersonville Prison Camp Turnwold Plantation Fort Pulaski (Fell to Union Forces April 11, 1862) (Fell to Union Forces December 13, 1864) Darien Irwinville LaGrange Chickamauga Raided by Union Forces (June 11, 1863) Big Shanty Ringgold Andrews Raid (April 12, 1862) Battle (September 18 20, 1863) Washington Last Meeting of Confederate Cabinet (May 4, 1865) Sandersville Final Dispersal of Confederate Government (May 6, 1865) Davis’s Capture (May 10, 1865) Wilson’s Raid (April 16, 1865) Augusta Georgia’s Civil War maps of which are available on pages 78–79 and 95. Battle or Skirmish Sites Prison Camps and Locations of Historical Interest Escape and Capture This page intentionally left blank ...