An illustration in the magazine compared a map of Sherman’s march with that of Belgium and the Netherlands — a deliberate message to potential recruits that this brand of “total war ...

One hundred and sixty years ago this month, U.S. General William T. Sherman launched his famous March to the Sea, a 250-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah that crushed the Confederacy and helped ...

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1864: __Union troops under Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman burn the heart of Atlanta to the ground and begin their March to the Sea. By the time they're done, the tactics of warfare will be ...

According to contemporaneous Confederate accounts, Sherman's March to the Sea was a hideous form of total war. Yankee savages — particularly Sherman's engineers and foraging "bummers"— were ...

As General William Tecumseh Sherman sauntered into Savannah, Georgia, the city at the end of his infamous March to the Sea, , he gave new meaning to the old saying that “to the victor go the ...

“Somewhere Toward Freedom” tells the story of Sherman’s March to the Sea from the perspective of the formerly enslaved. A depiction of Sherman’s March to the Sea from the 1880s.Credit ...

Dec. 21 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1620, the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth, Mass., following a 63-day voyage from England aboard the Mayflower. In 1864, Union Gen. William T. Sherman ...