In one of the most infamous campaigns of the American Civil War, Union General William T. Sherman led 62,000 troops on a ...

U.S. Army Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's 1864 "March to the Sea" was not a "total war" campaign against the Confederacy as ...

The general’s campaign through the South is known for its brutality against civilians. For the enslaved who followed his army ...

Bennett Parten, a Royston native and assistant professor of history at Georgia Southern University, has done the research and concluded that Georgia was the site of the biggest liberation event in ...

Gen. William T. Sherman‘s infamous “March to the Sea” is covered almost antiseptically in American history texts. Yet, ...

A depiction of Sherman’s March to the Sea from the ... and the lasting legacy of our Civil War.” To Parten, the march symbolizes “the hopes and failures, and all the beauty and horror ...

The episode begins with William Tecumseh Sherman's brilliant march to the sea, which brings the war to the heart of Georgia and the Carolinas and spells the end of the Confederacy. In March ...

William Tecumseh Sherman was a surprising instrument ... More than that, the March helped to make the Civil War “not just a war between two sections or a war that would end slavery but a war ...

Carver County men answered the call to serve in the Civil War. In East Union, a small farm community just west of Carver, 78 men signed up. According to a 1908 ...

He served briefly as the head of a military academy in Louisiana, but when the Civil War ... his "march to the sea," in which he captured Savannah and turned his armies northward. Sherman's ...