As General William Tecumseh Sherman sauntered into Savannah, Georgia, the city at the end of his infamous March to the Sea, , he gave new meaning to the old saying that “to the victor go the ...

Bennett Parten, a Royston native and assistant professor of history at Georgia Southern University, has done the research and concluded that Georgia was the site of the biggest liberation event in ...

Thousands of newly freed slaves followed the Union army’s “March to the Sea” in the hopes of protection as they left bondage behind.

“Somewhere Toward Freedom” tells the story of Sherman’s March to the Sea from the perspective of the formerly enslaved. A depiction of Sherman’s March to the Sea from the 1880s.Credit ...

The general’s campaign through the South is known for its brutality against civilians. For the enslaved who followed his army ...

This is Part 4 of a series of history columns about Glencoe Medal of Honor recipient Axel Reed, who fought in the Civil War. Click here to read Part 1 of the series, click here to ...

SHERMAN for the relief of Knoxville ... for the sole purpose of driving over the bodies of our slain. The route of march lay through Cleveland and Athens to Marysville, 14 miles from Knoxville.

Pleasant and on grounds of present-day Georgia Perimeter College. What does Sherman’s March to the Sea mean to us today? This fall, GPC students will consider what the March to the Sea means in ...

Yet, as Bennett Parten shows in his fast-moving account of Sherman’s epic March to the Sea and its legacy, the hard-fighting general brought about the greatest liberation of enslaved Americans ...