During May of 1864 many residents of
Paulding County were forced to flee from their homes to
avoid the fighting taking place in their backyards. This
situation was never more literal than it was for Martha
Pickett, whose home was located on this property. Both her
family's house and their mill were destroyed during the
Battle of Pickett's Mill, and fighting took place in their
corn and wheat fields.
The civilian reenactors at
Pickett's Mill
portray refugees as they would have lived in this rural,
agricultural area. Displaced persons from North Georgia fled
to Atlanta and Augusta, but many camped in these woods until the fighting was over.
If they were just
passing through or were native to the then sparsely-populated
Paulding County, most refugees would have had the experience
of camping in these dense woods. The refugees spent their
time as they would have at home: cooking, spinning, weaving,
sewing, and caring for their children.
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here to see the site's Clothing Standards for Civilian
reenactors.
Editors tried to influence the way people
in an area responded to the refugees entering it. See an editorial
on Refugees from the Atlanta Intelligencer for
May 27th, 1864, the day of the Battle of Pickett's Mill.
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by reading the books in this bibliography.
s Mill
portray refugees as they would have lived in this rural,
agricultural area. Displaced persons from North Georgia fled
to Atlanta and Augusta, but many camped in these woods until the fighting was over.
If they were just
passing through or were native to the then sparsely-populated
Paulding County, most refugees would have had the experience
of camping in these dense woods. The refugees spent their
time as they would have at home: cooking, spinning, weaving,
sewing, and caring for their children.
