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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.
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]
He opposed Sherman's March to the Sea as best he could with inadequate forces, eventually evacuating Savannah, Georgia on December 20. [4] As Sherman turned north in the Carolinas Campaign, Hardee took part in the Battle of Bentonville, North Carolina, in March 1865, where his only son, 16-year-old Willie, was mortally wounded in a cavalry ...
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]
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 ...
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 ...
Kilpatrick instead destroyed a mile of track in the area. When Kilpatrick discovered that the Union prisoners at Camp Lawton had been taken to other unknown sites, he began to move southwest to join up with Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman's headquarters. [3] Kilpatrick's men encamped near Buckhead Creek on the night of November 27.
National Park Service battle description; CWSAC Report Update; Nevin, David, Sherman's March: Atlanta to the Sea, Time Life Books. Durham, Roger S, "Guardian of Savannah - Fort McAllister, Georgia, in the Civil War and Beyond", The University of South Carolina Press, 2008, ISBN 978-1-57003-742-9.