The hidden story of enslaved Georgians who, however briefly, seized freedom during the Union general’s famous march to the ...

A 1943 photo shows the Illinois Terminal Depot in Alton partially submerged during a Mississippi River flood that crested at ...

On Jan. 16, 1991, in a televised address to the nation, U.S. President George H.W. Bush announced the start of Operation Desert Storm, an Allied combat operation to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait.

Unlike much of Georgia, the historic port city was preserved from Sherman’s wrath, but suffered psychological terror nonetheless Eli Wizevich History Correspondent ...

By the way, does the statue of Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman qualify for removal? He once explained his reluctance to enlist former slaves, writing, “I am honest in my belief that it is ...

A bust of Civil War Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman can be seen between the vaults which contains the remains of President Ulysses S. Grant and his wife, Julia Grant, at Grant's Tomb in New York City.

Union Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman decreed that 400,000 acres of land in the South would be divided into 40-acre lots and given to former slaves.

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 ...

The century-old Civil War monument, featuring a Union soldier and engraved names of war veterans, was toppled by a semi-truck ...

Pershing in World War I and by General George Marshall in World War II. Near by was William Tecumseh Sherman’s ornate library table, and on it a model of the Oozlefinch bird, a frog-eyed ...