Many people in Northwest Georgia did not want to secede from the United States in the months leading up to the Civil War, University of West Georgia historian Keith Herbert said. “But only a small few outright opposed it,” Herbert said Thursday night at Dalton State College’s James E. Brown Center. Herbert’s speech “From Reluctant Confederates to Boisterous Rebels: Bartow County and Northwest Georgia During the Secession Crisis” kicked off the Bandy Heritage Center’s Civil War lecture series. Herbert told an overflow crowd of about 150 that the issue of secession deeply divided Northwest...
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