U.S. Army Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's 1864 "March to the Sea" was not a "total war" campaign against the Confederacy as ...

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

Gen. William T. Sherman‘s infamous “March to the Sea” is covered almost antiseptically in American history texts. Yet, ...

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

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 ...

“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 ...

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.

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 ...