William Farley, second from left, fires a mortar at Fort Johnson, near Fort Sumter, to commemorate the moment the first shots of the Civil War were fired 150 years ago in Charleston, S.C. on Tuesday, April 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Alice Keeney)
Thanks to the research of Valdosta State University professor of history Dr. David Williams, his wife, Teresa Crisp Williams, and David Carlson, a piece of lost Valdosta history was brought to light with the 2002 publication of their book, “Plain Folk in a Rich Man’s War: Class and Dissent in Confederate Georgia."
Three years after the start of the American Civil War in the spring of 1864, there were two incidents in Valdosta when women rioted.
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