Civil War saga being filmed in Macon

May 15, 2009 | Posted by javal

A young boy dressed in Civil War-era clothes runs slap-dash through a crowd of women in hand-made dresses headed to the general store on Main Street in Franklin for their typical Saturday shopping.

Obviously in a hurry, he rushes past a couple, Judi and Robert Longworth, headed to the store from the other direction. The boy bursts through the doors of the general store, eager to blurt out the urgent news he’s just heard — the Yankees have fired on Fort Sumter and started a war against the south. For a moment, everybody is in shock as the words sink in.

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