Prior to the Civil War, Atlanta was at the intersection of four rail lines, rendering the Georgia crossroads the fastest-growing city in the Deep South. As the Confederate States formed, Atlanta was a city deeply divided about secession. By the spring of 1863, war had arrived at the doorstep of Atlanta. Join historian Bob Davis as he tells the story of the devastation that befell Atlanta, the Union occupation and how the "Gate City" was reborn from the ashes.

By: Robert Scott Davis & Silas Emmett Lucas, Pub. 1981, Reprinted 2018, 824 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-211-2. Burke County was created in 1777 as one of the original 7 counties of the state. Information in this volume includes: English Crown Grants in St. George Parish in GA 1755-1775; Landowners of St. George Parish, GA; State Land Grants in Burke, Jefferson and Screven Counties, GA; Remnant of the 1798 Federal Direct Tax Digest of Burke County, GA; Land Lottery Records of Burke County, ...

By: Robert S. Davis, Jr., Pub. 1979, reprinted 2020, 268 pages, E-BOOK, Index, ISBN #978-1-63914-426-6. More than 1,700 citizens, 1,000 Patriot soldiers, and 800 Loyalists are included in this volume. Also, records of many Virginians who served in Georgia Continentals; of members of South Carolina Continental units in Georgia; and some South Carolina Loyalists are also included. This book will be a MUST for those looking for Revolutionary War service for a Georgia ancestor since the D.A.R....

By: Robert S. Davis, Pub. 1979, reprinted 2019, 338 pages, Soft Cover, Index, ISBN #0-89308-170-1. Wilkes County is Georgia's oldest county, being the first of the original eight created by the first state constitution in 1777. The Federal Census of 1790 revealed that one-third of the population of Georgia was living in Wilkes County. Since 1790, lands that once were part of Wilkes County have been used to create all or parts of present-day Elbert, Hall, Lincoln, Madison, McDuffie, Ogletho...

By: Robert Davis, Jr., Pub. 1993, 264 pages, Soft Cover, Index, ISBN #0-89308-485-9. This book contains the names of approximately 21,000 individuals found in these records. This book is divided into four (4) major sections as follows: PART 1 - which contains Loose Original Records: Inventory of Estate Records, 1801-1823; Lost Court Files of the Inferior Court, 1805-1895; A Listing and Description of Miscellaneous Files, 1800-1925. PART 2 -

Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in terms of how the Civil War has come to be studied, documented, and analyzed.The Atlanta campaign and Sherman’s March to the Sea changed the course of the war in 1864, in terms both of the up...

In this major new history of the Civil War, Bruce Levine tells the riveting story of how that conflict upended the economic, political, and social life of the old South, utterly destroying the Confederacy and the society it represented and defended. Told through the words of the people who lived it, The Fall of the House of Dixie illuminates the way a war undertaken to preserve the status quo became a second American Revolution whose impact on the country was as strong and lasting...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of A. Lincoln, a major new biography of one of America’s greatest generals—and most misunderstood presidentsWinner of the William Henry Seward Award for Excellence in Civil War Biography • Finalist for the Gilder-Lehrman Military History Book PrizeIn his time, Ulysses S. Grant was routinely grouped with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln in the “Trinity of Great American Leade...

Do You Think You Know the Civil War?The History Buff's Guide to the Civil War clears the powder smoke surrounding the war that changed America forever. The perfect guide for anyone looking for great history facts like:What were the best, the worst, the largest, and the most lethal aspects of the conflict?What are the top ten causes?The bloodiest battles?With over thirty annotated top ten lists and unexpected...

The Astonishing True Story of a Slave Who Risked Everything for FreedomIn 1862, amidst the turmoil of the Civil War, a daring 23-year-old slave named Robert Smalls seized a Confederate steamer in Charleston, South Carolina. With his wife and two young children hidden aboard, Smalls and his small crew navigated through heavily armed fortifications to deliver the valuable vessel to nearby Union forces. His courageous act not only granted freedom to his family but als...

"Ty Seidule scorches us with the truth and rivets us with his fierce sense of moral urgency." --Ron ChernowIn a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty Seidule's Robert E. Lee and Me challenges the myths and lies of the Confederate legacy—and explores why some of this country’s oldest wounds have never healed.Ty Seidule grew up revering Robert E. Lee. From his southern childhoo...

From The New York Times #1 bestselling companion series to the Fox historical docudrama, Bill O’Reilly’s Legends and Lies; The Civil War is a pulse-quickening account of the deadliest war in American history.From the birth of the Republican Party to the Confederacy’s first convention, the Underground Railroad to the Emancipation Proclamation, the Battle of Gettysburg to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Bill O’Reilly’s Le...