In one of the most infamous campaigns of the American Civil War, Union General William T. Sherman led 62,000 troops on a ...

Gen. William T. Sherman‘s infamous “March to the Sea” is covered almost antiseptically in American history texts. Yet, ...

U.S. Army Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's 1864 "March to the Sea" was not a "total war" campaign against the Confederacy as ...

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

William Tecumseh Sherman had a lot in common with Ulysses S. Grant. Like Grant, he was born in Ohio. Like Grant, he graduated from the military academy at West Point. Like Grant, he failed as a ...

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 ...

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 ...

SOMEWHERE TOWARD FREEDOM: Sherman’s March and the Story of America’s Largest Emancipation, by Bennett Parten Commanding an army of some 60,000 men, in late 1864, Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh ...