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

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 ...

The general ... beloved Civil War fictional epic "Gone With the Wind." He then led his troops on a conquest of Georgia all the way to Savannah. It's gone down in history as Gen. Sherman's infamous ...

but when the Civil War broke out, he joined the U.S. Army as a colonel. Sherman fought at the First Battle of Bull Run, Virginia, in which Union troops were beaten badly by the Confederate Army.

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

On both sides, the Civil ... Union and Confederate forces. National Museum of American History Pin made of William T. Sherman uniform buttons National Museum of American History Campaign hat worn by ...

As wartime leader of the Union's Women Nurses, Dorothea Dix set a quiet example of indomitable efficiency, impressing even General Sherman. Her standards were so high that many volunteers were ...

Although raised in Ohio and firmly wedded to the Union cause when the nation erupted into civil war ... of Sherman’s epic March to the Sea and its legacy, the hard-fighting general brought ...