No worries. I am very familiar with the 34th Georgia and Chattooga County. The 34th Georgia was a sister regiment to the 39th Georgia in Cumming's Brigade and Company H, 39th Georgia was also from Chattooga County.

If you read "Why the South Lost the Civil War" by Richard E. Beringer, Herman Hattaway, Archer Jones, and William N. Still, Jr. one of the arguments is that State's Rights was a contributing factor. Governors Joseph Brown and Zebulon Vance were promenient figures in their friction with Richmond. A classic case of cutting your nose off to spite your face. The very thing you are fighting for is the very issue that you unwilling to give up even temporarily out of military necessity to achieve a strategic goal.

"Why the South Lost the Civil War" is an excellent book although some poo-poo it. It is one of the few books on the Civil War that talks the "holy trinity" of true strategy as seen by Karl Von Clausewitz; the will of the people (your own civilian will and that of the enemy civilian population), nation's political objectives, and the army and its ability to achieve those political objectives. It is one of the few books to talk about the will of the people for any time period.

Respectfully,

Gerald D. Hodge, Jr.
M.A. Military History - Civil War Concentration
Research - Preservation
Historian: 39th Georgia Volunteer Infantry Regiment