Civil War Battles of Macon - Hardcoverby Niels Eichhorn (Author) Macon was a cornerstone of the Confederacy's military industrial complex. As a transportation hub, the city supplied weapons to the Confederacy, making it a target once the Union pushed into Georgia in 1864. In the course of the war's last year, Macon faced three separate cavalry assaults. The battles were small in the grand scheme but salient for the combatants and townspeople. Once the war concluded, it was from Macon that