In late 1864, General William Tecumseh Sherman launched a 285-mile campaign ... and civilian morale. While the march devastated plantations, railroads, and towns, civilian casualties were low ...

In 1864, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman's March to the Sea begins with the burning of Atlanta. File Photo by Library of Congress In 1920, the first assembly of the League of Nations was ...

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 ...

Stanley, William Tecumseh Sherman was the ... Now, as supreme commander of the Armies in the West, Sherman embarked on his 1864 "March to the Sea" on Nov. 16, 1864. He employed his concept ...

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 ...

William Tecumseh Sherman captured Atlanta in record time and lay waste to the Georgia and South Carolina countryside on his 1864 “March to the Sea.” A failed banker, he re-entered the military ...

William Tecumseh Sherman was a surprising ... Yet, as Bennett Parten shows in his fast-moving account of Sherman’s epic March to the Sea and its legacy, the hard-fighting general brought ...

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 ...

That event would be Sherman’s March to the Sea, the military campaign led by Union Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman to weaken the Confederacy toward the end of the Civil War. Parten backs up ...

William Tecumseh Sherman and his troops arrived in Savannah, Georgia, days before Christmas in 1864. The city was their final stop on Sherman's March to the Sea, a military campaign to weaken ...

Sherman Collection,” which goes live at 9 a.m. Tuesday, features personal effects of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman ... record of Sherman’s March to the Sea. “It’s an incredible piece ...