Did You Know That . . .

• There were at least 100,000 white Southerners who fought in the Union Army . . . including about 2000 Georgians?
• Nearly 200,000 African Americans served in the Union Army?
• The early black population of Savannah included native-born Africans, and people from the Caribbean including French speaking Catholics from Santo Domingo [Haiti]?
• The Georgia Infirmary established in 1832 by Thomas Francis Williams, a successful Savannah rice planter, for elderly and sick blacks was the first hospital for blacks in the U.S?
• The white and black populations of Savannah have been close to 50%-50% since 1750, with whites being slightly in the majority some times and blacks being slightly in the majority at other times?
• There were just over 700 free blacks in Savannah when General William T. Sherman arrived on December 22, 1864?
  
  

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