Roswell Mill Women’s Arrest and Deportation

During the Atlanta Campaign, Union cavalry entered Roswell and found textile mills producing cloth for the Confederacy. The mills were burned under military orders despite claims that some property had foreign protection.

Hundreds of workers, many of them women and children, were detained and sent by rail toward Marietta and Louisville. Their removal separated families and left many without secure work or means of return.

Leigh Ann’s Civil War tells the episode through a mill family divided by loyalty and survival. It brings civilian labour, industrial targets and forced displacement into a Civil War narrative usually dominated by armies.