During the Civil War, Union Army Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman and his troops arrived in Savannah, Georgia, days before Christmas in 1864. The city was their final stop on Sherman's March to the Sea, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The rise of William T. Sherman. Early life -- California -- The bleak years, 1850-1861 -- The Union above all -- Bull Run -- Sherman finds his niche with Grant -- Shiloh restores Sherman's reputation ...

William Tecumseh Sherman's home once stood in what is now the Jeff-Vander-Lou neighborhood. The Sherman family home at 912 North Garrison Avenue, where they lived off and on until 1886, when William ...

What kind of a Christmas gift do you get for a man who seemingly has everything? Say, for a President of the United States who has just won a second term in office and for whom the nation’s bloody ...

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 ...

The phrase, “Forty acres and a mule,” stems from a special field order, #15, issued by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman ...

THREE RIVERS, CA (Amazing America) — America is home to the most massive tree on Earth: The General Sherman. The giant sequoia is more than two thousand years old, and around two million people trek ...