SERIES: Pictorial History of the United States and Territories
SCENES: Landing of Oglethorpe, 1733; Wesley preaching, 1736; Sherman's March to the Sea
SIZE: 3" x 5"
DATE: 1892
LITHOGRAPHER: Donaldson Brothers, N.Y.
CONDITION: Very good, I'd say. This card is only lightly soiled with slightly worn edges and rounded corners. There are diagonal creases across the upper left and lower right corners. There are also a couple tiny, shallow bumps near the center of the card, more easily felt than seen. (Please see scans.)
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REVERSE TEXT: GEORGIA.
THE aborigines of Georgia were the Cherokees, and the various tribes of the Moscogee, or Creek confederation. In the year 1540 De Sota and his 600 Spaniards marched from the Ocklokonee to the Ocmulgee, and to Silver Bluff, where they abode several days. Everywhere they sought gold, and twenty years later Tristan de Luna and 300 Spanish soldiers marched from Pensacola to Cherokee, Georgia, and opened mines which were worked for over a century.
The foundation of Georgia is due to the benevolence of General James Edward Oglethorpe, a veteran of Prince Eugene of Savoy's staff, and afterwards a member of Parliament, who established here a place where insolvents (prisoners for debt) and other unfortunates might begin the world anew, and where religious freedom should be accorded (except to Catholics). Parliamentary grants of £180,000 were made to further these objects, and General Oglethorpe sailed from England and reached Savannah February 1st, 1733, with 116 emigrants in his company.
When the war broke out between England and Spain in 1739, General Oglethorpe led 1,000 troops against St. Augustine, and was beaten off. In 1742 Don Manuel de Monteano attacked Frederica and was defeated by General Oglethorpe and the Georgians with heavy loss. The prohibition of slavery took place in 1750.
The chief events of the Secession War on the Georgia coast were the occupation of Big Tybee Island by Dupont's Federal fleet and the surrender of Fort Pulaski after a tremendous bombardment from General Gilmore's batteries on Tybee Island, which leveled much of its walls.
