In late 1864, General William Tecumseh Sherman launched a 285-mile campaign from Atlanta to Savannah that would become one of the most infamous operations in American military history. With 62,000 ...

Gen. Sherman’s Union troops marched into Raleigh to end the Civil War but nearly destroyed the city as retaliation, 160 years ago this April.

RALEIGH. In April of 1865, Raleigh found itself under the uncomfortable thumb of the Union army, a horde of 15,000 led by the hated Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, all of them perched on top of Dix ...