Fearing the outcome of such a move, secessionist delegates refused. The remaining antisecession delegates urged that the secession ordinance be put to the people for a vote. Johnson, more than half the popular vote for delegates to the Georgia Secession Convention of 1861 went to candidates who initially opposed secession, enough delegates shifted their votes to give secessionists a 166 to 130 majority in the first vote at the convention. Although, according to historian Michael P. Southerners, including Georgians, were not united in their support for secession. Though the state was largely spared the impact of invading armies until late in the war, social and economic divisions set Georgians against one another in ever worsening internal conflicts that undermined support for the Confederacy well before the war’s end. The Civil War (1861-65) home front in Georgia, far from reflecting unity in a common cause, was rife with conflict and dissent.
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