Georgia Vote Tallies on Secession
by Richard R. Pettys, Jr.
Does anyone have the vote tallies for all of the Georgia Counties on the
issue of secession? I have recently discovered that a 1972 study by the
Georgia Historical Society determined that the voters of Georgia DID NOT
vote for secession, and that the vote was effected by significantly higher
voter numbers in Cobb and Forsyth Counties that in the hotly contested
presidential election of 1860 (and with considerably LESS time to notify the
people of a vote, I might add).
Richard