After his capture of Atlanta on September 2, 1864, Union General William T. Sherman undertook a military campaign that helped end the Civil War and establish his historical reputation. He sent one part of his triumphant army under General George H....

Sherman's March to the Sea is the name commonly given to the Savannah Campaign, conducted in late 1864 by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army during the American Civil War. The campaign began with Sherman's troops leaving the captured...

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The Civil War brought hard times to Georgia, with Union troops torching Atlanta and cutting a swath of destruction through the state before delivering Savannah to President Abraham Lincoln as an early Christmas gift on Dec. 22, 1864.Nearly a century and a half later, state...

Union General William T. Sherman is possibly best known for his "March to the Sea" in 1864 and the brutal tactics associated with that Civil War campaign. In the process, he caused pain and suffering, took no responsibility for the results of his actions, held no sympathy for the people of Atlanta, and violated rights set forth in the Third and Fifth amendments to the Constitution.