Deportation of Roswell mill women
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| Type: | Articles |
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| Creator: | Dillman, Caroline Matheny |
| Title: | Deportation of Roswell mill women |
| Date: | 1864 |
| Description: | Encyclopedia article about the deportation of Roswell, Georgia mill workers during the Civil War. In July 1864 during the Atlanta campaign General William T. Sherman ordered the approximately 400 Roswell mill workers, mostly women, arrested as traitors and shipped as prisoners to the North with their children. There is little evidence that more than a few of the women ever returned home. |
| Subjects: | Roswell (Ga.)--History | Roswell (Ga.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Collaborationists | Treason--Georgia--Roswell--History--19th century | Georgia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Collaborationists | Roswell (Ga.) | Fulton County (Ga.) |
| Contributors: | New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project) | Georgia Humanities Council | University of Georgia. Press | Merrill-Hall New Media | GALILEO (Georgia statewide project) |
| Online Publisher: | [Athens, Ga.] : Georgia Humanities Council and the University of Georgia Press, 2003-12-08 |
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