Dear Sir, The Georgia Convention on Secession was done by a representative vote and not a vote by the citizens (male, white, landowners). Each county sent representatives to the convention at Milledgeville. Murray County sent Anderson Farnsworth and Euclid Waterhouse. Both voted against secession but signed the ordinance in respect of the majority vote. The vote was 208-89. One of Gilmer County's representatives was William P. Milton and he voted against secession, however, when his state and country called he served as Company Commander for one of the companies in the 39th Georgia. He later became the acting regimental commander and shortly after the war's conclusion was assassinated while he ate supper with his family. The loyalties of Northwest Georgia were divided much like Eastern Tennessee. Ugly things happened in the region during the war with lawless bands of thugs, criminals, and deserters from both sides riding the country side raping, pillaging, and murdering. After the war many ex-Confederates left the region in wagon trains moving west to Arkansas, Texas, and Oklahoma. Most never returned. You may want to check the two volume set Tennesseans in the Civil War for men that may have enlisted in Tennessee Federal units or check this web site for the 1st Georgia Infantry (US) http://www.izzy.net/~michaelg/n-ga1.htm Any Compiled Service Record on U.S. soldiers you will have to order from the National Archives in Washington, D.C. Please let me know if you have any questions. Respectfully, Gerald D. Hodge, Jr. Niota, Tennessee War Between the States Historian Historian: 39th Georgia Infantry Regiment Web Master: http://39thGAVOLINFRGT.homestead.com/39thHomepage.html