The student's history of GeorgiaFrom the earliest discoveries and settlements to the end of the year 1883Adapted for general reading and the use of schools . n and sixty years, and the governorwas given power to call them out if necessary. The Confed-erate authorities called on Georgia for eight thousand homeguards, and eighteen thousand offered them-selves as volunteers. 20. Major-GeneralHowell Cobb was as-signed to the commandof Georgia, September14, 1863. 21. General A. was appointedquarter-master general ofthe Confederate army inAugust, 1863. GeneralLawton enjoyed a mili-tary educ
The student's history of GeorgiaFrom the earliest discoveries and settlements to the end of the year 1883Adapted for general reading and the use of schools . n and sixty years, and the governorwas given power to call them out if necessary. The Confed-erate authorities called on Georgia for eight thousand homeguards, and eighteen thousand offered them-selves as volunteers. 20. Major-GeneralHowell Cobb was as-signed to the commandof Georgia, September14, 1863. 21. General A. was appointedquarter-master general ofthe Confederate army inAugust, 1863. GeneralLawton enjoyed a mili-tary education, and hisabilities were broughtinto service immediatelyafter the secession of hisState. He was first incommand of the department of Savannah, and afterward, athis own request, was placed in command of a new and splendidbrigade of Georgians. He bore a gallant part in the bat-tles around Richmond, and in subsequent battles, untilseverely wounded at Sharpsburg. The Confederate Gov-ernment now demanded his services as quarter-master gen-eral, notwithstanding his express desire to return to thefield. 22. The year closed disastrously for the South. The. A. R. Lawton. 28G STUDENTS HISTORY OF GEORGIA. [1864. Confederate army defeated at Missionary Ridge, was lyingat Dalton, Georgiaj fortified and recuperating, while atChattanooga a large force of Federals was threatening Geor-gia with invasion. 23. The war was now concentrated to Virginia and Geor-gia, and 1864 was to witness its most heroic struggle. Thehope of the Southern cause was focalized in Georgia.
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