| When the Civil War broke out between the Northern and Southern states, Georgia voted to join the South’s Confederacy. The Civil War was devastating for the state and thousands of Georgians died. Because several railroads met in Atlanta, many of the Confederacy’s supplies were sent there. After a long fight, the Union’s troops captured the city in 1864. Much of the city burned. Some of the fires were set by the Confederates to keep Union troops from getting their supplies. Then Northern General William Tecumseh Sherman marched his troops across the state from Atlanta to Savannah. Much was destroyed along a 50 mile (80 km) path. A few months later, the Confederacy surrendered. Slaves in Georgia became free but by the 1880s and 1890s, segregation of people based on the color of their skin was becoming the law. |
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