Shermans men destroyed the town of Griswoldville along with the railroad, there was a pistol factory at this town that made the brass navy colt, Griswoldville is or was 12 miles east of Macon Ga, My family was burned out at this time, My great grandfather surrendered at Goldsbourgh N.C. with Johnson and story goes that when he got back to Griswoldville after the war his mother was living in one of the slave houses and the whole area was pretty much destroyed.