![]() Since they mostly were illiterate textile workers, no journals were kept or found, no letters home, little documentation other than from newspaper accounts. Many died on the trip more died of illness at the warehouse others found work in the union mills or on farms or in households. Because they were making cloth for the Confederate Army, some 400 mill workers, mostly women and children, from the Roswell Woolen Mill, were arrested, shipped off to Marietta, then to Nashville, and finally to Louisville, where they were housed in an old warehouse until work could be found for them. This was the beginning of Sherman’s total war campaign, designed to bring the South to its knees and to bring a swifter end to a long, bitter war. After the Battle of Kennesaw Mt., as the Union troops advanced towards Roswell, they were given orders to burn all the mills and round up all the mill workers, charging them with treason. TURN HOMEWARD, HANNALEE is a history-come-to-life show, based on an actual event.
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