1861 The First Battle of Manassas (Bull Run) was fought near Manassas Junction, Virginia. Killed in battle was Col. Francis Bartow, commander of Bartow’s Brigade. Prior to the war, Bartow was a Savannah attorney and also was one of Georgia’s four delegates to the convention that drafted the Confederate Constitution.
1864 Under a flag of truce, Confederate and Union forces on the outskirts of Atlanta gathered their dead from the previous day’s battlefield. With darkness, Hood decided to send Hardee’s Corps on a flanking movement around Union Gen. McPherson’s forces east of Atlanta so that at daybreak, Cheatham can attack from the front and Hardee from the rear. However, the night march went much slower than expected, so that the morning of the 22nd found Hardee nowhere near McPherson’s troops.
1868 Both houses of Georgia General Assembly adopted a joint resolution ratifying the 14th Amendment, a requirement imposed by Congress on June 25, 1868, as a condition for readmission to the Union. A voice vote on the resolution was taken in the House, where it reportedly won by a large majority. In the Senate, the vote was 27 - 14, with 3 members not voting. As it turned out, Georgia’s July 21 ratification of the 14th Amendment did not automatically mean the seating of Georgia’s congressional delegation or the end of Reconstruction.
Actions affecting Georgia cities and towns approved by the governor on July 20:
1906 The charter of North Rome (Floyd County) was repealed.
1913 In Atlanta, a grand jury postponed indicting Jim Conley for the murder of Mary Phagan -- at least until Leo Frank’s trial was completed. This decision was reached after an hour-and-a half hour presentation before the grand jury by prosecutor Hugh Dorsey. After the temperature had reached 99 degrees the previous day, Judge L.S. Roan, set to hear the case, said he would consider postponing the trial if the weather remained so hot.
1978 Ronnie Milsap’s "Only One Love in My Life" reached the top of the country-and-western charts. Milsap attended Young Harris College.
1988 At the Democratic Party’s National Convention in Atlanta’s Omni, Masschusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis accepted his party’s presidential nomination.
1996 This was the third day of the 1996 Summer Olympics -- and day 2 of Olympic competition.
1936 Actor and director Burt Reynolds was born in Waycross, Georgia. After graduating from Florida State University, Reynolds went on to a successful stage acting career, before hitting major stardom … read more
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