| This factory mill that produced cotton and wool fabric for the South was owned by the New Manchester Manufacturing Company and was destroyed on July 9th, 1864. The brick walls still stand along the creek at Sweetwater Creek State Park in Douglas County, Georgia. General Sherman had ordered its destruction, and the scene shows troops with the 11th Kentucky Cavalry arriving at the mill on July 2, 1864. The employees of the mill were treated as prisoners of war, sent north across the Ohio River and required to take an oath of allegiance to the U.S. government to avoid imprisonment. They remained in the North to the end of the war and some never returned home |
