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The Women Will Howl: The Union Capture of Roswell and New Manchester, Georgia, and the Forced Relocation of Mill Workers by Mary Deborah Petite ISBN 978-0-7864-3168-7 McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2008 187 Pages – Hardcover (7 x 10) – $45 Photos & Illustrations, Appendix, Notes, Bibliography, Index Information wanted: My widowed daughter, Eliza Ray, […]

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The Yankees may not have sowed salt through Georgia, but they did some other appallingly cruel things, many of which have been forgotten. One was the forced deportation of over three hundred civilians, mostly women, from the mill towns of Roswell and New Manchester, Georgia. Many of these women, most of them poor and very […]

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