At the heart of this well-preserved antebellum city, sunbeams stream through the arched windows of a grand public meeting room that mirrors the whole Civil War - including its death throes ...

Sherman executed a brutal but calculated strategy of total war—targeting not just Confederate armies, but Georgia’s economy, infrastructure, and civilian morale. While the march devastated ...

CAIRO, Friday, March ... back to Meridian is reported. Last night's dispatches, from which this information is derived, brings official news which settles the question as to Gen. SHERMAN's ...

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William Sherman’s March to the Sea 150 years ago ... s an important anniversary to have this time of reflection to look back, discuss and think about the greater meaning of these activities ...

The March to the Sea ... Sherman assured residents that he was committed to preventing pillage of crops and that troops under his command would issue receipts for confiscated property. Even then ...

“Then we can fight them again in ten years. But let Old Abe settle it, and it is always settled.” Sherman’s march ... are coming back thick,” as one Northern teacher in the Sea Islands ...

William T. Sherman completed his Civil War "march to the sea" across the South and arrived in Savannah, Ga. In 1913, the first crossword puzzle in an American newspaper appeared in The New York ...

Civilians wishing to go south would be taken to Confederate lines under truce flags; the Rebels would then have to transport ... left Atlanta on his March to the Sea, Sherman ordered the ...

General William Tecumseh Sherman's army left the ruins of Atlanta and began a march to the sea. It arrived at Savannah in mid December, and the city fell on December 22. News of this victory was ...

William Tecumseh Sherman launched his scorching March to the Sea ... in 1861 he read a newspaper report of South Carolina’s secession, which would ignite the war. He was then superintendent ...

William T. Sherman completed his Civil War "march to the sea" across the South and arrived in Savannah, Ga. In 1913, the first crossword puzzle in an American newspaper appeared in The New York ...