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The Entrance Hall in 1864, when it was being used as General Sherman's Headquarters. A sketch by William Waud in 1864. The house was designed and built in 1853 at a cost of $93,000 by the architect John Norris. [9] [10] The property's first owner was Charles Green, a wealthy cotton merchant and grandfather of the writer Julien Green. [11]
With U.S. Civil War public figure Garrison Frazier and nineteen other African-American ministers and church officials, Harris met with Military Division of the Mississippi Union Army Major-General William Tecumseh Sherman and Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton on January 12, 1865, at Sherman's Green-Meldrim House headquarters in Savannah, Georgia.
Savannah campaign (Sherman's March to the Sea) Savannah campaign (Sherman's March to the Sea): detailed map Sherman's advance: Tennessee, Georgia, and Carolinas (1863–65) Sherman's personal escort on the march was the 1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment, a unit made up entirely of Southerners who remained loyal to the Union.
When General Grant was called East by Lincoln to command all the Union armies, he was succeeded as head of the Division by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman. Under Sherman, the Division invaded the state of Georgia, capturing Atlanta in September 1864 and then marching to the port of Savannah.
Garrison Frazier [1] (1798? - 1873) was an African-American Baptist minister and public figure during the U.S. Civil War.He acted as spokesman for twenty African-American Baptist and Methodist ministers who met on January 12, 1865 with Major General William Tecumseh Sherman, of the Union Army's Military Division of the Mississippi, and with U.S. Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, at General ...
The following Union Army units and commanders fought in the Savannah campaign (or Sherman's March to the Sea) of the American Civil War. The Confederate order of battle is listed separately. Order of battle compiled from the army organization during the campaign. [1]
General William Tecumseh Sherman’s wartime sword, likely used between 1861 and 1863, are among the items that will be open to bidders Tuesday at Fleischer’s Auctions in Columbus.
William Gaines (1824–1865) was a freed slave, minister, and community representative in Savannah, Georgia.He was one of the 20 Black church leaders—alongside Garrison Frazier, Ulysses L. Houston, and James D. Lynch—who met with Major General William Tecumseh Sherman and Secretary of War Edwin Stanton in Savannah on January 12, 1865 about 3 months before the end of the American Civil War. [1]