Home Front
Governor Joseph E. Brown was a leading secessionist in 1861, taking his state out of the Union and into the Confederacy. A firm believer in state's rights, he defied the national government's wartime policies. He resisted the Confederate military draft, and tried to keep as many soldiers at home as possible (to fight off invaders, he said). Brown challenged Confederate impressment of animals, goods, and slaves. Several other governors followed his lead.
Read more about this topic: Georgia (U.S. State) In The American Civil War
Famous quotes containing the words home and/or front:
“Beware the/easy griefs, that fool and fuel nothing./It is too easy to cry “AFRIKA!”/and shock thy street,/and purse thy mouth,/and go home to thy “Gunsmoke,” to/thy “Gilligan’s Island” and the NFL.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“After decades of unappreciated drudgery, American women just don’t do housework any more—that is, beyond the minimum that is required in order to clear a path from the bedroom to the front door so they can get off to work in the mourning.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (20th century)