November 14, 1732

1732 James Oglethorpe spent the day in London taking care of last minute details for the departure of the first shipload of colonists for Georgia in three days. This night would be his last at his London townhouse for almost a year and a half.

November 14, 1805

1805 In Washington, D.C., Creek chiefs and U.S. commissioners signed the Treaty of Washington.The agreement gave the U.S. permission to construct a road through the Creek Nation to run from Fort Hawkins on the Ocmulgee River (site of current-day Macon) to Fort Mims on the eastern side of the Mobile River in Alabama. More importantly, the treaty extended Georgia westward to the Ocmulgee River.

November 14, 1864

1864 Gen. Sherman and a portion of his forces arrived back in Atlanta from having pursued Hood’s retreating army. The day was spent in last minute preparations in getting the 62,000-man Army of the Tennessee ready to depart on its March to the Sea. Over one million rations have been distributed to the troops, which should last almost three weeks. Additionally, a herd of beef cattle as been assembled to accompany the army. But, recognizing these rations would be insufficient for the march, Sherman days before had issued instructions that his army "forage liberally on the country during the march." As for Atlanta, Sherman later recalled a special assignment he gave for the 14th: "Colonel Poe, United States Engineer, of my staff, had been busy in his special task of destruction. He had a large force at work, had leveled the great depot, round-house, and the machine-shops of the Georgia railroad, and had applied fire to the wreck. One of these machine shops had been used by the rebels as an arsenal, and in it were stored piles of shot and shell, some of which proved to be loaded, and that night was made hideous by the bursting of shells, whose fragments came uncomfortably near Judge Lyon’s house, in which I was quartered. The fire also reached the block of stores near the depot, and the heart of the city was in flames all night, but the fire did not reach the parts of Atlanta where the court-house was or the great mass of dwelling houses."

November 14, 1914

1914 In the case of Frank v. State, the Georgia Supreme Court issued its decision turning down all of Leo Frank’s motions and appeals, thus affirming both the conduct of the trial and the judgment.

November 14, 1944

1944 The special commission working on a new constitution for Georgia reversed itself from the previous day. After lengthy debate, the commission struck the local government home rule provision approved the day before. Instead the commission voted to ask the legislature to pass a resolution allowing home rule.