Before Sherman ever entered the interior of the state there was a significant enough movement in Georgia led by Governor Joseph E. Brown to sue for a separate peace that Jefferson Davis came down to address the governor and the legislature. Brown had always harbored qualms about the CSA but the conscription made him furious, especially since the soldiers from Georgia (and other states of course) were being sent outside of the state to defend Virginia, Tennessee, and other “not Georgia” regions. Brown was far from alone in his desire for an early end to the war for his state.
Davis and Brown hated each other through the war and til the end of their days. Brown was considered a scalawag for joining the Republican party soon after the war ended. One reason for Brown’s hatred was the number of Georgians who were killed in Virginia especially yet Sherman was allowed to march practically unopposed through Georgia after the fall of Atlanta as the bulk of the Confederate troops were pulled into Tennessee for one of the great disasters of the war.