Reconstruction
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Midway, Georgia
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Union troops led by General William Tecumseh Sherman ransacked Midway, 32 miles south of Savannah, during their destructive march through Georgia.

Two sequences involving freed slaves were shot in Midway: negotiations between plantation owner Fan Butler and her former slaves, and a community meeting with Freedmen's Bureau head O. O. Howard.

 I think the reason we don't talk much about what happened after the Civil War is that it's complicated. It's a fascinating story -- but it's not a story that's as simple as North and South fighting a war, and slavery somehow being part of that. -- Llew Smith, producer and director
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