Ed Jackson and Charles Pou

Carl Vinson Institute of Government

The University of Georgia

November 28

1785 The Cherokees signed the Treaty of Hopewell in which they reaffirmed the Cherokee boundary with Georgia as stipulated in the Treaty of Augusta in 1783. The new treaty involved no additional cession of land.

1864 Sherman and the 20th Corps left Tennille for Louisville. That day, they advanced approximately fifteen miles despite meeting resistance from Wheeler's Confederates.

1895 This was not only Thanksgiving Day at the Cotton States and International Exhibition but also the day designated for honoring Atlanta, Savannah, Sam Inman, and South Carolina. Atlanta businesses closed at noon, which helped boost total attendance for the day to 60,000 visitors. Inman was honored because earlier in the month he had personally advanced $50,000 to keep the Exposition from declaring bankruptcy. Major speakers of the day included Inman and the governors of Georgia and South Carolina .

1961 Albany State College President William H. Dennis had SNCC worker Charles Sherrod arrested for trespassing when he went on the campus to address a student gathering about the Albany Movement. [Contributed by Dr. Lee Formwalt, Albany State University]

1972 Politician, lawyer, and Lockheed executive James V. Carmichael died in Marietta. [See Oct. 2 entry for biographical information on Charmicael.]

1987 Athens music group R.E.M. first entered the UK singles chart with "The One I Love."

In Their Own Words on This Day. . .

1734 From Old Ebenezer, Salzburger pastor John Martin Boltzius recorded in his journal the difficulties of educating children in cold weather:

"Because the cold weather remained, we were again forced to hold school in the house of a Salzburger where we could have a fire. There was much smoke and other inconvenience, but one much choose the lesser of two evils. Our benefactors would do a very useful good deed if they were to have a tight house built for us in which the schoolroom could be heated during the winter. I have written to Mr. Oglethorpe regard a church and a school, but this aspect of it did not occur to me. Perhaps our dear fathers and friends will make the request for us at the right place after reading this. The cold is so severe that we can hardly find protection either by day or by night. This is the case because we were not prepared for a rough winter. Nothing was said about it, quite the contrary. . . ."

Source: George Fenwick Jones, Detailed Reports on the Salzburger Emigrants Who Settled in America . . . Edited by Samuel Urlsperger, Vol. 2 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1969), p. 25.

1864 Henry Hitchcock, Gen. Sherman's secretary, wrote in his diary:

"Thus we approached Ogeechee [River] at two points -- one column at Louisville, which is ten to twelve miles above railroad bridge, -- and other three columns coming towards railroad bridge across the Ogeechee which is at Station 10. Meanwhile Kilpatrick has gone far round to the North from Milledgeville via Sparta, with orders to choose his own road and strike and cut R.R. at or near Wainesboro [sic], between Augusta and Millen, -- thence to come down on Millen if possible with dash and rescue prisoners and again cut Savannah railroad below Millen . . . .Today's march on sandy roads, and through woods chiefly pines, though as yet we still see oaks and other trees. Good farms along the travelled roads, and crops have all been good. We see hardly any cotton, -- corn almost exclusively instead -- for which we are much obliged. We often laugh over J.D's [Confederate President Jefferson Davis] idea that Sherman's army will be starved out. Never was an army so bountifully supplied."

Source: M.A. DeWolfe Howe (ed.), Marching with Sherman: Passages from the Letters and Campaign Diaries of Henry Hitchcock, Major and assistant Adjutant General of Volunteers, November 1864-May 1865 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995), pp. 107-108.

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