Joe Brown's Pets: The Georgia Militia, 1862-1865

by William R. Scaife and William Harris Bragg

At the beginning of the Civil War, Georgia ranked third among the Confederate states in manpower resources, behind only Virginia and Tennessee. With an arms-bearing population somewhere between 120,000 and 130,000 white males between the ages of 16 and 60, this resource became an object of a great struggle between Joseph Brown, governor of Georgia, and Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy. Brown advocated a strong state defense, but as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865548838
• ISBN13: 9780865548831
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Mercer University Press
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.3"