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Sherman's March to the Sea (also known as the Savannah campaign or simply Sherman's March) was a military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia from November 15 until December 21, 1864, by William Tecumseh Sherman, major general of the Union Army.
William Tecumseh Sherman (/ t ɪ ˈ k ʌ m s ə / tih-KUM-sə; [4] [5] February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author. He served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–1865), earning recognition for his command of military strategy but criticism for the harshness of his scorched-earth policies, which he ...
The Second Battle of Fort McAllister took place December 13, 1864, during the final stages of Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman's March to the Sea during the American Civil War. Union forces overwhelmed a small Confederate force defending the strategically important Fort McAllister near Savannah, Georgia, a major Federal objective.
On December 8, 1864, the XIV Corps of Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's Union Army, under Brigadier General Jefferson C. Davis, reached the western bank of Ebenezer Creek. While Davis's engineers began assembling a pontoon bridge for the crossing, Wheeler's cavalry approached close enough to conduct sporadic shelling of the Union lines ...
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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 ...
Gen. William T. Sherman on horseback at fortifications near Atlanta in 1864. George N. Barnard via Library of CongressIt is doubtful the tragic devastation of the Russia-Ukraine War would surprise ...
After it fell, Gen. William J. Hardee withdrew his 10,000 troops that were defending Savannah and Sherman captured the city without resistance. [8] Sherman's army abandoned the fort and burned its bunkers. During the evening that the fort fell, Anderson was being held at the McAllister family home, the new headquarters of General William ...