Editing Montgomery County, Georgia (section)

===American Civil War===
At the time of the 1850 United States Census, Montgomery had 1,541 whites, 613 slaves. By the 1860 census, there were 2,014 whites, 977 slaves, and 6 [[Free people of color]]. The pine barrens and [[soil quality]] outside of the river lands made the area unsuitable for slave-heavy cotton producing plantation culture. Montgomery's status as a majority white county led the region developing different attitudes about secession from other areas of Georgia.

On January 22, 1861, Montgomery County representatives, Thomas M. McRae and Solon Homer Latimer, were among the 89 delegates who voted no to Georgia's immediate secession from the Union at the state secession convention. In addition, McRae and Latimer were among the 6 delegates who voiced their protest by against the [[Ordinance of Secession]] in the published document.

In the interior of the county around [[Gum Swamp Creek|Gum Swamp]] (Modern [[Chauncey, Georgia]]) near the Pulaski County, Telfair County, and Montgomery County lines a deserter gang fought against Confederate forces.<ref>{{cite book |last= Wetherington |first= Mark V. |date= 2005|title= Plain Folk's Fight: The Civil War and Reconstruction in Piney Woods Georgia|url=https://archive.org/details/plainfolksfightc00weth|url-access= limited |location= Chapel Hill, North Carolina|publisher= The University of North Carolina Press|page= [https://archive.org/details/plainfolksfightc00weth/page/n237 223]}}</ref>