In one of the most infamous campaigns of the American Civil War, Union General William T. Sherman led 62,000 troops on a brutal 285-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah. His goal: break the Confederacy ...

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

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

Thousands of newly freed slaves followed the Union Army’s “March to the Sea” in the hopes of protection as they left bondage behind.

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 Isaac Baker Menswear store at the corner of 10th and State streets sits dark for one of the first times in its 175-year ...

A 90-minute walking tour details the city’s role in promoting slavery throughout the South and the driving force of faith to survive and triumph over it.

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 ...

People often don’t realize the revolutionary nature of the 13th Amendment, and conservatives in particular downplay its revolutionary nature. American historians have for a long time treated the ...