"Our good and faithful servant" : James Moore Wayne and Georgia unionism / Joel McMahon.

Macon, Georgia : Mercer University Press, 2017.

©2017.

249 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

United States Supreme Court Justice James Moore Wayne is the most famous Georgian nobody knows. When his home state seceded from the Union in 1861, Wayne retained his seat on the US Supreme Court and remained loyal to the Union as the nation lunged headlong into war. He knew the insanity of secession, and warned of the folly of disunion, but his son, Col. Henry Wayne, resigned his commission in the US Army and cast his lot with the Confederacy. This book tells their story and examines the nature of Georgia's strong and largely overlooked unionist sentiment in the decades before the Civil War.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-245) and index.

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KF8745.W39 M36 2017

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