Black Belt Socialist Republic

The Black Belt Socialist Republic was an abortive state briefly established by socialist revolutionaries in southern Georgia during the Red Rebellion of 1915. It was defeated and dissolved by the Confederate Army the same year

Rise and Fall
The Black Belt Socialist Republic was formed during the Red Rebellion by socialist revolutionaries in southern Georgia, with Albany as its capital. The Reds fought a guerrilla war against the Confederate Army until its eventual defeat. The flag of the republic is simply described as a red flag, with no other features implied. Unlike its northern neighbor the Congaree Socialist Republic, the leadership of the Black Belt Socialist Republic was defeated and destroyed while trying to retreat, and there was no opportunity to fight a rear guard action. Jefferson Pinkard exchanged taunts with one of the Red guerrillas moments before the last of the remnant of the republic was destroyed. After crushing the Reds in Georgia, the same Confederate soldiers were then sent to fight the USA in west Texas. The fall of the Black Belt Socialist Republic is described in The Great War: Walk in Hell, pages 221-226.