Empire State of the South

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Empire State of the South - a state in southeastern United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War Georgia, Peach State, GA Kennesaw Mountain - battle of the American Civil War (1864); Union forces under William Tecumseh Sherman were repulsed by Confederate troops under Joseph Eggleston Johnston U.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA, America, the States, U.S. - North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776 Confederacy, Confederate States, Confederate States of America, Dixie, Dixieland, South - the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861 South - the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line Deep South - the southeastern region of the United States: South Carolina and Georgia and Alabama and Mississippi and Louisiana; prior to the American Civil War all these states produced cotton and permitted slavery Albany - a town in southwest Georgia; processing center for peanuts and pecans Atlanta, capital of Georgia - state capital and largest city of Georgia; chief commercial center of the southeastern United States; was plundered and burned by Sherman's army during the American Civil War Athens - a university town in northeast Georgia Augusta - a city in eastern Georgia north-northwest of Savannah; noted for golf tournaments Macon - a city in central Georgia to the southeast of Atlanta Oxford - a university town in northern Mississippi; home of William Faulkner Savannah - a port in eastern Georgia near the mouth of the Savannah river Valdosta - a town in southern Georgia near the Florida border Vidalia - a town in central Georgia; the origin of Vidalia onions Chattahoochee, Chattahoochee River - a river rising in northern Georgia and flowing southwest and south to join the Flint River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River Coosa, Coosa River - river that rises in northwestern Georgia and flows southwest through eastern Alabama to join the Tallapoosa River near Montgomery and form the Alabama River Flint River, Flint - a river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River Okefenokee Swamp - a large swampy area of northeast Florida and southeast Georgia Tallapoosa, Tallapoosa River - river that rises in northwestern Georgia and flows southwest through central Alabama to join the Coosa River near Montgomery and form the Alabama River

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