"In 1895 P.H. Fitzgerald of Indianapolis, editor of the American Tribune, a great Grand Army of the Republic organ, conceived of the idea of locating in the balmy Southern climate, a colony of ex-union soldiers."
Fitzgerald Enterprise
August 19, 1911
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The southern state of Georgia had called itself to Fitzgerald's attention quite recently, when Georgians sent trainloads of food to relieve the drought-stricken midwest. It was a gesture from the defeated South that intrigued Fitzgerald. He wrote to Gov. William J. Northen to tell him of his plans for a colony. |