Surrender of Secession
Westville, GA 1865
Oct. 24-28, 2012
UPDATE - APRIL 2012
EARLY REGISTRATION CLOSES AUG 1st, 2012
- Mossy Creek Sack Coat BULLY BUY!-- Registration list posted on the AC Campaigner site
- Incumbent reenactor registrations due May 1st to lock in your old role.
- Yahoo Discussion Group for registered participants. This is where detailed questions should be asked. Click here.
-Primary, GA, publication research completed at the GA State Archives.
- Major vignettes and schedules are under-construction.
- Food groups set. Food logistics and costing underway.
- Coordinators in place.
- Recruitment for specific roles continues (specifically a Prosecuting Attorney, Federal infantry, Federal cavalry, blacksmiths, Boot Shop workers, Swampers, disabled vets, etc with invitation).
- New findings in the Stewart Cty census.
- Documents, currency, sign-in, food distribution coordinators assigned.
- Newspaper publishing set with Tony Patton.
- Seeking good musicians to play at the tavern.
-The 'Surrender of Secession' article - suggested reading
- Check out the 2011 Preservation efforts on the Preservation page.
Contact Jim Butler with questions unionguy1@comcast.net
“An entire social order had been swept away, and in its ruins a new one had to be constructed.”
“Southern Planters emerged from the Civil War in a state of shock. Their class had been devastated-physically, economically, and psychologically. …the losses wiped out inheritance of generations. Per capita wealth dropped from $19,000 in 1860 to one sixth of that by 1870. Many faced the added indignity of the departure of their labor force.”2
Values of property, acres cultivated, fewer horses, hogs and cattle had dropped by 30% or more. Yeoman fared no better as widespread destruction of free range livestock. “Thousands of poor white farmers ended up wholly destitute.”2
With the collapse of the Confederate currencies, barter was the only viable mode of trade. Interest rates skyrocketed. Northern brokers and agents reaped the profits from the cotton markets.
