The Civil War Georgia series explores all facets of the Civil War concerning the state of Georgia. The open-ended series will include all forms of writing, from letters and diaries, regimental and battle histories, to biographies, and will be open to explore other topics such as life on the home front, politics, economics, and religion. Mercer University Press invites manuscript submissions for this series, as well as on any aspect of the Civil War outside the series description. All manuscripts will be read by competent Civil War scholars and historians.

At the beginning of the Civil War, Georgia ranked third among the Confederate states in manpower resources, behind only Virginia and Tennessee. With an arms-bearing population somewhere between 120,000 and 130,000 white males between the ages of 16 and 60, this resource became an object of a great struggle between Joseph Brown, governor of Georgia, and Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy. Brown advocated a strong state defense, but as the war dragged on Davis applied more pressure for more soldiers from Georgia. In December 1863, the state's general assembly reorganized the state...