Old State Capitol Building
Raised on the highest point of Statehouse Square in 1807, the Old State Capitol was the seat of Georgia's government for sixty years and one of the oldest Gothic Revival public buildings in the country. In November 1864, General Sherman's army occupied Milledgeville, damaged the statehouse, and held a mock legislative session inside, while the armories and magazines ringing the square were put to the torch. Long after the soldiers marched on, witnesses on the adjoining parade grounds say they still hear them: the rhythmic tramp of unseen feet, a phantom column drilling in the dark. Some report the silhouette of a lone Confederate sentry standing watch where the old guard once kept post, vanishing when approached. The building now anchors the campus of Georgia Military College, where cadets drill on the very ground the dead are said to keep marching.
📍 201 East Greene Street, Milledgeville, GA 31061, Milledgeville, GA · Get directions