On Nov. 15, 1864, late in the U.S. Civil War, Union forces led by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh (teh-KUM’-seh) Sherman began their “March to the Sea” from Atlanta; the campaign ended with the capture of ...

STARKVILLE — A new edition of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman’s memoirs has been annotated by some of the nation’s leading Civil War scholars at Mississippi State University—an effort marking 150 years ...

In 1864, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman advanced on Atlanta as part of Ulysses S. Grant’s grand strategy to break the Confederacy’s will to fight. This video explores how Sherman’s campaign ...

Brandon's Confederate monument was erected across from the courthouse where Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman ordered his Union troops to stack their arms as a sign of military occupation of the town, ...

“This is irrevocable,” said Pennsylvania’s G.O.P. Governor William Scranton. “I am not going to run ever again for any public office under any circumstances — there are no equivocations of that ...

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 Hill fresh ...

William Tecumseh Sherman was one of the Union’s best-known generals. Sixth in his class at West Point, Sherman nevertheless had an uncertain military career early in the Civil War, suffering a nervous ...

The second hour of “Gone with the Wind,” the bold, almost brazenly romantic Civil War epic that won ten Academy Awards, is largely a portrait of hell. “The skies rained death,” the screen reads.

Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman was a surprising instrument of emancipation. Although raised in Ohio and firmly wedded to the Union cause when the nation erupted into civil war, he was a racist who ...

“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...Matt Dorfman; ...

Today is Thursday, Jan. 16, the 16th day of 2025. There are 349 days left in the year. Today in history: Advertisement Article continues below this ad On Jan. 16, 1991, in a televised address to the ...