FEBRUARY 5, 1864:
The Clerk
of Rabun County, Georgia, prepares a
“Salt List” of wounded and maimed veterans, widows, orphans, seniors, children,
the sick, and the indigent, who require public assistance, and appoints H.W.
Cannon to go to Milledgeville (then the State capital) to get the money. According
to the 1860 census, approximately 2500 free whites and 200 slaves were citizens
of the County in 1864. Several hundred were away at the battlefront.
Approximately 525 names appear on the list, about 20% of the prewar population.
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