Thousands of newly freed slaves followed the Union army’s “March to the Sea” in the hopes of protection as they left bondage ...
Somewhere Toward Freedom” tells the story of Sherman’s March to the Sea from the perspective of the formerly enslaved.
A 1943 photo shows the Illinois Terminal Depot in Alton partially submerged during a Mississippi River flood that crested at ...
On Jan. 16, 1991, in a televised address to the nation, U.S. President George H.W. Bush announced the start of Operation Desert Storm, an Allied combat operation to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait.
Pershing in World War I and by General George Marshall in World War II. Near by was William Tecumseh Sherman’s ornate library table, and on it a model of the Oozlefinch bird, a frog-eyed ...
Union Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman decreed that 400,000 acres of land in the South would be divided into 40-acre lots and given to former slaves.
Horizon is, in many ways, welcome. It shows the U.S. Army soldiers as a serious and professional, if imperfect, force that ...
The century-old Civil War monument, featuring a Union soldier and engraved names of war veterans, was toppled by a semi-truck ...
“Palestinians and their supporters abroad,” the Sun’s Novi Zhukovsky reported on Friday, “have gone from accusing Israel of ...
It sits on the hillside in Atlanta where the Union general William Tecumseh Sherman watched the city burn during the Civil War, and by 2023 had more than 3,000 employees around the globe.