United States, Georgia, Baldwin County, Milledgeville, 33.08014, -83.2321Georgia Legislator1861On January 21, 1861, the ordinance of secession was publicly signed in a ceremony by Georgia politicians. Two days earlier, delegates to a convention in Milledgeville voted 208 to 89 for the state to secede from the Union.Image of the ordinance of secession that was publicly signed in a ceremony by Georgia politicians on January 21, 1861. Two days earlier, delegates to a convention in Milledgeville voted, 208 to 89, for the state to secede from the Union. Georgia's secession from the Union followed nearly two decades of increasingly intense sectional conflict over the status of slavery in western territories and over the future of slavery in the United States.image/jpeghttp://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/georgia-secession-convention-1861http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/secessionForms part of: New Georgia Encyclopediahttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/georgia-secession-convention-1861http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/secessionForms part of: New Georgia EncyclopediaSecession--GeorgiaCongresses and conventions--Georgia--MilledgevilleLegal documents--GeorgiaUnited States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865Secession OrdinanceStillImage