in 1861, scores of cities from hapeville, maine, to quincy, illinois, including more than a dozen southern more populist than atlanta. despite a small, small population atlanta was an important cog in thechine. by 1863, the york times reported that the city was an important network, quote, furnished and it furnished half of war material to entire confederacy from the rappahannock to the rio grande, unquote, that the war was in. its third year surprised many people and people on both sides that the war would have been over by then. so so at point, the new york times is very clear that. atlanta is important to the machine. and i want to draw your attention to one quick fact before i go back to this. when confederacy seceded, when states seceded and formed the confederacy in 1918 61, beginning in south carolina, 1816 and 1861, they needed a capital and they looked at literally hundreds of possibilities throughout the south. and there were two finalists, richmond and georgia. so atlanta almost the real capital of the south. but richmond was decided the vice president for the confederacy, was a