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The Civil War Battles of Macon

Macon was a cornerstone of the Confederacy's military-industrial complex. As a transportation hub, the city supplied weapons to the Confederacy, making it a target once the Union pushed into Georgia in 1864. In the course of the war's last year, Macon faced three separate cavalry assaults. The battles were small in the grand scheme but salient for the combatants and townspeople. Once the war concluded, it was from Macon that cavalry struck out to capture the fugitive Jefferson Davis, allowing the city to witness one of the last chapters of the conflict. Author Niels Eichhorn brings together the first comprehensive analysis of the military engagements and battles in Middle Georgia.

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The Civil War Battles of Macon

Macon was a cornerstone of the Confederacy's military-industrial complex. As a transportation hub, the city supplied weapons to the Confederacy, making it a target once the Union pushed into Georgia in 1864. In the course of the war's last year, Macon faced three separate cavalry assaults. The battles were small in the grand scheme but salient for the combatants and townspeople. Once the war concluded, it was from Macon that cavalry struck out to capture the fugitive Jefferson Davis, allowing the city to witness one of the last chapters of the conflict. Author Niels Eichhorn brings together the first comprehensive analysis of the military engagements and battles in Middle Georgia.

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The Civil War Battles of Macon

The Civil War Battles of Macon

by Niels Eichhorn PhD
The Civil War Battles of Macon

The Civil War Battles of Macon

by Niels Eichhorn PhD

Overview

Macon was a cornerstone of the Confederacy's military-industrial complex. As a transportation hub, the city supplied weapons to the Confederacy, making it a target once the Union pushed into Georgia in 1864. In the course of the war's last year, Macon faced three separate cavalry assaults. The battles were small in the grand scheme but salient for the combatants and townspeople. Once the war concluded, it was from Macon that cavalry struck out to capture the fugitive Jefferson Davis, allowing the city to witness one of the last chapters of the conflict. Author Niels Eichhorn brings together the first comprehensive analysis of the military engagements and battles in Middle Georgia.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781467146944
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date: 02/08/2021
Series: Civil War Series
Pages: 128
Sales rank: 1,039,260
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Niels Eichhorn is an assistant professor of history at Middle Georgia State University. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Arkansas. He is the author of two recent books, Liberty and Slavery: European Separatists, Southern Secession, and the American Civil War (LSU Press, 2019) and Atlantic History in the Nineteenth Century: Migration, Trade, Conflict, and Ideas (Palgrave, 2019). He has published a series of articles and blog posts on Civil War history and is now working on a diplomatic history of the Civil War era.

Table of Contents

Preface 9

Introduction 13

1 Macon's Creation 17

2 Macon in the Civil War 27

3 Atlanta Campaign, Stoneman's Raid and Dunlap Farm 39

4 March to the Sea and Walnut Creek 51

5 Griswoldville 67

6 Macon's Final Engagement 75

7 Asa Holt-Cannonball House 85

8 Memorial Landscape 97

Conclusion 103

Notes 107

Bibliography 121

About the Author 125

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