Did Union Gen. William T. Sherman burn Columbia, SC, during the American Civil War? It depends on which historian and experts you talk to about the fire that destroyed much of the South Carolina ...

March 11 marks the 150th anniversary of when Union troops, led by Gen. William Sherman, took Fayetteville from the Confederacy. It was the site of Sherman's first serious military opposition ...

William Sherman left Atlanta ... He also ordered his troops to burn an ammo train, a conflagration that must have rocked the earth. When it was Sherman’s turn to leave, the Union general ...

1864: __Union troops under Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman burn the heart of Atlanta to the ground and begin their March to the Sea. By the time they're done, the tactics of warfare will be ...

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William Tecumseh Sherman chose not to burn down the city of Savannah. Sherman sought approval from Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, then in command of all Union armies, and President Abraham Lincoln for his ...

Hated across the South but a hero to the North, William Tecumseh Sherman captured Atlanta in record time and lay waste to the Georgia and South Carolina countryside on his 1864 “March to the Sea.” ...

William Sherman’s March to the Sea 150 years ago. This weekend, the Fort Hawkins Commission will recount a day in November 1864 when Georgia militia saved the city of Macon from Sherman’s torch.

Most blame is leveled at Gen. William T. Sherman, the intense, red-headed Union general known to his men as “Uncle Billy,” whose blatant war on civilians in 1864 and 1865 left a swath of ...